The new President of the United States will have a very busy day today if he gets around to just a handful of his ‘Day One’ pledges. The Mail has more.
The 78 year-old will be sworn-in as president, host a rally, end the war in Ukraine, start mass deportation raids across the country, and nix electric car mandates and pardon thousands who were convicted for their parts in the January 6th Capitol Riot.
Promises for his first 24 hours back in the Oval Office range from tariffs to transgender athletes playing on girls sports teams, with a series of executive orders being readied for the president’s signature.
It will round out the day following an inauguration ceremony that got moved indoors because of a dangerous polar vortex threatening D.C. and large parts of the country.
His MAGA bonanza inauguration kicked off when Trump headed for D.C. Saturday to host fireworks at his Virginia golf club.
Before he brings in his sweeping policy plan, his loyal supporters and high rollers will take in the festivities marking his historic return to the White House.
“On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out,” Trump declared at his Madison Square Garden rally.
There are signs that the wheels are in motion for such a move even before Trump takes office.
Ending illegal immigration was one of Trump’s top campaigning pledges, in a race where he said migrants “infest our country”. That line drew howls from critics, and his policy to get law enforcement to eject millions of people who came here illegally is certain to draw lawsuits and scrutiny.
There were reports Monday that preparations are underway for a mass immigration raid in Chicago as soon as Tuesday. “Well, it’s got to happen, and if it doesn’t happen, we’re not going to have a country any longer,” Trump told NBC before heading to Washington.
Trump’s team has yet to specify how he would carry out the massive nationwide effort, with millions of migrants estimated to be living here illegally. Luckily for Trump, the Senate is already teeing up another immigration measure, now that the Senate voted to break a filibuster of the Laken Riley Act requiring detention of migrants charged with certain crimes. A vote Monday could get the bill to his desk on his second day in office.
Ending Russia’s War in Ukraine
Finally putting an end to Russia’s three-year old war against Ukraine is likely to be among the first plans to fall by the wayside, if facts on the ground are an indication.
“That is a war that’s dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president,” Trump said in his debate with VP Kamala Harris.
On Wednesday Russia blasted Ukraine with yet another volley of ballistic missiles attacks, taking out key power infrastructure in winter.
Nevertheless, Trump is determined to apply his negotiating skills to the conflict, and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov praised some of his recent statements that echoed Moscow’s narrative on NATO membership.
Trump has touted his relations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Ukraine has been refusing Moscow’s demands to concede territory seized in the war.
Trump has made so many domestic policy pronouncements for his first stay that it will be hard for him to fit them all in, especially now that he has added a speech at DC’s Capital One Arena after moving the festivities indoors.
Trump appears to have avoided having to carry out a threat that all hell would break out if there isn’t a Gaza cease fire and hostage release deal before he takes office. That came together in the final days of the Biden administration with an assist from his negotiator.
Pardon of January 6th Defendants
Trump has said he would pardon January 6th defendants on his first day – and “maybe the first nine minutes”.
That came after a campaign where he played a rendition of the National Anthem sung by incarcerated January 6th defendants.
Trump’s pick for AG Pam Bondi got quizzed during her confirmation hearing how she would respond to Trump pardons of those convicted of violent attacks on police officers.
Trump may feel he owes mass pardons to his MAGA base, but not all members of his party are okay with it. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) warned against it at the Bondi hearing. “Folks, I was the last Senate member out of the chamber on January 6th. I saw Capitol police officers bleeding, bruised, and I saw damage to a certain extent as we were exiting. To call those people patriots is not in my lexicon,” he said.
Tariffs
Many experts credit Trump’s win to Americans’ economic worries, and Trump has vowed to make tariffs a key ‘Day One’ priority. He has kept up his drum beat during the transition, talking up tariffs on China as well as allies like Canada or Denmark who reject his ideas.
Trump said he would slap 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on “ALL products coming into the United States”, blasting the neighbors with contributing to open borders days after his election. That brought immediate attention from Canada’s outgoing PM Justin Trudeau and new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
He has also vowed big tariffs on China, although the country’s vice president, Han Zheng, as his representative at the inauguration.
Oil Drilling and Cars
Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra was a refrain in nearly all of his campaign rallies. If featured in one of his most curious comments of the campaign, when Trump told Sean Hannity he wouldn’t be a dictator “except for Day One”.
He later explained that he was referring to closing the border and “drill, drill, drill”.
Trump has vowed to wipe away environmental regulations and unleash American energy. He has repeatedly stressed his support for fracking, and blasted Harris for her statements on it.
The U.S. became the world’s top crude oil producer in 2018 and retains the title by a wider margin now. Trump has called to boost production even more. One of Biden’s last official acts was to designate new national monuments in California that are protected from new oil and gas leasing. Trump said he would reverse it, but congressional action is likely required.
Trump has vowed to roll back governmental incentives to buy electric cars, which he frequently attacks despite his budding friendship with Tesla boss Elon Musk. “The day I take office, I will cancel Crooked Joe’s electric vehicle mandate,” Trump said.
The incentives are meant to wean the nation from gas-powered cars, but Biden’s efforts to build electric vehicle charging stations have been slow and costly.
Women’s Sports
Trump repeatedly raised hot-button cultural issues in his campaign, where he railed against D.E.I. and repeatedly vowed to “keep men out of women’s sports”.
It’s another issue he listed on his “first day” to-do list.
The decisions of whether to let transgender athletes participate in sports is made at the local school and league level. But Trump’s administration does have leverage, through federal education funds, which are a major part of university support.
Trump also vowed on ‘day one’ to “revoke Joe Biden’s cruel policies on so-called ‘gender affirming care’.”
