In the inauguration speech on Monday, President Trump emphasized to tell the country that he had learned many things in the past eight years.
Four and a half days later, he revealed what he had.
In 2017, there were no outsiders of Washington who took the government's reins and struggled to rotate the wheels. Instead, we have seen the actions that reflect how Trump's adviser became a master of the government bureaucracy that he promoted.
My colleague Charlie Savage has covered how to use their power for more than 20 years by law, government, and the president. He reported widely about the first Trump administration and his second Trump plan, and I asked him to tell us about the difference and the meaning of the presidential position. Ta.
Our conversation was condensed and edited for clearness.
JB: You have taken the first Trump administration, and now you have covered the first week of the second week. What is the difference on the first day of Trump II compared to Trump I?
CS: The opening of the Trump administration was a mixed OTIC functional failure. Trump was rarely supported by the establishment of the Republican Party during the 2016 campaign. Many officials who gathered around him when he and him took office did not know what they were doing first -it showed it. Trump issued only four administrative orders in the first five days of 2017. Even when the pace was picked up later, many of his early commands were in effect, as they did not do something substantial or were very inadequate. There is nothing easier for the court to block them.
In contrast, the second Trump administration began with the consequences of the execution order. A small number is not ambiguous -it's like ordering the government to think about how to lower the price, but most are very substantial. Many of his policy changes will attack many people extremely. As I wrote this week, some may be able to push up the legitimate execution limit and endure the court's challenges. One of the ways to end the citizenship by nature has already been blocked. But, undoubtedly, Trump is moving much faster to achieve his goal.
This is because he and his adviser learned a lot about how the government works during his first term. And in the past eight years, Trumpism has been conservative, and Washington's policy think tank is currently working with him like project 2025.
Certainly, things are still bumpy, but Trump's advisor is carefully planning this acquisition.
Specifically, do you seem to have learned Trump or the people around him since 2017? Did they find a way to become bureaucrats?
The following is an example of how they are working cleverly. This week, one of the less noticeable administrative orders was about foreign visitors to the United States. The government demands that it takes two months to study the examination and screening procedures in countries around the world, and since then, it is insufficient enough to guarantee that those citizens will prohibit entry into the United States. There is a section that submits a report that seems to be there. country.
The administration seems to be planting seeds mainly to later revive the prohibition of Trump's controversy on travel by some Muslims. Last time, he suddenly imposed the policy after taking office without carefully planning, and the court immediately blocked it. First of all, a show of studying the problem may make it easier to keep a new travel ban in court.
Who was the most responsible for practicing these changes?
One of the people who seems to have learned a lot is Stephen Miller, the domestic top policy adviser, who was an architect of his immigration policy. Before 2017, he was an assistant to the Senate, and learned how to avoid pitfalls and accomplish things within the bureaucrats of the executive department in the process of Trump's first term. He cultivated his relationship with a four -year retired person, cultivating his relationship with donors in both Capitol Hills and lawyers, and is currently in the government. He also helped the specific ally to lead to an important position around the new administration and keep the equipment of the bureaucracy in order to keep his desired methods.
Trump clearly wanted to put a stamp in the first week of the presidential position. But in a way, considering how preparation of this opening salvo and how to strategize nuts and bolts, are we actually seeing a mirror trace?
The President does not personally perform nuts and bolts work to brush the administrative orders and declarations he signed. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that Miller played a major role in developing a cluster of immigration behavior he saw this week. He and my colleague Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman worked on a series of policy interests for Trump's potential return to power. I previewed.
Many other people were deeply involved. For example, Russell Vort, the director of Trump's business budget, is the director of management and budget in his first term, and has been set to redeemed its role, and other policy themes we saw. I am very interested in. It imposes more strict political rule for the federal bureaucracy. Project 2025 was able to consider that VOUGHT was in charge of the presidential order and to issue it early when Trump returned to the government. Of course, during the campaign, Trump tried to keep a distance from the project 2025. I don't know which of these early instructions will return to that effort or what effort has been made.
In summary, what will you tell us about how he is currently looking at power and his maintenance of his lever in the first week of Trump? What do you know how he approaches in the next four years?
He is not afraid of bullet EACH because Trump has strengthened the Republican parties and the party controls parliament. He is not afraid of rejection by voters because he cannot be candidate again. He appointed many federal judges during his first term. In other words, he is currently facing a federal justice, which is much more inclined than when he first took office. He was free from the two federal accusations, surviving even attempts of assassination. The decision by the Supreme Supreme Course Journal, appointed by the Republican Party last summer, declaring a declaration of declaring a widespread constitutional doctrine for the president, can only give him more confidence. is.
In response to all backgrounds, the scope and aggression of his early administrative orders, and a clear signal that he has little restrictions on January 6, who violently assaulted police officers. I think his decision was his decision to assault him violently.
What did Elon Mask's salute look from Germany?
Now, I have seen the gestures made by the world's wealthy man in Trump's first festival. You may have seen his prominent defender. But my colleague Katlin Benhold, former director Berlin, In Germany, he wrote that there was almost a debate about the meaning of Musuku's stretched arm.。
In Germany, gestures like Musks, along with other symbols and slogans in the Nazi era, are illegal. Therefore, the situation was very clear for German facilities.
“Hitler's salute is Hitler's salute.
“You don't need to make this unnecessarily complicated,” the editor said. “People in the political speech in front of a right -wing extremist audience” -Mot -right politicians from Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom attended the inauguration ceremony. I have salute Hitler several times at the swing manner and angle. “
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Return to disaster politics
When President Trump traveled to North Carolina and California on Friday, he showed the tendency he wrote a few weeks ago to see the damage from Hurricane Helene and Los Angeles in Ashville, North Carolina. It seemed to be: Mixing once politically a politically neutral disaster territory.
As a candidate, Trump made a series of incorrect claims about Helen's disaster response, trying to describe the efforts of the Biden administration as unhappy. In Ashville on Friday, he said that former President Biden did a “bad job” and he believed that he was completely closed. He had previously threatened to provide disaster assistance to California, and he said he wanted to secure a new voter ID law and a new water management policy while he was there today.
California officials are already worried about how he deals with their states.
“He is infected many of the Republican Republican Party in Washington, and we do not regard us as the United States, but to be red and blue,” said California Democratic Senator Adam Siff. Talked to Annie Carni. “We have to deal with it.”