Is Trump moving too fast for his own good?
Donald Trump,Executive Orders,Foreign Policy,Domestic Policy
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the speed and breadth of his administration's actions caught his political opponents off guard.
Critics and supporters alike called Trump's flurry of executive orders and unrivaled dominance of the news cycle "shock and awe," a phrase typically reserved for aerial bombing campaigns like the one that helped bring down Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.
Now, almost a year into Trump's second term, Republicans are starting to ask whether it is too much, too fast.
Just since the beginning of this year, Trump has toppled and taken into custody former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, renewed threats to acquire Greenland without taking the military option off the table, suggested that he might not be done with military and other actions in Iran, and defended the ICE officer involved in a fatal shooting in Minneapolis in stronger terms than he initially offered on behalf of the police officer in the George Floyd case during his first term.
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