Trump’s team has had months to prepare to try to counteract some of President Biden’s executive orders.
“Look, I can undo almost everything Biden did, he through executive order. And on ‘Day One’, much of that will be undone,” Trump told Time.
That’s the whole of the article – but the Mail version has lots of pictures, mainly of Trump.
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This is the template Farage must adopt when Reform wins in 29.
I’m not aware any Conservative government in the last 14 years revoked anything Blair and Brown enacted, nor grabbed back any powers they relinquished to the deep-state blob.
Revolution needed.
I think a government could do a lot of good over several terms ONLY repealing previous crap. How on earth did we survive without all this legislation??? A bit like the WHO and SAGE etc being in the “pandemic” business, governments are in the “producing legislation” business.
This is what kills me, that most people don’t realise that beneath a very thin veneer of public interest almost everything governments do is a grifting scheme for some interest group or other.
The most important interest group (for them) being themselves. Really it could not be any other way – surely politics will always attract grifters or people with God complexes. We just need to realise that, accept it, and act accordingly – limit their power and make sure the role of political leaders and the state does not exceed that which is necessary for “ordered liberty”.
It seems so obvious now, but to be fair Peter Hitchens has been warning about this for years, that the Tories do exactly the same as Labour, the difference being that Labour believe in it and do it very deliberately with the aim of transforming society and the Conservatives do it just to get themselves into power and are too cynical and intellectually barren to realise what they are doing.
It might have been different had we had a conservative government this century but alas we haven’t. Braverman has been interviewed today out in DC and you have to despair that she still believes the Tories can be saved from their socialists.
If he does just a fraction of his “Day One” tasks on the first day, he’ll have achieved more than the Treacherous Tories did in 14 years.
If only a fraction of these actions come to pass, bonfire of the inanities nevertheless upcoming.
Burn baby, burn.
Well, we’ve been in the waiting room for a while, so we will learn what the “new” administration has done since the election last year. After all, they must have done some work on the transition between the current and new Presidents, both at Federal and State levels.
Why does the Mail believe it is for government to build electric charging stations rather than the free market?
We’ve been conditioned for generations to the idea that the state needs to solve all of our problems, and that it could if only it were given enough money.
Unlike Farage, Trump doesn’t do “politically impossible”.
Unlike Farage, Trump doesn’t waste time trying to prove to the left he’s not a racist.
Unlike Farage, Trump doesn’t dump on his natural supporters: “Tommy Robinson and that lot”.
Unlike Farage, Trump puts talent before mediocrity: “No Andrew Bridgen or Ben Habib in Reform, instead Charlie Mullins and Simon Danczuk”
You could also add that Donald is secure enough in his own skin to employ talented and capable people around his as advisors whereas Farage chases them away. Out of the two of them, only one has destroyed two parties in the last decade and I fear he might destroy a third.
Yet Another Pakistani Habib has no “talent”, just a lot of money and sound-bytes he wants to use to take over the Reform Leadership and weasel himself into No. 10.
He is in no way comparable to the English Patriot Andrew Bridgen.
I think I might start calling him King Donald.
He moves around between his palaces (Mar a Lago, his Vriginia Golf Club), clearly a man of independent means.
These “executive orders” are like royal decrees.
He firms up his position with alliances with powerful baron’s who swear allegiance to him, like Musk, more recently Zuckerberg, RFK Jr, Rogan.
I’m sure it’s always pretty much been this way, but the nice thing about Trump is that he doesn’t waste too much time pretending.
He definitely projects the temperament of a ruling monarch.
Or an AntiChrist, who’s already talking about sending more White Men to Die in Foreign Wars, so that he can seize new territories in Canada, Greenland, Mexico…?
And giving plenty of forewarning to the illegals in Chicago that he’ll be sending in the Feds to raid them, so they can run off until the coast is clear, then sneak back…
Sometimes you have to attempt to maximise chaos because order has become so corrupted and rotten and predatory that it needs to be shaken off by any means necessary. I think that this is the tacit understanding. Perhaps the best strategy for managing the collapse of unipolarity.
No leader of a fattened decadent western country is going to be able to manage simple issues like shortages of staple foods that are in the pipoeline and will hit in a few months. The same goes for many commodities. In those circumstances he is probably a good choice but the reality for Europe won’t be so pleasant because for one thing the Brits and a few other have-a-go heroes have decided to take on Russia without the help of the United States. Yes they really would do something that stupid.
Looking at the pictures of the Inauguration today, I couldn’t help but notice that Melania Trump’s outfit and hat made her look like a gangster. Someone said she looked like she was “packing” a gun. Or attending a funeral.
When I first saw her hat, I thought it was like Jim Carrey’s in “The Mask”.
An interstellar alien looking down upon the Earth might ask,
“Why do all those human females attach long thin sticks to their feet?”
I’m very happy for the American people. If only we had such a comprehensive programme of change over here. I guess we have to wait and see if Reform can form a government in 4 years, and whether they have the vision and balls for a radical plan of action.
In the mean time, the pressure from America’s change of direction, will bear down hard on Starmer et al, and may well force them to moderate their psychopathic policies.
It seems the Mail has forgotten what an actual government as opposed to a bunch of spinners and drifters can actually accomplish.
The Telegraph today is reporting:
“Earlier on Monday, the US President issued pardons for 1,600 Jan 6 rioters, including those convicted of violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of 14 others who stormed the Capitol four years ago.
He also signed a flurry of executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement and World Health Organisation, delay the ban of TikTok, stop federal employees working from home, and end government “censorship”.”
President Trump is already delivering on his campaign promises, yes, on “day one”. What a refreshing change from our own Lab-Con lightweights, who spend their time wringing their hands and telling us it’s all ready hard.