Trump 2.0: Causes for Great Concern!
Is the new administration actually a Trojan Horse for technocracy and Zionism?
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of the age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” —Ephesians 6:12
“This is the face that we show the world.” —Shriekback, “Clear Trails” (1983)
[Not a contribution to “Is Liberalism Dead? (In All Forms)” obviously. Lord permitting, Part 5 will appear soon.]
Signal-gate.
Signal-gate — or whatever you call it — is a profound embarrassment. The first question is obvious: why on Earth were top officials in the Trump administration discussing an impending military action on a commercial app? The second: how did The Atlantic Monthly editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, long hostile to everything Donald Trump stands for, get included in the chat?
Naturally Goldberg reported it when he realized it wasn’t a hoax, eventually publishing the entire exchange. This was the opportunity of the year to expose people he disliked instinctively to public ridicule! What did anyone think he was going to do?
The most likely culprit is Michael Waltz, Trump’s national security advisor, who initially insinuated that Goldberg might have hacked his way into the chat somehow, which is nonsense. Goldberg wouldn’t have known about it. Then it became an accident. Taken as a whole, this security breach makes all involved look like mental lightweights. And hypocrites if they ever again bring up Hillary Clinton’s emails. This plays right into the hands of those saying that Trump’s cabinet appointees (starting with Waltz and Pete Hegseth) aren’t qualified for their jobs.
These, though, are only two of the questions racing through my mind these uncertain days.
What Ever Happened to “America First!”?
The military operation itself: why is the Trump administration targeting a people, the Houthis of Yemen, who have not threatened us and are no threat to us? Yes, they’ve caused some local problems—apparently in retaliation for Israel’s breaching the cease-fire in Gaza. But does America have an obligation to intervene?
What happened to “America first!”?
During the chat only J.D. Vance had enough sense to try to raise doubts about the wisdom of the venture. Hegseth immediately shut him down.
Naturally, following Goldberg’s exposé, an investigation ensued. Hegseth fell apart, denying that the chat contained specific attack plans which under normal circumstances would be classified information. The plans were right there in The Atlantic Monthly’s reprint and now in countless other places online. (Here. Judge for yourself.)
Tulsi Gabbard also crumbled under interrogation, creating doubt that she even knows what should be classified, much less whether that should have been. She deferred to Hegseth. People are asking: Trump placed this woman is charge of the intelligence community?
Hegseth and Co. can’t blame leftists for this screw up. Sleepy Joe didn’t do it. Obama didn’t do it. They did it themselves. It’s called p***ing in your own mess kit.
A friend of mine, disillusioned with his vote last November, now speaks of Trump as having turned into “George W. Bush with a red hat!”
Bush, we recall (even if we don’t want to), directed the attack on Iraq back in 2003. Iraq had not threatened the U.S. and posed no threat to the U.S.: an official narrative of the time notwithstanding, which was that Saddam had WMDs.
As with most official narratives, it was a lie. No WMDs were found.
I’d argued in multiple venues (articles, forums) that attacking Iraq was a bad idea, not in our best interests. I was called, among other things, a “Saddam lover.”
As I predicted, the Iraq War destabilized the region. ISIS emerged from that. Lesson: it’s easy for a superpower to take out a government like Saddam’s — especially as Iraq had been subject to bombing campaigns going back to the Gulf War of the early 1990s launched by the first George Bush.
It’s much harder to put something stable in its place.
Especially a “liberal democracy” among a people with no heritage or traditions that would enable them to grasp the concept liberal democracy. Iraqis and other Middle Easterners were expected to fall in line anyway.
American Exceptionalism, you know, making the world safe for the “rules-based liberal order.”
These were among the discredited narratives that eventually felled Establishment Republicans and made room for Trump’s rise. He offered an alternative to a foreign policy he rightly decried during his first campaign as a “complete and total disaster.”
Back to the present. The Houthis are backed by Iran. Trump bears a special hatred for Iran, shared with elements in the Deep State he also decries. Iran has also not threatened the U.S. (It has, of course, threatened Israel a time or two. I’ll come to this below.)
