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He was sworn in today at noon. Executive orders coming. His crowd was the smallest in decades. Smaller than Biden's or Obama's.
 
The Federal Government is shut down today.
It is Martin Luther King Day.

Should be plenty of crowd in D.C. if they are willing to freeze a bit.
No refunds!

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They are now all about undoing the previous guy's EOs and trying to overcome weak power in Congress. Trump will try to use an EO to undo the birthright citizenship amendment.
 
He was sworn in today at noon. Executive orders coming. His crowd was the smallest in decades. Smaller than Biden's or Obama's.

It was inside a building....:p Carrie Underwood did a nice save at the end when there were sound problems and she launched into it acapella. ("You all know the words, help me out!" -- Kamala did not appear to know the words.) He did not address the invasion of Greenland, but he did double down on renaming the Gulf and taking the Panama Canal back. Also, we're both reducing spending and going to Mars. Noticed Vivek was in the back, probably owing to the fact that he's pursuing the Ohio governorship instead of working in DC. Didn't see Tulsi, but I may have just missed her.

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From NYT

President Trump on Monday will begin issuing a barrage of executive orders including major steps to crack down on immigration and dismantle diversity initiatives in the federal government, his team told reporters, kicking off his presidency with a muscular use of power intended to signal a sharp reversal from existing policies.

Mr. Trump will also act unilaterally to end regulations aimed at encouraging the sale of electric vehicles enacted by the Biden administration, which he has dubbed a mandate; walk back protections for transgender students; and suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months, they said.

The flurry of executive actions is an effort to roll back of many of President Biden’s most significant domestic policies, primarily on climate and immigration, while also reimposing a Trump agenda that would launch drilling and mining on natural resources and fundamentally upend the United States’ global role as a sanctuary for refugees and immigrants.

Mr. Trump has promised a burst of action, and in his inaugural speech said he would issue “a series of historic executive orders.” “With these actions,” he said, “we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.”

It was unclear how many directives Mr. Trump intended to sign on Monday afternoon, but he has promised close to 100 in the coming days. Some of the orders are almost certain to be challenged in court and others will be largely symbolic. But taken together, they will amount to a sharp turn in direction after the Biden administration, an effort to begin to make good on his campaign promises and initial steps toward breaking what he and his aides see as a “deep state” effort to thwart his agenda.

Top advisers briefed reporters on many of them. Here are some of the major elements.

Immigration and the Border
  • Close the border to asylum-seeking migrants.
  • Declare an end to birthright citizenship, a guarantee granted by the 14th Amendment, for the children of undocumented immigrants. The president cannot change the Constitution on his own, so it’s not yet clear how Trump plans to withhold the benefits of citizenship to a group of people born in the United States. The move is all but certain to be challenged in court.
  • Involve the U.S. military in border security. This would draw immediate legal challenges because of the strict limits in American law for how the armed forces can be deployed inside the country.
  • Declare migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency, which would allow Mr. Trump to unilaterally unlock federal funding for border wall construction, without approval from Congress, for stricter enforcement efforts.
  • Designate drug cartels as “global terrorists.”
Federal Work Force
  • End remote work policies and order many agencies back to the office 4-5 days a week.
  • Gender and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
  • Establish biological sex definitions for federal workers and as part of revised Title IX guidance to schools
  • Remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons.
  • Remove protections for transgender migrants in U.S. custody.
Tariffs and Trade
  • Direct federal agencies to begin an investigation into trade practices, including trade deficits, unfair currency practices, counterfeit goods and a special exemption that allows low-value goods to come into the United States tariff free.
  • Assess China’s compliance with a trade deal Mr. Trump signed in 2020, as well as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump signed in 2020 to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
  • Order the government to assess the feasibility of creating an “External Revenue Service” to collect tariffs and duties.
Energy and the Environment
  • Declare a national energy emergency, which could allow him to unlock powers to speed permitting for pipelines and power plants.
  • Order the federal government to roll back regulations that impede domestic energy production.
  • Signal an intention to loosen the limits on tailpipe pollution and fuel economy standards, which Mr. Trump refers to as an “electric vehicle mandate.”
  • Roll back energy-efficiency regulations for dishwashers, shower heads and gas stoves.
  • Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
  • Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.
Delaying the ban on TikTok
Mr. Trump vowed early Sunday to issue an executive order to give ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, more time to make a sale and satisfy a law that would ban it in the United States. The incoming White House officials previewing Mr. Trump’s executive actions on
Monday did not address any executive action on the app.
 
Like the world is suddenly run by eight year olds...
 
He's been waiting years for the right crowd and occasion to do that in. You can tell from the smugness and the excited body language, it's fully practiced, the whole motion from the chest. They all know what they're doing.
 
supposedly thanked to those who enpower or run some Civilization . Have it in golden letters , you won't be able to live it down . Would look almost cool .
 

Trump moves to make 'two genders' and anti-DEI policy official​

Donald Trump has moved to change the US government's policies on gender and diversity, following through on promises he made on the campaign trail.

"As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," Trump said during his inaugural address.

The Trump administration indicated he would sign an executive order Monday that would recognize two sexes only - male and female – and declare that they cannot be changed.

The move is part of Trump's wider promises about what conservatives decry as "woke" culture, gender and diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) progammes.

An administration official said the executive order would "end DEI inside the federal government", cutting funding to DEI programmes across all agencies and including a review of offices renamed because of DEI initiatives.

The administration did not say whether action would extend to the private sector, with an official saying businesses should "wait and see".

Several large US companies have ended or scaled back their DEI programmes since Trump was elected, including McDonald's, Walmart and Facebook parent company Meta.

Others, like Apple and retailers Target and Costco, publicly defended their existing programmes.

DEI supporters see the programmes as a way to correct lingering discrimination based on race, sexuality and other characteristics. The idea received renewed attention in the wake of racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx84en1yp4o
 
It's so cool how how a bunch of entitled children who see me as subhuman are now in charge again (beyond the degree they already were, lol) and have already proudly stated their fascist goals they plan to pursue. Love that the Democratic party's dedication to ~decorum and civility~ got them ushering ion this dude with a red carpet. Endless hellfire for the people responsible for this nightmare. Can't wait to have restricted rights and face legally and financially encouraged discrimination!
 
Why are suits always navy blue? Why not a nice forest green?

Obama once wore a beige suit and Fox News freaked out about it.

It is probably the fault of The French Revolution somehow. :hmm:

(not so?) Fun fact, the red white and blue cockade of the French Revolution was originally green but they changed it because it was also the color Louis XVI's brother used. So there you go.
 
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