Trump executive orders smash leftist pieties that kept America paralyzed

 

Donald Trump’s first day in office will be remembered as the moment when reality crashed into the leftist pieties that kept America frozen, suffering and hemmed-in during the Biden years. 

Let’s start with the central issue of the election: the border. 

Trump swung for the fences with big-time executive orders to end Joe’s willed chaos there — starting with the declaration of a national emergency. 

Add to that his moves to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy, delete President Joe Biden’s insane border-jumping app CBP One, restart border-wall construction, designate cartels and gangs like Tren de Aragua as terrorist groups and militarize border enforcement. 

To those we say: Bravo, Mr. President. 

And while his plan to end birthright citizenship for the kids of illegal immigrants is definitely controversial (the 14th Amendment says anyone born in America is a citizen, and 18 state attorneys general have already sued over the move) the message could not be clearer.

The border is closed — and the president means business. 

Those moves are sure to roll back the waves of migrants lured to the border by Biden’s invitación.

Trump also went to war with identity politics.

He’s killing funding for federal DEI programs and dismantling the administrative infrastructure that lets bureaucrats hoover up tax dollars to stoke racial hatred and divide America. 

Indeed, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency has already started swinging the axe there — though DOGE, too, is facing multiple lawsuits in its early infancy. 

And the president struck a blow for gender sanity by defining a person’s sex as male or female and ordering the federal government to follow that utterly commonsensical designation. 

What about Biden’s war on American energy? 

Trump’s ending it with a slate of orders, including the declaration of a national emergency around energy and a big bundle of other moves aimed at breaking the regulatory stranglehold the Biden administration applied to domestic production.

These include pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, an end to Biden’s electric vehicle mandate and reopening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.

Trump’s still giving his inner troll some room to play, renaming Alaska’s Denali Mt. McKinley (as it was called pre-Obama) and the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. 

But his vision is blessedly forward-looking — to the better, brighter vistas Biden and his party refuse to see. 

That willful blindness cost them the election. 

America, in love with the future as always, is right there with Trump.