President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday, and he came out swinging. On his first day, he signed 26 executive orders and rolled back about 80 of former president Joe Biden’s executive actions. (For comparison, Biden signed nine executive orders on day one; in 2017, Trump signed one; in 2013, Obama signed zero, and in 2009, just two.)
Trump was making good on the promises he campaigned on. On immigration, he’s trying to end birthright citizenship. On diversity, equity, and inclusion, he’s saying, “You’re fired” to federal DEI employees. On trans issues, he signed an order that declares only two genders. And on “America First,” he’s saying goodbye to the “Gulf of Mexico” and hello to the “Gulf of America.”
Trump also announced Stargate, gave TikTok a second life, pardoned about 1,500 January 6 rioters, and pulled out of the Paris climate agreement.
Suffice it to say, there is much to discuss. Today, Bari Weiss is back with Batya Ungar-Sargon, Brianna Wu, and Free Press senior editor Peter Savodnik to unpack Trump’s first week in office and what they think about…Elon’s arm.
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Skipping again because supporting Wu in womanface is distasteful to me. People can't change gender. Magic isn't real.
Maybe I am obtuse, but as a Jew with family connections to the Holocaust, and an ardent supporter of Israel, I never would have equated Musk’s gesture with Nazi’s. We have a media presence, salivating for every morsel of ambiguous actions that can be modified and used to connect Trump and anyone who supports him into brown-shirted storm troopers.
Then, when Musk displays his superior intellect to laugh off the assertion, using the names of Hitler’s henchmen in a sardonic context, that media piles on even more.
The term, ‘useful idiots’, was never more applicable to anyone eating this garbage.