As we saw during the first Trump administration, the line between malice and incompetence is so blurry that the only way to manage your time is to say "probably

As we saw during the first Trump administration, the line between malice and incompetence is so blurry that the only way to manage your time is to say "probably both." A selection of reasons for consideration: 1. Abuse of power for a personal vendetta against the states that care about building it and against the legislators who voted for it. 2. Part of a broader set of EOs to demonstrate presidential "power" or activity against things his supports don't like, even if it's unsustainable or destructive. Watch for "we went in and we stopped X bajillion very terribly wasteful tax dollars", where the truth is either "it only paused things" or "by ripping up the Constitution." 3. Abuse of power to create leverage (i.e. extortion) against a certain associate of his that owns a company which could benefit a lot from charging stations. 4. Procedural version of #2: Trying to fudge the numbers on federal spending (even just temporarily) to make it fiscally "okay" for Republicans to pass another tax cut on the rich. 5. Someone recently convinced him it was pork-barrel spending, and he's "honestly" trying to stop it except in the most wannabe-dictator way.