John Roberts (4:56)

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear. I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. And allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation. Without any mental reservation. Or purpose of evasion. Or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office. The duties of the office on which I am about to Enter. On which I am about to enter. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.

Ben Shapiro (6:01)

The beautiful city of the Capitol. That is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who again would not be on the Supreme Court except for the stalwart work of Mitch McConnell, as well as the stalwart work of President Donald J. Trump, who stuck with him when Democrats launched horrible attacks against Kavanaugh. Swearing in JD Vance, who took enough slings and arrows of his own right there. And then, of course, it was time for the President Elect of the United States to become the President of the United States. Donald J. Trump taking the oath of office as President of the United States for the second time, this time being sworn in by John Roberts, who, by the way, has a terrible record of swearing in presidents. He didn't wait for Melania to arrive with the family Bible. So that was his second time screwing up the inauguration. He actually screwed up the inauguration of Barack Obama so badly, they had to do it in the back room. Not a shock to me since I didn't think he's a very good. In any case, here he was swearing in Donald John Trump as your 47th president of the United States.

John Roberts (6:53)

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

Donald Trump (6:59)

I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

John Roberts (7:02)

That I will faithfully execute.

Donald Trump (7:05)

That I will faithfully execute.

John Roberts (7:07)

The office of President of the United States.

Donald Trump (7:09)

The office of President of the United States. United States.

John Roberts (7:13)

And will to the best of my ability.

Donald Trump (7:15)

And will to the best of my ability.

Ben Shapiro (7:17)

Preserve, protect and defend.

Donald Trump (7:20)

Preserve, protect and defend.

John Roberts (7:21)

The Constitution of the United States.

Donald Trump (7:23)

The Constitution of the United States.

Ben Shapiro (7:25)

So help me God.

Donald Trump (7:26)

So help me God.

Ben Shapiro (7:27)

Congratulations, Mr. And with that, Donald Trump was the 47th president of the United States. He then proceeded to give his inaugural address. His inaugural address was kind of astonishing. It was much shorter than he typically goes. We had an over under going on in the studio. I was suggesting that President Trump. I've seen President Trump speak a thousand times. I've been at his events in person, and President Trump likes to go. I thought that he was going to go for 75 minutes. Instead, he went for 29 very pointed minutes. Very pointed minutes. The speech started off with him suggesting the American people have spoken and that a new golden age was here. Was the President of the United States in his second inaugural address.

Donald Trump (8:12)

Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that Something is important, impossible to do in America. The impossible is what we do best.

Ben Shapiro (8:37)

