In its early days, the second Trump administration is delivering a clear message: The United States is full of the wrong kind of people.

Federal civil servants, for example, have been deemed the wrong kind of people. Their political and ideological allegiances are questionable, their ideas destructive and their low-productivity jobs not worth their salaries. Too many are lawbreakers or just “evil.” Whether they toil at U.S.A.I.D. or the Treasury, the C.I.A. or the F.D.A., in Washington or throughout the country, they should look upon that fork in the road and opt to resign. In some cases, they should be purged.

Children born in the United States to undocumented parents — or to parents who are here legally but only temporarily, such as people on work or student visas — are also the wrong people. They are not true Americans and should not be granted the “gift” of citizenship.

Refugees and asylum seekers are the wrong kind of people and should be prevented from entering the country. Transgender Americans lack the “humility and selflessness” needed in the U.S. armed forces, according to a Trump executive order, and can no longer serve. Former officials such as Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the first Trump administration, are disloyal and undeserving of government protection or even of a Pentagon portrait. And anyone fitting a “diversity” category of any kind is automatically suspect, a convenient scapegoat whenever something — wildfires, plane crashes — goes wrong.

It’s a familiar political impulse, with antecedents that predate President Trump’s terms in office. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sarah Palin,phl63 gaming the Republican vice-presidential nominee, mused about the virtues of “real America” — those patriotic small towns that make up the “pro-America areas of this great nation.” (She later offered one of those I’m-sorry-if-it-came-out-wrong apologies.) But now we’ve gone from praising real America to parsing real Americans. And the audit is being conducted by a vengeful and decidedly unapologetic executive.

If, according to the Trump administration, so many people in the United States are the wrong kind of people, who makes up the right kind? Who belongs here — in our military, our government, our territory?

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Ms. Gray’s 14-year-old son, Colt, is being charged as an adult for murder in the deadliest school shooting in Georgia’s history. He is accused of bringing an AR-15-style rifle to Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., earlier this month, killing four — two students and two math teachers — and injuring at least nine.

“I welcome the chance to open a new chapter,” Mr. Biden said in the Oval Office. “The U.A.E. is a nation of trailblazers always looking, always looking to the future, always making big bets, and that’s something our countries have in common and our people have in common.”

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