Trump's First Week

President Trump had a whirlwind of a first week with the signing of multiple executive orders. Here's a list from Fox News' website a few days ago of Trump's executive orders:

• An order to restructure the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.
• An order to lengthen the ban on administration officials working as lobbyists. 
• An executive order imposing a 120-day suspension of the refugee program and a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from citizens of seven terror hot spots: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan.
• Multi-pronged orders on border security and immigration enforcement including: the authorization of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; the stripping of federal grant money to sanctuary cities; etc.
• Two orders reviving the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access pipelines. He also signed three other related orders that would: expedite the environmental permitting process for infrastructure projects related to the pipelines; direct the Commerce Department to streamline the manufacturing permitting process; and give the Commerce Department 180 days to maximize the use of U.S. steel in the pipeline.
• An order to reinstate the so-called "Mexico City Policy" – a ban on federal funds to international groups that perform abortions or lobby to legalize or promote abortion. 
• A notice that the U.S. will begin withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. 
• An order imposing a hiring freeze for some federal government workers as a way to shrink the size of government. This excludes the military, as Trump noted at the signing.
• An order that directs federal agencies to ease the “regulatory burdens” of ObamaCare.

The media has been blasting Trump on almost every order he signed, but I think they had trouble keeping up with everything he signed. Even today, Jan. 30, Pres. Trump signed an executive order and it's Monday. According to Yahoo, "President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically pare back federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced."

The media called Conservatives hypocrites because we criticized Obama's executive orders and praise Trump's executive orders. Here's the difference between Obama and Trump though: Obama's executive orders were more about creating laws, which is not the responsibility of the POTUS, whereas, Trump's executive orders are largely about getting the US out of the situations Obama put us in and not creating laws. 

I don't see any problems with these executive orders because of their purpose, which appears to be for the purpose of preventing future laws being created based on Obama's failed policies. As I've well established now: it doesn't matter what Pres. Trump does, even if he does accomplish his goal of making America great again, the media will scrutinize and nitpick every comment he makes and every action he takes. 

My personal favorite executive orders Trump has signed are the travel ban, the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, the end of federal grant money to sanctuary cities, and the hiring freeze of government employees.