Trump’s Second Week: A Turning Point in American Governance

In his second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to effectively manage the Executive Branch. He has blindsided -- even gelded -- his detractors in the media and Congress, and issued an astonishing array of executive orders which reveal how tax funds have been flowing out of the Treasury to the benefit of the Deep State and its friends without regard (and often even being inimical) to the national interest...

Gaza

Trump has proposed that Gazans be relocated to Jordan and Egypt so that Gaza can be rebuilt and Hamas’s presence removed...

California

The President tweeted that the U.S. military “turned on water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest… The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER.”...

The Military

8,950 active-duty servicemen and 5,727 reserve troops who were transgendered have been removed from service and in their stead 8,000 military personnel who had been removed because they refused the vaccine mandate have been welcomed to return with back pay.

Foreign Students

Much of the chaos, disruption, and antisemitic activities on college campuses which the prior administration ignored involved foreign students here on temporary visas. The administration has begun identifying them, revoking their visas, and repatriating them home.

Freeze on Spending

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is taking a scalpel to outlandish and often anti-American foreign-aid grants...

The most outlandish grants now frozen were the billions of dollars spent on non-government agencies like Catholic Charities to bring in people from the Third World to swamp our communities, drive down employment and housing opportunities for poorer Americans, increase our tax burden, and jeopardize our safety...

The DOGE team has gained access to the U.S. Treasury's computerized payment records and will be able to conduct an audit of expenditures.

Foreign Aid

The funding of projects overseas is just as full of ridiculous, if not suspicious, grants...

The Media and the Dems

The 51 former intelligence officials who misled the public about Hunter Bidens’ laptop likely being Russian disinformation (often in the same media which earlier pimped the lie that Russia was interfering in the 2016 election to aid Trump), have had their security clearances revoked and may not enter a secure federal facility without an escort who is responsible to assure that they see no classified information...

Panama Surrenders: President of Panama Terminates Agreement with China After Meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Geller Report, 3 February 2025.

Following Secretary Rubio Visit, Panama Announces Exit from Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, The Last Refuge, 3 February 2025.

Art of The Deal: Mexico Folds to Trump - Sending Troops to Secure Border to Avoid Tariffs, Breitbart, 3 February 2025.