The Trump cyclone takes the form of a series of executive orders, with which the tycoon inaugurates his second Administration, immediately moving from words to actions. At the international level, the new president has put on paper the United States’ withdrawal from both the Paris climate agreements, as had already happened during his first administration, and the World Health Organization. He is also making an “assessment” of the possibility of introduction of 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and confirmed that he intends to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end “as quickly as possible” the war in Ukraine, which “would never have had to to start.” Internally, however, the 47th president signed the “pardon” for the “January 6th hostages”, those convicted of the attack on the Capitol four years ago, and put an end to the moratorium on the federal death penalty, appealing to the minister of Justice to “undertake all legal and necessary actions” to ensure that states have sufficient doses of lethal injections to carry out capital executions”, and to Ius Soli, defined as “a major problem”. On this last point, however, the occupant of the White House will not have an easy time. Eighteen attorneys general from states and cities governed by Democrats appealed, saying that the president’s executive order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right to citizenship for all “Despite the broad. President’s powers to set immigration policy, however, the citizenship revocation order far exceeds the legal limits of the President’s authority,” the complaint states. A series of executive orders were signed by Trump in front of his supporters at the Capitol. One Arena in Washington. “Can you imagine Biden doing this?”, said the new president to applause from supporters, to whom he always showed the signed document.
Meanwhile, the controversy over Elon Musk’s alleged Roman salute on stage at the same arena continues. The owner of Musk’s contact in Italy, Andrea Stroppa, had already explained that the gesture, “which some mistook for a Nazi salute, is simply the expression of Elon, who suffers from autism, who says ‘I want to give you my heart'”. As for his post “The Roman Empire is back, starting with the Roman salute”, published and then deleted, Stroppa stressed that the references were “exclusively linked to Ancient Rome”, but in order not to be misinterpreted, he then proceeded to delete the post. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz intervened on the incident: “We have freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany, everyone can say what they want. right’. While Spanish Vice Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz, ministers from her Sumar party, and the political formation itself, decided to leave X in controversy with Musk.
Source: IL Tempo

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