As Donald Trump regains presidential power - declaring in his inaugural address that he was "saved by God to make America great again" - he is poised to sign a sweeping series of executive orders that reflect his "day" rise to dictatorship Ambition. one. "
Speaking in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, Trump described his reactionary agenda — on climate and geography, immigration and citizenship, federal gender recognition and more — as a “revolution of common sense.”
The expected executive order reportedly includes repealing the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents.
Under normal circumstances, executive orders are subject to checks and balances. Trump’s first day in office is sure to spark lawsuits seeking to ride roughshod over enacted statutes, laws, treaties or constitutional amendments. Yet Trump begins his term with the support of a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, which has shown no desire to overturn him or interest in holding him accountable.
"I will declare a national emergency on our southern border," Trump said in his inaugural address.
Trump reportedly plans to issue an executive order seeking to abolish birthright citizenship. (The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, guarantees this: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”)
According to Trump's inaugural address and other news reports, Trump also intends to:
Trump also said he would invoke the Enemy Alien Act of 1798 to go after immigrant "gangs and criminal networks" in the United States
In his inaugural address, Trump declared: “As of today, it is the official policy of the United States Government that there are only two sexes, male and female.”
Trump plans to sign an executive order banning federal recognition of transgender Americans. Expected orders leaked to right-leaning press freedomThe bill would reportedly ban anything other than birth sex on government-issued identification documents such as passports, exclude transgender people from legal protections against sex discrimination, end funding for transition surgeries for federal prisoners and claim protections First Amendment and Other Rights Those who disdain “preferred pronouns” or refuse to acknowledge the reality of transgender people.
Trump takes office at a time when the United States is reeling from climate change-related disasters, including unprecedented flooding in the mountains of North Carolina and devastating fires in rain-starved Los Angeles. Ignoring carbon emissions, Trump vowed in his inaugural address that he would declare a "national energy emergency" today and allow oil companies to "drill for the baby, the liquid gold beneath our feet." Trump has also vowed to end the nation's "electric vehicle mandate" as part of his agenda to roll back climate legislation signed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, which he has dubbed simply the "Green New Deal." (This is not a Green New Deal.)
"We're going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America," Trump declared in his inaugural address. He insisted he would also rename Alaska's highest peak from its current indigenous name, Denali, to its former name: "Mount McKinley." "
(Although it wasn't part of his first day of action, Trump also vowed to seize the Panama Canal and extend America's Manifest Destiny into outer space by sending astronauts to Mars, the latter of which is Trump's billionaire A key goal for millionaire assistant Elon Musk.)
This article will be updated after Trump signs the executive order publish.