The issue is Iran developing a nuclear weapon. But U.S. foreign policy, servile to Israel, is pushing the country in that direction.
The unexpected warmongering of this administration, just over two months in, is now looking an awful lot like the “complete and total disaster” Trump once criticized, and its reckless discussion of the matter of the Houthis on an insecure app with a list of names carelessly including a journalist known to be hostile to Trump, are not the only things that should leave us alarmed.
Here are a few more items I did not vote for, and that for the life of me can’t figure out how they exemplify “America First!” or Making America Great Again.
Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal: an American Superstate?
Annexing Canada and making it the 51st state. At first I thought Trump was joking, but now I’m not so sure. In what parallel universe would this be a good idea? For starters, Canada’s populations are more left-leaning than in the U.S. That aside, there’s no indication they would be at all sympathetic to being forced into an American superstate under the heel of the Asylum on the Potomac.
Now to be sure, Young Global Leader Justin Trudeau turned the place into a soft dictatorship. Mark Carney (technocrat, former central banker, Trilateral Commission member) won’t be better. But annexation into the U.S. is not a solution. How would that Make America Great Again?
Taking Greenland from Denmark. Another awful idea. Copenhagen has indicated in no uncertain terms that Greenland is not for sale and it’s non-negotiable. Greenlanders don’t want to be brought under the U.S. thumb any more than Canadians. They’ve been protesting in front of the U.S. Embassy in Nuuk, Greenland’s capitol. J.D. Vance and wife had to cut their recent visit short. He wasn’t welcome there and he knew it.
What’s up with this? The place is resources-rich, especially in minerals useful to Big Tech. I don’t know about Trump, but His Muskiness and other technocrats might therefore want Greenland for their very own. This raises the issue who is really running the Trump 2.0 administration. Is it Trump, or the unelected mega-billionaire who has been backing him, and whom Trump turned loose with DOGE.
Frankly, I do not trust Elon Musk. He invented and patented a device capable of being implanted in our brains and creating a “whole brain interface” between humans and computers. That was one of his earlier companies, Neuralink, about which (interestingly!) we hear very little today.
No one in his right mind thinks Musk gave Trump all that money without expecting something in return. And since we mentioned Vance, his primary mentor is Peter Thiel, another Big Tech billionaire technocrat. Has anyone noticed: this administration is full of, and surrounded by, technocrats who most likely have no sincere interest in Making America Great Again.
Taking back the Panama Canal. It might have been a mistake to give it away in the late ‘70s, but a move to seize the Panama Canal back, however accomplished, would reinforce the sense many Latin Americans have that the U.S. is the biggest bully on the playground. When my wife and I visited Panama back in 2016, a few Panamanians confided this to me once they understood that I did not support what “my” government had done: especially the deadly invasion of 1989 also led by the first George Bush, after which we were lied to about the Panamanian death toll (it was not a “mere” 400 but more like 4,000!).
Would taking back the Panama Canal by force Make America Great Again?
I don’t think so!
And speaking of Latin Americans…. As far as I’m concerned, Trump did the right thing with his decision to get members of the violent Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua out of the country, and the way his decision has been fought by left-leaning jurists such as James Boasberg (an Obama appointee) tells us all we need to know about them.
But again, the way this was carried out was sloppy. It appears that not every Venezuelan on that plane was in the gang. They were judged as such because they wore tattoos. Tattoos are ubiquitous these days. They probably aren’t a good guide to anything.
Besides, was it determined that every deported Venezuelan was in the U.S. illegally? There was no case-by-case investigation, so how can anyone know? There appear to have been people sent to the El Salvadorian prison who weren’t even Venezuelan! This.
Broadening the discussion:
Violating the First Amendment Rights of Mahmoud Khalil and Other Detainees in the U.S. Legally….
Disappearing noncitizens with green cards and student visas. This arguably overlaps with the next category of concern, so I’ll deal with them both at once. The battle for free speech on college and university campuses is not over, it has merely shifted to new territory!
