Trump and His Personal Style
Published in El Heraldo de Mexico
(Mexico) on 14 August 2025
by José Carreño Figueras (link to
original)
Examples abound: bureaucrats, the media, universities, large companies, law firms, state governments.
President Donald Trump has imposed a style of government using constant, increasing pressure on his adversaries, especially those within his own party.
It is not only a negotiating method, honed since his days as a businessman, but a way of life that translates into an authoritarian style.
And examples abound: bureaucrats, the media, universities, large corporations, law firms, and Democratic state and municipal governments.
The recent firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a monthly report showed that job creation had been slower than previously reported caused Trump to claim that the numbers were “manipulated” to hurt him.
He has now appointed a new official who has offered to stop publishing monthly data on the employment situation, even though it is considered an important economic tool.
Trump’s own data led him to conclude that violent crime in Washington, D.C., a Democratic stronghold, was out of control — one of his aides was mugged — and he mobilized the National Guard to restore order, even though local authorities and statistics showed the opposite situation.
But on Jan. 6, 2021, he had no problem with an attack on the Capitol building and local police by his supporters.
Nothing seems to be beyond the sights or ambitions of the president and his allies who provide him with targets and their own solutions, derived from the ideas that Trump outlined as his objectives.
Deport undocumented residents? The solution goes far beyond informal proposals. It now involves the practical creation of an authoritarian state where, at least according to a petition filed in the Supreme Court, the police can arrest someone because speaking Spanish or looking Latino creates suspicion of a person without legal citizenship documentation.
And within this framework, ideas emerge that serve both to flatter the president and to show one's own commitment, such as the detention camp dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” created in the Florida swamps by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which has been the subject of complaints about abuse and mistreatment.
In what seems like the ultimate irony, it is the same government that on Tuesday released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world and, more than ever, used political criteria to rate them in the rest of the world: It criticizes Brazil and South Africa, which the U.S. considers adversaries, but tones down its criticism of what is happening in El Salvador and Israel, which the U.S. sees as allies.
President Trump seems determined to govern and make decisions based on his own data and the opinions of his supporters.
President Donald Trump has imposed a style of government using constant, increasing pressure on his adversaries, especially those within his own party.
It is not only a negotiating method, honed since his days as a businessman, but a way of life that translates into an authoritarian style.
And examples abound: bureaucrats, the media, universities, large corporations, law firms, and Democratic state and municipal governments.
The recent firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a monthly report showed that job creation had been slower than previously reported caused Trump to claim that the numbers were “manipulated” to hurt him.
He has now appointed a new official who has offered to stop publishing monthly data on the employment situation, even though it is considered an important economic tool.
Trump’s own data led him to conclude that violent crime in Washington, D.C., a Democratic stronghold, was out of control — one of his aides was mugged — and he mobilized the National Guard to restore order, even though local authorities and statistics showed the opposite situation.
But on Jan. 6, 2021, he had no problem with an attack on the Capitol building and local police by his supporters.
Nothing seems to be beyond the sights or ambitions of the president and his allies who provide him with targets and their own solutions, derived from the ideas that Trump outlined as his objectives.
Deport undocumented residents? The solution goes far beyond informal proposals. It now involves the practical creation of an authoritarian state where, at least according to a petition filed in the Supreme Court, the police can arrest someone because speaking Spanish or looking Latino creates suspicion of a person without legal citizenship documentation.
And within this framework, ideas emerge that serve both to flatter the president and to show one's own commitment, such as the detention camp dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” created in the Florida swamps by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which has been the subject of complaints about abuse and mistreatment.
In what seems like the ultimate irony, it is the same government that on Tuesday released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world and, more than ever, used political criteria to rate them in the rest of the world: It criticizes Brazil and South Africa, which the U.S. considers adversaries, but tones down its criticism of what is happening in El Salvador and Israel, which the U.S. sees as allies.
President Trump seems determined to govern and make decisions based on his own data and the opinions of his supporters.
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