Trump is ripping off America and calling it anti-woke.

Take Trump’s demolition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the consumer watchdog that over the past fourteen years has stopped predatory Wall Street firms from ripping Americans off and getting 200 million Americans more than $21 billion in restitution. That includes billions of dollars from Wells Fargo for wrongly foreclosing on people’s homes, illegally repossessing their cars, and using a faulty automated system that froze one million out of their accounts, and millions of dollars from TD Bank for putting false information on people’s credit reports.

In theory, eliminating an agency like this would be a tough sell, especially for an administration that claims to be fighting corruption and “elites” on behalf of working Americans. So to square this circle, the Trump White House and one of its media arms simply declared the CFPB “woke,” highlighted a handful of its minor actions fitting that description, then lazily attached a misleading accusation that the agency had engaged in “overreach.” Specifically, they meant when the agency barred medical debt from being included in credit reports and sharply limited bank overdraft fees — a textbook case of the “woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy” taking aim at “industries and individuals disfavored by so-called ‘elites,’” according to the Trump administration.