Petty and Cruel

Donald Trump is determined to cause as much damage as possible before he leaves office in January. One way he's doing that is by planning to shift tens or even hundreds of thousands of civil services positions into political patronage jobs.

Already targeted are 88 percent of staff at the Office of Management and Budget, a critical federal office that oversees financing and planning government operations (details here).

Once their job classification is changed, workers can be summarily fired without cause, something the President is also planning on doing, which could soon bring the government to a halt.

Trump is doing this for two reasons.

First, it's a way to get back at people he deems insufficiently loyal to him as President. And second, he's doing it to make incoming President Joe Biden's job that much harder.

He cares not a whit for the people who will suddenly find themselves without jobs and a steady income. He also doesn't care about all the people who will be harmed when government operations are interrupted.

He only cares about himself.

Hopefully this disaster-in-the-making can be stopped through swift court action once it happens. Give the litigious Trump a taste of his own medicine.