It’s been six days since Donald Trump took office...again. And on his first day he hit the ground running and has been in high gear since. His Executive Orders seem to coming out and signed every 15 minutes or so. Some have been desperately needed to undo some of former President Biden’s mistakes that helped fire up inflation, made us dependent on foreign energy supplies, made it more attractive to not work which has ended up leaving a lot of jobs going unfilled, and so on.
One of the biggest was issuing a blanket pardon to all J6 participants. However, I think he made a mistake on this one, pardoning those who committed acts of violence. If their acts would have been considered crimes even if they hadn’t taken place at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, then they shouldn’t be pardoned just because they did commit them at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. The backlash on that one has already been seen and heard.
Doing away with the totally stupid and unrealistic Electric Vehicle Mandate was a master stroke. Meeting the deadline on the mandate was totally unworkable and everyone knew it, even the most rabid proponents. Our electrical grid wasn’t up to the task of providing the needed power and wasn’t likely to be upgraded to meet that demand, that increased demand also being a part of the growing number of data centers.
In line with that is his decision to have the US withdraw from the Paris Accords which has been hamstringing us and forcing us to reduce our carbon emissions even as China’s keeps growing by leaps and bounds. We have already reduced our carbon emissions considerably and it isn’t up to us to destroy our economy just to offset China’s emissions despite that many of the Greens believe we should do just that.
I was also pleased to see that he visited western North Carolina to see just what FEMA hasn’t done, with people in that area still having not received help or assistance. Accusations have been made by FEMA insiders that this lack of aid was deliberate because the people in this part of the disaster area were Trump supporters. (If true, a number of people need to go to prison.) He also visited Los Angeles to see the devastation there. While TV reports and videos can give one a feel for the destruction, seeing it for oneself is the only way to understand the extent of the damage. Hopefully Trump won’t pull a Biden (or WRBA) and leave those in southern California without resources or redress.
This is all but a fraction of what he’s done since January 20th. What will he get done in the next 94 days?
He put together a group of people for his cabinet that will help achieve his goals and keep the promises he made to the American people. That it seems he’s done over two months of work in only a few days tells us he’s serious about getting things done.
The next four years are going to be interesting.
