this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
538 points (100.0% liked)
Not The Onion
16831 readers
1808 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Enough with the executive orders. Jesus. Is this a national emergency too??
executive orders are better than laws since executive orders have no weight and are easily undone next administration.
They are also very commonly used by most modern presidents, but most of them haven't had much attention brought to them, while Trump's basically all have. Mostly because they're pretty much all stupid and/or controversial.
And that most of them exceed the authority of the President and Executive Branch. See climate change related EO.
There is no next administration.
They're massively performative and make the plebs and cretins who think politics is WWF theater feel like things are happening. They can be hugely destructive and cause massive repercussions, but they're not as long-reaching and permanent as actual policies and bills being passed through house and senate.
To Trump, not having every person's attention only focused on him at all times is a national emergency.
It makes him feel like the big boss, without any rules or opposition.
I think it's an extreme case of attention seeking.
Remember when Obama used a few executive orders and the Republicans accused him of trying to be a king?
He wants everyone to know that he did it