How silly. As if people in military uniforms picking up trash in front of tourist sites in blue cities has anything to do with actual police work.
Other authoritarian moves:
Intimidate intelligence analysts
into only producing reports in your political favor.
Don’t like cost estimates for your tax plan?
Invent your own.
Don’t want to be bothered with real climate data you don't like? Scrub
government websites of underlying data.
Bully history museums into
scrubbing any mention of your impeachments.
Intimidate data collection agencies into not reporting bad data by firing the head of BLS because he did not like the latest jobs report showing that the economy isn’t doing as well as he claims it is. Declare the numbers “phony.” When asked for proof, he arrogantly declared that it was
“my opinion.”
Impose tariffs, which is a power Constitutionally given to Congress.
Fire government employees if they aren't loyal to him personally. <
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/16/trump-civil-service-loyalty-firings/>
Firing FBI agents who were assigned to the Russia investigation, irrespective of the fact that they were assigned to it.
Extorting the media, universities, and law firms.
Disregarding congressionally appropriated spending.
Ignoring the law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese ownership or be banned due to urgent security reasons, which he himself used to express. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld that law. Doesn't matter. He got a big donation from one of TikTok's major investors. End of story.
Making a show of ignoring due process in deportations.