When President Trump stood in the front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020 holding up a Bible, too much of the media focused on whether it was upside down or not. The real issues were why he needed the military assistance and what message he was sending?

The main message of the president more than five years later is much clearer: why is he turning our Constitution upside down and moving us from a democracy to an autocracy? The “Big Beautiful Bill” in the spring of 2025 would never win a beauty contest. Indeed, it turns upside down so much of measures like Medicare and Medicaid, to mention only two, which makes it seem that Trump does not seem to realize that he cannot win votes by cancelling measure that so many citizens depend on. Medicare is money that was taken out of our paychecks. It is our money necessary for retirement.

There are too many other examples to mention in my short op-ed, but Trump has his own way of thinking. In July 2025, he explained why he had pressured Paramount to have Stephen Colbert’s comedy show contract ended in May 2026. He noted that Colbert is the most highly rated comedy of them all. Colbert, in his next appearance, thanked Trump for his positive comments and inferred that Trump’s comments would secure his continuing success with another TV show (with higher pay?) In his upside down way of thinking, Trump seemed to be saying that in ending Colbert’s highly rated comedy, the lower rated shows would not dare to make fun of the president.

If President Trump decides to turn our US Constitution upside down by rewriting it, he would probably begin with “ME and the people.”  We should take note that ‘ME’ is “WE’ turned upside down from ‘WE the people…’