And this was the message that President Trump was spreading throughout his inaugural address. Now, the media focused in on the first half of the address, in which he basically listed out all the reasons why the last four years have been a disaster with Joe Biden sitting right there. It must have been super awkward for President Biden and the actual President Joe Biden to have all of their failings listed off. But once again, the reason that Donald Trump is justified in doing this is his election is a repudiation of Joe Biden. There is no other way to read it. There's no other way to read it. Joe Biden was elected to stop Donald Trump by the left. And then the American people immediately reversed themselves and realized what a gigantic mistake they had made and put back in place the person that Joe Biden had defeated in the 2020 election. That is a complete repudiation of Joe Biden, Period. End of story. We get some more from President Trump's second inaugural address in a second. First, you're going to love our friends over at Legacy Box. They created the safest and easiest way to preserve those precious memories trapped on old media you can't watch anymore. Think about it. Who still has a working VCR or film projector? Legacy Box makes revisiting these memories incredibly simple. You just fill their box with your old tapes, film, pictures, and then you send it back. Their professional team handles everything by hand right here in the United States. Before you know it, you'll receive your originals back, along with everything digitized onto a thumb drive or stored safely in the cloud. It's like magic. We've actually done this myself, my family and I, we sent in old tapes and suddenly I can see my grandparents when they were young again. Those were all on film reels. We had those transferred on over to digital format. Legacy Box makes it easy and convenient to restore and rewatch all those memories that have been lost to outdated media for a limited time. Get started preserving your past. Save 50%. Go to legacybox.com Shapiro and revisit and share special memories from your past. Legacybox.com SL Shapiro makes an incredible present for friends and family. Go check it out. Give yourself that present. You know those memories, they're going to disappear unless you preserve them. Legacy Box will help you to go check them out. Legacybox.com Shapiro also start 2025 off right black rifle coffee helps you wake up every morning feeling dialed in, ready to make the most of your day. So you can make the best of your year. I'll be honest with you, I'm basically living off of it now. Now's your chance to get 20% off your purchase with Code Daily Wire and black rifle coffee.com Black Rifle Coffee's explosive coffees are roasted right here in the United States by a veteran led team of expert roasters who take pride in serving coffee and culture to people who love America. Every purchase you make helps them further their mission to support veteran and first responder causes. Everything from getting funding and equipment to first responders to helping veterans get medical care. Black Rifle Coffee has a huge selection of dark roast, light roast, everything in between. Take the coffee quiz on their website get match with the blend perfectly tailored to your specific taste. Again, a portion of every purchase you make with Black Rifle Coffee goes towards supporting veteran and first responder causes. Your money goes a long way toward giving back to those who serve our nation. Head on over to black rifle coffee.com right now. Use code daily wire for 20% off America's coffee. That's blackriff coffee.com code daily wire black rifle coffee.com code daily wire and then Trump shifted into a more positive mode. And honestly I thought that the the speech was aspirational. I thought that it was uplifting. It had a lot of pragmatic suggestions about what he is going to do. But there was to the whole thing a positive American can do attitude that's been missing for probably my entire adult lifetime. In American politics, American politicians have not talked in totally aspirational terms about the things America is capable of doing for a very, very long time. Probably not during my lifetime. Honestly, I must have. I was a child when Ronald Reagan left office. That was probably the last time there was this sort of optimism in the United States. Here is President Trump saying the obvious thing, which is so true. I mean, I've said it directly to President Trump that his life was spared by God to make America great again. There is no other way to read the near assassination of Donald Trump on stage, live in front of a crowd, when God, if not literally, almost literally, reached his hand down and turned Donald Trump's head a fraction of a degree and prevented his brains from splattering all over the stage. There's no other way to read that than what President Trump says right here.

Donald Trump (12:37)

Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life. Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then, and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.

Ben Shapiro (13:08)

That, I think, is absolutely correct. And that is his job now. So, again, there are many aspirational and memorable moments from the inaugural address. The most aspirational, memorable is when he talked about America's manifest destiny, and he talked about the idea that America was going to expand her territory. We're going to plant an American flag on Mars, he said. This, of course, must have excited Elon to no end, as we will see. It absolutely did. Here is President Trump yesterday in his second inaugural address.

Donald Trump (13:33)

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars. Launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.

Ben Shapiro (13:58)

Again. He then talked about the possibility of taking back control of the Panama Canal, saying, we did not build that canal so the Chinese can control it. That would be a repudiation of Jimmy Carter, who handed over the Panama Canal to Panama despite American efforts to build the Panama Canal. He talked about peace in the world. He said he's going to be a peacemaker and a unifier, which involves, as we say, peace through strength, the threat of force, the credible threat of force that establishes peace in the world along with the diplomacy. That is the softer side, the. The velvet glove in which lies the iron fist. Here is President Trump.

Donald Trump (14:31)

My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier. I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle east are coming back home to their families.

Ben Shapiro (14:53)

Now, President Trump was asked yesterday about the hostage deal, and he said, listen, I don't think Hamas is trustworthy. He said, I'd be shocked if they get to phase two. That, of course, was my suggestion the other day when the hostage deal became public, was that President Trump said to Israel the thing that Joe Biden would not, which is, if you have to go back in, you go back in, and you go back in hard. President Trump also spoke at length about bringing back free speech again. All of the taboos have now been shattered with regard to sort of the left politically correct wall that they had built, saying that a boy can be a girl or else that is gone. That is gone. It is an amazing thing that the president of the United States, as we'll see, had to sign an executive order to establish that one plus one equals two, that boys are not girls and girls are not boys. It is amazing that you have to have the president of the United States talk about a return of free speech, but that was made necessary by the left and by Joe Biden. Here was President Trump yesterday, after years.

Donald Trump (15:45)

And years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free. Free expression. I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

Ben Shapiro (16:03)

President Trump, of course, as I just suggested, also said, listen, there are two genders in the United States of America, as there have been for all of human history everywhere.

