Donald Trump's return to the White House has been marked by early missteps, reminiscent of his first term. From formatting errors in executive orders to confusion over policy details, the administration's sloppiness has raised concerns about its competence. Despite assurances of a more disciplined approach, Trump's penchant for impulsive decision-making and disregard for fine details appears to remain.
The pitch for a second Trump term was as plausible as it was persuasive: a less erratic, more disciplined, and savvier president. His team would be better calibrated, reigning in any impulsive behavior. The argument was that all the worst impulses had been excised, with fresh energy propelling him forward. Instead of acting on gut feeling, Trump would rely on pre-drafted plans. However, this proved to be a foolish notion, as evidenced by the first few days' sloppiness.
Despite assurances that the conservative movement's best minds would have a Day One agenda ready, backed up by legal genius' years of preparation, the first steps were riddled with trouble. Seemingly limitless resources at the ready for the incoming team weren't enough to avoid myriad typos, internal contradictions, and an inability to pick a format and stick with it. Take, for instance, the barrage of executive orders Trump issued over the first 12 hours. When first published, they were filled with strange formatting errors. Bold here, bigger there, passages duplicated, and lists sometimes ordered with the same numbers used over and over again. Legal eagles on social media were quick to point out the hiccups in the formatting and a few typos that were cleaned up on the White House’s website before they got pilloried too badly. One laundry list of Interior Department members identified more than one member as number one, and others in the same list with bullet points. Other typos that probably don’t change the weight of these actions but still are embarrassing for a new administration that promised to restore greatness to the Oval Office. But then there are the errors that could meaningfully change what some executive orders do. For instance, in an effort to give culture warriors a win and transgender individuals a loss, Trump ordered that people would be pinned down to use the biological “sex”—and not gender—assigned at the moment of conception. What the order, though, is that all fetuses spend their first six weeks as females, and then some become males. In feeding an anti-trans ideology, he also sowed confusion by suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program as of January 27. Despite that cut-off still being days away, Trump officials acted almost as soon as he was inaugurated, leaving thousands of refugees who had already been vetted and booked to relocate to the United States stranded around the world, without an understanding if they’ll ever be allowed into the U.S.Trump’s first term was also beset with a whole rash of typos and confusion over language, too. That did not stop him from issuing more than 200 executive orders in those first four years, a tally he seems determined to break given the pace and ambition of his unilateral moves thus far. Beyond what he signs his name to, Trump is also revealing that, once again, the extent to which you should take what he says as what he means is going to be a moving target. On his first night in the Oval Office, with reporters watching and TV cameras rolling, he claimed to remake an informal global alliance of emerging economies. Instead of South Africa as the “S” in the BRICS bloc—Brazil, Russia, India, and China being the others—Trump told reporters with signature bravado that it was actually Spain—and that, as such, the European country could be among those swept up in his most punitive tariffs. 'They're a BRICS nation, Spain. Do you know what a BRICS nation is? You'll figure it out,” Trump said in the Oval Office. And, at this point two full days into this return to the Trump era, that might be the whole point. Americans knew they weren’t electing a details guy to lead the country. They were going with a vibe. And part of that vibe, it seems, is an aggressive indifference to the specifics. After all, Trump has other things to help draw the spotlight—including sensitive trips to tour disaster recovery programs in North Carolina and California where those trying to rebuild could not care less if the President gets there if he arrives on Air Force One or not. It’s why his casual care for buttoned-down professionalism may prove maddening for many, but is largely waved off by the folks who signed up for another four years of this style of slapdash government
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