A short while ago Trump vetoed two bills, both of which had passed the House by unanimous consent. One returned land to a Florida Native American tribe, and the other involved a pipeline project that would bring safe drinking water to rural Colorado.
There was no secret about the reasons for the vetoes, which, of course, had nothing to do with the actual merits of the bills.
The first bill was vetoed because the tribe in question had joined in a lawsuit agains the detention facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz. The bill was sponsored by a Florida Republican. The other bill was vetoed because it benefited the district “represented” by Lauren Boebert, who has incurred the displeasure of our clearly not a pedophile president by supporting the release of the Epstein files. (On a side note, no one in their right mind needs much proof about Trump’s participation in Epstein’s sexual escapades. It is totally consistent with his life history.)
When he vetoed the bills it was obvious that this would be a test of the extent of any Republican resistance to Trump’s excesses, excesses that have put a lot of their seats at risk. Had each Republican that voted for the bills in the first place voted for them again, his vetoes would have been easily overridden.
As one of the linked articles notes, some Republicans actually voted to override, but of course there were not nearly enough. Given the fact that a lot of people are getting turned off by the Trump administration (for instance, some people don’t approve of ICE agents murdering people on the streets) perhaps the Democrats ought to pound away at the fact that their opponents are not standing up for the people and are treating Trump precisely the way he and folks like Hitler want to be treated: unquestioning obedience.
It goes without saying, of course, that the media will and has pretty much ignored the fact that Trump is using the veto power in order to pursue personal vendettas, rather than for policy reasons. Once again, Trump being Trump and not news. Why should the American people be told about such things and they should certainly not become major news events like they would be if Joe Biden had done them.