Donald Trump (16:12)

I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit based. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

Ben Shapiro (16:41)

That line was probably the biggest applause line of the entire inaugural speech, which demonstrates how far the left has gone completely off the rails, off the rails. President Trump, of course, talked about the border in his inaugural address. This was his key issue in 2015, 2016. It remains his key issue 10 full years later, because the left decided to open the border wide. Here is the president of the United States yesterday.

Donald Trump (17:05)

First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release, and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

Ben Shapiro (17:52)

That, of course, is what he was elected to do. So President Trump concluded his inaugural address with some glowing remarks about the future of American innovation, all of which was very inspiring. And then there was, I think, a great cultural moment. Carrie Underwood had been asked to come sing America the Beautiful. And the audio went out, and Carrie Underwood, who's a very talented person, just turned to the people who were handling the audio and said, give me the microphone, and I'll just do it solo. I'll just do it Acapella. And she started to sing. And Carrie Underwood's a very talented person. It was a pretty great moment.

Donald Trump (18:26)

You know the words. Help me out here.

Ben Shapiro (18:29)

O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountain majesties above the fruiting plain American America America God shed his grace on thee and crown my good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea I mean, that's a great moment. That's a great moment. And again, if you're not feeling more optimistic this morning, you're doing it wrong. Even people who did not vote for Donald Trump understand that what we just went through over the past four years was a terrible, historically bad presidency. And that's the other side of this, the moment. And we were sitting overlooking the US Capitol building yesterday while broadcasting. The moment that the helicopter took off that was carrying Joe Biden out of American public life forever was one of the better moments of my life. It was truly a wonderful thing to see this terrible old man go. He's been an awful president of the United States. There is footage of President Trump escorting Joe Biden to the helicopter. 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He then proceeded to issue a blanket pardon to all members of his own family, suggesting, of course, that he had to do that to stop President Trump. This is always the excuse. This is always the excuse I have to do the bad thing so the other side won't do the bad thing when they get the power. And the reality is Joe Biden just wanted to do the bad thing. He always wanted to do the bad thing. The Biden family was, in fact, the Biden crime family. They've been clearing cash off Joe Biden's name for nigh on five decades at this point. Joe Biden had to pardon them. He had to. Not because he knew that they were innocent, but because he knew that there were crimes committed by members of his family. That is the real reason, in fact, here was Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, back when he was president in December 2020, saying that would be a bad precedent to issue preemptive pardons.

John Roberts (24:43)

President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons. Does this concern you, all these preemptive pardons?

Donald Trump (24:52)

Well, it's. It concerns me in terms of it, what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and injustice. You're not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons, nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it's just going to be a totally different way in which we approach the justice system.

Ben Shapiro (25:24)

Unbelievable. That's what he had to say when he was president elect in December 2020. He approached the justice system as a tool of revenge and then pardoned every member of his family he could find. Absolutely astonishing. By the way, In December of 2020, Joy Reid of MSNBC asked Adam Schiff, now the senator from California, if he had ever heard of an innocent person getting a preemptive pardon. Adam Schiff said, no. Adam Schiff is one of the people who received a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden on his way out of office. Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, who's just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that? Just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they're an innocent person.

John Roberts (26:07)

But, no, you know, I think that in the cases, the very few cases where there have been prospective pardons, such as, you know, Ford pardoning Nixon for Whatever he may have done during the presidency, there was some idea of the potential criminal liability facing Richard Nixon. You know, here it's an effort not only to prospectively pardon people for things they have not yet been charged with and may never be charged with, but also it's the President's own family. It's people that have been covering up for the President in addition to his own family.

Ben Shapiro (26:45)

He said all the things in December 2020, then Joe Biden did all the things. And by the way, if you like the proper workings of American government, once that glass is broken, you cannot unbreak the glass. Joe Biden broke the glass. I promise you, every president on his way out is now going to do this. Because Joe Biden not only broke the glass of using the DOJ to go after his political opponents for electoral reasons, he then pardoned his entire family. That glass is now broken. Well, he's gone. President Trump is in. Yesterday, President Trump signed a bunch of executive orders from an arena and then he threw the pens into the crowd, which was hysterical and typically Trumpian. That was after he had danced with the Village People. What can you say, man? What can you say? America. This is America. And. And then President Trump walked into the Oval Office. He was asked by the press, how do you feel today? Mr. President said, it's one of the better feelings I've ever had. Well, the feeling is mutual, Mr. President. Mr. President, what was it like walking.

