Donald Trump returned from Labor Day weekend to announce in an Oval Office press conference his intention to send the National Guard into cities such as Baltimore and Chicago to respond to urban street crime. Two days later, he called another press conference to announce that he was issuing an executive order to restore the Department of Defense’s pre–Cold War name, the Department of War. And a week before that, he had issued a similar executive order banning flag-burning, despite clear Supreme Court precedent on the matter.
The constitutional complexities of all these matters were left to his defenders, detractors, and the media to debate furiously — and the debate rages on. Meanwhile, Russo-Ukrainian peace talks fell silent once again, several members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned in protest of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine-skeptical policies, and the American economy produced alarming job numbers for the second month in a row as Trump’s tariff regime faces an uncertain fate before the Supreme Court.
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