Street protests, clash with the governor of California and fears over the possibility of use the Pentagon for the largest mass deportation in American history. Already tense climate following the election of Donald Trumpdespite the attempt to lower the tone by Joe Biden, who will receive the president-elect in the Oval Office on Wednesday to implement the peaceful transition he promised.
The tycoon engaged in his first political clash with Gavin Newsomone of the dem governors who are preparing the “resistance” to make their state “Trump-proof”, i.e. proof of Trump and his policies. “Gavin Newscum (offensive nickname, scum means scum, ed.) is trying to kill the beautiful California. He’s using the term ‘Trump-proof’ as a way to stop all the great things that can be done to ‘make California great again, but I just won the election in a landslide,'” he wrote in Truth. The Donald denounced the flight of citizens from the Golden State for his “crazy political decisions”, from water conservation to vehicle emissions standards, from the homeless catastrophe to out-of-control prices and electoral laws. Trump’s post came one day after Newsom announced a special session of the state Legislature for December 2 to take countermeasures to the tycoon’s planned attacks on electric vehicles, immigration, reproductive rights and federal disaster aid. California is one of several blue states that have announced pre-emptive vaccination moves against Trump’s announced policies, and Newsom has already led the resistance.
With him the governors of New York Kathy Hochul, of Illinois JB Pritzker and of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer, all with presidential ambitions in 2028. Among the most feared policies are those on immigration, with Trump who has promised to put an end to dem sanctuary cities and to launch the largest mass deportation in US history. To implement it, the Wall Street Journal reveals, his advisors are considering a declaration of national emergency on the first day of taking office, which could allow the use of defense funds (including for the wall on the border with Mexico), military facilities for detention and military aircraft for expulsions.
This comes as Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about what to do if the future commander in chief were to give an illegal order, such as deploying the military against his political enemies or to turn away migrants at the Mexican border, given that U.S. law generally prohibits the use of active troops for public order purposes. Initially, the focus would be on illegal immigrants who have received final deportation orders from an immigration court, about 1.3 million, as well as those with other criminal convictions or charges, according to the WSJ. The future administration is also reportedly considering ways to encourage immigrants to leave voluntarily, perhaps waiving a 10-year ban on re-entry.
A recent estimate from the American Immigration Council predicted that mass deportations of the current number of illegal immigrants in the United States (11 million people by a government estimate in 2022, 20 million by Trump) could cost an additional $968 billion of a decade. Recently, however, the tycoon said that “it is not a question of costs” but the fact that “we have no choice”. The first street protests against “the incoming danger” also fueled the tension, such as Saturday’s march in the Big Apple: a prelude to the large demonstration on the National Mall in the capital on January 18, two days before Inauguration Day. tycoon meanwhile works on his government team at Mar-a-Lago, taking advantage of the suspension of the trial for the attack on the Capitol (a sitting president cannot be prosecuted), also snatching the swing state of Nevada (the first Republican presidential candidate from the 2004) and winning the popular vote with a higher number of votes than in 2016 and 2020: 74,303,161 (50.6%), a vote still to be completed.