Here's a comprehensive list of Der Fuehrer Trump's diktats so far:
Updated Jan 28, 2025 -
Energy & Climate
Tracking Trump's executive orders: What he's signed so far
Avery Lotz
Trump reads and signs executive orders while piles of other orders sit on the resolute desk in the Oval Office.
President Trump signs a series of executive orders at the White House on Jan. 20. Photo: Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images
President Trump is carrying out his pledge to give the U.S. a MAGA makeover by signing a slew of executive actions in his first week that walk back Biden-era policies and fulfill his campaign promises.
The big picture: Trump's radical expansion of executive power will dramatically change life for millions of people if the orders withstand the barrage of legal challenges that are already coming.
President Trump executive orders list 2025
What Trump's executive orders do...
Immigration executive orders
Many of Trump's first orders curtail immigration at the southern border.
He promised mass deportations but hasn't detailed how he would implement, staff and fund such a massive, costly operation.
Trump declares national emergency at Mexico border
Trump declared an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, vowing to deploy troops to the region, including the National Guard. He instructed the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to construct additional border barriers.
Trump designated "certain international cartels" and organizations, such as Tren de Aragua and MS-13, as foreign terrorist organizations and announced plans to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target them.
Trump suspended U.S. Refugee Admissions Program resettlements. Homeland Security will report back within 90 days whether resuming refugee entries would "be in the interests" of America.
Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. to resettle in the country, including family of active-duty U.S. military personnel, had their flights canceled following Trump's orders, Reuters reported.
Trump aordered Homeland Security to terminate "all categorical parole programs that are contrary" to U.S. policies established in his orders, including those for refugees fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Remain in Mexico policy
Trump reinstated the "Remain in Mexico" policy, ending a program that released asylum seekers into the U.S. while their cases were considered.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection website said appointments made through the CBP One app at certain border crossings had been canceled on Jan. 20. Hours later, Trump nixed the program.
Trump empowered officials to "repeal, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged in the invasion" of the southern border.
Trump birthright citizenship executive order
One of his boldest moves was an attempt to end birthright citizenship for those born to undocumented immigrants, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution. The order faces legal challenges.
Trump ordered agencies (starting 30 days after the Jan. 20 order) not to recognize babies as citizens if their mothers were "unlawfully present" at the time of birth and their father was not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident.
This applies to children born to mothers who were lawful, temporary residents and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Energy and environment executive orders
Trump declared a "national energy emergency," ordering expedited, deregulated drilling.
One order specifically targets energy production in Alaska — rescinding former President Biden's protections around the state's coastal areas.
Separately, Trump paused offshore wind leasing in federal waters.
"[T]he heads of all other relevant agencies, shall not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind projects," pending a review of federal wind leasing, per the memorandum.
Paris Climate treaty
State of play: Trump signed an order withdrawing the U.S., the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Trump had pulled out of the pact during his first term, but Biden rejoined it in a day-one order of his own.
It takes a year to withdraw from the agreement.
Trump took aim at the Biden administration's federal procurement targets for clean power, electric vehicles and other energy goals.
Trump directed the Energy secretary to restart application reviews for liquefied natural gas export projects, which were paused by Biden over climate change concerns.
Trump also revoked a 2021 Biden executive order that set a goal for 50% of US vehicle sales to be electric by 2030.
Executive orders targeting DEI and transgender Americans
Trump established that it is U.S. policy "to recognize two sexes, male and female" on official documents.
"These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality," his Jan. 20 executive order read.
Transgender Americans were a central target of Trump's often hyperbolic and outright false campaign trail messaging.
Zoom out: He also rescinded a Biden administration provision that allowed transgender people to serve in the military.
Trump did not immediately ban trans military personnel from serving, as he did under his first administration, but he paved the path to revive the ban.
He signed a ban on federal funding or support for anyone under 19 for gender-affirming care on Tuesday.
Trump, as part of his crusade against what the GOP decries as "woke" culture, ordered the dismantling of government diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within 60 days.
