Eye on TRUMP

OMIGOD! What have US voters unleashed on the world?

Trump 2.0. God help us! The Orange One needs watching!

The Orange One [Facebook]

EYE ON TRUMP aims to do just that by bringing to EOS readers the catastrophic actions of the convicted felon who now sits In the White House.

Still on Day 1 ….. Executive Orders

A curious quirk of democracy US-style is that an outgoing president may issue "pardons" and an incoming one "executive orders", in both cases without reference to Congress or The Senate.

Joe Biden yesterday issued “pre-emptive pardons” to members of his extended family to protect them from future prosecutions by a vindictive Trump.

Joe Biden waves farewell [BBC]

Donald Trump publicly signed an unprecedented number of “executive orders” in front of the watching world.

And this is what they call democracy?

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According to Mary Walrath-Holdridge and Anthony Robledo writing in USA TODAY, shortly after declaring an incoming "golden age" for America during his inaugural speech on Monday, President Trump spent the afternoon and early evening signing and declaring a flurry of executive orders.

In his speech, Trump promised actions ranging from mass deportation and declaring a national emergency at the southern border to a manifest destiny that expands all the way to outer space.

[Photo: iStock]

"The United States will once again consider itself a growing mission, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons, and we will pursue our manifest destiny for the stars watching American astronauts plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars," said Trump.

With so many executive orders, some of them will most certainly be challenged and possibly shut down.

Here is a list of some of the highlights – or lowlights - that have been the most talked about so far.

• Trump made an order to halt the ban on TikTok in the U.S. for 75 days.
• Signed an order that begins the process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
• Signed an order to withdraw from the World Health Organization.
• Signed an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
• Ended Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government. He also signed an order demanding federal employees end remote work and return to the office.
• Ordered that cartels be categorised as foreign terrorist organizations.
• Granted pardons for nearly 1,600 January 6th 2001 rioters.
• Plans to declare a "national energy emergency" to repeal regulations on fossil fuels, emissions and oil drilling.
• Expanding and restoring the death penalty in the USA, specifically in cases of undocumented immigrants.
• Signed an order ending birthright citizenship to those born in the USA (as this is a direct contradiction of the 14th Amendment of the Consitution, it is expected to be challenged heavily.)
• Declared the government will only recognise two, non-changeable genders.
• Trump is also expected to sign nearly a dozen executive orders on border security and immigration under the auspices of a national border emergency. These include deploying the military to the border, implementing bans on travel and asylum and planning mass deportations.
• Ordering the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency to implement his DOGE Agenda alongside Elon Musk.
• Rescinded 78 Biden-era executive orders, actions and memoranda, including the Inflation Reduction Act's regulation on prescription drug prices.

    Elon Musk making a fool of himself [Photos (L to R): The Conversation, NBF.com and NDTV ]

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Or ….. TRUMP WATCH!

OMIGOD! What have US voters unleashed on the world?

Trump 2.0. God help us!

The Orange One needs watching!

This blog aims to do just that by bringing to EOS readers the catastrophic actions of the convicted felon who now sits In the White House.

    Publicity shot                                                                    Police mugshot [Both photos courtesy of NDTV]

I doubt my posts will have any effect. Trump won’t even read them (I hope not, anyway, otherwise there might be a knock on my door from a CIA agent!).

But at least I’ll be able to get things off my chest, and annoy my right-wing buddy NF who supports DJT!

What a chaotic world we live in!

Netanyahu, Putin, Zelenskyy, Assad, Starmer, Badenoch, Davey, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah. And before that Bojo the Clown, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

But surely the most worrying person in world politics right now is DONALD JOHN TRUMP.

Bojo The Clown [Facebook]

Why can’t he be more amiable and sensible like his snooker-playing nephew JUDD TRUMP?

Former World Snooker Champion Judd Trump [Snooker Hub]

Episode 1 – The Trump Inauguration

To the surprise of most commentators, foreign journalists, pollsters, and Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, Donald J Trump was elected as the next president of the United States back in November 2024 ….. and with a landslide!

What went wrong?

How could American citizens, and in particular black people and women, elect this loud-mouthed, sexist, racist, serial adulterer, rapist and convicted felon to be their president and the de facto leader of the Western World?

It makes a mockery of democracy!

    [Photo courtesy of The Atlantic]

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OK, rant over.

I’ve started this occasional blog to keep on eye on the b**tard and to vent my frustration at the “stoopid” people who voted him into office FOR A SECOND TERM!

Starting with yesterday, the day of his inauguration in Washington DC.

Should we be worried?

Watching the formal proceedings in the Capitol, I was struck by the following:

1. Most of Trump’s team are as old as or older than he is. 78! Why’s he not putting his feet up?

2. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, was in a very prominent position in the line-up, along with Trump’s other tech-billionaire acolytes Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – very worrying!

3. Vice-president JD Vance was looking shifty and untrustworthy.

4. Trump and Vance have stunning wives!

    Melania Trump [El Espectador]                                Usha Vance [24 Horas]

5. The organisers did their best with the pomp and ceremony, but they were nowhere near the class and pageantry of the British on such occasions!

6. Was it pre-arranged that Melania Trump didn’t let DJT make contact when he tried to kiss her on the cheek? Does he have bad breath, or does she really not like him much, as the rumours would have us believe?

7. There were a lot of long faces in the mainly Republican audience. Are they also worried what Trump might do?

The Failed Kiss [CTV News]

Endpiece

So, what can we expect from the second term of this faded TV game-show host and failed businessman?

Will it be as dire and draconian as he has flagged in recent weeks?

I fear we’ll soon find out …..

Final word for today

By the way, is nothing else happening in the world? The TV news coverage of this event is wall-to-wall.

The BBC, ITV, SKY News, CNN, NBC, RTVE, France-Presse, ARD, ZDF, N-TV and N24 are all guilty!

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