Over the course of the 2016 election, President Donald Trump had many complaints about President Obama, ranging from Obamacare to his citizenship. However, one of his lesser known complaints has been dying quietly, simply because now to bring it up again would make Trump look like a hypocrite, although that hasn’t stopped him in the past.

For now, we’ll mostly be looking at President Trump’s former stance on executive orders, and how he currently feels about them and analyze the hypocrisy.

In the past on and off the campaign trail, Trump was very clear in his position concerning Obama’s use of executive orders.  He felt that he was abusing his power as president, and that it was “shifty.”

In 2012, Trump tweeted “Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority? This is the latest.”

Clearly, even back when he wasn’t running for president, Trump was very vocal about his position on executive orders. In this tweet, it’s evident that Trump felt that Obama was bypassing the regular democratic process, and thus hoarding power.

On Feb. 19, 2016 he tweeted, “Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can’t even get along with the Democrats. He goes around signing all these executive orders. It’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”

Trump doesn’t seem to understand the use of an executive order.  To clarify, as defined by the legal dictionary, an executive order is a presidential policy directive that implements or interprets a federal statute, a constitutional provision, or a treaty. The article further elaborates that executive orders do not require congressional approval.

Then twice on Feb. 26, 2016, he tweeted, “We have a president that can’t get anything done so he just keeps signing executive orders all over the place,” and, “I hate what Obama does with gun legislation. He doesn’t talk to anybody. He goes out and signs executive orders. In theory you’re supposed to the old fashioned way, get everybody into a room and get something people agree on.”

On Feb. 26, Obama signed in the executive order titled: Delegation of Certain Authorities and Assignment of Certain Functions Under the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015. This executive order stated three things. First, that the president of the United States can delegate and assign the U.S. trade representative. Second, that the trade representative should collaborate with foreign countries to reduce poverty and eliminate hunger. Finally, that officers of the United States should obey and execute the executive order in itself.

Considering that Trump’s stance at this point in time did not have anything against ending world hunger, and that he assumed that the tweet was about gun control, it can be inferred that President Trump did not actually read the executive order itself.

You’d think that after years of criticizing executive orders, that President Trump would not be inclined to use them. However, once he became president his views on executive orders completely flipped. In fact, President Trump is on track to sign more executive orders than any president in the last 50 years.

“I want to not use too many executive orders, folks,” Trump said in a spring interview last year. “Obama, because he couldn’t get anybody to agree with him, he starts signing them like they’re butter. So I want to do away with executive orders for the most part.”

We can see that that mentality did not last long. Trump signed in 17 executive orders in his first month, with more following in the months after. Most of them were geared to rescind Obama’s actions, actions that were better for the American people. For example, weeks before hurricane Harvey hit, Trump rescinded Obama’s flood-risk rule. The rule aimed to make infrastructure more resilient to the effects of climate change, and once in effect would’ve been able to prevent damage and loss of life. Even after Harvey hit, Trump did not reinstate the order.

Then there came a statement released by the White House after Trump’s first 100 days, that claimed that Trump had “accomplished more in his first 100 days than any other President since Franklin Roosevelt.” They tried to prove this by claiming that he had signed in more executive orders than any other president in the first 100 days since Franklin Roosevelt. While this claim is true, most of those executive orders were geared at removing those from the obama administration, and the executive orders that are left had no immediate impact. So to say his actions are historic is overstating things.

Trump’s hypocrisy didn’t end with executive orders, but extended into the realm of gun-control. After the recent shooting in San Antonio, Trump blamed the shooting not on the availability of guns, but on the mental health of the individual. If Trump blames mental health for this tragedy, why did he end the Obama-Era gun checks for people with mental illnesses? Back in February, Trump signed a bill dispelling this regulation, however he doesn’t seem to remember this now.

When we bring all of this proof into analysis, it’s clear to see that hypocrisy is alive and well in the Trump administration.