The pace at which President Donald Trump is inventing new purposes for Presidential orders reminds me of George Washington Carver’s success in finding over 300 uses for peanuts. But Carver accomplished his feat—as well as numerous other scientific and agricultural innovations—over the span of 47 years at Tuskegee University; Trump has taken less than 100 days in his second term to issue over 100 executive orders.
Trump’s record-breaking pace seems dependent upon a penchant for inventing ways to use these orders to further personal grievances which are untethered to the law. A good (but also very bad) example is his using Presidential memoranda to accuse his own former officials, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs of crimes including, in the case of Taylor, treason. Accusations of treason—a crime that carries with it a potential death sentence—made by an official Presidential decree are far more significant than mere rhetorical hyperbole.
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