Trump’s First Day Promises

On his first day in office, Trump has promised:

  • Start mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. He said “he “will launch the largest deportation program in American history.”
  • He vowed to end birthright citizenship — meaning anyone born in the U.S. automatically gaining citizenship — on his first day.
  • Impose all the tariffs he promised.
  • Pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
  • Revoke Biden’s new pollution standards that incentivize auto manufacturers to increase production of electric and lower-emission vehicles.
  • Rescind Biden-era regulations curbing oil drilling (“Drill, baby, drill”).
  • Pardon the “vast majority” of the Jan 6 rioters.
  • End taxes on tips.
  • Issue an executive order to make it easier to fire career civil servants.
  • Issue an executive order “to censor, limit, categorize, or impede” people’s speech and ban federal money from being spent on any efforts related to combating misinformation or disinformation.
  • Remove Biden’s limits on the use of A.I.
  • “Delay” the ban on TikTok.
  • Remove the environmental protections that limit commercial fishing.

“Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump has said about his “day one” actions.

“Trump is planning to issue dozens of executive actions — more than 100 just on Day 1, at least in his own telling — within his first week in office, sources familiar with his plans told CNN.”

Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-promises-9c842ada3c54e2219445f1598db2c8d6

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/01/19/everything-trump-has-promised-to-do-on-his-first-day

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/politics/trump-day-one-executive-actions/index.html

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Arkansas Governor Wants to Fire College Professors Who “Indoctrinate”

It’s not about “indoctrination.” It’s about teaching things SHE doesn’t approve of.

“Sanders’ proposal to fire professors over ‘indoctrination’ drew criticism from civil liberties and faculty groups. Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, called it a ‘grossly hypocritical false narrative.’

“Sanders is doing a disservice to Arkansas students by suggesting she will deny due process for faculty with ideas she disagrees with,” Wolfson said. ‘Maligning a system that is an engine of innovation and bedrock of our democracy hurts Arkansas students.'”

Source: https://apnews.com/article/college-professors-huckabee-sanders-woke-34602a9f4d85f551e4f1eb940de0ea7c

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Trump Team Questioning Loyalty of Career Civil Servants

The incoming Trump team has begun questioning the loyalty of career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council. These are career employees. They are being asked about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions, and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered “incriminating” by Trump!

Just like he promised and just like Project 2025 advocated, they plan on replacing most of the career folks with loyalist sycophants.

“Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, in recent days publicly signaled his intention to get rid of all nonpolitical appointees and career intelligence officials serving on the NSC by Inauguration Day to ensure the council is staffed with those who support Trump’s agenda.”

Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-nsc-loyalty-waltz-21913da0464f472cb9fef314fed488e5

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Trump Open to Military Action Against Greenland & Panama

Trump won’t rule out military action against Greenland and Panama.

A reporter asked if Trump would rule out “military or economic coercion” to put the US in charge of Greenland and Panama.

He said, “No, I can’t assure you on either of those two. But, I can say this, we need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for our military. I’m not going to commit to that now … it might be that you’ll have to do something,” Trump continued.

He added: “The Panama Canal is vital to our country. It’s being operated by China, China, and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn’t give it to China, and they’ve abused it.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/07/us-politics-live-trump-justice-department-carter

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Trump Claims Biden Making Transition Difficult

Trump, who incited insurrection and refused a peaceful transfer of power four years ago, accuses Biden of making the transition “as difficult as possible.” Really!! Yet again, Trump is projecting, attributing his own worst faults to other people.

“You read that right. The MAGA cult leader, who was impeached for inciting a resurrection and refusing a peaceful transfer of power four years ago, is now publicly complaining that President Biden is engaging in “lawfare such as has never been seen before” to make Donald’s return to the Oval Office more difficult. Not a joke. Not The Onion.

