It’s 2025, and there’s a “new” president in office: Donald J. Trump. He’s already served a term from 2017 to 2021, but he’s back for another.
With Trump returning for a second term and already being three days into this term, that brings up quite a few questions. One of these questions being, “Has Trump done a good job in his first few days as president?” Unless you believe that actions such as pardoning violent criminals, declaring there are only two genders, and planning to instate obscene tariffs are justified and beneficial, chances are you’ll view those negatively.
Not even a week into his term, Trump has already made some divisive decisions, chief among them being issues regarding mass deportation and protection of transgender rights.
“We will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said during his inauguration speech.
Publicly calling people “criminal aliens” is an offensive statement, and not something that a leader of a prominent country should be saying. This can and will rub many people the wrong way, and for good reason. Despite how outrageous this is, Trump’s not quite done.
“On his first day back in office, President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order requiring federal agencies to discriminate against transgender people by denying who they are and threatening the freedom of self-determination and self-expression for all,” ACLU said in an article referring to Trump’s orders that promote discrimination against those who are transgender and wish to express themselves.
Such an action goes against the First Amendment’s ruling for freedom of speech and expression, and cannot simply be ignored. If a president can blatantly oppose the Constitution — which entails our country’s structure and is what gives us the freedom we enjoy — with clever and deceitful words, then there’s no telling what could happen next.
“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” Trump said in the order he signed. Additionally, the order stated that “false concepts” such as gender identity would not be recognized nor supported by government agencies.
The order signed by Trump states that a person is a biological male or female based on if they belonged to “the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” or “[the sex] that produces the small reproductive cell”. This statement is inaccurate to basic biology and embryology, and is wrong on all counts. At conception, all human fetuses are actually female as the male gonads do not develop until six to even eight weeks later after the production of SRY (Sex-determining region Y) proteins. So in this statement, he’s calling everyone female, which is most definitely not what he wanted to achieve. That wouldn’t have happened if he actually knew what he was talking about.
Additionally, Trump has withdrawn the United States from the WHO (World Health Organization), and ABC News said, “Public health experts…said they worry the withdrawal from the WHO will put the U.S. at a disadvantage when it comes to responding to health crises at home and abroad.”
Although Trump’s reason may be the mishandling of COVID-19 on WHO’s behalf and the “unfair,” “far out of proportion” payments the United States had to pay, withdrawing from WHO could endanger millions.
“Removing the U.S. from the WHO could hamper efforts to address current public health issues, such as bird flu,” ABC News said in an article on the topic.
Trump is a president that has done nothing but divide people, make controversial decisions, and say things that make no sense and are not founded in any modern or proven science. This kind of person is not one you’d want as a president, and there should be a point where we wonder: “Did I vote for the right person?”
