Will Trump Drain the Swamp During His Second Term?

American voters elected Donald Trump to change the direction of the United States, and Trump has made no secret of his plans to Make America Great Again (MAGA). Nevertheless, the woke bureaucrats and their allies on the Left have no plans to change how they do business.

Eight years ago, Trump was elected on his promise to “Drain the Swamp,” and he tried to follow through on his promise. However, the Deep State, otherwise known as “The Swamp,” made his job difficult by fighting against him every step of the way. When they struggled to stop him, they impeached him – not once, but twice.

Trump will enter the office of President of the United States as a wiser man, and he is surrounding himself with men and women that he can trust. The Deep State knows that they are in trouble, so they are working to thwart Trump once again. Tyler O’Neil, managing editor at The Daily Signal, claims that the “bureaucrats have hatched at least three strategies to oppose him: returning to the left-wing nonprofit sphere to act as a government-in-waiting; passing new regulations to cement their ideology into the rules before Trump can reverse them; and burrowing into the bureaucracy to oppose him from within, the same way they did during his first term.” 

O’Neil claims that Trump will have to remove clogs in the drains before he can drain the swamp. Here are O’Neil’s explanations for how the bureaucracy is fighting back.

1. The Revolving Door

Trump has vowed to carry out a mass deportation of illegal aliens, but it is often better for aliens to “deport” themselves by leaving the country on their own terms. Similarly, some woke bureaucrats in the administrative state have begun the process of self-deportation, electing to depart the Biden-Harris administration on their own terms before Trump forces them out of government….

2. ‘Trump-Proofing’ the Bureaucracy

Even before Trump won the 2024 presidential election, bureaucrats had been gearing up to “Trump-proof” the administrative state.

In April, the Office of Personnel Management finalized a rule that will make it harder for Trump to reinstate his “Schedule F” executive order – an order that would have made it easier for the president to fire certain bureaucrats.

Public sector unions have also schemed with bureaucrats to tie Trump’s hands ahead of time….

3. Retrenchment

Of course, many bureaucrats will simply refuse to leave.

While some federal bureaucrats are already looking for other work, many are feverishly working to protect their jobs ahead of the Trump purge, The Washington Post reported. Bureaucrats have started scrubbing social media and even changing their job titles in an effort to preserve their woke functions in the coming new Trump administration.

Some agencies are reclassifying jobs with “titles that could clash with Trump’s agenda, especially those promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, boosting environmental justice and fighting the effects of climate change,” the Post reports.

In other words, the Environmental Protection Agency is working to reclassify the climate activist and purveyor of critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist against black people) who got hired to further “environmental justice,” to hide the real reason he has a job….

Since the Deep State fought so hard against Trump in his first administration, no one should expect that the swamp creatures will go any easier this time. However, Trump is not fighting the war against the Deep State by himself this time. He is surrounding himself with people who understand the importance of putting America First and who will support Trump in his effort to drain the swamp.