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ports open so you can still get your crap all right see you tomorrow hi it's Michael I'm in for Peter who unfortunately is feeling a little under the weather and has lost the use of his voice um yall are about to watch a video that Peter recorded earlier today about the executive orders that the Trump Administration is issuing um the order in question that is the main focus of this video has in those few hours since been rescinded but we are going to continue to share this video because we think that the analysis and conclusions
in It ultimately stilling true and uh the the potential for chaos and confusion that Peter highlights obviously was shared by enough stakeholders both inside and outside of the government that the White House um has decided to reevaluate their approach so if that feel better Peter and uh we hope you enjoy the video hey everybody Peter Z here coming to you from Colorado where I'm rapidly losing my voice uh we're about 10 days in into the new Trump Administration and well it's been showy but it's not clear to me that anything has really changed uh Donald
Trump has issued um dozens are we up to hundreds now I've kind of lost track of short executive orders claiming a lot of stuff asserting a lot of stuff uh but not once he he actually asked for anything from Congress and keep in mind that the US Presidency cannot raise funds or really even transfer funds uh from one agency to another so he can squeeze the blob a little bit uh but without congressional action not a lot can happen uh but in doing so Donald Trump has picked a lot of fights that didn't need to
be picked and he's really gone after the core of what a lot of people consider their political identity to be uh without a lot of immediate payback um so let me give you an example of this uh Donald Trump's made a very big deal about going after illegal migrants especially those with criminal records which I don't think especially on the criminal records thing anyone has a real problem with um but from talking with agents that are within uh Immigration and Customs Enforcement there's no one money that comes with these directives what has happened is other
law enforcement branches as of the federal government have been redirected to assist uh ice in whatever they're doing and going after these people so you get folks from like the P of tobacco and firearms or the FBI or whatever now collaborating cooperating with ice in their Roundup operations and that's all well and good but keep in mind that anyone who's helping IM Immigration and Customs enforcements going after illegals is not doing what they were doing before so they're not investigating financial fraud they're not investigating smuggling uh so the blob has been squeezed and we have
more resources going to a specific task and it has generated a few thousand arrests but it's come at the cost of everything else just kind of flying by the wayside now any any Middle School adviser to Donald Trump would have been able to warn him that this is exactly what was going to happen but over the last four years rather than build up a legislative block that he wants to push through in order to generate a real durable change in the American system he is since instead purged himself of anyone who might not just tell
him no but yes but uh and as a result he's got this shell of dense and competence around him now where no one will tell him anything other than exactly what he wants to hear and so we've get these scads of just very very brief uh executive orders that really don't move anything uh another example is recently Donald Trump signed another brief executive order uh to establish an Iron Dome system around the United States now Iron Dome is the missile defense system that the Israelis use to protect themselves from mortars and Rockets uh keep in
mind that uh Israel is about the size of New Jersey and the weapon systems that are being launched at them are very very very short range ballistic nothing like what the United States has to deal with in the mainland so if we were to spend the approximately $40 trillion that it would take to build up a nationwide iron Dom system all it would do is protect Detroit from Hamilton Canada and San Diego from Tijana everything else is too far away it's the wrong weapon system but of course there's no money behind this because it's an
executive order so it just looks really silly to anyone who knows anything about missile defense or the border and Trump's picking a lot of fights with a lot of people that don't need to be picked we had a we had a two-page executive order from Trump a few days ago that shut down the distribution of all grants about $3 trillion of funds uh most of which are distributed through the states or through private organiz or nonprofit organizations uh and this is everything from the small small business administration to Meals on Wheels and according to the
directive until such time as uh everyone can indicate that they're complying with the new regulations and attitude what the right word um orientation I think is the word uh that Donald Trump is trying to establish uh the money can't be distributed uh but it's a temporary hold of 3 months well there was no guidance in that two pages to basically regulate $3 trillion of distribution and so it's all been shut down which means in the not too distant future you're looking at like you know dead old people because Meals on Wheels isn't working I mean
the these are unpicked fights these are unforced errors but Donald Trump is making a lot of them and burning a lot of capital to do it very very quickly uh there could also be damage on an international scale because he's done basically the same thing with an executive order very short very brief very few details shutting down any foreign aid that requires dollar transfers which is with the exception of some military assistance almost all of it so we've seen the US Global position diplomatically and strategically basically Frozen and we've seen the US domestic position when
it comes to the interface between the population and the government and anything except for entitlements basically Frozen uh with no clear guidelines as to what's next or what the parameter might be and Congress has yet to be involved at all um these are not the sort of mistakes that a second term President should be making but they are being made by the dozens and it's unclear on the other side of this how much Donald Trump's political Capital will remain uh because he's going through it at a pace that I have never seen by any leader
in any country in modern history uh but I got to admit there's a show and it's entertaining e
