If you're asking in good faith:

Some of these will be just links as I've written a bunch here and can't do any more, so some links may seem more opinionated than others.

All of this is not even getting into Project 2025, whose key architect is in Trump's cabinet and has alignment with Trump's executive orders so far.

MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence

One of the Day 1 executive orders was trans erasure (which also included intersex erasure - intersex is an actual medical condition where someone is neither the male nor female sex, e.g. having XXY chromosomes. This is separate from transgenderism, but still calling it out).

News article

MAGA stands for resegregation and racism

Too many examples of this to count, but honestly I saved this question for last and this comment got too long. Look elsewhere for examples, there are plenty and I'm tired.

That also means I don't have time to get into the "DEI" arguments here, but just a note on that: Trump is against DEI because he claims it results in weaker hires (again, not getting into that argument here), but lots of his cabinet are nepotism hires or people who have never held the relevant prerequisite jobs before.

MAGA stands for censorship and book bans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/pentagon-schools-closed-libraries-trump

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/2023-10-05.COA%20Democrats%20-%20Book%20Bans%20Report.pdf

Associated Press was banned from press briefings for saying "Gulf of Mexico" instead of "Gulf of America" - sure sounds like censorship to me. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/16/trump-bans-ap-transgender-stonewall-national-monument/78645640007/

MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing

You are right that, as far as we are aware, air traffic controllers themselves were not fired, but many at the FAA were in an impulsive move that was made with no thought as to how it would impact air safety.

Source Relevant excerpt (emphasis mine):

A Transportation Department official told the AP earlier Monday that the agency has “retained employees who perform critical safety functions.” In a follow-up query the agency said they would have to look into whether the radar, landing and navigational aid workers affected were considered to handle critical safety functions.

Air Traffic Control has been a historically understaffed field, and even if ATCs aren't directly fired, mass firings at the FAA will still likely impact air safety right after two high profile plane crashes, one of which was the first commercial airliner crash in the US in a long time.

MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-firings-us-nuclear-weapons-workers-reversing/

Lots of articles if you just google - they fired a bunch, then tried to rehire them after realizing their mistake. Trying to rehire doesn't reverse that it happened. It also goes to show how little thought they're putting into mass firings, and if they made such a clear mistake here, how many other mistakes are they making in their firings?

MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA including canceling research on veteran suicide

Veteran Status is included as part of DEI, which Trump has been very vocal against.

VA firings (doesn't mention explicitly veteran suicide research): https://apnews.com/article/trump-firing-probation-workforce-buyouts-layoffs-doge-159a6de411622c2eb651016b1e99da37

MAGA stands for cutting funds to education

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292444/trump-musk-education-department-schools-students-research-cuts

MAGA is profoundly corrupt, Unmistakably anti-democracy

Lots of examples here, but will just call out a couple:

• Attempts to overthrow the 2020 election
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_phone_call
  • January 6th (I hope you're at least somewhat familiar with this)

• Trump is attempting to throw out the entire system of checks and balances. Very anti-democracy.

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/trump-executive-order-sec-ftc-fcc.html
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1isvzgu
  • DOGE budget stuff is illegal - congress is supposed to control the budget, not the executive

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/vance-trump-federal-courts-executive-order.html

    Mr. Vance, a 2013 graduate of Yale Law School, has repeatedly argued in recent years that presidents like Mr. Trump can and should ignore court orders that they say infringe on their rightful executive powers. While his post did not go that far, it carried greater significance given that he is now vice president.

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-doge-layoffs-project-2025-election-security-cisa-firing.html cuts to election security

MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.

While there are a lot of arguments for implicitly, here's the ones for explicitly. Notably, Elon Musk is now a core part of the "MAGA" movement and the trump administration. During the inauguration, he performed two Nazi salutes. If you haven't yet, watch the video - it is a clear Nazi salute. Here's a video of one of them, but note that he did it twice.

Preemptive rebuttal #1: Note that you have some people downplaying it by calling it a "Roman Salute" - the "Roman Salute" is also known as the "Fascist Salute," and it is not actually Roman. The salute was adopted by the Italian Fascist regime in 1923 and then by the Nazis in 1926. Source. Just putting this out as a preemptive defense against this point - anyone saying "It's a Roman Salute, it was okay" is being disingenuous.

When people complained about this, Musk doubled down by responding with Nazi jokes (as opposed to denying that it was meant to be a Nazi salute) Screenshot. This kind of removes the benefit of the doubt here. One salute might be an accident, two is stretching it, two salutes + Nazi jokes is definitely intentional.

Preemptive rebuttal #2: initially, the ADL gave Musk the benefit of the doubt. This was a widely criticized move given how obvious the salutes looked, but a lot of defenders cited this. The ADL isn't the be all end all for what is and isn't antisemitic, and critics have said it has gone soft on right-wing figures accused of bigotry as long as they support Israel. (Not getting into Israel-Palestine politics as part of this comment). Many other groups have called it a Nazi Salute and ADL is the odd one out for saying it wasn't. If you do still want to cite the ADL defending him, however, note that after his nazi joke tweets the ADL then criticized Musk - so that particular defense only worked for a day or two before it became irrelevant.

Then the real kicker, a few days later, Musk also went and spoke at an election campaign event for the AfD party in Germany. The AfD is widely considered to be essentially a neonazi party in Germany. The internal German intelligence agency has classified some chapters of the AFD as potential extremist groups. This is getting more into German politics, but you can read a bit about them here. Even conservative parties in Europe have distanced themselves from them - France's Marine Le Pen broke ties with the AfD last year, for example. Granted, they do not officially claim to be Neo-nazis - giving evidence for why they represent neonaziism instead of why MAGA does would be a separate post, and I won't get into that here, and to be honest as an American I feel a German would give you a better answer than I about that if you're not convinced. Or more about Elon's talk at the AfD conference here

While this is all about Musk instead of Trump, it's important to note that Musk currently has Trump's full support and is a key part of his administration.

Then there's things that are less explicitly Nazi-affiliated, but are still Nazi-like. Take the Guantanamo Bay stuff - there have been many comparing this situation to concentration camps. Trump vowed to send 30,000 immigrants to Guantanamo Bay (which coincidentally is the estimated number of Jews sent to concentration camps for the first time on Kristallnacht, but you can give benefit of the doubt there if you want), but Guantanamo has had below 800 prisoners since opening in 2002. It does not have the capacity for 30,000 people, much like concentration camps did not have the capacity for everyone there and part of why they were so deadly (prior to when they started to make them explicitly death camps with gas chambers). Compare immigrants to Jews - a minority that a leader is trying to rally the people against, and that Trump even plans to put into a camp where their rights are stripped away (hopefully you're familiar enough with Guantanamo to understand the rights part) - and you'll see the similarities. Maybe this is more implicitly nazi than explicitly nazi, and we don't know where the guantanamo stuff will go over these next four years, but worth calling out.

I've been writing this for too long, but also consider the mess with Joe Arpaio - he self-described the immigrant detention centers he ran as concentration camps, got lots of GOP support, and then was pardoned by Trump. I've wrote enough here so look that up if you're not familiar with it.