Donald Trump is the too-much president.

Even when he delivers a decisive win ‒ and he has done that surprisingly often in the first year of his second term ‒ the president has the agonizing habit of pushing too far, saying too much, being too much for the moment and for the high office he holds.

Take, for example, illegal immigration. Among his first actions after returning to the Oval Office in January 2025 ‒ can it have been only a year? ‒ was to successfully end the chaos at the U.S. border with Mexico. 

Closing off unchecked entry to the United States for millions of people has been good for national security, good for law and order, and good even for desperate migrants and refugees who were targeted for exploitation by cartels and traffickers. Win one for the Don – and the U.S.

But Trump didn’t stop there, unfortunately. He also has cut off legal channels for refugees and others to come to America, including drastically slashing the number of people the U.S. welcomes from war-ravaged and economically failing countries like Haiti, Sudan and Syria.

That’s not how the U.S. – the richest, most powerful and, until now, most generous nation in........

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