“Nearly every line of this order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional,” Elie Mystal wrote in his line-by-line breakdown of Trump’s latest executive action, which an ever-growing list of states and municipalities are suing the federal government to prevent. “They’re trying to go back to the pre–Dred Scott days, and make citizenship subject to the prevailing political predilections of the era.”.

Trump marked his return to the White House throne on Monday—which, by the way, coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day—as only he could: by dancing awkwardly on an indoor stage while cosplaying as the seventh member of Village People. Meanwhile, the audience at his inauguration gave us a glimpse of whom we should expect to see more of over the next four years, in “the front-row mustering of billionaires,” as Chris Lehmann put it. There was Musk, of course, but also Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. And right before the inauguration, lest we think the message of untrammeled self-interest and the diminishment of antitrust regulation wasn’t clear enough, right before the inauguration, Trump debuted “a Trump-branded memecoin,” and one for Melania, too.

This is all to stay, the next four years might be looking good for you—if you’re a crypto bro, a racist, and/or a billionaire.

-Alana Pockros

Engagement Editor, The Nation

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