What did Donald Trump do today?

He was forced to rehire illegally fired workers, while his administration compared them unfavorably to Adolf Hitler.

Today, two federal judges in separate cases ordered the rehiring of thousands of workers unlawfully fired during Trump's attempt to rapidly purge the government of as much of its workforce as possible.

In both cases, the judges found what had already been widely reported—that the Trump administration lied about firing workers based on their performance. 

The permanence of the rehiring is not yet clear, nor is it known how many of the affected workers will be able to return. The disruption to the lives of workers and their families caused by Trump's summary firings has been enormous. 

Elsewhere today, Elon Musk—the person Trump entrusted with carrying out those mass purges—retweeted a post that said that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao weren't responsible for the murders they ordered, but "public sector workers" were.

Why does this matter?

• American federal workers are not the ones who invite comparisons with Nazis.

• It's wrong to destroy Americans' livelihoods for no reason.

• This might not happen in a presidential administration where anybody had ever had to work for a living.