Mahmoud Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University and a leading critic of the Israeli war in Gaza (where the official number of Palestinians killed now exceeds 50,000) who had led protests. He was in the U.S. legally, with both a green card and a student visa. Both were revoked without due process, as he was forcibly taken from his apartment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and sent to a holding facility in Louisiana, leaving behind his American wife who is 8-months pregnant with their first child.
I don’t know if Khalil is a nice guy. I never met him, obviously. I also don’t know if he defended Hamas as he’s been accused of doing. As of this writing he’s not been charged with a crime. If he broke the law, he needs to pay the consequences which could include deportation.
But we’ve not been told what law he is supposed to have broken. Unless, of course, it is now illegal for a foreign student to criticize Israel or Zionism — that these are thought crimes identical with harassing or intimidating Jewish students in the wake of Israel’s brutal retaliation following Hamas’s attack of October 7, 2023. This seems implied by Trump’s having signed an executive order in January on “antisemitism” on college and university campuses; interestingly, this order reiterates an earlier one he issued back in 2019.
(Note: some of those protesting Israel’s actions have been Jewish students, marching alongside Palestinians and Americans. This gives lie to the claim that these protests aim to “intimidate Jewish students.”)
Does the First Amendment cover noncitizens who are legally on U.S. soil? I wasn’t sure, so I consulted my friendly neighborhood AI. Here’s what my friendly neighborhood AI told me:
Yes, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution generally protects the free speech rights of all individuals on U.S. soil, not just U.S. citizens. The amendment states, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech," and this protection applies to anyone within the jurisdiction of the United States, including non-citizens.
For example, a non-citizen like Mahmoud Khalil would have the right to express criticism of Israeli actions in Gaza without fear of government censorship or punishment, as long as his speech does not fall into exceptions such as incitement to violence or true threats. This principle has been upheld in various legal interpretations and court rulings.
[Sources: www.freedomforum.org, www.law.cornell.edu.]
In other words, if Khalil wasn’t trying to incite violence, he was protected by the First Amendment, which the Trump administration and ICE are openly violating. Even if he defended Hamas his speech was protected by the First Amendment!
Worth reiterating: if we don’t defend the free speech rights of those whose speech we find abhorrent, then we aren’t honoring free speech in any principled fashion. I’ve criticized wokesters on these pages, and elsewhere online. I’ve never argued that they should be jailed for their opinions.
The U.S. federal government, under Trump 2.0, is clearly equating support for Palestinians against Israeli strikes in Gaza with support for Hamas, and therefore criminal support for a terrorist group.
Writers across the political spectrum are invoking “antisemitism” just as wokesters invoked “racism” to thwart criticisms of affirmative action.
I’m surprised no conservatives (that I know of) see the exact parallel here!
Khalil is just one of a growing number of green card and visa holders — all in the U.S. legally — who have had this happen to them.
There’s also Yunseo Chung, also a Columbia University student who also participated in (did not lead) pro-Palestinian protests. Chung came with her parents to the U.S. from South Korea when she was 7. Now she is threatened with being deported to a country she probably barely remembers.
Then, more recently, there’s the widely publicized case of Rumeysa Ozturk, Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, in the U.S. on a valid F-1 visa, taken off the street by ICE agents near her home last Tuesday following her publication of an op-ed that criticized what she called the genocide in Gaza and called for Tufts to divest from Israel.
I see no clearer violation of the First Amendment than this: she’s being punished for something she wrote in a student newspaper!
What DHS put out, offering no evidencee: Ozturk was “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.”
The unnamed DHS spokesperson added that “a visa is a privilege, not a right…”
As of last Wednesday, her attorney could not reach her and did not even know where she was being held.
Due process? Last I heard, due process is a right.
Iranian national Alirez Doroudi, studying engineering at the University of Alabama, was arrested and detained by ICE agents and also taken to Louisiana. He, too, hasn’t been charged with a crime.
But maybe it’s now illegal to be an Iranian in the U.S. (He’d applied for an EB-2 visa, a pathway to a green card for immigrants with, or further pursing, advanced degrees.)
Others being detained are not Palestinian, do not appear to have anything to do with the war in Gaza, are not Venezuelan or Iranian, and since again there are no accusations of criminal activity, what offense they’ve committed is unclear.
