Be Outraged with Me: Trump versus the Environment, Health Care, Ukraine, Basic Competence, Security and the Constitution

Mort Kondracke

Supporters often have said that Donald Trump’s intent is to “shake things up” in government. But his administration’s actions are so destructive and chaotic that he could be accused of inflicting often fatal “shaken baby syndrome” on the country.

This is the second installment of my Trump Outrage Watch designed to help me (and you) keep track of his violations of the Constitution, laws, norms and ethics perpetrated at a mind-numbing pace. In this week’s edition:

1. The Environment
The administration’s health care policies could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, or perhaps millions. The most potentially catastrophic is his dismissal of climate change as a “hoax” and cancellation of policies at the Environmental Protection Agency and kindred departments designed to combat it—or even statistically monitor it.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he was “driving a dagger through the heart” of climate regulation. He ordered a “reconsideration” of the 2009 “endangerment finding” that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses were pollutants subject to EPA regulation under the Clean Air Act. The finding is the basis of all government action to curtail climate change— limits on emissions for vehicles, power plants, hydrofluorocarbons and methane from oil and gas pipeline leaks. It also required polluters to report their emissions.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/03/31/be-outraged-with-me-trump-versus-the-environment-health-care-ukraine-basic-competence-security-and-the-constitution/