President Trump has ordered a new census by his Commerce Department, telling them that it must exclude all illegal aliens.

Here’s what he wrote this morning:

I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

 
Some in the garbage media are flipping out over this. Reuters calls this an ‘attack’ on the census by Trump:

“Trump announced his fresh attack on the Census in an early-morning post on Truth Social, saying the population count should be “based on modern day facts and figures” and results of the 2024 presidential election.”

“People who are in our Country illegally will not be counted in the census,” he said.

Trump has long railed against the inclusion of undocumented migrants in the Census, which is used to determine congressional apportionment, and signed a similar memorandum in the final year of his first term in office.

Check out how Axios is reporting this:

Unauthorized residents? A+ for originality, but good grief. They just can’t bring themselves to say ILLEGAL ALIENS or ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Here’s ABC News trotting out the same old….

Not undocumented immigrants. Not migrants. ILLEGAL ALIENS. It’s really not that hard.

As an aside, I watched a segment from Karl Rove on this today and he explained that it’s impossible to get something like this done before the 2026 elections because of just how massive an undertaking it is. It’s a multi-year process, according to him. Maybe 2028?