US President is Dismantling the Federal Democratic Structure a part of the plan of MAGA?

 The President of the United State has spent days telling the world how he is going to make America great again at the same time his plans offer nothing new from his earlier term in office, but there is a clear difference in methods used in his current term compared to his previous one. During his last term he used mass mobilization around discrimination of white population as the strategy for change, the billionaire President forgot the fact that the white population is the majority group in US and not among those discriminated against, it is in power and not marginalised or isolated. It is not surprising most Americans did not feel racist enough to go all out to bat for Trump.

Now, for his second term he has come prepared to set records straight with AI tools, the only set back, AI tool are as intelligent as the framework offered and as insightful as prompts provided, even synthesis happens in a set manner and not for out of the box eureka discoveries. Even prior to going into the measures taken by the US President and his team, there are certain realities about the US that the present US President and his team seem to ignore.

Championing Make White America Great Again under guise of MAGA is not going to work, for a few simple reasons a) US has a population density of 96 persons per square mile or 37 persons per square Kilometre, the District of Columbia is the most densely populated area with 11,131 persons per square mile or 4297 persons per square kilometre. From the 50 states of the US, 10 States have a density of population ranging from 100 persons per square kilometre to 488 persons or in square miles it ranges from 274-1,263 persons. For 12 states in US the density of population is less than 20 persons per square kilometre or less than 45 persons per square kilometre.

When considering the future, the TFR for US is 1.67, which is below the required cut off mark, for smooth replacement of current population, of 2.1.  For 49 States in US, the TFR ranges from 1.2 to 1.9, the only State that has reached close to the required rate of 2.1 is south Dakota with a TFR rate of 2.00. For the white population TFR has remained low, it is 1.5 as of 2020, for Africans American it has come down from 1.9 to 1.71, for Hispanics it has come down from 2.35 to 1.88 and for Asians it stands at 1.39.

Mr. President, if previous Presidents have not been all out against migration, there must be a reason, they knew without the immigrant population Great America may be just empty spaces. This would make governance difficult, empty spaces filled by AI has little to offer as indirect tax for better revenue collection. Last year as per (AI input from google) the total revenue for federal government was $4.9 trillion and of it 15.7% or $ 769.1 billion was from indirect taxes.

 

Current plan to dismantle Federal Government

 

Fig1. Destruction of Federal Structure?

US President Donald Trump has a goal to achieve, basically a personal one,  aims at achieving greatness for White America but only for those who uphold the world view of President Donald Trump. There lies the problem, such tunnelled vision does not sync with making a country great.

After coming to office in January 2025, the US President has signed 136 Presidential Executive Orders Numbered 14147 to 14283, that too in a matter of 100 working days, which means these were planned for way before taking office and AI was used.

The first Executive Order passed by President Donald Trump was EO 14147 “Ending the Weaponization of Federal Government”. As indicated Federal Structure was the target and the same is elaborated in the text. The sad reality is that the US President Donald Trump has gone about in last 100 days exactly carrying out what he accused the previous President Joe Biden to have carried out, but the current President has done it in a manner far harsher, cruder and uncouth way that no other US President would have considered carrying out.

Under Section 1 “Purpose” of the Executive Order, the text focused on “The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal Law Enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions. These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than towards pursuing actual justice or legitimated governmental objectives. Many …appear to be inconsistent with the Constitution, and/ or laws of the United States.” “It targeted individuals who voiced opposition to the prior administration’s policies with numerous Federal investigations and politically motivated funding revocations, which cost Americans accesses to needed services”.

Under Section 2, Policy, “… to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to weaponization of law enforcement and weaponization of the Intelligence Community.

Section 3 Ending the Weaponisation of the Federal Government, under which the President Donald Trump put an order to establish a surveillance system, with retrospective effect, for all agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement authority of US. This would not be possible without AI to do data analysis, and this is probably the reason for the creation of D.O.G.E and the role of billionaire and owner X or XAI in the cover up stating that an evaluation of Federal Services for waste, fraud and abuse would be carried out. The absence of a plan for evaluation or even assessment along with declaration of culprit and waste programs without any evaluation all indicate the result was finalized even before the evaluation started. D.O.G.E seems to be an excuse to put in place a surveillance system within all Federal Services without any permission.

