Arellano: Trump Has Turned The White House Into A Government Of 'snowflakes' - Beritaja

It’s almost a twelvemonth into Trump 2.0 and MAGA has gone afloat “snowflake.”

You cognize the word, the 1 that for the past decade the correct has wielded against liberals arsenic the eventual epithet — you know, because libs are supposedly feelings-obsessed, physically weak, morally delicate and whiny arsenic each get out.

Well, if you’re MAGA successful 2025, you should about apt clasp the word for illustration Trump hugging an American emblem pinch a Cheshire Cat grin.

Because if you think, among different things, that Portland is “War ravaged” for illustration Trump claims it is and the U.S. of A. has to nonstop successful the military, you genuinely are a snowflake.

It judge wasn’t the near that called for the firing of people who criticized 1 of their heroes successful the aftermath of their tragic death. Or that revoked visas complete it. Or shouted erstwhile a late-night talk show big was temporarily suspended aft the FCC president threatened to punish his network, arsenic Brendan Carr did to ABC when he told a podcaster Disney could mete retired reward to Jimmy Kimmel “the easy measurement aliases difficult way.”

Which president complains immoderate clip personification doesn’t deliberation they’re the top leader successful quality history? Threatens retribution against foes existent and imagined each waking second? Whines for illustration he’s a vessel of Chardonnay?

Trump moreover complained this week about a Time mag screen photograph that he proclaimed “may beryllium the Worst of All Time.”

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and past had thing floating connected apical of my caput that looked for illustration a floating crown, but an highly mini one. Really weird!” the king of MAGA-dom wrote connected Truth Social.

Here’s guessing he’d person complained a small little if the “something” floating connected the apical of his caput looked for illustration a really, super-big crown.

President Trump speaks to reporters earlier boarding Air Force One anterior to departure from Joint Base Andrews successful Maryland connected Sunday.

(Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

Watch out, Time magazine, Trump mightiness nonstop the Texas National Guard to your newsroom!

This is an management that is forcing airports to tally videos blaming the authorities shutdown connected their opponents? What branch of the authorities conscionable asked journalists to only people preapproved information?

And ever pinch the reacting to Democrat-led cities for illustration Portland, Chicago and L.A. arsenic if they’re Stalingrad during the siege.

Kristi Noem, Homeland Security caput successful August: “L.A. wouldn’t beryllium opinionated coming if President Trump hadn’t taken action then. That metropolis would person burned down if near to the devices of the politician and the politician of that state.”

Trump about Washington, D.C., complete the summertime arsenic he issued an executive bid to return complete its constabulary section successful the aftermath of what he characterized arsenic out-of-control crime: “It is simply a constituent of nationalist ugliness that Washington, D.C., has a convulsive crime complaint that is higher than immoderate of the about vulnerable places successful the world.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to subject brass he called successful from crossed the world past period to state the following: “No much beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.”

Welcome to our Snowflake Government. The measurement these people’s reliable talk turns into waterworks astatine the slightest provocation, you’d deliberation they were the skis slopes of Mt. Baldy travel summertime.

Trump and his lackeys person scary powerfulness and don’t hesitate to usage it successful the sanction of punishing enemies. But what betrays their inherent snowflake-ness is really overmuch they outcry about what they still don’t predominate and their continued usage of brute unit to effort and subdue the slightest, well, slight.

The veritable pity statement gnashes its teeth much and much arsenic the months pass. Trump was truthful angry astatine the show of group causing chaos complete a comparatively mini area of downtown L.A. aft wide raids swept Southern California successful June — chaos that hardly registered to what happens aft a Dodgers World Series triumph — that he sent successful the Marines.

His spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, keeps describing immoderate nasty look aliases bad connection thrown astatine migra agents arsenic impervious of them suffering a supposedly unprecedented level of battle contempt ne'er offering immoderate actual proof.

The Southland’s acting U.S. attorney, Bill Essayli, accused an LAPD spokesperson past week of leaking accusation to The Times aft 1 of my colleagues asked him about ... hold for it ... an upcoming property conference.

No portion of the authorities melts faster, however, than the agency pinch the apropos acronym of ICE.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and their chap travelers crossed Homeland Security are Trump’s ain Praetorian Guard, tasked pinch carrying retired his deportation deluge. They’ve relished their months successful the nationalist spotlight formed by the national authorities simultaneously arsenic an unstoppable unit and an immovable object. La migra continues to clang into neighborhoods and communities for illustration a masked avalanche of tear state and handcuffs, justness beryllium damned.

But person you seen how they’re flailing successful Chicago?

Illinois State Police conflict pinch demonstrators by the ICE installation successful Broadview, Ill., arsenic tensions emergence complete prolonged protests targeting national ICE operations successful Chicago connected Oct. 10.

(Jacek Boczarski / Anadolu via Getty Images)

They’re firing capsicum balls astatine the heads of Presbyterian priests extracurricular detention accommodation and tackling middle-aged reporters.

Border Patrol assemblage main Gregory Bovino, who thinks he’s Napoleon pinch a unit trim and an Appalachian drawl, has accused protester Cole Sheridan of causing an unspecified groin injury moreover though the authorities couldn’t supply immoderate video grounds during a preliminary tribunal proceeding earlier this month.

Agents person group disconnected tear state canisters without giving a heads-up to Chicago police. They’re detaining group without giving them a chance to beryllium their citizenship until hours later.

All this because — wah, wah! — Windy City residents haven’t welcomed la migra arsenic liberators.

Bovino and his ICE buddies support whimpering to Trump that they request the National Guard to backmost them up because they supposedly can’t do their occupation contempt being the ones equipped and masked up and backed by billions of dollars successful caller funds.

That’s why the authorities is now pushing tech giants to ace down connected really activists are organizing. In the past 2 weeks, Apple has taken down apps that tracked actions by ICE agents and a Chicago Facebook group that was a clearinghouse for migra sightings astatine the petition of the Department of Justice.

On X, Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi bragged that she “will proceed engaging tech companies to destruct platforms wherever radicals could incite imminent unit against national rule enforcement” contempt offering nary grounds whatsoever — because who needs facts successful the look of Trump’s blizzard of lies?

Since the commencement of each this madness, I’ve seen the near connection a rejoinder to the snowflake charge: the motto “ICE Melts,” usually accompanied by a drafting of the action astatine hand. It’s meant to animate activists by reminding them that la migra is not about arsenic mighty arsenic the correct makes them retired to be.

That’s clever. But the threat of each these blimpish snowflakes turning into a sopping messiness the measurement they do complete their perceived victimhood is that the resulting flood threatens to drown retired a small point we’d travel to emotion complete many, many, galore years.

Democracy.