Trump cuts chaotic path in first weeks, bucking laws and norms in pursuit of promised agenda

Los Angeles Times ^ | Feb. 2, 2025 3 AM PT | Kevin Rector

[E. Pluribus Unum]

• President Trump upended political norms and sparked widespread confusion with a series of executive orders challenging the Constitution and congressional control over the federal budget.

• Democrats responded in outrage, blasting the administration for sowing “chaos” and harming average Americans, and California and other states sued.

Standing before a mourning nation following a tragic commercial airline crash that killed nearly 70 people in Washington, D.C., President Trump offered his somber condolences and said everyone was “searching for answers.”

He then insinuated, without evidence, that diversity hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration — and the politics of his Democratic predecessors — were to blame.

“I signed something last week that was an executive order, very powerful one, restoring the high standards of air traffic controllers — and others by the way,” Trump said. “We have to have our smartest people. It doesn’t matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are.”

In an instant, Trump had gone from consoling leader to partisan firebrand and turned a national tragedy into one more opportunity to push his favorite political narrative — that diversity-minded, “woke” liberalism is ruining the country and that he alone can end it, namely through unilateral executive orders from the Oval Office.

It was a breach of presidential decorum — and right in line with the rest of his tumultuous first two weeks back in the White House.

In that time, Trump has repeatedly bucked the Constitution and other legal limits on executive power, pursuing a conservative agenda aligned with his own campaign promises but also the Project 2025 blueprint he assiduously distanced himself from in the lead-up to the election.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Trump upended political norms...

That is exactly why he we elected him.

[ViLaLuz]

Waaaa! Waaaaaa! Trump is mean! He hurt my feelings!

[Dick Bachert]

[FlipWilson]

Waaaaaah, we aren’t getting our way so it’s chaos. Waaaaah. Trump is doing what he said he would. Waaaaah.

[Obadiah]

The media will only love you if you are weak and leave all their corrupted infrastructure in place.

The media LOVED John McCain... until he ran against Obama. Lindsey Graham is interviewed far and away beyond his actual importance in the Senate. Why? Because he can be counted on to criticize Trump and Republicans. Same with Chris Christi. Why in the world is this guy still interviewed by anybody? Because he will always criticize Trump.

For years - years - Trump ran on draining the swamp and now the corrupt media rea shocked he actually doing it.

[KevinB]

The Times has the sads.

[Jim Robinson]

In pursuit of happiness. In pursuit of the promised land.

[BobL]

“with a series of executive orders challenging the Constitution and congressional control over the federal budget”

When did Congress require DEI?
When did Congress require EVs?
When did Congress require Trump to be arrested?
When did Congress require coal to be shut down?
When did Congress require natural gas to be shut down?
When did Congress require parents at school board meetings to be investigated by the FBI?
When did Congress require the US to fight Russia?
When did Congress require parents not be told of their kids being groomed?
When did Congress require coal to be shut down?
Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc,

[bankwalker]

bucking laws??

[AbolishCSEU]

CHAOS! LOL that’s exactly what they were crying about when DJT won the 2016 election.

[pollywog]

Really... must we even POST articles from the LASLIMES here? They are going down and these articles only draw attention to their failing newspaper. Let it just DIE!

[laplata]

Trump is Blitzing the bastards.

[laplata]

I agree with you.

[metmom]

So much rhetoric in the title.

[odawg]

Chaotic wil be tomorrow’s talking point on the nets.

Yes sir, the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article E. Pluribus Unum.

"Trump cuts chaotic path in first weeks, bucking laws and norms in pursuit of promised agenda"

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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

PDJT47 mentioned tariffs a short while back and the following thread makes me inclined to think that he knows what he's doing.

Canadian food companies plan to expand production to U.S. as tariffs loom (1.31.25)

[Ciaphas Cain]

[Fester Chugabrew]

Hello there, legacy media.
And goodbye.

[Luke21]

I knew this was MSM doltery by the headline. Biden couldn’t wipe his butt and they loved him.

[MNJohnnie]

That is exactly why he we elected him.

Needs to be repeated everywhere this new talking point about "chaos" is trotted out by the Democrat propaganda machine