Trump Charts Path to Total Control

Tuesday, October 07, 2025

President Trump is seizing on the government shutdown as an "unprecedented opportunity" to consolidate control in the Oval Office, accelerating a trend toward unchecked power. The bottom line: Government shutdown or not, Trump has spent his presidency methodically erasing the independence of institutions that once served as checks on executive power.

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Some federal workers say this government shutdown feels different than ones they've experienced in the past, partly because of the changes to federal agencies that have been going on since President Donald Trump took office in January.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Oct 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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USURPER. OUTLAW.

This Will Not Stand.

MAGA are Fake Americans, Imposters, like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

They Take over like, Kudzu.

Where's the Roundup.

Giddyup.

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-03 08:44 PM | Reply

Spraying him with Roundup is a great idea!

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-03 08:48 PM | Reply

I love how Biden's weaponizing of government departments was OK but when Reps do it all of a sudden it's a bad thing.

Partisanship has truly created Idiocracy in America.

#3 | Posted by humtake at 2025-10-08 11:50 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Biden's weaponizing of government departments was OK

Biden weaponized the "government departments"?

Like the department of education?

What are you babbling about, stupid?

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-08 11:56 AM | Reply

I love how Biden's weaponizing of government departments was OK but when Reps do it all of a sudden it's a bad thing.
Partisanship has truly created Idiocracy in America.

#3 | Posted by humtake

Except Biden didn't weaponize government departments, dumbf*&^.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-08 01:16 PM | Reply

"weaponizing of government departments"

ICE

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-08 01:23 PM | Reply

"President Trump posts on Truth Social that Chicago Mayor Johnson, Gov. Pritzker "should be in jail"

"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Officers!" Mr. Trump posted. "Governor Pritzker also!"

Pritzker issued a statement on X in response to President Trump's post.

"I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?" Pritzker wrote.

Pritzker continued in a thread of X posts: "His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear.

Taking people for 'how they look.' Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions."

Mayor Johnson also posted to X.

"This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested," he wrote. "I'm not going anywhere."

www.cbsnews.com

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-08 02:42 PM | Reply

The ------- are claiming that a shutdown government is more powerful than an open government.

That take is what people in the biz call a knee slapper.

#8 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-10-09 05:04 AM | Reply

The ------- are claiming that a shutdown government is more powerful than an open government.

#8 | Posted by THEBULL

Well, yes. I've often heard MAGA say that. Including Trump within this last week.

He thinks it's a golden opportunity.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-09 08:30 AM | Reply

I love how Biden's weaponizing of government departments was OK but when Reps do it all of a sudden it's a bad thing.
Partisanship has truly created Idiocracy in America.

#3 | Posted by humtake

Got any receipts or are you just babbling maga nonsense incoherently again?

Biden did not "weaponize" any government depts.

Also Biden is not currently president. The Idiocracy in America is coming from the White House. Biden never coordinated or directed the DOJ to investigate anyone. It's all BS and you slurped it down like fava beans with Chianti.

Biden never once publicly declared his intention for revenge and retribution ( unlike Trumpy who declared his over and over ad nauseam).

Because "revenge and retribution" against American Citizens is not the Presidents job.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-09 12:53 PM | Reply