It eliminates policies that established several diversity initiatives, including one that widened sex discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
In a Jan. 21 order, Trump specifically directed the Federal Aviation Administration "to immediately return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law" and rescind DEI initiatives.
Separately, Trump ordered all executive departments and agencies to terminate what he called "discriminatory and illegal" preferences, policies, programs, guidance and other provisions and to "combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities."
In doing so, he revoked decades of executive orders, including the Equal Employment Opportunity order of 1965 signed by former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
It calls for each agency to identify "up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars."
Other executive orders affecting federal workers
Trump signed several other provisions that will impact government workers.
He required a full-time return to in-office work for federal employees and ordered a hiring freeze on government positions.
The hiring freeze does not apply to the military or "immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety."
He reinstated his first-term Schedule F executive order, which could make it easier to fire civil servants deemed disloyal.
The order could strip employment protections from thousands of federal employees.
Employees are "not required to personally or politically support the current President" — but they must "faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability," the order said.
Jan. 6 pardons and other clemency actions
Trump pardoned the most Jan. 6 defendants (some 1,500) charged with participating in the Capitol riot and commuted the sentences of 14 others.
Among those were leaders of extremist groups the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
Pardoning rioters was a prominent campaign pledge, but Trump had previously said recipients would be determined on a "case-by-case" basis.
Zoom out: Trump announced on Jan. 21 he had signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the unlawful Silk Road marketplace who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
On Wednesday, he issued a "full and unconditional pardon" to two police officers convicted for the 2020 murder of Karon Hylton-Brown, a 20-year-old Black man, in D.C.
Health executive orders: WHO, COVID and drug costs
Trump signed a Jan. 20 order pulling the U.S. from the World Health Organization, a process he started during his first term due to what the order claimed was "the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic ... and other global health crises," among other reasons.
Zoom in: Trump on Monday renstated military members who were dismissed because they refused to receive the COVID vaccine.
The Trump administration on Jan. 22 waived requirements that green card applicants be vaccinated against COVID.
Trump also rescinded a 2022 Biden order to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
TikTok extension, DOGE and more executive orders
Other executive orders and actions include:
Requiring the attorney general to pursue federal death sentences and ensure states have enough drugs to administer lethal injections for executions.
Re-designating the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization;
Ensuring government agencies do not "unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen," highlighting what Trump and his allies considered censorship under Biden.
Ordering a review of trade practices and agreements.
Revoking security clearances of Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, and former intelligence officials who signed a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Formally establishing the Department of Government Efficiency.
Suspending the TikTok ban for 75 days.
Declaring that federal buildings should "respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage" to "beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States."
Renaming Denali to Mount McKinley and the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Federally recognizing the Lumbee Tribe.
Declassifying files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Supporting the use of digital assets, blockchain technology and other financial technology.
Establishing a President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) composed of up to 24 members.
Revoking existing artificial intelligence policies and directives that "act as barriers to American AI innovation" and setting a 180-day deadline to develop an AI plan.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/president-donald-trump-executive-orders-list
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At least some of the Pols in CONgress are pointing out the move toward Dictatorship by Der Trumper. Of course since it is coming from the progressives on the Dem side of the aisle, it will be completely ignored. Well, maybe not since the SCOTUS has somewhat put the brakes on the USAID Massacre. The purge of career civil servants in the FBI and Justice dept is ongoing though.
Giving Musk control over the Treasury Dept computer system and payments is unbelievably dangerous. It's the financial equivalent of giving out the Nuclear Codes. These guys could cripple the financial system with the push of a button. Remember the words of Mayer Amschel Rotthschild:
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-musk-plutocratic-coup
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Musk has lawsuits against the National Labor Review board and as Trump's
mini-me certain people are now being fired there.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjev2j70v19o
Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator' as rift between two leaders deepens
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Here's where the rubber meets the road. Will the SCOTUS bend over and take it up the ass from King Trump? Or will they finally grow a pair and keep the power grab from reaching completion? Even without this final step he's already turned the constitutional separation of powers into shredded toilet paper, but taking total control of agencies that regulate banking and trade gives him absolute authority to rob the country blind, which he will undoubtedly do anyhow but this will make it a cakewalk.