“You may recall that, in addition to siccing a violent mob to storm the US Capitol, Trump engaged in months of legal chicanery to stop Biden from taking office, begged elected officials like then-Vice President Mike Pence and others to violate US law and halt the formal transition process, and — after all attempts to steal a second term failed — refused to attend Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021.

“But, yes, Joe Biden is clearly making this month’s transition “as difficult as possible” by, ya know, governing and fulfilling the duties of the presidency until his term officially ends.”

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-insurrection-accuses-biden-difficult-transition_n_677c2708e4b0da20062b766e

Source: Daily Dose of Democracy email – 7 Jan 2025

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U.S. Actually in Best Shape Since at Least 2000

“President Biden is bequeathing his successor a nation that by many measures is in good shape, even if voters remain unconvinced.”

“To hear President-elect Donald J. Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship. “Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” he declared on social media last week.”

“By many traditional metrics, the America that Mr. Trump will inherit from President Biden when he takes the oath for a second time, two weeks from Monday, is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since George W. Bush came into office in 2001.”

Details and explanation in the source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/trump-us-disaster-numbers.html

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People in Oregon Preparing for Rounding up Immigrants

How repulsive!!

“Several officials in Lincoln County, Oregon have received an anonymous letter urging people to report “brown folks” they suspect are undocumented immigrants, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

“The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office recently learned about a letter being circulated throughout Lincoln County which encourages community members to track and report information regarding people of color, specifically community members that are believed to be undocumented,” the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.”

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/letter-urging-residents-report-brown-folks-condemned-oregon/story?id=117082954

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Trump’s America Is Violent and Racist

Despite the protestations, this did happen more frequently when Trump was president last time. And it’s already happening again.

“Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested in Grand Junction, Colorado, after police say he followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex’s vehicle for 40 miles. Alex told police that he believed he had been followed and attacked because he is Pacific Islander.

“After arriving in Grand Junction, Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and said “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!” Egan then followed him back to his news station and tried to strangle him.

“This, uh, really does not bode well for the next four years.”

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/28/colorado-man-trumps-america-now-00196098

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Wisconsin Dairy Farms Rely on Undocumented Immigrants

Wisconsin dairy farms rely heavily on undocumented immigrants, who perform over half the work on dairy farms, according to estimates. I wonder how long it will take for it to sink in that maybe these folks made a mistake in their voting for president.

“Wisconsin is home to about 70,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly from Latin America, according to estimates from the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute. These are the people who hang drywall, clean hotel rooms, wash dishes in restaurant kitchens and package the nation’s cheese.

“Determining how many of Wisconsin’s dairy workers are undocumented is almost impossible. Workers use fake papers to get jobs, farmers accept those papers without question, and the state and federal governments make little effort to get an accurate count. But a conservative estimate from a recent University of Wisconsin at Madison study puts the number of undocumented Hispanic workers on medium-to-large farms at roughly 6,200. That figure excludes the many immigrant workers on smaller farms, those with fewer than 500 cows.”

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-undocumented-immigrants-drivers-licenses

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Homan’s Plan Not Much Better

So he backs off on Trump’s plan to revoke U.S. citizenship from children whose parents are undocumented, and instead wants to put them in a “halfway house.”

“President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan delivered alarming new logistical details of a forthcoming mass deportation effort, a day after promising to restart the first Trump administration policy of family separation.

“In an interview with NewsNation, Homan, tapped by Trump to lead border security policy, admitted that millions of mixed-status households created a “difficult situation”

“The ​​Center for Migration Studies estimates that at least 4.7 million households in the U.S. are home to both documented and undocumented family members and that 5.5 million U.S.-born children live in homes with at least one undocumented person.

“Homan ruled out the Trump-backed plan to retroactively repeal American-born children’s birthright citizenship but acknowledged that the children of undocumented parents may be put in dire positions.”

Source: https://www.salon.com/2024/12/27/border-chief-us-born-children-of-undocumented-going-to-be-put-in-a-halfway-house/

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