Critics have poked fun at Donald Trump, suggesting the Orange Manbaby’s approach is too much like the daft agents found in South Park creators hit film ‘Team America: World Police’
A judge who shot down the Trump administration’s use of National Guard troops has argued the president is “creating a national police force with the President as its chief”. The “national police force’ is the latest Team America: World Police comparison mockingly made over Trump’s policies.
Judge Charles Breyer found President Donald Trump’s administration violated federal law by sending troops to the Los Angeles area amid Southern California immigration enforcement operations and accompanying protests.
The Orange Manbaby federalised members of the California National Guard under a law that allows the president to call the guard into federal service when the country “is invaded,” when “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government,” or when the president is otherwise unable “to execute the laws of the United States”.
Trump has pushed the bounds of typical military activity on domestic soil, including through the creation of militarised zones along the US-Mexico border. Some on social media have poked fun at the American leader, suggesting his approach is the kind of presidential shenanigan more likely to be seen in the 2004 film ‘Team America: World Police’, where a crack team of puppet counterterrorism agents create havoc.
The hit movie was made by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who have used Trump as the main protagonist of the new season.
In an interview with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published in June, one unnamed official compared Trump’s foreign policy to Team America and it’s theme tune ‘America, F*** Yeah!’. They said the administration’s foreign policy approach could be summed up as “We’re America, B****”.
The state of California sued the Trump administration following the order, with an argument erupting over whether Trump is using the National Guard to enforce the law.
They argued that troops sent to the city were violating a law that bans military enforcement of domestic laws.
But those in favour of Trump’s actions think the act does not apply because the troops were simply there to protect federal officers.
Judge Breyer said the Trump administration broke federal law. His order, which is due to go into effect on Friday, does not require the remaining troops withdrawn from San Francisco, however.
Trump has already deployed the Guard as part of his unprecedented law enforcement takeover in Washington, where he has direct legal control and has spoken about deploying them in Democratic-led cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York.
Mocking Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom once again posted a social media message in all caps, a clear jab Trump’s often used style of writing.
He posted: “DONALD TRUMP LOSES AGAIN. The courts agree — his militarization of our streets and use of the military against US citizens is ILLEGAL.”
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