It is fair to ask: What would he actually be like as a President? ![]() His victory is no longer the stuff of dark comedy or fan fiction. But where, in all that, is much talk of the future? By mid-September, Trump was in the final sprint of his campaign, having narrowed the gap behind Clinton in the popular vote from nine points, in August, to reach a virtual tie. “If you govern by executive orders, then the next President can come in and overturn them.”Īfter more than a year of candidate Trump, Americans are almost desensitized to each new failing exhumed from his past-the losing schemes and cheapskate cruelties, the discrimination and misogyny-much as they are to the daily indecencies of the present: the malice toward a grieving mother, the hidden tax records, the birther fiction and other lies. “That’s a problem I don’t think the left really understood about executive orders,” Moore said. Trump’s transition team is identifying executive orders issued by Obama, which can be undone. Stephen Moore, an official campaign adviser who is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explained, “We want to identify maybe twenty-five executive orders that Trump could sign literally the first day in office.” The idea is inspired by Reagan’s first week in the White House, in which he took steps to deregulate energy prices, as he had promised during his campaign. ![]() “Trump spends several hours signing papers-and erases the Obama Presidency,” he said. Trump aides are organizing what one Republican close to the campaign calls the First Day Project. They began the process of selecting Cabinet officials, charting policy moves, and meeting with current White House officials to plan the handover of the Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, and other agencies. As of August, under a new federal program designed to accelerate Presidential transitions, Trump’s staff was eligible to apply for security clearances, so that they could receive classified briefings immediately after Election Day. The team is led by Governor Chris Christie, of New Jersey, and includes several of his political confidants, such as his former law partner William Palatucci. On August 1st, members of his transition team moved into 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, a thirteen-story office building a block from the White House. The full spectacle of Trump’s campaign-the compulsive feuds and slurs, the detachment from established facts-has demanded so much attention that it is easy to overlook a process with more enduring consequences: his bureaucratic march toward actually assuming power. Reagan used humor to deflect attention from his age-in 1984, he promised not to “exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Trump favors a different strategy: for months, his advisers promoted a theory that his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who is sixty-eight, has a secret brain illness and is unable to climb stairs or sit upright without help, and, in speeches, Trump asked whether she had the “mental and physical stamina” for the Presidency. If he wins the election, he will be America’s oldest first-term President, seven months older than Ronald Reagan was at his swearing-in. On the morning of January 20, 2017, the President-elect is to visit Barack Obama at the White House for coffee, before they share a limousine-Obama seated on the right, his successor on the left-for the ride to the Capitol, where the Inauguration will take place, on the west front terrace, at noon.ĭonald Trump will be five months short of seventy-one.
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