This amounts to a sharp escalation in Trump’s America First foreign policy. But the president continues to throw his weight around at home — from pressing the US oil industry to pile back into Venezuela despite the lack of legal protections, to a misguided move to ban big institutional investors from buying single-family homes in an effort to boost housing supply. The heavy-handed tactics of his Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons have led to an unarmed woman in Minneapolis being shot dead, sparking protests. Videos have exposed Trump’s claim that the woman ran over an ICE agent as false.