The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, has lauded President Donald J. Trump‘s new administration for having “hit the ground running,” delivering on campaign pledges within hours of his inauguration. Many in MAGA world, he told Charlie Kirk, had wondered, “How much can you get done, how quickly, how many roadblocks are there going to be from the Deep State, the holdovers?” He said the administration moving with “speed and ferocity” to implement its agenda would reassure many.
Executive orders signed by Trump at the start of his presidency include the recognition of only two genders, the declaration of a state of emergency at the southern border, the end of DEI in government, and more.
“Eight years ago, people were really getting to grips with, ‘How do these processes operate?’ And I think within the last four, five years there’s become ingrained institutional knowledge in MAGA world that says, ‘The processes will work however we want them to work, actually,'” Kassam explained. “That’s how the left approaches government, and that is how MAGA needs to approach government, too.”
He cautioned that, historically, there has been “too much appeasement on the Republican side of cutesy little processes and bureaucratic backstops, but those times are over,” explaining, “When you have the yoke, you have the mantle, you have the momentum and the wind at your back, a mandate from the public like Donald J. Trump got, you have to use every single tool in your arsenal to carry out your campaign pledges.”
“So, I’m ecstatic, frankly, with the speed and ferocity with which they’re operating,” Kassam concluded.
One early executive order signed by President Trump declared the end of birthright citizenship, preventing the children of illegals and those on temporary work and student visas from gaining automatic citizenship. This policy is already facing lawsuits, and on Thursday, January 23, U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour temporarily blocked the order, claiming it is “blatantly unconstitutional.”
This lawfare effort strongly suggests that President Trump was right to commence what is likely to be a protracted fight right at the start of his term.
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The @TheNatPulse Editor-in-Chief @RaheemKassam speaking to @charliekirk11 on the intense policy-packed first few days of the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/esUjaW3BMI
— Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) January 23, 2025
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
