The Meaning of D-Day in 2026: Eisenhower's Promise vs. Trump's Tyranny

Edwin Eisendrath

I once swore an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Now fidelity to that oath means defending our Constitution and our way of life against others who, in bad faith, swore the same oath.

Chief among them, of course, is Donald Trump. Instead of supporting and defending our Constitution, his actions have repeatedly, consistently, and wantonly undermined it. That is the recurring finding of federal judges appointed by presidents of both political parties. Trump violated the constitution when ordered the military onto American streets. He did it when he flew people to a foreign dungeon without any due process. He did it when he imposed ubiquitous new tariff taxes on all Americans. The Constitution does not give the President the power to do these things. Every eighth grader knows that. And federal judges ordered him to stop. In the case of his summary deportation, he was stopped by a 9-0 vote on the Supreme Court.

Every person who serves in the federal government takes the same oath as I did. But in Trump’s administration there’s another oath- to the man himself. And on his behalf his Justice Department has been found by courts to have engaged in vindictive prosecution, and to have engaged in prosecutorial misconduct to punish his enemies.

None of this is news. But it is on my mind today.

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