The Most Fascist Things Donald Trump Has Done; A Thread PART TWO!

(Part One: https://t.co/S89lHZfrXC)
("Fascism," explained roughly via tweet = racism + ultra-nationalism + sexism + attacks on human rights, the media, & unions + obsessions w/ national security & law & order + near-religious fervor for charismatic leader + cronyism + corruption + election fraud.)
23) Trump hires white supremacist Stephen Miller to write his immigration policies.
https://t.co/Mzy1TeCuLM
24) Trump hires white supremacist Steve Bannon as his 2016 campaign manager. https://t.co/r95t51GlN0
25) Trump hires neo-nazi Sebastian Gorka as an advisor.
https://t.co/D2oZGHtTcu
26) Trump insists that government officials stay at Trump hotels when travelling, giving “an appearance that the businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency.”
https://t.co/GOCW4ZHw8b
27) By booking functions at the Trump Hotel five blocks from the White House, Trump is able to force the Secret Service to pay his business $200,000 to rent rooms. https://t.co/AIi2TQyleo
28) Trump tried to have a G7 conference hire at his own resort to host it. https://t.co/eBPFJ2clT4
29) In 2017, Trump hired his own daughter as a key advisor although he didn't know at the time what exactly she would be doing.
https://t.co/TRML3iNKGl
30) Trump hired his son-in-law Jared Kushner to be one of his top advisors. https://t.co/IpmXdULraS
31) Trump had ICE agents kidnap children from their parents, hold them in concentration camps, and then “lose track” of at least 1500 of them.
https://t.co/p8CL2LkV42
32) Trump then allows U.S. families to begin adopting children kidnapped by ICE w/out the knowledge or consent of their biological parents - something that closely matches one of the components of "genocide" as defined by the UN.
https://t.co/BCXjhgg3aQ
33) It took a court to force the Trump administration to provide children held in ICE concentration camps with toothbrushes, toothpastes, or soap.
https://t.co/wHTjRxv3Ck
34) The Trump administration refused to vaccinate children held in ICE concentration camps even after three died of influenza.
https://t.co/1U6jNKOq4a
35) Trump tried to deny basic citizenship rights to and actually deport native-born Americans who are Latino and live close to the Mexican border.
https://t.co/BWxf1Yjbp5
36) Trump ordered the Pentagon to stage a pointless, dictator-style military parade for himself. https://t.co/ofVGtUThf9
37) Trump decided that spending $13 billion to create a "space force" would be a good idea.
https://t.co/nDubxhcpN8
38) Trump declared his own inauguration day the "National Day of Patriotic Devotion."
https://t.co/y9tOnDWM7T
39) "I'm a nationalist, okay? Nationalist. Use that word. Use that word." - Donald Trump
https://t.co/LnzuQcrgac
40) In 2018, Trump moved to take away the legal rights and status of trans people, which would make them vulnerable to discrimination.
https://t.co/IvqbmcMIvm
41) Trump moved to subvert the 14th Amendment by revoking citizenship rights for people born in America to parents who weren't U.S. citizens.
https://t.co/5O9jYzkLke
42) Lashing back at four of his strongest critics in the House of Representatives who are also racialized women, Trump went with the old racist trope "go back to your country!"
https://t.co/Citb8TeNvD
OUT OF ROOM - WE'LL POST PART THREE OF OUR LIST TOMORROW!

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