Donald Trump (27:40)

Into the Oval Office this evening? Oh, what a great feeling. One of the better feelings I've ever had.

Ben Shapiro (27:48)

Like this town. Better now than 2017.

Donald Trump (27:52)

Well, we're very experience now, you would say. Nobody's ever had experience like I have. I've dealt with some very good people, I've dealt with some very bad people. And I know who the bad ones are and the good ones are. You know, don't forget I was very successful in primarily the real estate business. And people used to say, who's worse, a politician or a vicious real estate developer? And I would say, you know, the real estate developers far worse. But after about three months and getting to know scum like Adam Schiff and other people like that, I said, no, actually, real estate people are quite nice by comparison.

Ben Shapiro (28:35)

So President Trump back in office and he was moving and moving fast. So the first thing that President Trump did is he issued recensions of 78 Biden era executive actions. That was his very first thing. He said, I'm just pulling it all back. Everything Joe Biden did is gone. And by the way, that is the mandate, the Mandate is everything. Joe Biden did. Undo all those things. He was awful. There's no other. I'm going to keep repeating this until I'm blue in the face. There is no other way to read the election. Donald Trump was president. Joe Biden defeated him and then the American people said, oops, nope, and took the old one and put him back in. To put this in personal terms, imagine how bad your second wife has to be in order for you to dump her to go back to your first wife. Okay? That is what America just did with President Trump and President Biden. And that means that President Trump has a mandate to get rid of all the trash that Joe Biden did. So the very first executive order issued by the President of the United States was a revocation of 78 executive orders issued by, by Joe Biden. That, by the way, is his number one job, Stop and reverse all the trash that Joe Biden did. He then proceeded to issue a wide series of executive orders. Just these were ready to go day one. Again, this is a very different administration. Donald Trump understands that not only does he have a mandate, he has a short period of time to get it done. He basically has 18 months to get what he wants to get done done. He's going to do a lot of it via executive action because unfortunately, that's now the way our government works. Since the legislature is half a vestigial organ of government, also, thanks to the rules of the House and the Senate, very unlikely that the president is going to be able to pass more than one or two, two at maximum big bills over the course of the first 18 months before we get into reelect time for many members of Congress for the midterms. Well, number one on his list was a very controversial move, but you knew it was coming. Which was a pardon for nearly all of the 1,500 general January 6th protesters slash riders. Now, many of those people were unjustifiably, unjustifiably convicted, held in prison under indictment. I have personal friends, people we work with who were at the January 6 protest, who trespassed in the Capitol and then were investigated and hit years later by the DOJ for all of this. One of them gave a big hug last night in celebration at having been pardoned. He's on pardon list from President Trump. Now, listen, I think that if you beat up a cop, then you should go to jail. With that said, this was a promise that Donald Trump made. He was obviously going to do it. Do I think it is good that people who beat up cops are Going free. I do not. Do I think that all the other. And there are many other people, we're talking hundreds, if not over a thousand other people who are in jail for reasons that were unjustifiable. Do I think that those people should have been in jail? No. Which is, of course what JD Vance said last week. