PRESIDENT TRUMP IS OFF AND RUNNING ~ Surprising all of us with his
youthful vigor! Just look at his schedule on Inauguration Day, January
20, 2025, a schedule that would have taxed a 30 year old did not seem to
phase him at all.
He started the day early with church service and
then a full day of official events, speaking at multiple venues,
normally ending his day after the multiple Inaugural Balls. But then,
as I understand it, President Trump went back to signing more Executive
Orders in his heartfelt effort to start Making America Great Again.
This is what he has done for YOU and me during his first week in office:
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Here’s Everything Trump Did His First Week Back
DailyWire - News and Analysis
By Mairead Elordi - Jan 25, 2025
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-trump-did-his-first-week-back
From the southern border to the federal bureaucracy, Trump swiftly delivered on a slew of campaign promises!
President Donald Trump Began His Second Term This Week With An Explosion
Of Actions - spending his first few days in office going full speed on
his agenda and reversing the work of his predecessor. The dizzying
march of executive orders, presidential pardons, firings of Biden
appointees, calls with foreign leaders, and visits to disaster zones
started immediately after the inauguration on Monday, and the breakneck
pace did not let up for the rest of the week.
On day one, Trump signed more than three dozen executive orders: the
southern border, gender ideology, American energy, the economy, and
other issues. In a flurry of orders on immigration, his signature
issue, Trump took several drastic actions.
* * The President Declared A National Emergency At The Southern Border -
deployed thousands of troops there - ordered construction of the border
wall - ordered Homeland Security to remove illegal migrants AND go
after the drug cartels, which he designated as Terrorists.
* * The
Executive Orders Also Blocked All Illegal Entries including asylum
seekers and refugees - shut down the CBP One app - beefed up visa
screening - and attempted to end birthright citizenship for the children
of non-citizens who are already facing legal challenges.
~ ~ ~ Bill Gray Note: The CBP One is an app to allow illegals to schedule asylum appointments at a port of entry. The language of President Trump's action, more specifically, orders officials to cease using the application “as a method of paroling or facilitating the entry of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States.”
In his inaugural remarks after taking the oath of office President Trump declared, “All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”
Trump also threatened to prosecute officials and strip funding from sanctuary cities and states that refuse to cooperate with his deportations, which have already begun. Less than 48 hours after Trump was sworn in, ICE had already arrested more than 460 illegal migrants.
* * Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security reinstated the term “ILLEGAL ALIEN.”
* * One Of Trump’s Biggest Moves Of His First Day - and week - was granting pardons to nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Most of the defendants received full pardons, while 14 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, most of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy, got their sentences commuted.
* * The Justice Department Was Directed To Dismiss Any Pending Indictments Related To The Riot.
On Thursday, Trump Pardoned 23 Pro-Life Protesters prosecuted by the Biden administration, including a woman in her 70s, and the mother of a two-year-old, both imprisoned.
* * Relatedly, Two More Executive Orders Ban The Weaponization Of The Federal Government against political opponents including censorship of free speech. And They Direct Investigations Into Past Government Misconduct.
* * Another Day One Order Addresses Gender Ideology - which became a hot button issue during the election. The Order Officially Recognizes “Sex” As Biological, Only “MALE” OR “FEMALE.”
The Order Reverses Allowing People To Change Their Gender On Passports - bans federal funds from promoting gender ideology - or paying for medical gender transitions for prison inmates, AND protects women and girls from trans-identifying men in women’s prisons, rape shelters, and “intimate spaces.”
* * Trump Also Took An AXE to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) initiatives with several actions.
In One Order He Scrapped ALL Government DEI Programs - and put their staff on leave. Trump also rescinded an executive order from President Lyndon Johnson that mandated Affirmative Action by government contractors.
And in another order he directed the Federal Aviation Administration To Stop DEI hiring practices - noting that it is responsible for the safety of nearly 3 million airline passengers every day.
* * In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Trump posted that his first day in office was not over yet. He was busy FIRING more than 1,000 presidential appointees from the previous administration, “who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again.”
Among those who got the boot from presidential advisory councils was retired Army General Mark Milley, who was fired from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Milley has called Trump a Fascist and was granted a preemptive pardon by Biden just hours earlier.
~ ~ ~ Bill Gray Note: +September 28, 2021 - Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Marco Rubio called on Biden to fire Milley, stating that Milley had undermined "the sitting commander in chief" and "contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict with the People's Republic of China." Many Republicans accused Milley of treason and called for his resignation, firing, or court-martial.
“YOU’RE FIRED!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
* * Meanwhile, Trump’s State Department issued guidance that U.S. embassies should fly ONLY the American flag and not activist flags like the Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, both of which flew over government buildings under Biden.
In another spate of executive orders, Trump took action on energy.
* * He Declared A National Energy Emergency - withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, revoking any related financial commitments - directed the deregulation of domestic energy production, especially in Alaska - paused all new federal leasing and permitting for wind farms - eliminated the Electric Vehicle Mandate - and announced plans to get rid of regulations on products like light bulbs, water heaters, and washing machines.
* * On The Economy, one order aims to deliver emergency price relief to Americans by having executive agencies work to lower the costs of housing and healthcare - eliminate harmful climate policies - and create jobs, “drawing discouraged workers into the labor force.”