Are the Amerikan People really THAT stupid that this will go down without so much as a whimper? Rhetorical question.
Trump Issued Perhaps His Most Terrifying Executive Order on Tuesday
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/king-donald-trump-terrifying-executive-order.html
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Here's where the rubber meets the road as far as RE is concerned. Big cuts to Medicaid would almost certainly directly affect my situation in all sorts of ways. If I am cut, no way can I remain in my current living situation. Even if not though, its bound to affect how this entire business functions, because probably 95% of the residents here are covered by Medicaid. The place was recently sold, and the new corporation already has cut staff ratios below the generally accepted levels to increase profits. There's not much room for cost cutting.
Regardless of the reimbursements, legally speaking they're not allowed to put you on the street with no housing, so I'm not yet worried about a sudden eviction. Just have to play it by ear.
Trump's Medicaid Cuts Would Leave Millions of Americans Without Health Care
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-republican-medicaid-cuts-health-disability/
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Here is a demoographic I do NOT feel sorry for. This is eternal justice at work. :)
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-02-26/federal-job-cuts-hit-trump-supporters
They voted for Trump, but now they're losing their U.S. government jobs
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Cross "checks & balances" off the list of features of the Amerikan system of goobermint. The rule of law does not apply to the POTUS.
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/404665/trump-defy-supreme-court-alawieh-deportation
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Quote from: RE on Mar 17, 2025, 05:43 PMCross "checks & balances" off the list of features of the Amerikan system of goobermint. The rule of law does not apply to the POTUS.
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/404665/trump-defy-supreme-court-alawieh-deportation
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A federal judge on Monday questioned whether the Trump administration ignored his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador, a possible violation of the decision he'd issued minutes before.
District Judge James E. Boasberg was incredulous over the administration's contentions that his verbal directions did not count, that only his written order needed to be followed, that it couldn't apply to flights that had left the U.S. and that the administration could not answer his questions about the deportations due to national security issues.
His I.C.E. goons are deporting people illegally. And it looks like Trump's El Salvador mercenary, Nayib Bukele (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.devdiscourse.com%2Fremote.axd%3Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fdevdiscourse.blob.core.windows.net%2Fdevnews%2F02_06_2019_01_28_34_3139911.jpg%3Fwidth%3D920%26format%3Djpeg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a63ad66bf4bb77edf587ee6d85993b44f7364709c35af53c9b5a19a431895fc0&ipo=images) knows what to do with them when they get there. Six million dollars can shave a lot of heads. A whole years worth. Likely only the start of a gravy train.
* Trump says he's ending Secret Service protection for Biden's adult childrenIf you ever wondered what the term 'Hater' means. Trump be one.
Time for a:
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Where I got the artwork. (https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike//index.shtml) Some forgotten American history.
On the morning of February 6, 1919, Seattle, a city of 315,000 people, stopped working. 25,000 other union members had joined 35,000 shipyard workers already on strike. The city's AFL unions, 101 of them, had voted to walk out in a gesture of support and solidarity. And most of the remaining work force stayed home as stores closed and streetcars stopped running.
Trump is crashing everything, and the modern equivalent would stop Trump dead in his tracks.
If Trump follows thru on this threat, there will be total anarchy. Even just the threat should be making any sane person quake in their boots.
I'm wondering how Repugnant CONgres Critters will react to this? Not to mention the MAGA faithful. A LOT of them are on SS.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/21/social-securitys-lee-dudek-raises-concerns-following-judges-restraining-order.html
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QuoteIf Trump follows thru on this threat, there will be total anarchy.
There will be civil war.
Athena was in Portland, Seattle had the CHAZ or CHOP (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained) or whatever you want to call it. Trump created a powder keg and George Floyd was the trigger.
