What To Expect On Day One

This coming Monday is Inauguration Day. It also happens to be a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Day and the culmination of the college football season with the national championship game. Quite a busy day. For the incoming president, here is a partial list of all the things that he promised to do “on day one.” The list comes from various sources (especially Axios) based on his campaign promises, speeches, social media and interviews. Some are “head scratchers” because it either does not exist or is a made up problem or cannot be done in a day or all of the above. Advisors to the president say that he will issue one hundred Executive Orders on Inauguration Day. I suppose someone with enough time on their hands could put together some kind of bingo card or a drinking game to see how the Executive Orders match up with his promises.

• Settle the Russia-Ukraine War. Although to be sure, he said in the first 24 hours.
• Close the border with Mexico.
• Begin the largest deportation effort in American history.
• Close public schools that teach Critical Race Theory (CRT) or have a vaccine mandate.
• End the “electric vehicle mandate.”
• Increase oil drilling and fracking.
• End birth right citizenship protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
• End “Green New Deal” policies.
• End “Bidenomics” and start “MAGAnomics.”
• Ban trans women from competing in girl’s or women’s sports.
• Pardon January 6th criminals.
• Stop migrant flights into the U.S.
• Restore and expand the Trump travel ban.
• Push for the resignation of anyone in the military involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal.
• Shift some federal law enforcement agencies to immigration enforcement.
• Repeal federal government Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) requirements.
• Remove CRT from the military.
• Reduce violent crime.
• Reduce crime by immigrants.
• Put sanctions on Iran.
• Convene a Federal Drug Administration (FDA) panel to see if hormone treatments cause violence.
• Ban transgender people from the military.
• Ask Congress for a bill banning gender affirming care for minors.
• Enact policies to move to having all automobiles built in the United States.
• Restart the building of the border wall with Mexico.
• Tell Mexico to stop drug dealers and criminals crossing the border or get hit with a 25% tariff.
• Hit Canada with a 25% tariff on all goods if they do not stop their open border policy.
• Roll back federal regulations that drive up the cost of goods.
• Be a dictator. Although he conceded it would just be for one day.

That’s a pretty full day.