* * Another order pauses assistance to foreign countries for 90 days as they are reviewed.
* * The president also directed the Secretary of State to issue guidance on putting America First.
* * He issued an “America First” trade policy that includes exploring an "External Revenue Service" (as opposed to the Internal Revenue Service) to collect revenue related to foreign trade.
~ ~ ~ Bill Gray Note: Funding America through foreign tariffs instead of taxing American citizens into poverty.
* * Several other Executive Orders took aim at the Federal Bureaucracy and directed a regulatory freeze - a federal hiring freeze with exceptions for areas like the military - and required federal employees to return to in-person work.
* * More orders establish the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - encourage federal hiring based on merit (instead of DEI) - and aim to restore accountability to federal workers who can influence policy.
In one fell swoop, Trump also revoked nearly 100 of former President Joe Biden’s executive actions on day one.
The Biden Actions Involved: Advancing “racial equity” - preventing discrimination over “gender identity” - ensuring an “equitable” pandemic response - “restoring science” to tackle the “climate crisis” - immigration enforcement - “clean energy” - “accountable policing” - establishing an “African diaspora” council - withdrawing parts of the U.S. from oil or gas leasing - along with dozens more moves.
* * Trump also withdrew from the World Health Organization, citing its “mishandling” of the pandemic. He called the move a “big one.”
* * In a hotly-anticipated move, the president suspended the TikTok ban and expressed hopes to strike a deal with TikTok’s parent company.
Trump also made several Anti-Abortion moves during his first few days in office.
* * He joined every Republican president since Ronald Reagan in restoring the Mexico City Rule - Which Prohibits Federal Funding to any overseas nongovernmental organization that performs or promotes abortions.
* * He also restored the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayers from being forced to pay for most abortions.
On Friday, Trump addressed the annual "March for Life" in a video message in which he praised their aim to “protect every child as a beautiful gift from the hand of our Creator.” Vice President JD Vance addressed the march in person, his first speech as vice president.
* * The new administration also made a statement “strongly” supporting the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" which passed the House, but was blocked in the Senate this week - and he shut down the Biden administration’s Pro-Abortion Government website.
On Thursday, Trump spoke virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and accused the CEO of Bank of America (and the CEO of JPMorgan Chase) to his face of debanking Conservatives, saying, “What you’re doing is wrong.”
~ ~ ~ Bill Gray Note: De-banking, more commonly spelled debanking, also known within the banking industry as de-risking, is the closure of people's or organizations' bank accounts by banks that perceive the account holders to pose a financial, legal, regulatory, or reputational risk to the bank - such as the enforcement of anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws, the closing of bank accounts of sex workers, and people considered to be politically exposed persons (aka wrong political party?). The closure of accounts is generally performed without giving a reason and without the prospect of appeal. Wikipedia
He spoke with
several foreign leaders, including a “fiery” call with the Danish prime
minister about national security concerns around Greenland - a call with
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on illegal immigration - and a
call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who said he wants to
invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.
* * The administration said it has already secured a total of over $1 Trillion in new investments in the country (America).
* * The president also re-designated Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization.
* * Trump also signed an order aimed at “Putting People Over Fish”
in California - ordering federal agencies to work on routing more water
from Northern California to the Southern California areas damaged by
wildfires - and to stop prioritizing the Delta Smelt fish.
* * Trump
declassified files related to the John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. assassinations - a move praised by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
* * On Technology Innovation, Trump issued an executive order aimed at eliminating Biden policies “harmful”
to America’s global Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominance. He also
set up special groups to focus on Science and Technology as well as
Cryptocurrency regulation.
* * Trump
also revoked the taxpayer-funded Security Details of former Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo - his former National Security Adviser, John Bolton
- and Anthony Fauci, who was the face of Trump’s White House pandemic
task force.
* * Another
order Revokes The Security Clearances Of The 51 Former Intelligence
Officials - who signed a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop
story.
* * He also pardoned two Washington, D.C. Police Officers convicted in the death of a black man during a police car chase in 2020.
* * He directed the Attorney General "To Seek The Death Penalty"
for federal crimes involving either the murder of Law Enforcement
(Officers) - or an ILLEGAL migrant (who was) committing a capital crime.
* * Trump also directed the Secretary of the Interior to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and restored the name “Mount McKinley” to the country’s highest peak after the Obama administration changed it to a Native Alaskan name in 2015.
* * Other
orders addressed smaller issues including withdrawing Biden’s menthol
cigarette ban - getting rid of the Biden administration’s White House
security clearance backlog - recognizing North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe -
and promoting beautiful civic architecture.
On Friday, Trump turned his attention to disaster zones, flying to North
Carolina to view hurricane damage and then to California to survey
wildfire destruction. He is set to hold a rally in Nevada on Saturday,
saying he wants to “thank” Nevada voters for supporting him.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Cabinet confirmations are working their way through
the Senate. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the first to be confirmed
on Tuesday, and Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Defense Secretary late
Friday evening, with Vance casting the tie breaking vote.
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Folks, since this is only President Trump's first week in office, just
imagine what he will do to Make America Great Again in the next four
years.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
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