Once you get over the introductory video of the second coming of Messiah (this one), the White House’s website (which is a WordPress site) gives you access to the Executive Orders issued on January 20. They’re not in a particularly useful presentation, and they lack any number or reference, which is rather strange. I couldn’t be bothered to look elsewhere for such details, but I ran through their contents out of curiosity.

I will not judge them here, but merely group them in an ad-hoc manner. Still, I’d like to mention that a couple of them seem necessary, even if coming from such a brute. The non-binary madness has to stop. DEI, or privileging the belonging to a minority over competence, is also harmful, there in America as much as here in Europe. Finally, the EV mandate has managed to destroy EU’s automotive industry, and America’s is performing any better.

Some of these Executive Orders are pure populism, and sometimes their phrasing is ridiculous. Some of them will have serious difficulties in their implementations, and I expect more than one to be challenged in Federal courts. Take for instance the one stating that the death penalty should be pursued when a capital crime is committed by an alien illegally present in the US. The constitutional right to a fair trial and the principle of non-discrimination before the law apply in the United States to both citizens and non-citizens. Read the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Courts have consistently ruled that non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, are entitled to due process and fair treatment under the law.

I’m surprised that in the first batch I couldn’t find anything regarding the Panama Canal (despite being mentioned in the Inaugural Address: “We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.”), Greenland, Canada, and the trade relations with the EU. They’ll probably come later. Oh, and how about NATO and Ukraine? The fun has yet to commence. For Panama, I fear something like Operation Just Cause.

Otherwise, here’s what I skimmed through today, grouped in 12 categories.

ALIENS

● A national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States & this emergency requires use of the Armed Forces [URL]

● Aliens Invading the United States [URL]

● Protecting from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes [URL]

● Identification of Unregistered Illegal Aliens & Efficient Removals of Recent Entrants and Other Aliens [URL]

● Physical Barriers at the southern border & termination of the “CBP One” application [URL]

● Citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States (or lawful but temporary) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth. [URL]

● Entry into the United States of refugees under the USRAP be suspended [URL]

● The Cartels will be designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations [URL]

● United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) to seal the borders and repel forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking. [URL]

WOKISM

● Initial Rescission Of 78 Harmful Executive Orders related to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), opening the borders, and climate extremism [URL]

● “Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female. “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.” “Gender identity” reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex. [URL]

● Each agency, department, or commission shall terminate all DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” offices and positions (including but not limited to “Chief Diversity Officer” positions); all “equity action plans,” “equity” actions, initiatives, or programs, “equity-related” grants or contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees. [URL]

IMPERIALISM

● Gulf of America [URL]

THE MESSIAH HAS RETURNED

● Flying The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff On Inauguration Day [URL]

POPULISM

● I hereby order the heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker. This shall include pursuing appropriate actions to: lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply; eliminate unnecessary administrative expenses and rent-seeking practices that increase healthcare costs; eliminate counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances; create employment opportunities for American workers, including drawing discouraged workers into the labor force; and eliminate harmful, coercive “climate” policies that increase the costs of food and fuel. [URL]

TERROR BY STATE

● The Attorney General shall pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use. In addition to pursuing the death penalty where possible, the Attorney General shall seek the death penalty regardless of other factors for every federal capital crime involving the murder of a law-enforcement officer, or a capital crime committed by an alien illegally present in this country. [URL]

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

● Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship [URL]

● TikTok: I am instructing the Attorney General not to take any action to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days from today to allow my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown of a communications platform used by millions of Americans. [URL]

AMERICA FIRST

● America First Trade Policy & Economic and Trade Relations with the People’s Republic of China [URL]

● From this day forward, the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first. [URL]

● The OECD Global Tax Deal has no force or effect in the United States. [URL]

● United States’ withdrawal from the WHO [URL]

● 90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance pending reevaluation [URL]

ENERGY

● The United States’ insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation: Declaring a national emergency. [URL]

● United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [URL]

● Prioritize the development of Alaska’s LNG potential [URL]

● It is the policy of the United States to encourage energy exploration and production & to eliminate the “electric vehicle (EV) mandate” and promote true consumer choice. [URL]

● Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects [URL]

● Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California [URL]

FRIENDS & FOES

● January 6, 2021: Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government [URL]

● January 6, 2021: Commute the sentences of 14 and grant a full pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses [URL]

● Hunter Biden & John R. Bolton: Any current or active clearances revoked for 50 former government officials [URL]

GOVERNANCE

● The Department of Government Efficiency [URL]

● Executive Office of the President Personnel are immediately granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances [URL]

● Return to In-Person Work in the executive branch of Government [URL]

● The National Security Council [URL]

● Regulatory Freeze Pending Review [URL]

● Freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees [URL]

● Restoring Merit to Government Service: Federal Hiring Plan [URL]

● Restoring Accountability for Federal workforce [URL]

● Restoring Accountability for Career Senior [URL]

● Announcing Cabinet and Cabinet Level Appointments [URL]

● Announcing Acting Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Positions [URL]

● Announcing Sub-Cabinet Appointments [URL]

● Designating Chairmen and Acting Chairmen [URL]

HARMLESS

● Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage [URL]