OPINION: Trump’s Questionable Actions

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From the start of President Donald J. Trump’s campaign, controversial statements have poured from his mouth without a second thought. He has  insulted women, minorities, the disabled, the press, Muslims, POW’s, and his competitors. Now that he is President here a just a few of the highly questionable, terrifying, actions President Trump has taken in his first few days of presidency. (Not in any particular order)

1.He lied about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. “We had, it looked, honestly it looked like a million and a half people, whatever it was it was,” Trump said. “It went all the way back to the Washington Monument.” This is completely false, proven by side by side pictures of his inauguration compared to that of former president Barack Obama.

2. His team removed the LGBT and Climate Change pages off of the White House website immediately after his inauguration. After removing the Climate Change page it was replaced with America’s First Energy Plan. He also changed the Civil Rights page to Standing up for Law Enforcement, putting Black Lives Matter on notice. Great.

3.He withdrew America from the Trans Pacific Partnership, a 12 country trade deal that represents roughly 40 percent of the world’s economic output after previously strongly criticizing it.

4.He decided to move forward with the Dakota Pipeline and Keystone XL oil pipelines, despite the fact that it will create more toxic gas or the chances of a spill that would significantly damage the Missouri river. Also, the pipe might run through sacred Sioux sites,but it seems President Trump doesn’t care about  the Standing Rock tribes concerned because he decided to go through with it anyways.

5.He picked John M. Gore, an anti-trans legislation advocate, to enforce Civil rights.

6.He signed an executive order that banning the travel to the United States from these seven different Muslim-majority countries: Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, and Syria. The order stops immigrants from these countries from entering the United States for 90 days, and suspends the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days.However, this order is against the law and was thankfully lifted soon after by Homeland Security.