The Fierce Urgency of Trump

Official 2025 Inaugural Portrait of Donald Trump by Daniel Torok (Public Domain)

President Trump seems like a man on a mission who knows he has only a short time to get it done.  Sometimes, I think of him as the “Sticky Note President.”  It’s like he wakes up in the morning and writes down what he wants to accomplish that day and marks a line through them as he gets them taken care of.

One day’s sticky note may say:   Close the border.  Deport criminal aliens.  Make English the official language.  The next day’s note may read:  Stop wokeness.  Get DEI out of our schools.  Cut off funding from Harvard.

Trump knows he can’t run again. 

He knows the midterms might remove the Republican majorities in Congress.  He knows the time is short, and there’s so much to do.  Some people call it “flooding the zone.”  But a great deal of it is just common sense; undoing as much of the Joe Biden insanity as possible and doing it in unconventional ways.

The MAGA agenda is, for the most part, the American agenda.

I don’t agree with everything Trump does.  I think the tariffs may come back to bite him, but we’ll see.  I don’t agree that people who don’t pay back their student loans are always deadbeats.  On the tariff issue, taxes are taxes and consumers always end up paying them. Always.  On the student loan issue, I think colleges have colluded in pushing a narrative that everyone must have a college degree, and have used the nationalization of student loans to jack up tuition while selling often worthless degrees.

But on most other issues, Trump is right.  He’s hit the 200 mark on executive orders, which is how he’s gotten most of his agenda through, outside of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which actually passed Congress.

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I agree with him on so many things:  closing the border, deporting illegal aliens, stopping wokeness, eliminating DEI in schools, punishing Harvard for not stopping campus antisemitism, forcing our NATO allies to pay up, and trying to stop two bloody foreign wars.  I agree with him that many of our Democratic-run big cities are crime-ridden hell holes, especially in some communities, and that he can stop the crime wave by using the National Guard.  Washington D.C. proved that the idea works, even though the effect may be temporary.  Even so, it shows what more enforcement can accomplish.

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The problem is not really what he’s doing, but how he’s doing it.

It’s part of that fierce urgency.  The House of Representatives is slow and the two parties fight like dogs and cats.  The Senate runs like a sloth through molasses.  And yet, Trump is impatient and wants it all done now.  So, he uses executive orders – something I’ve always loathed – and he gets it done until a federal judge issues an order to stop it.  Trump knows that his EOs are temporary at best and the next president can undo them with a signature.

But he’s an obnoxious real estate developer from the Bronx who wants what he wants – right now! 

He may believe that people will see how successful his orders turn out, and will not want to change them back.  Or he may have an idea that Congress will pass them into law.  Whatever he believes, most of his EOs have been for the betterment of the country but they will circle the drain unless Congress codifies them.

So, how are we supposed to feel about this?

I hated it when Joe Biden erased the southern border with an EO.  But Trump uses them even more than Biden did. If Trump is setting a precedent for how to use EOs, we’d better hope and pray to God that a Biden-like Democrat never, ever sets foot in the Oval Office.  That’s why I’d prefer to move a little slower, get things done in order of importance, and get them passed into law, making it harder for the next left-wing nutcase to overturn them.

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What’s left for the sticky notes?

Most things I’ve wished for and never thought possible, Trump has actually done.  Fort Hood is Fort Hood again.  The mountain is Mount McKinley again.  The Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America.

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But the statues that the woke mobs tore down have not been restored.  The breakup of the traditional American family has not been solved.  The Melting Pot has not been restored.  Assimilation is pretty much gone. Too many young boys still have no fathers in their lives.  College football is a bloody mess.  School libraries are still stocked with gay porn.  The cost of everything is too high.  Public schools still are awash in students that speak no English.  We still have a $37,000,000,000,000 National Debt.

We still do not have Greenland.  We still do have California.

We still have two wars to end, and to end justly.  That can’t be done with executive orders.  Most of the big things can’t be solve that way, as much as President Trump would like to.  Vladimir Putin, world-class murderer, is forging an alliance with Xi Jinping that could pit Communism against Capitalism for world dominance.  We still live under the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction.

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All these things are urgent.

Trump knows that.  That’s why he’s blown the status quo to bits.  Trump is working to accomplish lofty goals, not with Congress, but in spite of it.  Republicans and Democrats cannot work together for the good of the country because they cannot function together.  Trump knows that, too.  I believe that he believes that no other force of personality but his own can make great accomplishments in the current political environment – and make them quickly.

What else can he do?  Stop the war in Ukraine?  Make Gaza into a vacation spot?  A few years ago, I would have laughed at the idea of one man making these things happen.  But Trump has a way about him.  With a non-functioning Congress, and Trump having just a few years to make America great again, he’s doing what he thinks is right, and he’s not dawdling.

I don’t always like the way he’s doing it, but I can see why he does it the way he does.  Trump is the Junkyard Dog President.  He believes the time to fix what’s wrong with America is right now.  What can be done today must be done today because tomorrow may be too late.  That’s the fierce urgency of Trump.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

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