Americans articulated a lot of gripes with Joe Biden’s term as president: the rising unaffordability of daily life; the censorship of political speech on social media; the dramatic shrinking of the welfare state, including Medicaid, after its brief expansion during the pandemic; the “wars around the world,” in Biden’s words, fought or funded by the United States that were either killing massive amounts of innocent people or felt like they were about to spin out of control any minute.

On these issues and more, many Americans cast votes motivated by a desire to protest these aspects of Biden’s presidency. And after only three months, all of these things are either already dramatically worse under Donald Trump or poised to go that way.

Take the affordability crisis. Trump promised to “end inflation” and even “immediately bring down prices” from his first day in office when he was on the campaign trail. Instead, three months in, inflation has contracted but continues to be high, and Trump is now poised to make prices skyrocket through a nonsensical tariff regime that amounts to declaring a trade war on the entire world. Biden told Americans to grit their teeth through high gas prices “as long as it takes” to beat Russia; Trump is now telling anyone upset at this that they’re “weak” and “stupid,” that they should be “patient,” and that they should simply “take the medicine.”

That inflation, by the way, is being paired with, first, one of the worst stock market slumps in history — one that has likely not reached its bottom yet and that has already wreaked havoc on people’s retirement savings to the tune of billions — and, next, the rising odds of a recession. People had very good reasons to be unhappy with the Biden economy, but if he ends up pushing the country into a state of turbocharged, Jimmy Carter–esque stagflation, Trump may, incredibly, make the US public pine for those days when they were “merely” spending 20 percent more on groceries.

Or look at foreign policy. It’s not just that all of the wars that were going on under Biden — Ukraine, Yemen, and Gaza — are still going under Trump. That last one, incidentally, Trump had first forced a cease-fire on before, in a Biden-like move, he capitulated to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and let him restart the war and the accompanying siege of Gaza and escalate seizure of Palestinian land.

This is all for the goal, according to Netanyahu, of fulfilling Trump’s wish to clear the territory of Palestinians and put it under US control — an idea Trump just reiterated again this week, and which would put US lives at risk to permanently occupy hostile Middle Eastern land in intimate service of a bloody ethnic cleansing campaign.

If that weren’t all, the Trump administration is now looking to add new wars to this slate. After restarting the Biden administration’s aimless and illegal bombing of the Houthis with no success, the administration is now reportedly mulling backing a ground invasion of Yemen whose aim would be regime change — which, if it happens, will be reviving another former Washington forever war that had actually seemed to wind to a close under Biden. Besides that, Trump’s CIA is looking seriously at bombing Mexico, the president has refused to rule out military force to capture Greenland, and the White House has inched slowly but surely toward war with Iran, of which even Tucker Carlson has correctly said, “Nothing would be more destructive for our country.”

This is all as Trump’s team is preparing to repeat Biden’s mistake in Ukraine and bog the United States down in a potentially catastrophic war with China over Taiwan that carries the same, if not worse, economic and nuclear risks as proxy war with Russia. Unless something changes, Trump is set to do everything that made Biden’s foreign policy so frightening and chaotic, but do it on more fronts and against more countries.

Not a fan of tech censorship of political opinions? Well, despite what the president promised on the campaign trail, that censorship is continuing. Only now, it has targeted political speech beyond election denial or anti-vaccine sentiment: abortion pill providers, pro-Palestinian advocacy, anti-CEO comments, and pro-LGBTQ posts.

In fact, it’s going much further than this, because under Trump, government officials aren’t just asserting the right to pressure social media companies to censor opinions those officials don’t like. The government is directly punishing people for those opinions, whether by revoking critics’ visas or trying to strip them of permanent-residency status, accusing billionaire Elon Musk’s critics of facilitating “domestic terrorism,” or trying to intimidate peaceful demonstrators to stop them from marching. In just the last three days, we found out that a lawyer for one arrested college protester was held by federal agents at an airport and pressured to give up his phone, while a federal whistleblower testified she had been visited by US marshals who she says tried to “intimidate” her before her appearance in Congress.

You could keep going. One of the things that made life harder in Biden’s first term was the shrinking of what the New York Times called a “European-style welfare state.” That characterization was overly generous, but the shrinkage was devastating: among other things, 25 million people were kicked off Medicaid, and SNAP benefits were cut by an average of $90 a month, in some cases more than $250 a month.

Yet Trump’s budget hinges on even bigger cuts to both programs if it passes. Medicaid alone is set for cuts that could total in the hundreds of billions of dollars, throw more than 20 million additional people off the program, and add lots of rules and conditions that would functionally make it less easy to utilize. SNAP, for its part, would be cut by $230 billion over a decade, which would require taking the benefits away from millions of households.

This is besides the numerous other programs the administration’s austerity push is taking an axe to — most notably Social Security, something Biden’s administration had the good political sense not to touch. By contrast, Trump’s team is busy dismantling the program by stealth, turning it into a dysfunctional mess by firing the workers who make sure its benefits go out to millions and closing the physical branches that Americans rely on for financial support.

There were many things people were right to be unhappy about in the Biden years. With Trump now at the helm, it almost feels like the government is going out of its way to try and see how much worse it can make them all.