On March 20th, 2025, in rants spanning less than 10 minutes, Trump made several statements that raise legitimate concerns about his understanding of constitutional checks and balances of this Great Country, the U.S. of A.
First, his statement, “These Judges want to assume the Powers of the Presidency, without having to attain 80 Million Votes” illustrates his desire to convert the USA from a government of laws and a balance of powers into a dictatorship where every whim or desire of a single person should be obeyed without consideration of laws, rules, harms done to others, or any negative consequences.
The founders of our great country were quite deliberately attempting to create a country WITHOUT kings, where rulers had to abide by laws; not a country where citizens had no recourse but to bow to the will of the leader.
The USA has no king. The USA needs no king.
Our country doesn’t hold nationwide elections for every individual position, thus the argument that a person lacking 80 million votes should have no voice to speak against the only one who does, is without merit. A democracy will ONLY work when there is a separation of powers; and no branch, organization, nor individual can hold final authority over all matters. Trump wants a dictatorship, there is no denying that. The truth is self-evident. Most of the MAGA followers support that dictatorship, but most Republicans do not. Most Republicans want the USA to be a lawful democracy instead of a tyrant beholden to none.
Second, a rhetorical question, who is Trump yelling at when he yells “STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!”? Who is listening to his tweets that has more power than he does? Who is he yelling at? And what does he hope to achieve by yelling? There are several obvious answers.
First of all, he is simply yelling in frustration against those that don’t blindly follow his will and whims and desires without question, just as you or I might yell aloud to the air despite no one being around when making a painful mistake. He is yelling against those who are pointing out that there are correct and lawful processes for accomplishing what he intends and those processes should be followed because they have been put in place by centuries of careful thought by educated people.
But Trump does have intended audiences for his shouts in tweets. For one, he is screaming directly at the judges who criticized or blocked his actions. He is screaming at them to try to intimidate them, and he is screaming at them to let all judges everywhere know that if they defy his will, they too will become targets of his ire and thus face retaliation via lawsuits, via slander, and via the weaponized departments of his federal government.
But there is one other target of Trump’s screams, and that is the violent section of his loyal MAGA followers that can, and always do, begin to intimidate, harass, and threaten the subjects of Trump’s ire to such an extent that the subjects must hire personal security for themselves and their families.
In Trump’s first term as President, he was unable to do many things he wanted because there were so many people in government that had sworn oaths to the serve the citizens and the Constitution of the United States that would only allow Trump to proceed according to the law. But with the help of many radical right-winged groups Trump has managed to replace people serving the USA with people whose first loyalty is to Trump, so he expected almost no resistance, and to be able to easily bulldoze over the few resistances when they came. Therefore Trump is extremely frustrated to learn that he still can’t get whatever he wants whenever he wants.
Fourth, Trump is simply behaving as a spoiled child ranting and acting out when he doesn’t get what he wants. I won’t comment more on that here because it is self-evident and patently obvious simply by reading the history of his tweets in the last decade. Trump, and the world, are all harmed by his inability to master his emotions.