Note: This page includes Executive Orders and Presidential Actions that were signed on or before January 24, 2025. It will be updated in the coming days, and kept updated to the best of my ability as time goes on.
Summary
- Pardons or commutes the sentences of all 1500 domestic terrorists who were convicted related to the Jan 6th insurrection
- Removes the security clearances of 51 intelligence personnel in retaliation for signing a letter saying that there wasn’t any issue with Hunter Biden’s laptop
- Removes John Bolton’s security clearance in retaliation for his book
- Calls for disciplinary action to be taken against anyone else outside of those 51 people who had any connection to the letter
- States that no rules or regulations can be proposed until Trump or an associate reviews and approves it
- Nothing can be sent to the Office of the Federal Register (the “OFR”) until Trump or an associate reviews and approves it
- Immediately withdraw any rules that have been sent to the OFR but not yet published in the Federal Register, so that they can be reviewed and approved
- Calls for recommendations for remedial actions to be taken against anyone who investigated him
- Re-establishes a former order stating that the US is not accountable to the ICC
- Disbands the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
- Re-establishes former order to prosecute anyone who defaces a statue
- Re-establishes a former order that private companies are not allowed to ban people who violate their TOS or spreads misinformation
Pardon: “Granting pardons and commutations of sentences for certain offenses related to the events at or neat the us capital on Jan 6 2021”
- Pardons or commutes Jan 6 Insurrectionists and domestic terrorists
- This includes the leaders of violent hate groups, everyone who assaulted the capital police, the man who shot a gun outside of the capital, etc. Violent and “non-violent” actors, alike, either a blanket pardon or sentence commutation for every person
Executive Order: “Holding former government officials accountable for election interference and improper disclosure of sensitive governmental information”
- TL;DR firing and revoking security clearances for anyone who didn’t buy the Hunter’s Laptop scam, and John Bolton
- Claims that “51 former intelligence officials coordinated with the Biden campaign to issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had abandoned his laptop at a computer repair business. Signatories of the letter falsely suggested that the news story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign”
- Accuses Former National Security Advisor John R. Bolton of putting national security at risk by publishing his memoir criticizing Trump
- Revokes of any active or current security clearances held by the 51 people who signed the letter, as well as John Bolton
- Note: Each of the people who signed the letter are named in the Exec order. Being that these are intelligence officers, that could potentially put them in danger, so there’s that
- Within 90 days, the Director of National Intelligence must provide Trump with a report related to “any additional inappropriate activity that occurred within the Intelligence Community, by anyone contracted by the Intelligence Community or by anyone who held a security clearance, related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials”, as well as disciplinary action that should be taken “against anyone who engaged in inappropriate conduct related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials”
Memorandum: “Regulatory freeze pending review”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review
- No rules or regulations can be proposed until Trump or an associate reviews and approves it
- Nothing can be sent to the Office of the Federal Register (the “OFR”) until Trump or an associate reviews and approves it
- Immediately withdraw any rules that have been sent to the OFR but not yet published in the Federal Register, so that they can be reviewed and approved
Executive Order: “Ending the weaponization of the federal government”
- States that the previous administration “engage[d] in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions”
- Accuses the Biden administration of targeting “individuals who voiced opposition to the prior administration’s policies with numerous Federal investigations and politically motivated funding revocations
- Claims that someone “was put in jail for posting a political meme”
- This appears to be in reference to Douglass Mackey, who was convicted in the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights due to his plan to “deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote” in the 2016 election. He had a following of 58k on twitter, and February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked him as the 107th most important influencer of 2016 Presidential Election. He conspired with other twitter influences to spread false messages from Sept to Nov of 2016 that encouraged supporters of Hilary Clinton to vote via text, including memes with a fake number to text, and a fine print “disclaimer” about needing to be 18 to vote, not valid in territories, etc. He was sentenced to 7 months in prison
- Whines that “ the Department of Justice has ruthlessly prosecuted more than 1,500 individuals associated with January 6, and simultaneously dropped nearly all cases against BLM rioters”
- Order is stated to “set forth a process to ensure accountability for the previous administration’s weaponization of the Federal Government against the American people”
- Priority is to “identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to the weaponization of law enforcement and the weaponization of the Intelligence Community”
- Must then provide a report with “recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken to fulfill the purposes and policies of this order”
- The Director of National Intelligence must do the same, re the Intelligence Community
Executive Order: “Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship”
- Accuses the Biden administration of “trampl[ing] free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve”
- Accuses that “under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate”
- Orders the Attorney General to “investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years that are inconsistent with the purposes and policies of this order” and give Trump a report with “recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken”
Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14022 of April 1, 2021 (Termination of Emergency With Respect to the International Criminal Court)
- Revoked a Trump exec order that we weren’t accountable to the ICC
Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14023 of April 9, 2021 (Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States)
- Established the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States to discuss and debate
- the role and operation of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system
- the functioning of the constitutional process by which the President nominates and appoints Justices to the Supreme Court
- Other times in the country’s history where the role of SCOTUS and the nominations and advice-and-consent process were subject to critical assessment that prompted proposals for reform
- the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform
Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14029 of May 14, 2021 (Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical Amendment)
- Revoked trump exec orders related to:
- Making it so that private companies could not ban people who violate their TOS or spreads misinformation
- Prosecuting anyone who defaces a statue