What Trump seemingly can’t distinguish between, however, is the obvious divergence between personal dealings with a hostile foreign nation while being President of the United States, and diplomatic dealings with that same foreign power on behalf of the nation that he leads. Draft versions of executive orders and transcripts of confidential conversations have made their way into the public domain.
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Such past actions, among others, triggered House Republicans to create a Task Force on Executive Overreach previous year. “Left unchecked, it is behavior that undermines, and will ultimately erode, the foundation of our democracy and our freedom”. But in terms of volume, his executive orders aren’t all that extraordinary.
Despite a close balance in the Senate, the majority of seats up for election in 2018 are those occupied by Democrats, so Republicans have the ability to focus on winning over some of those new seats, rather than defending their own.
Cole called it “temper tantrum-like behavior” and berated the “my-way-or-the-highway attitude”.
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“I don’t think he’d mind if I said it”. He also derided Mr Obama’s healthcare legislation as a “disaster”.
But both Edelson and Kennedy concede that given Trump’s propensity toward authoritarianism, it’s unclear if court rulings against executive actions such as the travel ban can be enforced. For example, he has demanded that Mexican leaders agree to pay for a border wall, and he initially appeared to balk at abiding by a deal with Australia negotiated by the Obama administration for the United States to resettle hundreds of refugees.
All of this is not to say that Donald Trump does not recognise the legitimacy of media organisations, just the ones that he agrees with, as Trump has been caught several times paraphrasing Fox News segments in his tweets. While the executive order did not explicitly mention a ban on Muslims, the brazen religious discrimination was clear – especially in light of the President’s pre-election rhetoric. While Republicans, including John McCain, were quick to criticize candidate Obama on such plans, President Obama didn’t break that promise.
Looking further ahead, the Democrats will have to answer the hard question of how to rebuild their working-class base after millions of blue collar voters in America’s industrial heartland turned to Mr Trump.
Even House Speaker Paul D. Ryan admitted he learned of the order only after it was issued. And apart from all of these concerns, the Order offends our nation’s laws and values.
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President Trump has signed a raft of restrictive executive orders since taking office.
“There’s a pattern of a president who doesn’t recognize the law or doesn’t really believe it applies to him”, the professor said.
“I’m not a big fan of hypocrisy”, House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer said.
Trump doesn’t seem anxious about the criticism. The lack of attention and respect that this new administration gives to facts and the hostile response that any person or organisation who tries to verify or correct them receives is alarming. Many have also noted that, as a Cato Institute study found, foreigners from the seven countries named in Trump’s executive order “have killed zero Americans in terrorist attacks on US soil between 1975 and the end of 2015”. “You guys seem to get along”. Presidents from both parties, including Obama in 2011, have used this tactic to protect this country without protest.
After discussing his policy agenda, Trump shared some very interesting insight into his relationship with President Obama.
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“Because I can feel it”, Trump replied. “We’ve got a different crowd in there now”.