German graduate student Fabian Schmidt, age 34, was detained trying to enter the country from the Netherlands at Boston’s Logan Field. He simply disappeared for several days. He alleges he was placed in a bright room with just a mat and was denied medication he is on for anxiety and depression until he collapsed. He’s just one of at least three German nationals to have this happen, prompting the German government to issue a travel advisory to its citizens about going to the U.S.
Sweden, Finland, and others European nations have issued similar advisories.
My list here barely even scratches the surface.
Is this the face we want to show the world?
Elon Musk: Trojan Horse for Technocratic Post-Liberalism?
Allowing Elon Musk to run amuck. Returning to His Muskiness: as noted above, he’s a technocrat. Technocrats believe in governance by scientific/technological “experts” using “scientific management,” and that common people aren’t smart enough to direct their own paths in life.
One of their adages is “Move fast and break things.”
Silicon Valley is a hotbed of technocracy: Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen (author of a tract called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”), Sam Altman of OpenAI, just about everyone in the top echelons at Google; the list goes on and on. One of their thought leaders gets billed as a “computer philosopher,” Curtis Yarvin.
Musk exemplifies — wearing a black instead of red hat, in Gothic lettering — not MAGA but “Dark MAGA” which despite the term has nothing to do with Making America Great Again. There’s not enough space to explore the Dark Enlightenment properly here as such a discussion would take us too far afield. Suffice it to say, these people do not just believe that liberal democracy is finished, they want to replace it with a marriage of unified technocracy and neoliberal privatization, in which the CEO would be the equivalent of a monarch. Sounds very much like the technofeudalism I’ll be discussing in the concluding Part 5 of “Is Liberalism Dead?”
They would privatize federal agencies such as Social Security and probably run them for profit just as healthcare in the U.S. is run exclusively for profit.
Consider Social Security. Around 73 million Americans receive social security benefits. The average payout is around $1,800/mo. The agency handles around 9.5 million new claims per year. Under DOGE direction it has now cut thousands of jobs, conducted a restructuring which will make it harder to apply for benefits. This in addition to struggling with a notoriously difficult-to-navigate website which recently crashed four times in a 10-day period due to server overload. The agency is closing regional offices in compliance with DOGE demands even while new rules require recipients to show up in person to verify their identities to make changes to their accounts. There are elderly recipients who would find such visits very difficult to make.
DOGE, let us remember, is not even a real government agency. Trump and Musk created it unilaterally. It nominally answers to Trump but has been run entirely by His Muskiness.
What he and his Gen Z proteges are doing could very easily interfere with existing benefits for millions of people who depend on them for basic necessities.
These people either know Hegelian dialectic as well as any Marxist or are following it organically: crisis-reaction-response. Create a crisis, allow the crisis to provoke a reaction, and then move in with the solution that was wanted all along.
For Social Security to fall into chaos would therefore constitute a crisis, one of such magnitude that by itself it could destroy this administration’s credibility and capacity to govern further.
For protests that could easily turn violent would be the reaction — as millions of ordinary Americans would suddenly be unable to pay their bills.
The response: His Muskiness privatizes the system and runs it for profit, which means that we could expect the Social Security Administration, or what remains of it, to look like a health insurance corporation, with no more accountability to beneficiaries. This would accord with neoliberal thinking that government screws up everything it touches, but what is privatized turns to gold!
I suppose it does if you’re a billionaire oligarch!
Candidate Trump promised not to touch Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid!
I know, I know: fraud. There probably is some. The agency is far from perfect. It does need substantial reform, because otherwise it will face insolvency in the near future, or so we are repeatedly told (how long in the future appears to depend on whom you ask; if there are roughly 73 million Social Security recipients, roughly 185 million people are paying into it.).
The DOGE team has made the implausible claim that millions of dead people were receiving benefits: including “nearly 1.5 million 150-year-olds” and some “over the age of 200”!