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump's sweeping clemency delivered on his polarizing campaign pledge to pardon supporters who joined in what federal judges and prosecutors have called an attack on American democracy. The new president made the announcement after arriving at the White House, effectively wiping away four years of prosecutions, including more than 1100 convictions. Now, by the way, prosecutors called this the largest investigation in U.S. history. That's insane. I'm sorry. That's crazy. January 6th, I think, was awful. I think it was bad for the country. I also think that to expend the resources to make that the largest investigation in American history after a summer where half of America burned during BLM summer was insanity. Is insanity. I'm not going to agree with all those pardons. I'm going to agree with a lot of those pardons. And Joe Biden literally pardoned. He literally commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 people on death row two weeks ago. So, no. Am I going to lose massive sleep over turn about being fair play on this one? I'm not going to lose massive sleep, although I do not think that it is a wonderful thing if people beat up cops and then get to go free. Meanwhile, the other executive orders came flowing freely. Those included an executive order to designate drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations. President Trump was asked about the possibility, by the way, that we might unleash Seal Team 6 on members of the drug cartel. And he kind of half jokes that, well, you know, you never know. According to the Associated Press, President Trump signed an executive order on Monday saying the United States would designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations in a move that could push a militarized agenda for the border in Latin America. The order highlighted Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha. That's MS.13 your didn't list the groups by name, but cabinet secretaries will recommend groups for designation as terrorist organizations in the next 14 days. This is beyond time for this. These are, in fact, terrorist groups. I've been down to the border. I've watched as the drug cartels overwatched the American border with their own drones. This all has to end. It has to End. President Trump also put back in place the remain in Mexico policy. That is a policy that says that if you come to the United States border and you apply for asylum, claiming that you're a victim of persecution in your home country, that instead of you being admitted to the United States with a court date months later so you can disappear into the interior, instead you wait in Mexico for us to actually process your claim. That went back into place yesterday. The CBB, the CBP1 app, which is a phone app that sets all of these sort of appointments up and facilitates the entry of people who are claiming asylum into the country that was shut down yesterday. Barriers went back up along the border. The Trump wall is most certainly going to happen during the course of this second term for the president. And President Trump issued an executive order that will have to be adjudicated in court revoking what's called birthright citizenship. 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Meanwhile, President Trump's most controversial executive order yesterday was an executive order directed at ending birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is the notion under American law that if you are in the United States illegally, legally, temporarily, if you drop a baby in the United States, that baby's an American citizen. That's what birthright citizenship means. So if you're an illegal immigrant and you have a baby in the United States, that baby, even if you are not here, legally becomes an American citizen automatically. That is a misread of the law. It is clearly a misread of the Constitution of the United States. The actual provision, which is the 14th amendment, says, quote, all persons born or naturalized in The United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. So it is true that if you are a citizen, wife is a citizen. If you have a baby, baby's a citizen. But there is an extra phrase in that provision of the 14th Amendment. That extra phrase is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, right? If you just want to say all persons born in the United States are American citizens, just say it. That's not what the Constitution says. It says born or naturalized and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. What is this meant to exclude? It's meant to exclude people who are foreign citizens who are not here permanently. That's what it is meant to exclude. Illegal immigrants, people here on temporary visas or work visas, people who are here as ambassadors and subject to the jurisdiction of their home country.

