Rock’Em Sock’Em Presidency

Rock’em Sock’em Robots.

That’s the description that conservative podcast host Dan Bongino has given to President Trump’s whirlwind leadership style and initiatives. With three weeks into his presidency, Trump has issued over 60 executive orders. For comparison, Joe Biden issued 77 during his first year as President. Trump issued 55 during his first year as President in 2017. ¹

Rather than being a lame duck President in his last term, Bongino asserts that Trump 2.0 is the Rock’em Sock’em Presidency. His administration and leadership is moving so fast that the media and Left can’t keep up with him. Make a change here. Make a change there. By the time, the media is able to turn its gaze to opine and whine about one change, three more revelatory, innovative and even culture-shaping changes are made in the time it takes them to figure out what they think about the first one.

The Department of Government Efficiency identified and cut wasteful spending by the end of January to the tune of $4 billion a day (yes, you read that right!). Trump has demonstrated astounding moral clarity as he issued EOs on gender and transgenderism craziness. His quick strike movements to pursue violent criminal illegal immigrants have been lauded across political lines.

America seems to have collectively breathed a sigh of relief in the past three months. Many on the Left who were uncomfortable and ill at ease with the rabid insanity of the extremist groups in their party have quietly (some not so quietly) cheered the new directions and change.

The average American who learned about the nauseating amount of waste and corruption found in USAID could not be more thrilled with DOGE’s ruthless pursuit and closure of the corrupt agency. When the price of eggs has been exorbitant and home electric bills prohibitive, they are incensed by the out-of-teach political class who has flaunted their insider trading, $10,000 plate parties and celeb-infested galas.

The White House website identified a growing list of stunning financial waste – of our taxpayer monies!

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt ²

Here are some of President Trump’s EOs that I fully support and am grateful for:

• Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship – Jan 20
• Pardoning the vast majority of those arrested for J6 – Jan 20 (I wrote about J6 here)
• Declaring a national emergency at the southern border – Jan 20
• Numerous orders to eliminate DEI programs in the federal government and to restrict funding to public institutions and schools who promote them – Jan 20, Jan 29
• Designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations– Jan 20
• Ending government-funded (taxpayer monies) abortions both at home and abroad by enforcing the Hyde Amendment– Jan 25
• Ending the insane and immoral transgender transition surgery (“chemical and surgical mutilation”) of minors – Jan 27
• Promoting school choice – Jan 29
• Keeping men out of women’s sports – Feb 5
• Established a Department of Justice Task Force to eradicate Anti-Christian bias – Feb 6

In addition, I’m thankful for EOs related to requiring federal employees to return to in-person work, ³ removing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, reprioritizing capital punishment, declaring a national energy emergency (maybe we’ll see some relief on our energy bills this year?), declassifying records related to the assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy and MLK, reinstating all members of the military who were dismissed for refusing COVID vaccination, and the withdrawal of the U.S. from support of the World Health Organization and some of the U.N.’s agencies.

Trump’s first signed law was the Laken Riley Act (S.5) on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

The presence of a President

Joe Biden ran a basement campaign in 2020. He was infamous for his vacation days, with some claiming he took 532 days of vacation (40%) of his presidency.

In addition to the Rock’em Sock’em nature of Trump’s orders and official policy changes, Trump has visited western North Carolina’s flood victims as well as California’s fire victims. JD Vance has visited Palestine, OH. These are all within the first three weeks of this administration.

It’s no wonder the media and the rest of us are dazed about the accomplishment and focus of this admin. This doesn’t even include the dramatic progress we have seen on the world stage, from the release of the Hamas hostages to talks of the U.S. managing Gaza, to taking over the Panama Canal, to the proposal of welcoming Canada as the 51st state.

Karoline Leavitt, the new White House Press secretary said, “there is so much good news, so much winning out of the Trump White House right now that the mainstream legacy media can’t keep up with it all.”

While the Left may virulently disagree about the “good” in the news, Leavitt is not wrong about the flow of information. The Biden White House in retrospect looks like they slept for the past four years in comparison to Trump’s first three weeks.

In addition, with the stranglehold on information broken (thanks, Elon, for buying Twitter), now we’ve seen Trump win several lawsuits (or receive big settlements) from media companies who had slandered, lied or censored him:

• Disney reached a $16 million settlement with him in his defamation case against ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos, who had said on air that Mr Trump had been found civilly liable for rape. In fact, he had been found liable for sexual abuse. (Trump announced he will appeal the case again on January 15.)
• Meta agreed to pay about $25 million to settle a lawsuit from Mr Trump for locking him out of his social media accounts following the Jan 6 Capitol riot in 2021.
• Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, is reportedly negotiating a settlement with Mr Trump over a lawsuit he filed after a 60 Minutes interview with former vice-president Kamala Harris, his 2024 election rival. Mr Trump had sued CBS for $10 billion ($13.6 billion) in damages, accusing it of “deceitful editing” of the interview. ⁴

What’s next?

While Tom Homan and ICE aggressively pursue criminal illegal immigrants, arresting and moving many to Guantanamo, the uptick in international trade agreements with tariffs as a key negotiating point will increase. This administration’s sole aim is to strengthen the American Empire, financially, militarily and socially. We should see entire governmental departments shuttered or gutted (think DEA), of necessity, due to appalling lack of results. Once RFK is approved to lead HHS, we should also see the peeling back of layers of corruption and shocking health revelations related to Big Pharma’s shadow stranglehold.

I deeply appreciated the moral clarity of Trump’s EOs related to gender, transgender and sexuality issues. I also applauded his redirecting of the country’s social agenda away from irresponsible and racist policies like DEI. It seems that “woke” has died overnight. His EO prohibiting the government from targeting Christians was a jolt of good news. His pardon of more than 20 pro-lifers who had been convicted by the Biden admin under the specious use of the FACE act was something to cheer about.

I think the corruption and vomitous misuse of taxpayer monies that we’ve seen in USAID is only the tip of the spear, however. DOGE will continue to expose more, and outrage at our unelected bureaucrats and elected officials who have enriched themselves and their sycophants should grow.

In the meantime, conservatives must not grow smug or adopt “I told you so” postures. We must press for term limits in Congress, and we must pass sweeping election reform and campaign finance reform laws.

Back in September 2024, I put myself out there and wrote No Sidelines in this election, urging people to vote for sanity, even if they must hold their nose as they voted for Trump.

I have been pleasantly stunned by the clear leadership and overnight full court press of this administration. From cabinet choices to EOs to international negotiations to visionary plans, I’m not holding my nose. I’m watching a Rock’Em Sock’Em Presidency. The blue robot isn’t faring well at all.

1. Executive Orders; Federal Register; accessed February 7, 2025[↩]
2. At Usaid, Waste And Abuse Runs Deep (White House website: February 3, 2025) [↩]
3. In April 2024, the Washington Times reported that nearly 90% of federal buildings were empty in DC. Even Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser had been raising the alarm about the fact that vast amounts of DC office buildings were simply empty.[↩]
4. When the President makes and breaks the news: Can American media keep up? by Bhagyashree Garekar (The Straits Times: February 4, 2025)Last week, after the FCC required CBS to release the full transcript of the Harris interview, Trump doubled his lawsuit amount, from $10 billion to $20 billion.[↩]