Trump's response to police killing threatens to further deepen unrest in America, Democrats and Republicans say (https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/politics/trump-george-floyd-protests/index.html) <--- May 31, 2020
All Trump can do is divide people. His skill as a manipulator depends on scapegoats. But as the first rule of stupidity is always to underestimate the number of stupid people, Teflon Don will likely slide for a while longer. Would Satan wear a nice suit and have a nice smile? Of course he would. He would probably smell good too.
But the time will come.
Just a small town girl living in a lonely world.... The music. Over played as hell but I still like it.
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Sadly but not surprisingly Columbia (mostly) capitulated to Trumpolini's diktats, although they tried to walk a tightropee on the "Academic Receivership" demand just by appointing someone to review the department's policies. Whether that is sufficient for his Trumpness remains to be seen. They also tiptoed around banning masks, which they only did if it was "for the purpose of hiding identity". Medical and religious face coverings still allowed. This renders the ban close to worthless.
Columbia doesn't want to lose the $400M in funding, which even with their endowment is a huge pill to swallow. Just about everyone in the academic community is disappointed, but they're not the ones who will lose the money (yet). I think they hope by giving in partially, it will satisfy Der Fuehrer, but it probably won't. He's certain to keep going after the other schools, even if he accepts this from Columbia. We'll have to see if Harvard has more backbone. They definitely have more money.
It's definitely time for national level action from students and faculty. We're going to need Vietnam era style demonstrations for this to get general attention, most people in the MAGA camp despise academia and could care less about academic freedom. Do Gen Z students care about it? Dunno.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/columbia-research-takes-immediate-hit-trump-funding-cuts-2025-03-21/
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It didn't take long for the Crisis Creation Team to walk back the SS Shutdown threat. Probably every Repugnant CONgress Critter shit the bed when they read that one. Switchboard at the White House must have lit up like a Christmas Tree.
Of course, this was only the opening salvo. I'm sure there will be more to come.
Judge slams Social Security chief for agency shutdown 'threats' after ruling barring DOGE access (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/21/social-securitys-lee-dudek-raises-concerns-following-judges-restraining-order.html)
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Can't win in the courts? Get rid of them!
Fascism on steroids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/mike-johnson-congress-courts-trump
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For our post-truth word, some fiction:
The Privatized and Fascist States of America
The year was 2029. The American Experiment had ended. Not with a bang, but corporate acquisition has trumped all freedom.
Following Donald Trump's re-election in 2024, the U.S. government underwent a radical transformation. With Elon Musk as Chief Efficiency Officer, Trump's unofficial but all-powerful special government employee, the new administration began the largest privatization scheme in history. Agencies deemed "inefficient" were sold to the highest bidder. Social Security was acquired by Meta. The U.S. Postal Service? is replaced by Tesla Logistics. The Federal Reserve is gone and a new digital currency run by an AI, " $TRUMP dollars" takes its place. With a picture of the smiling orange motherfucker on every god-dammed digital wallet. This is required by law.
At first, markets surged. Investors celebrated. America became a corporate utopia, innovation replaced bureaucracy and stimulus checks squelched any resistance to Trump's profit of plunder.
By 2026, cracks began to show. California and New York, resisting federal mandates and the surging poverty, declared economic independence, refusing to recognize the authority of the newly privatized government. California became fully independent while Texas unlike the rest of America, thrived.
Fully embracing Musk's vision of a decentralized, crypto-backed society based on cultivated economic disparity, Texas became the go to place for slave labor and tax free profit. The Texas economy boomed at the same time interstate trade collapsed.
Basic services became subscription-based. Water in Arizona became a premium commodity controlled by Amazon Aquatics. Any emergency medical care required a Platinum + membership. Nothing was free and Trump instituted an air tax on anybody deemed a useless eater. $50 a month if your net worth was less than $1,000,000 or if your politics were considered "progressive". The tax became known as the "progressive tax", but nobody who had to pay it thought it was funny.
By 2028, Washington D.C. was an abandoned husk, its marble monuments covered by corporate branding. Power had moved to Austin, where Trump, Musk, and their billionaire council presided over the fragmented remains of a once-united nation, fully protected by their mercenary armies of private police.
