Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the overcast NYC metro area. Looks like Trump’s screwing over our allies again. This time, Trump’s decided that it’s time to pursue a trade deal with the EU, and it leaves the UK out in the cold.

Ayep. Putin’s strategy of dividing the EU/US/NATO alliances is working out famously.

This is just more evidence that Trump’s pursuing Russia’s agenda in disrupting US relations with our allies, especially NATO & EU

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 22, 2017

Trump didn’t even know what Brexit was before his trip to the UK last year. Then he decided he supported it. Now that the UK voted to exit, he’s decided that he’d rather negotiate a new trade deal with the EU. The timing of that is, well, curious.

Trump, who claimed that the exit would improve the UK economy and sovereignty, just decided to deal with the EU first. That means the UK just got the shaft.

Meanwhile, Trump decided last night to switch up the US Surgeon General position. He replaced Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (Adm) with Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent Adams, who was a Deputy Surgeon General.

Trump’s taking heat because she’s a nurse, whereas prior Surgeons General were doctors. I get that, but she’s qualified enough to have been a deputy surgeon general under Obama. There’s a certain level of professionalism at the health corps, so this isn’t as big a deal to me as it might be to others, but for the fact that it was done on the down low - a late Friday night news dump.

Nothing this admin does is normal, and that’s just another sign.

Meanwhile, 100s of positions throughout the government are unfilled, whether it’s deputy positions at federal agencies - the people who carry out the political policies from the top, to the federal attorneys who Trump demanded resignations from out of the blue and he’s yet to name a single replacement.

Everything Trump’s doing is hamstringing functioning government, and the GOP continues enabling, because sabotaging government so it fails is just a check-mark on their intention to cutting government funding all because government isn’t working. It’s a cycle of destruction, the purpose of which is to ultimately funnel tax cuts for the rich. It’s not to cut the deficits or reduce debt, which will explode as the tax cuts kick in.