The Social Security Administration is 90 years old this year. Such a person would have had to have been over 100 when the system was set up. This doesn’t make sense. Use logic, people. Allegations of Social Security fraud are very unlike those of voter fraud. Voter fraud might be made possible by not requiring ID to vote. A Social Security account begins with your ID; your Social Security number is, after all, for all practical purposes, a national ID number.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — a former Wall Street CEO and yet another billionaire technocrat — said in a recent podcast that those who call Social Security and complain when their monthly benefits don’t show up on time are the ones most likely to be “fraudsters”!
In what parallel world is that an evidence-based or even a logical claim?!
When I see names and details, specific allegations against whoever is receiving this money, arrests made, convictions, I’ll take more seriously the claim that millions of “fraudsters,” presumably descendant of long-dead beneficiaries, are receiving Social Security benefits.
The best thing that could happen, in my humble opinion, is an end to the unholy alliance between Trump and His Muskiness. It might be useful to remember that His Muskiness and other billionaires will never need Social Security. Millions upon millions of Americans or ordinary means do rely on it for basic necessities of life, whether anyone likes this or not.
Donald Trump and Zionism.
Finally, we come to the most dangerous question this article asks:
Does Trump serve Israel / Zionism?
I’d hoped I’d never have to ask this. I’ve tried to avoid it. But further avoidance is now impossible.
A lot of leftists and liberals claim that Trump serves Putin. This is as stupid as it was back in the days of the Russia-collusion hoax (which Jeffrey Goldberg included in the Signal-gate screw-up had a hand in spreading).
But maybe all the Putin-fearmongering is a purposeful distraction from what’s really going on. It wouldn’t be the first time.
A case can be made, based especially on the administration’s firebreathing hostility to protests against Israeli actions in Gaza, that Trump serves Israel and promotes Zionism, everything else being window-dressing (including America First! and Making America Great Again!).
Zionism begins with the idea that the beginning of the End Times would be marked by the restoration of the Biblical Israel in the Middle East, and that today’s Israel is the recreation of the Biblical Israel. I’ve never seen the slightest evidence for the latter of these. Zionism also maintains that those skeptical of this are by definition antisemitic. Zionists believe we entered the End Times when Israel was created in the 1940s. They drew strength from the Nazi Holocaust and persecution of Jews more broadly.
Thus a war against “antisemitism” has violated free speech rights and rights to due process, as I observed above. The climate of fear is probably more palpable today than it was when the wokesters were fully in charge! Arguably this is worse than wokeness! Because Zionism has more money and power back of it than wokery had.
Nearly all the above-named technocrats of the Silicon Valley billionaire class are Jewish, after all. And AIPAC and the ADL (the latter created in 1913, interestingly the same year the Federal Reserve was set up) have long been two of the most powerful organizations in the country. If a politician gets on AIPAC’s bad side, then come the next election the organization will fund a “more reasonable” opposition candidate.
Worse is how the lion’s share of the Evangelical Christian community has been pulled into Zionism, including seminaries, via dispensational theology furthering the idea that God is about to whisk believers off the world in the “rapture.”
The only marginally visible exception that comes to mind is Chuck Baldwin, who has been warning for years about Zionist infiltration of Christian institutions.
This is all deeply troubling since I’d like to think I can identify with the Evangelical community. But as long as this is going on, I can’t!
What I voted for was securing America’s national borders, which included deporting as many illegal immigrants as possible who entered the U.S. under Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’s watch.
I did not vote to deport anyone in the U.S. legally, with a green card or one of several legitimate visas including the H-1B visa that allowed Elon Musk (born in South Africa) to enter, live, and start businesses in the U.S. Nor did I vote to detain, on spurious grounds, those trying to enter the country legally.
How long will it be before U.S. citizens find themselves detained and charged with the “hate speech” crime of “antisemitism” because they criticized Israeli policy in Gaza, especially if they call it what it is: mass murder, which has included small children who have been deliberately targeted, their brains blown out, by IDS agents who afterwards laughed about it. Does anyone honestly think Palestinian children are working for Hamas?
These people are clearly psychopaths.
Possibly worse!
I’ve found myself wondering if something demonic is involved here. I’ve never taken very seriously claims about “International Jewry.” Even if there is such a network, I don’t think it is autonomous. If it exists, it answers to those higher “principalities and powers” in accordance with Ephesians 6:12 quoted above and which I’ve put into a frame of reference here (see also here).
