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. We'll get into that and the legal vagaries surrounding it in one second. First, you watched our exclusive inauguration coverage from the weekend through the historic day in D.C. right here on Daily Wire. Plus, we are all over Washington, exclusive coverage, uncensored, unfiltered, ad free, exactly how we intend it to be. The Daily Wire doesn't just report the news, goes straight to the center of it and give you the facts. Live daily shows from the most trusted voices in conservative media, groundbreaking culture shaping premium content, hit movies, explosive documentaries, series that actually matter. You're not a Daily Wire plus member yet. What are you doing? Now's your moment. Get 47% off. As we honor the 47th President of the United States. It is dawn in America. Use code 47 at checkout. Be part of it. That's 47% off when you go to Daily Wire.com subscribe. Don't forget code 47 for 47% off@Daily Wire.com subscribe. Okay. 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.
