- Joe Biden had left “a lot of work,” says the Republican.
- The president raises the idea of ending federal disaster aid.
- Trump analyzes the flood of executive orders.
Washington: President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the deployment of 1,500 additional American soldiers on the border with Mexico, while intensifying repression against illegal immigration and diversity programs in the vertiginous beginning of his second term.
The 78 -year -old Republican, who has promised a “golden age” for the United States, stopped the arrival of refugees and threatened to process local authorities that do not deport immigrants.
As part of his right -wing measures campaign to return to office, the billionaire also ordered that US government employees in diversity programs, conceived as ways to combat racism and sexism, received immediately paid license.
Trump maintained what was supposedly his first phone call with a foreign leader since he assumed the position on Monday, speaking with the Saudi heir Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who promised greater trade with the United States, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom.
And in the last round of appointments, Trump announced that fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who previously faced questions about his business and private behavior, will be the new United States ambassador to the European Union.
He appointed his former bodyguard of the Secret Service, Sean Curran, who was at his side when a murderer opened fire and touched his ear during a presidential campaign rally last July, as director of the Security Agency, who protects the president and Other senior officials.
But while Trump advances overwhelmingly in Washington, there have been unexpected obstacles.
The closest advisor and richest man in the world, Elon Musk, revealed incipient tensions when he criticized a megaproject of investment in artificial intelligence that Trump himself publicly promoted in an event televised in the White House, flanked by the main magnates of Silicon Valley.
And Trump generated questions when he threatened Russia with sanctions if he does not accept an un specified peace agreement with Ukraine, something he had previously stated that he would negotiate within 24 hours.
His predecessor Joe Biden had left him “a lot of work,” Trump said Fox News Sean Hannity in his first television interview since he assumed the position.
While the angels continue to be devastated by forest fires, he also raised the idea of putting an end to federal disaster aid and dissolving FEMA, the government agency that manages disasters.
“I would prefer states to deal with their own problems,” he told Hannity.
Immigrants and the struggle for diversity
Trump, who has more than a dozen ex-Fox news Employees of their administration, discussed their flood of executive orders and their plans for the first 100 days.
But it was a typically divisive conversation, in which Trump, investigated for leading unprecedented efforts to reverse his 2020 electoral defeat, called the “stupid” Democrats and said that “the only thing they really do well is to cheat.”
Since he returned to the White House, Trump has largely focused on harsh migratory measures.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed that Trump was sending 1,500 soldiers to add them to the contingent of more than 2,000 that is already located on the border with Mexico.
He also stopped the arrival of refugees who already had authorization to enter the United States as part of the repression, according to a memorandum of the State Department.
Trump’s other main objective has been everything related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
He ordered that related government websites and social media accounts be disconnected and that the federal workers involved take paid license.
Trump also ended what he called “radical” affirmative action in the award of federal contracts, revoking an order elaborated to combat racism that goes back to the era of civil rights of the 1960s.
One of Trump’s first acts as president on Monday was to pardon more than 1,000 supporters who broke into the United States Capitol, attacked the police and destroyed the headquarters of American democracy, after he lost in 2020.
A dispute between Trump and the Bishop in the National Cathedral, who asked him during his sermon in a service he attended on Tuesday that he showed “mercy” towards the “scared” immigrants and LGBTQ people, continued over heat.
Trump called Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde “unpleasant and then told her The New York Times who felt forced to speak.
“Was anyone to say something about the direction of the country?”
