President Trump has pledged to “Make America Great Again” and prioritize putting “America first,” and he wasted no time demonstrating his seriousness to these ideas since assuming office on Monday.
Trump has signed over 200 executive orders since re-taking the command of the Oval Office.
Among those orders included renaming the northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America and reinstalling the name Mt. McKinley to the nation’s tallest mountain.
The latter move is the latest in a back-and-forth between Trump and his predecessors. The order reverses a decision by the Biden administration that overturned a Trump Administration policy that overturned an Obama-era action that renamed the mountain to Mt. Denali in 2015.
The Alaska mountain anchors Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska and was initially named for the 25th President William McKinley of Ohio.
“This order honors President McKinley for giving his life for our great Nation and dutifully recognizes his historic legacy of protecting America’s interests and generating enormous wealth for all Americans,” Trump’s McKinley order states.
Trump also issued a proclamation granting pardons and commutations to individuals convicted of offenses connected to the January 6 Capitol events. He described this action as ending a “grave national injustice” and initiating “a process of national reconciliation.”
One of his first orders, declaring an emergency along the southern border, may have overshadowed another that may have a lasting deterrent on illegal immigrants.
President Trump directed the Attorney General to assist states in obtaining lethal injection drugs, with the goal of reinstating and expanding the use of capital punishment. The directive emphasizes seeking the death penalty in federal cases involving the killing of law enforcement officers or certain crimes committed by illegal immigrants.