Trump announces executive actions for Day One

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President-elect Donald Trump released a recorded video message to the nation Monday evening, in which he outlined several executive actions he plans to take on his first day in office.

I am going to issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump began, vowing to withdraw from the trade agreement with 11 other countries that was pushed by President Barack Obama. Trump said he will instead negotiate bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back to the country.

Trump also promised to "cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy including shale energy and clean coal, though he did not specify which restrictions he planned to eliminate. This step would create "many millions of high-paying jobs," he said.

Trump vowed to formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated, repeating a proposal he made near the end of the election.

Notably absent from Trumps announcement: His campaign promise to build a wall along America's southern border with Mexico. He did say, however, that he would "direct the Department of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker."


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-executive-actions-231726

[TeamPooka]

1. Get ready for 4 years of videos from the Trump bunker. I doubt he'll have a press conference ever.

Select one on one interviews like the CBS one where he can lie at will with no real follow up.

[Fast Walker 52]

12. so freaking insane.... our new post-truth president

[TreasonousBastard]

2. He forgot to mention how he will stop buying his merchandise from China and...

will check the Hispanics working in his hotels for green cards.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Does he actually believe what he says?

[RKP5637]

4. There's always so much waffling and BS from him it's hard to tell what he believes IMO. n/t

[bench scientist]

5. I believe Donald will grift this country into the ground.

And will say whatever to whomever to accomplish that first and foremost.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. does it matter?

[hurple]

6. Please!

Please electoral college people, save us from this lunatic... Please!

[onecaliberal]

7. Does that mean he will make the shit he sells in America now?

And stop using Chinese steel in his buildings?

[Fast Walker 52]

14. haha... I doubt it

[OldHippieChick]

15. No, this is where he will pretend he

has actually put his holdings in a blind trust and has no control. Many will buy that ...

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

8. "Clean coal"

Full stop.

[Cryptoad]

10. Clean Coal, Dirty Coal,,,

the price is never coming up again,,,, Cheap Natural Gas has drivern a stake thru the Buggy Whip Makers.......

[safeinOhio]

11. Between Palins' call for

drill baby drill and trumps call for the end of job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, we've seen the end of coal as natural gas gets even cheaper.

[OnDoutside]

16. And that can be used to hammer him in Coal Country, if done right.

[wordpix]

18. our next pres needs to go there and explain in simple terms

that coal will never come back in a big way, but we have jobs for you in biomass, solar and wind energy.

Gas fracking is a dead end unless we want to destroy entire regions' water supplies

[OnDoutside]

19. The best explaining is doing ! :)

[alphafemale]

17. WV/PA idiots think they are going to get a living wage for mning again.

Any mining will me mountain shaving.

[cstanleytech]

9. How can the US withdraw from something that it wasnt a member of yet exactly?

[lark]

20. So, his first priority, first most important thing, is let big business kill us with pollution?

Shows how much he truly cares for the average American - zero, zip, zilch. He's not pushing clean energy, he's ceded that to China, he's not pushing anything that will help workers - exactly the opposite. He's pushing to let big business rape us with no consequences. Bet he's on the take for which businesses he's supporting and the Kochs' are high on the list, so dirty energy, water and air are his first priorities. Hope he gets asthma and truly suffers from what he does.

[WinstonSmith4740]

21. So how long will it take?

Every time Obama used Executive Orders he was denounced as a dictator. Personally I'm not holding my breath waiting for his minions to understand the word "hypocrite".

[democrattotheend]

22. Not as terrible as I would have expected

I think President Obama's assessment that Trump is not terribly ideological might be accurate. It may be smart for Democrats to try to work with him on some things and play him against Paul Ryan and his band of free market conservatives, who are less racist and outrageous but far more dangerous to the social safety net.