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What has my family ever done with Trump?

What has my family ever done with Trump?

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The fact that we – by our chosen professions – were targeted indicates why the majority of the Americans say that the president went too far.

Richard Wolf
| Opinion representative

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President Donald Trump's determination to return to his perceived enemies has somehow integrated my whole family. What have we ever done to him?

I am a journalist. My wife is a recreational therapist. My daughter is a lawyer. Sisters: social worker, psychologist. Schwager: psychiatrist, psychologist. Nieces, nephews: mostly educators. And my son is autistic, although he also works and pays taxes.

The fact that we – through our chosen professions – made the “enemies” of the President – has an indication of why a majority of the Americans say that he went too far.

Trump is aimed at everything from schools, scientific research to freedom of the press

Perhaps it is not surprising that Trump has followed journalists. He did that in his first administration. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that he went so far to forbid the associated press from routine media events because he refused to use the term “Gulf of America”.

I covered the white house for USA Today, where I reported freely about President George W. Bush and Barack Obama. This has become a privilege of the past in the Trump administration, which is based on access to the ideology of the press.

The highlight of the career as a public service of my wife was to lead non -profit programs for the federal authority that supports Americorps. She supervised teenagers and young adults with and without disabilities who planned and carried out service projects. It was only in April that the administration put most of the American employees on administrative leave.

My daughter is Senior Associate in an international law firm, many of which have been threatened with the loss of federal contracts and access to federal buildings, including judicial buildings, unless you agree to work free of charge on some causes of the president.

A brother -in -law spent his career at the National Institutes of Health, where he became a leading expert for bipolar disorders. Within a few weeks after taking office, Trump ordered comprehensive cuts at NIH Scientific Research Grants. His upcoming budget of 2026 would almost reduce its financing in two halves.

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The other brother -in -law spent most of his career at Harvard University, where he became a leading expert in adult learning and development. Trump has almost explained Harvard and other elite universities and tried to change what is taught and who threatens to reduce billions of dollars of grants.

Three of my four nieces and nephews teach at K-12 level, where the federal education ministry serves “almost 18,200 school districts and over 50 million students”, according to its own website.

Apparently not long: Trump wants to remove the entire department.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against my son, solid in autism spectrum

None of these guidelines are as insulting as the crusade of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Against what he sees as a scourge of autism. Kennedy wants to determine his cause because many people with autism “never pay taxes, never have a job, never play baseball or even” use a toilet without support “.

Tell my 39-year-old son, who is solid in the autism spectrum, but does all these things. He is also a pretty good golfer. He and I were selected in 2022 to represent Special Olympics Virginia in Golf at the USA of the National Organization in Florida.

This is personal for the entire wolf family and without a logical reason.

Trump's illusory choice “mandate” was mainly based on immigration and protectionist trading policy. In his list of enemies, non -esteemed companies such as public health, the millions of lives around the world, or university formation, the envy of this world or the legal profession were saved on the concept of social justice.

At this speed it will not take long for Trump's anger to be visited on my 1 and 2-year-old grandchildren, be it by removing fluoride from their drinking water or removing books from their libraries.

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Why should we live like that? What did we and how we do in the course of our career except to try to inform our fellow citizens, to raise, heal, defend it and to help in other ways?

We have neither created or tightened the public debt nor the budget and trade deficits. We have not entered the country illegally, although we sympathize with those who have now been deported and denied their civil rights. We have not contributed to the “slaughter” in our cities, which Trump promises to clean up. Where we live in the greater Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC, the crime in the decline is not on the rise.

There can be two options from this rotating door of the retribution. Trump told the Atlantic on April 24 He is Not looking for retaliation, but that “many people in administration” do this. If this is the case, he might tell you that you should stop or fire.

Without such a sensory changes, we will look forward to the 2026 interim elections if the majority of the Americans can reject retaliation in favor of the liberation.

Then noble causes such as those that my family has always accepted – education, health care, civil rights, social justice, a free press – can thrive again.

Richard Wolf reported during a 45-year career in journalism about the Supreme Court, the White House and the Congress.

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