Dotard’s Revenge Tour is felt throughout the country, but nowhere worse than Colorado, where he can’t stand the state has stood up to his bullying.

 The Trump administration first announced its intention to “break up” NCAR in December, with a top budget official calling it “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.” 

While the institute investigates climate change, its mission is much broader and encompasses every aspect of how the earth’s atmosphere and weather systems interact. That includes research on earthquakes, flooding, drought, geomagnetic storms in space, wildfires, wind, storms and more.

Trump has repeatedly demanded that Colorado leaders end the state’s primarily mail-ballot voting system and release Peters, who was convicted of election tampering. Trump on Dec. 11 issued a federal pardon to Peters — which had no legal bearing on her conviction in state court.

When Peters remained incarcerated in a state prison in the days that followed, the administration rescinded $109 million in federal transportation funding allocated to Colorado and implemented new rules for its food-assistance program. Trump vetoed a bipartisan bill passed by Congress that would have helped finance a Republican-supported water project, and his administration denied the state’s applications for wildfire and flooding relief money while announcing plans to take apart NCAR.