Section 3 states “ (a) The Attorney General in consultation with the heads of all departments and agencies of the United States, shall take appropriate action to review the activities of all departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement authority of the United States, including but not limited to, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission, over the last 4 years and identify any instances where a department’s or agency’s conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies of this order, and prepare a report to be submitted to the President…”

As though surveillance of agencies mentioned above was not adequate, the Director of National Intelligence was asked to put in place a similar retrospective surveillance and analysis within all agencies of Intelligence Community. Here the definition of Intelligence Community was taken to be as per Section 3003 of title 50, United States Code. As per which Intelligence Community includes:

 “(A) the office of the Director of National Intelligence (B) The Central Intelligence Agency (C) The National Security Agency (D)The Defence Intelligence Agency (E) The National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency (F) The National Reconnaissance office (G) Other offices within Department of Defence…, (H) the Intelligence elements of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Space Force. The list goes on and ends with (L) Such other elements of any department or agency as may be designated by the President or designated jointly by the Director of National Intelligence and heads of departments…”

President of United States with the support of AI tools and data analyst team has put in place a tight surveillance system retrospectively, for the present and future to ensure all the officials live and work in fear and adhere to all the whims of the President whether criminal, a felony or treason itself.

Once the Process in place the rest of the measures are very simple for the President to ensure. The Process naturally leads to 1) Identification of agencies or Persons. Upon which he has different sets of Executive Orders to take further action. The Executive Order 14230 “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP”. Under which Section 1 Purpose – The order is very specific targeted and declare a legal entity as criminal without any due process, it communicates that the President is the Prosecutor, Jury and the Judge. And declares a personal war on the legal entity. “The dishonest and dangerous activity of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP (“Perkins Coie”) has affected this country for decades. Notably, in 2016 while representing Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then manufactured a false “dossier” designated to steal the election”. Basically, the EO is filled with allegation, assumption which then President goes ahead and considers as facts and passes judgment.

Further allegations include “In addition to undermining democratic elections, the integrity of our courts, and honest law enforcement, Perkins Coie racially discriminates against its own attorney and staff, and against applicants. Perkins Coie publicly announced percentage quotas in 2019 for hiring and promotion on basis of race and other categories prohibited by civil rights laws. Here the President is using Civil Rights law to claim appoints of anyone from marginalised or vulnerable group is a civil rights violation and stands to be held legally accountable. It proudly excluded applicants on the basis of race for its fellowships… applicants harmed by them finally sued to enforce change”.

President Donald Trumps and his administration is committed to “ending discrimination under “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies and ensuring that Federal benefits support the laws and policies promoting national security and respecting the democratic process. The President of United State through his executive order is redefining Democracy, democratic process, what is discrimination and the process to bring inclusive change. He further alleges that including persons in government agencies through “diversity, equity and inclusion” is a threat to national security. This is the first time in history any leader or for that any person has stated that the inclusion of marginalised persons is a threat to a nation and it is democratic to exclude such individuals. Mr. President, then in my opinion based on your logic you are excluding yourself from you present post.

After the identification of the agencies that are considered to be a national threat as per the skewed logic of US President Donald Trump and his administration the process of dismantling such agency or services is set in motion. The steps are the same for any agency and its thorough enough to silence any criticism of Trump policies.

a)      Block Security Clearence / Security Clearence review:  A simple strategy cast doubt not on ethics but on being accused of sedition or any similar crimes against nation’s interest. The doubt is cast and review is set in motion, this ensures an economic standstill for activities of the agency, entity or person. It is up to the Trump administration to determine the review period as constitutional provisions are not followed. The administration knows casting the doubt is sufficient to kill the entity or person.

b)     Block Contracting, this is a surveillance mechanism that can easily be carried out with AI tools to augment human skills. With the use of surveillance mechanism and data analysis of communication, “the Government Contracting agencies shall, to the extent permissible by law, require Government Contractors to disclose any business they do with Perkins Coie and whether that business is related to the subject of the Government contract”.

After casting doubts about agency/persons to the extent accusing them of sedition or crimes against the country, the Executive Order sets in motion to throttle any business or service option of the agency or person. Basically, kill the professional or professional entity. And steps be taken to terminate any existing contracts or planned ones.