Their Privatized States of America restored the age of great robber barons. For a small few America was great once again.
But not everyone was happy with the changes. A resistance movement, inspired by abandoned and outdated ideals of democracy and fueled by daddy issues with the big orange daddy, emerged in the Rust Belt.
Led by ex-government officials and the legion of unemployed. The resistance sought to reestablish a public government, battling AI-controlled security forces and corporate mercenary forces. Their leader, a former postal worker named Hope Dashed, spread propaganda through underground networks. Distributing printed pamphlets which urged Americans to reject their status as "subscribers" and reclaim their rights as citizens.
California its own nation began to launch its own communication satellites unwilling to pay the Musk nut for use of Starlink in 2028. A direct challenge to Musk's dominance Starlink satellites went dark in an attempt to bring California into submission as had been done successfully to Canada. Armed skirmishes erupted along the Mississippi in the ensuing chaos. The Mississippi is a de facto border between privatized corporate states and free territories.
Now as the battle for America's rages on, one question looms.
Will America find its way back from the brink, or is it destined to follow the Soviet Union's path. Fragmented, leaderless, impoverished, and lost to history?
It appears to be so. Millions now die.
Not gonna see campus rebellions like 1968 this time round. By targeting the immigrants and foreign students, Trump has successfully put the fear of deportation and imprisonment in the people protesting. This has divided the community into a them and us situation, demonizing the foreigners. During Vietnam, protesters might get arrested, but they weren't being deported to jails in El Salvador. The risks this time around are substantially larger.
I suspect with Peaceful Protest now off the table, we'll see a rise in bombings and violent actions to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians. This in turn will result in even more repression. Civil War seems inevitable.
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At Columbia University, Trump's crackdown chills a fervent campus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-protests-trump-crackdown-rcna198016
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Indeed 'Gitmo' is now privatized. New and improved and more EFFICIENT (https://pnghq.com/wp-content/uploads/elon-musk-png-transparent-image-download-85391-1536x1536.png) than a fucking NAZI gas chamber. Add in a few of the more native American, latino looking DACA Dreamers to start with next. Then when
there is not a peep from anyone, add in Joe next door. Put him on the list. Native born corn fed Scots-Irish too. Come one come all.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out. Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out. Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
The rank and file of MAGA slowly wakes up. But the full realization that Trump never gave a fuck about them, they will not realize in time. Not until it is too late. The truth can be painful, and we all avoid pain.
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Some veterans in MAGA have reached a point where they are thinking. '
He does not get it. Somebody needs to tell him stuff, and as soon as Trump understands he will do the right thing. In a case of such total delusion, coming to one's senses can be painfully slow.
Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 27, 2025, 09:24 PMFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out. Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out. Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
Niemoller's quote is getting a lot of play these days. Of course the MAGAotts figure they're safe because they're old white folks. Wait till their Social Security checks go missing and nobody answers the phone on the help line.
The whole idea that Ph.D, candidates at Ivy League schools are a threat to National Security is utterly preposterous. All that is happening here is like any Totalitarian state, dissent is being crushed. Same as Stalin sending Solzhenitsyn to the Gulag. ICE is Trump's Stazi & KGB.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-trump-immigration-gaza
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As I mentioned when Columbia responded to Trumpolini's demands originally, they were attempting to appear to acquiese without going the full 9 yards on Academic Reeceivership or masks. It was questionable whether it would be enough to satisfy His Trumpness, and clearly so far it hasn't been. The $400M is still being held hostage, and my guess is rather than further capitulate, the interim Prez decided to resign and hand off the thankless job to somebody else.
Faculty and students are already unhappy, so further actions to get the money released likely won't go over well. So they need a new tactic.
Rather than demonstrations, a Student-Faculty Strike would be worth a try, particularly since they would likely get support from the other Ivies. They also have to make thee narrative about Freedom of Speech and not about Palestinian genocide.
It will be interesting to see what the new interim Prez does now. Definitely a job with no upside.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/columbia-university-katrina-armstrong
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