Nothing Ahead but Trouble!
I’d worked under the assumption that putting an end to the four-year dumpster fire of “Sleepy” Joe Biden and DEI candidate Kamala Harris whose loss last November would enable us to turn a corner.
We’ve turned a corner all right, but not the corner we needed to turn!
I also did not vote for a technocracy ready to institute the North American Union I thought we exposed and stopped back in the days of Bush the Younger (technocrats would call the structure of governance they want the North American Technate)!
Don’t look to the Democrats, who remain clueless since they can’t give up the things that cost them the election: lying about the real economy, hiding Joe Biden’s cognitive decline for almost four years, continued attachment to identity politics, and their irrational obsession with “transgenders.”
At the moment I see nothing ahead but trouble!
Do I want to continue chronicling it?
That will depend on the response (if there is one) to this article, which I’m aware could get me into trouble. (I live overseas. Will my passport be flagged the next time I try to enter the U.S.? My wife is a foreign national with a foreign passport who would be using a Friendly Nation visa waiver. Could she be detained and taken who knows where? This publication: what happens if some Substack overlord flags what I’m doing here as “antisemitic”?).
Part of me wants to retire from all this and be done with it!
Another part of me can’t take his eyes off the ongoing debacle! We’ll see.
What Would Make America Great Again (Revisited)?
So I’ll end this by asking again, What would really Make America Great Again? How do we put America First?
I’ve addressed the former previously. (Did anyone read it?)
This isn’t about tariffs. Here’s what to do:
Restore a Christian worldview. Separate it clearly and specifically from Zionism, which is fundamentally a secular materialist movement outside of actual Judaism (not to mention Christianity).
Further the moral idea that all human persons have intrinsic value because they were created in God’s image (Gen. 1:26-27). See what happens….
Restore Constitutionally limited government which, as founding father John Adams observed, “was made only for a moral and religious people.”
Recognize the spirit of community that built the country into a desirable place to be.
Do not institute economics-über-alles ideologies such as neoliberalism which instead of recognizing intrinsic value, throw human beings to the wolves when they cease to make money.
Instead, teach financial literacy, so people can manage their money instead of being managed by money. Teach them the difference between needs and wants, and how expert marketers routinely blur the two to get sales. Teach them what’s been done to our currency, the reason why a decent apartment that rented for perhaps $100/mo. or less back in the 1970s now rents for over $1,500/mo.
Do not discriminate against people on the basis of race or class or sex or physical appearance. We’re all human, and we’re all doing the best that we can.
In foreign policy, stop fighting Israel’s wars, proxy wars against Russia, and otherwise interfering in the affairs of other nations. Recognize that others are in a better position to resolve their own problems than we are, because of differences in history, tradition, and culture.
Don’t be a global bully. Instead, be an example. America had a chance to do this after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We couldn’t have blown it more spectacularly!
All these things would Make America Great Again!
Above all, don’t allow the country to fall the rest of the way into the hands of unaccountable money-hungry, power-hungry technocrats: arch-materialists all.
Sadly, though, with Ron Paul long retired and turning 90 this year, at this moment I don’t see a single person on the horizon who both commands sufficient influence and has the money to further these goals nationally.
Which means we have no choice except to further them locally, in our own lives.
Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher, from his Meditations: “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
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Steven Yates is a (recovering) ex-academic with a PhD in Philosophy. He taught for more than 15 years total at several universities in the Southeastern U.S. He authored three books, more than 20 articles, numerous book reviews, and review essays in academic journals and anthologies. Refused tenure and unable to obtain full-time academic employment (and with an increasing number of very fundamental philosophical essays refused publication in journals), he turned to alternative platforms and hereticl notions, including about academia itself.
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Steve, as you know from our many conversations since we met in Santiago in 2015, I have been consistently against all governments and their True Believers (mis)lead by any Savior to the promised Slaughterhouse of vaccines and wars. Trump and RFK Jr are more of the same, unfortunately.