 Further the executive order demands that “Within 30 days of the date of this order, all agencies shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget an assessment of contracts with Perkins Coie or with entities that do business with Perkins Coie effective as of the date of this order and any actions taken with respect to those contracts in accordance with this order”. To deliver all that is demanded within 30 days is only possible with AI use of team like that of D.O.G.E.

c)      Racial Discrimination

 One of the issues brought forth in the Executive Order is the case Diversity Fellowship Program, this conceptually is very much in line with the process of including individuals that have been excluded based on race, gender and disability. But the President of United States considers this governance system a discrimination, the first a leader of a country who considers it possible to create an inclusive society in the absence of such programs. While the President tries to focus on the lawsuit brought against the law firm and how they changed the program and made it open to all, but what he does not mention is that the fellowship was made open to all but candidates were selected based on “efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion”.

 Here the President of United States is setting in a process that would make agencies reluctant to hire people with disabilities or those from the marginalised groups racially or otherwise. For the agency would need not to prove that it avoided hiring or promoting a person from racially discriminated group or a person with disabilities but rather it has to now take measures to protect the agency from the accusation of being discriminatory if a non white individual is selected.  The President is throwing out of the window the inclusive process which was best for the nation and democracy and putting in place a process whereby any agency would find it easier to employ a white candidate without disabilities. The President believes in “Winners take it all”. But whether it will lead to Make American Great or Make America Mediocre through a sense of entitlement is the question?

d)     Collective Punishment/ Personnel

 What is not stated but evident from the text is that there is desire to carry out collective punishment by the US President and his administration. For according to the Executive Order it is not sufficient to hold the agency accountable and throttle its survival there is a need to punish the personnel who are part of the agency and this is elaborated upon in the Executive Order. “The heads of all agencies, …, provide guidance limiting official access from Federal Government buildings to employees of Perkins Coie when such access would threaten the national security of or otherwise inconsistent with the interest of the Unites States. In addition, the heads of all agencies shall provide guidance limiting Government employees acting in their official capacity from engaging with Perkins Coie employees to ensure consistency with national security and other interests of the United States.

 Further the Executive Order specifies “refrain from hiring employees of Perkins Coie, absent a waiver from the head of the agency, made in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, that such hire will not threaten the national security of the United States”. Casting doubt and refusal to hire is a sure way to kill the professional career of these individuals whether within government agencies or outside in a digital surveillance intensive society like the United States. 

e)     Identification of New Agencies/Issues to Prosecute

 The entire process focuses on identification of all probable network links of persons and agencies and leads to an identification of additional agencies; whether purely professional links or acquaintances. If these links are assessed by the Trump Administration as adverseness to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion especially as it is considered a National Security Risk it would lead to identification of new agencies and individuals to prosecute for the perceived “sedition” or adverse destructive feelings towards the nation.

 The circular once put in place will continue and, in the process, dismantle not only agencies within the Federal Structure. It will destroy the Federal Structure itself for such structures are beyond the concrete institutions, it is about Trust, Organizational knowledge that keeps evolving as a free dynamic entity that is connected to real life situations.

 The President of United States and his administration can be accused of:

            1.      Violation of the rights of the workers and of human rights violation

2.      It has put in surveillance system to ensure collective punishment without either due process for the agency or individuals concerned.

3.      The actions of Trump administration can be considered to be terror acts on infrastructure. According to Executive Order 13224 attack on infrastructure is considered a Terror act.

4.      According to Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), domestic terror is to affect conduct of a government, especially attack on critical infrastructure. As per Homeland Security Presidential Directive, Critical Infrastructure are vital for US, that their incapacitation or destruction would have debilitative effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety or combination thereof. When US President Donald Trump and his administration sanctioned the disruption of the services under Federal Services, they were attacking the critical infrastructure of the government, and this was sanctioned by the US President. Critical Infrastructure include: Government Services and Facilities Structure, Health Care and Public Health Care, Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste Sector, and Transportation System Sector.

What is ignored in the struggle by US President Donald Trump to implement his style of governance is that he is eroding trust in the government among citizens, eroding trust between and within the government system, where informal human intelligence and a trust-based system go a long way in securing a nation. This process cannot have a constructive impact on American governance.

Molly Charles

 Reference 

1.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density 

2.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_states_and_territories_by_fertility_rate

3.      https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/28/2025-01900/ending-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government 

4.      https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/11/2025-03989/addressing-risks-from-perkins-coie-llp

5.      https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/20/2025-04867/addressing-risks-from-paul-weiss

6.      https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/25/2025-05519/addressing-risks-from-jenner-and-block 

7. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/15/2025-06458/addressing-risks-from-susman-godfrey

8. https://www.cisa.gov/topics/critical-infrastructure-security-and-resilience/critical-infrastructure-sectors