“The Maximum Extent Appropriate And Permitted By Law”

Why did Trump announce tariffs against Canada and Mexico, and then suspend them before they took affect? Why did he announce tariffs again, only to suspend them for automobile manufacturers for 30 days?

Maddow called out the administration’s move to list 443 government properties, as reported by Bloomberg, which was scrapped.

“They tried that yesterday and then oops, oh, push back. Who could have expected? And so then today, less than 24 hours later, they took it all back. They took them all down,” Maddow said.

She then laid into to Trump and Musk in a passionate analysis that the longtime host of the top-rated primetime show has become known for.

“Everywhere they go, everything they have tried to do, they are running up against opposition and annoyance,” Maddow said. “They are running up against their own stupidity. They are running up against their own ignorance. They are running up against the law.”

She added: “The pushback all over this country has thrown down stop strips in the road to flatten their tires and at least slow them down, and sometimes to stop them."

And why did they announce this so early?

A draft of a new executive that could be signed as early as Thursday aims to abolish the Department of Education, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed the document, wrote Wednesday night Education Secretary Linda McMahon is instructed in the order to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”

"The maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law” sounds like a weaselly attempt to do it without doing it, so Trump can say he did it but a single federal judge usurped his authority.

Damned judicial system. Damned Constitution.

Trump has no idea what the DOE does, and he has no authority to dismantle it. But there’s a pattern here. He has to keep running before it catches up with him.

He’s gotta have something to do with his time. He can’t play golf all the time. He’s got to pretend he tried.

Before he takes it back. 

He’s not even pretending to defy court orders anymore.