Trump's record-breaking Day 1 executive actions prompt legal challenges

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : " In another unprecedented move, Trump signed his first eight executive actions in front of a wildly enthusiastic crowd filling Washington D.C.'s 20,000-seat Capital One Arena, capping his inauguration parade.
63% : " "Our southern border is overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narcotics that harm Americans, including America," the proclamation reads.
61% : "With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense," Trump said during his inauguration speech on Monday.
61% : " Lichtman agreed, saying, "They're symbolic in that they resonate with themes that Trump has been professing ever since he arrived in presidential politics a decade ago.
57% : Asked by reporters if he expected the order to prompt legal challenges, Trump responded, "We'll see.
49% : As he did in his first term, Trump signed an executive order removing the United States from the Paris Agreement, an international treaty to mitigate climate change that was enacted in 2016.
47% : Trump said the agreement doesn't reflect U.S. values and directs "American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require, or merit, financial assistance in the interests of the American people.
45% : " Rogowski said some of the executive actions taken by Trump, like changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico and restoring the name of America's 25th president, William McKinley, to the highest peak in North America, are primarily "symbolic.
44% : 'It's all about common sense," Trump said of his executive actions.
44% : "What they have done to these people is outrageous," Trump said while signing the pardons and commutations in the Oval Office.
42% : During his first term, Trump signed an executive order that banned foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days, suspended entry to the country of all Syrian refugees indefinitely, and prohibited any other refugees from coming into the country for 120 days.
40% : Trump called them "hostages.
40% : " Trump also issued an executive order designating certain cartels as foreign terrorists.
38% : "President Trump has really made political theater a core part of how he uses unilateral power," Jon Rogowski, an American politics professor at the University of Chicago, told ABC News.
36% : Rogowski noted that legal challenges stymied the so-called Muslim ban for 10 months and forced Trump to issue two revised versions of the ban before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it in a 5-3 ruling issued in June 2018.
32% : " With those words, Trump immediately began rescinding numerous executive actions taken by now-former President Joe Biden, alleging in a written preamble published with his presidential actions that "the previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government.
30% : Trump on Monday granted 1,500 people convicted of crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Building, "a full, complete and unconditional pardon" and commuted the sentences of 14 others involved in the riot.
28% : In other executive actions, Trump issued a proclamation declaring a national emergency at the southern U.S. border, saying, "America's sovereignty is under attack.
27% : "I don't want to undermine the chances that any of these could have real, tangible consequences for people, but I suspect Trump is going to find it frustrating that many of his actions that he intends to have an immediate effect are instead going to be held up in court for weeks, months or even years, in some cases," Rogowski said.
26% : "The reason why we are seeing the government by executive order is twofold: Donald Trump was singularly ineffective in getting his agenda through Congress during his first term, even with Republican majorities in the House and the Senate during his first two years.
22% : Critics immediately pounced on Trump, arguing people born in the United States are granted citizenship under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment even if their birth parents migrated here illegally.
18% : " Another controversial executive order Trump signed was one aiming to cut off birthright citizenship.
15% : Trump also issued an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, alleging the organization mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.
13% : "When President Biden comes in, he removes it and now President Trump reinstates it.

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