Since his inauguration on Jan. 20, President Donald J. Trump has made more than 70 official presidential actions ranging from something as routine as making a temporary position and group to work towards celebrating the upcoming 250th birthday of the United States of America all the way to declaring the U.S in an energy emergency and removing protections on areas for energy production and oil digging and removing civil protections on government agents and workers.
Trump promised that he would accomplish many things and employ his “America first” policy agenda and he has already done quite a lot in his campaign. He started off big by ordering the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America along with stopping any and all foreign aid and assistance for a 90-day period where administration will review and evaluate all current aid programs and decide whether after the freeze aid will be completely stopped, modified, or resumed fully. Going along with momentarily freezing aid, Trump has frozen the U.S Refugee Admissions Program which will be revisited every 90 days to decide whether or not to continue the freeze. During this freeze refugees may only be admitted into the U.S. on a case-by-case basis through a joint decision by the secretary of state and the secretary of homeland security.
One of Trump’s other big goals was to crack down on border security and immigration as well as those without legal citizenship status. In order to do this he has signed multiple executive orders. One of the biggest orders he signed on this topic is called “Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States.” This order directs the secretary of defense to protect U.S. sovereignty and territorial integrity by having the United States Northern Command seal the southern U.S. border to prevent mass migration. USNORTHCOM is to provide security to the southern border while the national border emergency is in place.
Another huge order he signed is the “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.” In this lengthy executive order, Trump calls for immediate removal of those in the United States without legal status. He orders agencies to enforce removal orders, criminalize unauthorized entry into the U.S., extend the Department of Homeland Security’s presence in all 50 states, and construct detention facilities for those awaiting removal proceedings. Going hand in hand Trump signed an order denying citizenship to certain U.S born children whose parents are not U.S citizens or lawful permanent residents. Trump has said that these children are not covered by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which guarantees citizenship to all those who are born in the U.S.
Trump has also signed a multitude of other executive orders doing many things included but not limited to, removing the U.S from the World Health Organization, pulling the U.S from the Paris Climate Accord for the second time making us the first country to do so, reclassifying both wind and solar energy and excluding them from the definition of “energy,” making plans to roll back environmental protections on drilling and mining, removing and military officers with “gender dysphoria” and those with “shifting pronoun usage or usage of pronouns that do not align with their sex,” prohibiting promotion or teachings of “divisive concepts” including that America’s founding documents include racism or sexism, and permitting the reinstatement of service members who were discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic. Those service members would return to their former rank “and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments or compensation.”.
The public opinion on Trump’s actions vary greatly with some citizens praising his work and dedication to America while many others compare many of his actions to those of what Adolf Hitler did when he was first voted in This view has become more widely spread after the order establishing the “Department of Government Efficiency” and making billionaire Elon Musk its leader who has already sparked multiple controversies after he very strongly rejected and ended up getting children’s cancer research funding removed from a bill before it passed closer to the end of December and more recently after he ended a speech he made a gesture to the crowd twice that was almost identical to Hitler’s Nazi salute causing uproar.
