Dictator on Day One
During the campaign, the Democrats were fond of saying that Trump was going to be a dictator and that he’d said so. But what he really said was that he’d be “a dictator on day one” – planning to issue executive orders:
“We love this guy,” Trump said of Hannity. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”
Well, yesterday was the long-awaited day one, and he signed about 200 orders. The list is at the link, and although there aren’t 200 there, one of the links is to another list that consists of Biden’s previous executive orders that Trump was reversing. They are so many there that I got tired of counting them. Among them are the orders about drilling.
One of the most noteworthy orders Trump issued yesterday was to shut down the CBP One app:
The Trump administration has canceled the CBP One cell phone app parole program used by Biden to allow more than 900,000 migrants to enter the US. Existing appointments have been cancelled.
Then there was one that restricted birthright citizenship. I’ve written in favor of doing this, and explained Trump’s point of view in this post from 2018. It’s longish, but here’s the most important part:
In fact, the US is the only highly-developed first-world country that (a) gives birthright citizenship, and (b) shares a border with a relatively undeveloped and crime-ridden country, and is therefore in a position to give relatively easy access to citizens of that country (Mexico, in the case of the US, as well as impoverished and crime-ridden Central America). Canada does not share that situation. All other countries in the world who do have a situation even remotely like ours forbid birthright citizenship of illegal immigrants. And most of the countries of the world that allow birthright citizenship are not what you’d call magnets for immigration or birth tourism. Au contraire. …
I have yet to locate exactly what those lines of a Trump executive order on this would be, but I assume that no one—not even Trump—is proposing an end to birthright citizenship. He is proposing placing some limits on it. I assume that the children of legal immigrants would still automatically become citizens, the children of tourists would not, and the children of illegal immigrants would not.
That’s very close to what Trump has done, over six years later. Trump recognizes that the courts will probably be ruling on this.
Then there are things such as withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, once again.
And the very long-awaited J6 pardons and commutations. There are 14 communtations – almost certainly for the more serious offenders – and “full, complete, unconditional pardons” for the rest. It amounts to about 1500 individuals. And there’s also this:
I further direct the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Good.
There’s plenty more, too. Trump’s energy is incredible. Yesterday, in addition to the speeches and the rally-signings and the balls, he gave a one-hour press conference. What a contrast with President #46.
Good indeed!
Sanity is contagious.**
“Judge Rules DOJ Can’t Share Jack Smith Docs Report”—
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/doj-trump-special-counsel/2025/01/21/id/1195905/
** So, it seems, is insanity, alas…if “Biden” has been able to teach us anything….
That’s Judge Cannon, and she was already sane.
The EO on birthright citizenship is very reasonable, and I hope it will be challenged and that courts will uphold it.
I completely agree that birthright citizenship is being horribly abused and should be changed. However, the 14th Amendment begins “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” There are some very legalistic arguments that amount to “but that isn’t what they meant” or “that only applied to freed slaves” or something or other. Given how the Left manages to ignore the clear meaning to the Constitution when it suits them, it is hard to see how this can be overturned in good faith without an amendment.
Freedom for the Jan6 Ralliers was my #1 concern for Jan 20th and thankfully it happened.
Still looking for confirmation it was done or have some been held for BS reasons the Garland Goons only know?
Michael Anton sworn in: https://x.com/ClaremontInst/status/1881758479406272664
The Donald rocks!
With the new us atty
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1881703361839239194
The dc jail is rebellious i guess it will take a new head of bureau of prisons
I don’t see how Trump could withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, since I don’t think the U.S. was ever a party to this agreement. Obama or Biden are no more able to make the U.S. party to this agreement than I am. It requires congress.
Donald ‘Dictator’ Trump does have a nice ring to it – DDT? 😉 I didn’t know about these five—can you pardon the dead?
Five J6 defendants committed suicide while awaiting trial
Some AI’s and my new’s searches say “no” or “not that many” or have nothing at all about it_Grok – did Five J6 defendants committed suicide while awaiting trial?:
An Episcopel Bishop went political at the prayer service today. Totally Woke. That is why my Wife left, no the Church left her.
What do you call the 51 intelligence officers, who signed off that the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation and have now lost their security clearances?
A good start.
Yes, the President can pardon a person known to be deceased. There is precedent. See https://www.justice.gov/pardon/apply-pardon and click on “posthumous pardon applications”.
Charlie Kirk was talking about this today and called it “Shock and Awe.”
You go, Mr.President!
Time to break these left-wing deceitful Progressive #MeToo cloned women from lying in public.
Pete Hegseth’s ex-sister-in-law makes scathing accusation against him hours before he’s set to be confirmed
Something should’ve already been done after that sicko Christine Blasey Ford’s lies from the “1980s” – “1980s” as in she couldn’t even remember what year in the 1980s, if I recall correctly. 30 or more years ago. Where are the Statute of Limitations for such accusations?!
8-17 years ago – Ditto on the Where are the Statute of Limitations for such accusations?!
This Danielle Dietrich (divorced from Mr. Hegseth’s brother) should have the full force of the Federal Govt put on her arse…whatever Lawfare one can come up with should be placed upon this women.
Re: Citizenship
The argument, as I understand it, is that illegals aren’t properly ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ by virtue of being illegal.
You are correct Boobah.
Here’s the explanation from Jonathan Turley
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/30/donald-trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-court-14th-amendment-column/1818609002/
Regardless of whether birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, most countries in the world either do not have it, or have restrictions on who qualifies. European countries either do not have it, or only apply it to people who have at least one parent a citizen or permanent resident.
Even in the US, there’s an asterisk. American Samoans born in American Samoa are not US citizens, for example, unless at least one parent is a US citizen.
Very interesting article by Turley and n birthright citizenship (thanks for the link LordAzrael). He suggests that Trump might be overstepping his bounds by unilaterally defining birthright citizenship but that Congress could do so in a way to deny it to illegal aliens. And indeed the 14th Amendment has a clause, “Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article”
As for the Jan6 pardons it’s not like most of these people are getting off with no punishment at all. Many hundreds have served or are serving jail sentences and then you have the financial ruin and stress inflicted by all this.
So even if they are pardoned or commuted they have been punished for their ‘crimes’ unlike Hunter.