Here are articles on Trump and RFK Jr on their new totalitarian anti-free speech "law", pass them on to your conservative friends that still have a conscience.
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TRUMP SET TO SIGN DANGEROUS ANTISEMITISM ORDER TARGETING STUDENTS. The New Republic, Jan 30, 2025
Donald Trump’s new order isn’t about antisemitism. It’s about an attack on immigrants, universities, and pro-Palestine activists.
Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday that goes after the specter of antisemitism, giving the federal agencies powers to identify, punish, and deport foreign nationals allegedly prejudiced against Judaism and Jewish people.
https://newrepublic.com/post/190910/trump-antisemitism-executive-order-universities-students-palestine
THE END OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT – ONLY ZIONIST JEWISH VOICES ALLOWED ON U.S. CAMPUSES. Health Impact News, March 4, 2025
There is a new “pandemic” sweeping across the U.S., and President Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order to prevent it from spreading through college and university campuses, by creating a “Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism“.
And who better to lead this new fight against this deadly “pandemic”, than the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Well, that sure gives “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) a whole new meaning, doesn’t it? I wonder if Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is developing “antisemitic vaccines” yet, since he has been telling the whole world lately how much he loves vaccines?
https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/the-end-of-the-first-amendment-only-zionist-jewish-voices-allowed-on-u-s-campuses/
RFK JR. ANNOUNCES HHS MISSION TO END… ANTI-SEMITISM? Mediaite, March 3, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised eyebrows on Monday after he announced a Health Department mission to “end anti-semitic harassment on college campuses.”
“Anti-Semitism – like racism – is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues,” wrote Kennedy in an announcement on Monday evening, adding:
‘In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate.’
Kennedy then linked to a press release announcing a joint-effort by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration to “end anti-semitic harassment on college campuses,” beginning with a “comprehensive review of Columbia University’s federal contracts and grants in light of ongoing investigations for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
The announcement received criticism on social media, including from allies and supporters of the Trump administration, who argued that the Health Department’s involvement was clear overreach.
“THIS IS NOT HEALTH,” reacted commentator and Trump ally Mike Cernovich. “Calling everything you disagree with ‘public health’ was an Obama era tactic and risks overreach.”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/comparable-to-historys-most-deadly-plagues-rfk-jr-announces-health-mission-to-end-anti-semitism/
HHS, ED, AND GSA ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO END ANTI-SEMITIC HARASSMENT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES Health and Human Services, March 3, 2025
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/03/hhs-ed-gsa-announce-additional-measures-end-anti-semitic-harassment-college-campuses.html
RFK JR.’S “ANTISEMITISM TASK FORCE” OPERATING AS NEW SECRET POLICE STALKING AND TERRORIZING LEGAL U.S. RESIDENTS Health Impact News, March 28, 2025
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has continued to attack those who protest against the genocide happening in Gaza by having his “Antisemitism Task Force” stalk and terrorize LEGAL U.S. residents, including permanent residents who are here with Green Cards.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/rfk-jr-s-antisemitism-task-force-operating-as-new-secret-police-stalking-and-terrorizing-legal-u-s-residents/
RFK JR.'S SHOCKING "MAHA" PRONOUNCEMENT. Glenn Greenwald, March 26, 2025. 8:54
GREENWALD: “RFK is the health and human services secretary he excited so many people based on an agenda having to do with American Health and twice now of the very few public pronouncements he's made it's both been about anti-Semitism on college campuses the need to curb it. To watch even these kind of ancillary cabinet members in the Trump Administration have nothing to do with foreign policy continuously make pronouncements to serve Israel and show how concerned they are about it, it's just further fuel of the fire that's going to lead to people rightfully so asking why this foreign country has such a grave hold on our politics on a bipartisan basis, and why it is that even every day you turn the internet you see them blowing up children, blowing up journalists, blowing up buildings, blowing up destroying all Society, occupying multiple countries, bombing multiple countries, all with American weapons and American money. Why it is that the United States is so blindly devoted to this foreign country and why American politicians seem to have a much greater willingness to criticize our own government than this foreign government on the other side of the world?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGrFGv9GxQ&t=3s