Donald Trump (36:36)

Right.

Ben Shapiro (36:36)

That's what it means. Because subject to the jurisdiction doesn't just mean that if you hit somebody with a car, you go to jail in America. It means that you in fact are here on a permanent status. Then if you have a baby, your baby is an American citizen. But if not, then not. And that is precisely what the White House is now claiming. They say the 14th Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who are born in the United States but not subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Among the categories of individuals born in the US and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of U. S. Citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States when, for example, that person's mother was unlawfully present in the US and the father was not a US Citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth or when that person's mother's presence in the United States at the time of said person's birth was lawful but temporary, such as, but not limited to visiting the United States under auspices of the visa waiver program or visiting on a student, work or tourist visa, and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth. Now, again, this is not going to be retroactive. It doesn't make people not citizens anymore. What it does do is say prospectively, this is how the law will be interpreted. Now, this is going to be adjudicated all the way up to the Supreme Court. And this is a proper interpretation of the law. It just is. There is nothing particularly shocking about this. What is shocking is the idea that if you get caught in New York on a stopover flight from, say, Haiti to Canada and in the airport, you give birth, the Air Kid is now an American citizen. It's a bizarre, bizarre idea and certainly was not intended by the people who wrote the 14th amendment to the con. That the 14th amendment was designed to ensure that black Americans, that slaves, former slaves, were citizens of the United States because they were born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. There's no other jurisdiction to which they were subject. That is what the 14th Amendment was designed to do. Extend all of the privileges and immunities of citizenship to the former slaves. That's what the 14th Amendment was. Extending that to people who fly through LAX and drop a baby. That is not what it was for, just legally speaking. So we'll see how that's adjudicated at the Supreme Court level. It's an audacious move by the Trump administration. They also issued an executive order to end dei. That, of course, is deeply necessary. President Trump had actually spoken about that in his speech in his inaugural. He talked about the end of DEI and the return of the meritocracy, which is a huge issue for him. The executive order reads, the Biden administration forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs going by the name diversity, equity and inclusion into virtually all aspects of the federal government in areas ranging from airline safety to the military. And then they say, well, this is gone. That ends today. Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect and to expanding precious taxpayer resources on America, on making America great. That is exactly correct. We are also going to no longer spend our money on the World Health Organization, a Chinese controlled, ridiculous organization that allowed the COVID pandemic to spread globally. President Trump turned to aid as he began to sign the executive order. And he said, that's a big one. The text of the executive order cites the organization's mishandling of COVID 19. Absolutely appropriate. The WHO is a sham just like most of these international organizations and a joke, and we should not be funding it. President Trump issued an executive order to target the weaponization of government as well. Investigation was initiated into every aspect of American government reviewing law enforcement and intelligence. Trump's executive order, quote, describes actions that appear more oriented toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice. And so the AG will be directed review the work of all the law enforcement agencies to ensure there is no deliberate political targeting. The executive order creating the Elon Musk led Department of Governmental Efficiency was also pushed forward. There will be lawsuits in an attempt to stop that. It's not fully governmental. I doubt that those lawsuits will hold any water in the End. Now, there are a couple executive orders that I particularly like. The one extending the TikTok ban is not something I'm fond of. I'm not sure precisely why President Trump is pushing the extension of the TikTok ban, other than what I'm hoping is that he wants a deal. He wants it. This is what he does. Carrots and sticks. The stick is I'm not going to extend the TikTok ban unless you cut a deal to divest yourself of Chinese ownership. That is the optimistic view. A document posted on the White House website said that Trump was instructing the AG not to enforce the ban for a period of 75 days from today to allow my administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown of a communications platform used by millions of Americans. Now, if this ends with Chinese control of TikTok, that will be a mistake by President Trump. I'm very hopeful that that's not how this will in fact end. President Trump on the staffing side is doing some pretty impressive things. He froze civilian hiring in the federal government. He's imposing extra scrutiny on IRS hiring. The freeze will lift for every agency except the IRS at a certain point. It's a 90 day freeze. While the Office of Management and Budget and DOGE write a plan to shrink the federal workforce. Totally appropriate. He also more importantly reinstated Schedule F. So Schedule F is the ability of the President of the United States to to fire people inside the executive branch. It should be a no brainer. Constitutionally speaking. If you are in the executive agencies, you work for the President of the United States and at his pleasure. That's the unitary executive theory. You should be fireable by the President. That's what Schedule F does. The Biden administration tried to stop this last year. They passed a rule designed to prevent Trump from reinstating Schedule F. But President Trump is going to reinstate that. With the Supreme Court the way that it is, I would be shocked if this is not upheld as well it should be. Also, President Trump said all the federal workers have to go back to work, which is pretty amazing since only 6% of federal workers show up to work in person. At this point, the kush jobs are over. If you are working for the federal government, you work for the taxpayer. Go to work. Go to work. On the most fun side, President Trump issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America into rename Mount Denali in Alaska back to its American name, Mount McKinley. Lisa Murkowski was upset about the renaming of the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley. In particular, she's upset about Mount McKinley because she's from Alaska and she put up a post being very I strongly disagree with the President's decision on Denali. Our nation's tallest mountain, which has been called Denali for thousands of years, must continue to be known by the rightful name bestowed by Alaska's Hayukon Athabaskans, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial. Wrong. We own it. We can call it whatever we damned well please. President Trump later today is expected to announce a massive infrastructure project. We can only hope that it will be the incorporation of Greenland into the United States. On the foreign policy front, President Trump initiated a 90 day review into all foreign aid, saying that if it does not align with America's purposes, it will not be reinstated. That is presumably directed at the unrwa, the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is just a front group for Hamas. President Trump, also on the foreign policy front, killed the sanctions that Joe Biden had put on people, Jews living in Judea and Samaria. So overall, a massive slate of actions from President Trump. A massively important slate of actions from President Trump. And you know it. It is a new day, man. It is a new day. All righty guys. Coming up, we'll get into more of the left wing media just not having a solid day. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.