During a very high-octane inaugural speech, President Donald Trump yesterday said that January 20, 2025, will forever be looked upon as Liberation Day.
That might well be true, but what seems to have been even more descriptive would be to call Monday Repudiation Day.
If you thought this was a normal transfer of power to come, and a whole lot of the elite opinionmakers did what they could to present Trump’s return to the White House as that, you were wrong.
Take Donna Brazile, for example. She was one of the kakistocrats atop the Democrat Party who rigged its primaries and debates to produce Hillary Clinton as its 2016 nominee. Brazile has been one of Trump’s more unhinged critics for the last eight years. But this was Brazile as Trump’s inauguration loomed…
The mayor of the District of Columbia went down to meet with President-elect Trump. There’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t think you’re — this is — this is not going to be a time of resistance like it was in 2017. They’re going to look for opportunities to work with the president-elect and his team, and they will be prepared to oppose him when they disagree.
You heard an awful lot of that over the weekend. “The Resistance” is over.
Apparently, these dysfunctional dead-enders didn’t get the message…
The pro-Hamas freaks, the climate change loons, and the genocidal pro-abortion ghouls who put on the “People’s March” Saturday in Washington certainly aren’t on the same page with Donna Brazile. They’re partying like it’s 2017.
The problem is, there aren’t very many of them anymore.
And the president they hitched their wagons to, the somnambulant and irredeemably corrupt Joe Biden, was forced to sit with his no-longer-cackling vice president as Trump thundered away at the betrayal and decline the past four years represented, in one of the least-collegial — and rightfully so — inaugural speeches in memory.
If you think it was rude for Trump to trash the Democrats in that room today, consider that those people spent most of last year ginning up crazies to try to kill him after they’d corrupted the judicial process in an effort to destroy his fortune, reputation and freedom.
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— Scott McKay (@TheHayride) January 20, 2025
Trump wasn’t just talking about Biden. That isn’t really possible anyway. Non compos mentis as he has been for years, Joe Biden, as an independent political actor hasn’t existed for quite some time. Rather, there is really only the corporate Joe Biden, which was a collective entity controlled and operated by a host of faceless and unaccountable political operatives beholden not to the Constitution, as Biden swore to be, or to the American people but rather to themselves.
And that cabal was repudiated on Monday.
As were their works.
Trump’s 200 executive orders, the most aggressive one-day about-face in the history of American government policy, point out just how badly off-track Biden’s America truly has been.
It’s a breathtaking list representing what Trump called a “revolution of common sense.”
President-elect Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day — a massive, first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.
A senior administration official who is familiar with the executive actions and authorized to brief Fox News Digital said Trump on day one will end “Catch and Release;” pause all offshore wind leases; terminate the electric vehicle mandate; abolish the Green New Deal; withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord; and take several major steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy.
The official said Donald Trump will sign multiple “omnibus” executive orders that each contain dozens of major executive actions.
“The president is issuing a historic series of executive orders and actions that will fundamentally reform the American government, including the complete and total restoration of American sovereignty,” the official told Fox News Digital.
On day one, the president-elect will declare a national border emergency; direct the U.S. military to work with the Department of Homeland Security to fully secure the southern border; and establish a national priority to eliminate all criminal cartels operating on U.S. soil.
Trump will close the border to all illegal aliens via proclamation, Fox News Digital has learned.
Trump will also create task forces for the protection of homeland security with officers from the FBI, ICE, CEA, and other agencies to “fully eradicate the presence of criminal cartels.”
Trump will also direct designations of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, which the official said will unlock new authorities to achieve the Trump homeland security mission.
Fox News Digital has learned that Trump will re-institute “Remain in Mexico,” and direct the military to construct a new area of border wall. He will grant emergency authorities to suspend the entry of illegal aliens across the southwest border, allowing for individuals apprehended to be “swiftly returned to their countries of origin.”
Trump will “fully unleash” Alaskan energy, which the official described as essential to U.S. national security.
The senior official told Fox News Digital that the energy executive order deals with “every single energy policy,” and addresses liquid natural gas, ports, fracking, pipelines, permitting and more, while also terminating President Biden polices he said “have constrained U.S. energy supply.”
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The official also said Trump will fully reform the federal bureaucracy by reestablishing presidential control over the career federal workforce and make clear to federal workers that they can be removed from posts for failing to comply with executive directives.
Trump will sign an executive order to strengthen presidential control over senior government officials and implement a new merit-based hiring review. Trump will also take action to return federal workers to in-person work.
The official also said Trump will end the “weaponization of the federal government,” and “restore freedom of speech” and “end federal censorship.”
Trump, on his first day, will also suspend the security clearances for the 51 national security officials who “lied” about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
What’s most notable about the executive orders, besides the fact many of them were executed at an NBA arena in front of 20,000 cheering patriots, is two things: first, that they’re so obviously the right call. At a time, for example, when the domestic production of energy is increasingly the difference among nations between prosperity and stagnation — and particularly when “renewable” energy is conclusively proving to be an economic and even environmental loser — there cannot be hostility in policy toward oil and gas and other conventional sources of electric power and transportation fuel.
“Climate change” — something your author scoffs at exceedingly loudly on a day where there is expected to be more than six inches of snow here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — is no longer important or even interesting as an effective political pretext to prevent the generation of economic prosperity.
And there’s a broad consensus that our national sovereignty and that of our citizens can only depend on regaining control of our border and the basic nature of that citizenship through a reconstitution of immigration policy. The arguments over deportations no longer arise in principle but rather in quantity and over logistics, but the public wants deportations. And the public doesn’t support — perhaps never did support — “birthright citizenship” for the children of illegal aliens.
The second theme of the executive orders, particularly when they’re viewed as a full corpus of activity, is how thorough a rejection of elite Washington they are. Declaring war on the Mexican drug cartels, for example, when it isn’t much of a secret that those cartels have purchased a shockingly large amount of influence with American politicians, entails examining that influence. Which could be quite inconvenient for various members of our elite.
And changes like that portend an awfully stark rebuke of the status quo Trump will seek to overturn.
Previously, the conventional wisdom would be that so sharp a turn can’t be done. But Biden, almost as if to facilitate the repudiation of the class to which he belongs, spent the final 24 hours of his presidency issuing pardons to people who hadn’t even been charged with crimes — Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, the members of the atrocious Jan. 6 commission, and his family.
In so doing, Biden gutted whatever legitimacy the elite Washington he inherited from Barack Obama may have had left. Also in doing so, Biden issued an open invitation to Congress and state attorneys general to put these people under a microscope and subject them to various examinations and struggle sessions with the prospect of indictments for process crimes — like the contempt-of-Congress charges under which Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon were imprisoned — that might come for failing to level with the American people.
I’ve written repeatedly that on Nov. 5 of last year, the world changed. On Jan. 20 there was another definitive showing that I was correct.
Liberation Day or Repudiation Day, it perhaps doesn’t really matter. America is new again, and the people responsible for aging it are not relevant anymore.
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