21-01-2017, 07:00 AM
White House website scrubbed
One of the first things that marked the transition to the Trump presidency was an overhaul of the White House website, removing any mention of climate policy or legislation to protect minorities, including everyone from Native Americans to the LGBT community.
In place of the copious policy details outlined by the Obama administration were six vague descriptions of items like "America First Energy Plan" and "Making Our Military Strong Again."
"Peace through strength will be at the center of that foreign policy," according to Whitehouse.gov.
First steps
Trump spokesman Sean Spicer announced that one of the new president's first actions as president will be to create a national day of patriotism, in addition to the Fourth of July, Patriots' Day, and the two US holidays that celebrate its armed forces Memorial Day and Veterans' Day. In fact in some states, there is already a holiday called Patriots' Day celebrating the start of the Revolutionary War.
Shortly after the Trump family entered the White House, Congress began confirming the new president's cabinet picks. Defense Secretary James Mattis quickly became the first of Trump's nominees to be approved, by a margin of 98-1. New homeland security secretary, retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, was also confirmed by the Senate. Kelly has spoke of his support for Trump's proposed border wall between the US and Mexico.
Once in the Oval Office, the president signed his first executive order, easing regulations associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. The move came despite the fact that Trump said in a Republican debate last year that he did not like executive orders, saying "nobody really knew" that "such a thing" existed in the US. With the exception of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days into his first term, every president since George Washington has signed executive orders.
Trump also ordered an immediate regulatory freeze for all government agencies, although Spicer did not elaborate what that would entail when it was announced.
Photos of the president's office showed a few subtle changes from its previous occupant. A bust of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr had been replaced by a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and red drapes had been replaced with golden ones.
"It was a beautiful day," Trump told reporters in a brief statement. :
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One of the first things that marked the transition to the Trump presidency was an overhaul of the White House website, removing any mention of climate policy or legislation to protect minorities, including everyone from Native Americans to the LGBT community.
In place of the copious policy details outlined by the Obama administration were six vague descriptions of items like "America First Energy Plan" and "Making Our Military Strong Again."
"Peace through strength will be at the center of that foreign policy," according to Whitehouse.gov.
First steps
Trump spokesman Sean Spicer announced that one of the new president's first actions as president will be to create a national day of patriotism, in addition to the Fourth of July, Patriots' Day, and the two US holidays that celebrate its armed forces Memorial Day and Veterans' Day. In fact in some states, there is already a holiday called Patriots' Day celebrating the start of the Revolutionary War.
Shortly after the Trump family entered the White House, Congress began confirming the new president's cabinet picks. Defense Secretary James Mattis quickly became the first of Trump's nominees to be approved, by a margin of 98-1. New homeland security secretary, retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, was also confirmed by the Senate. Kelly has spoke of his support for Trump's proposed border wall between the US and Mexico.
Once in the Oval Office, the president signed his first executive order, easing regulations associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. The move came despite the fact that Trump said in a Republican debate last year that he did not like executive orders, saying "nobody really knew" that "such a thing" existed in the US. With the exception of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days into his first term, every president since George Washington has signed executive orders.
Trump also ordered an immediate regulatory freeze for all government agencies, although Spicer did not elaborate what that would entail when it was announced.
Photos of the president's office showed a few subtle changes from its previous occupant. A bust of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr had been replaced by a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and red drapes had been replaced with golden ones.
"It was a beautiful day," Trump told reporters in a brief statement. :
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass