Trump wants departments to work better together to review previous policies on the use of force. According to the Republican, the focus must be on the safety of Defense and Homeland Security personnel at the border.
“Due to the seriousness and urgency of this current danger and threat, it is necessary for the Armed Forces to take all necessary steps to assist the Department of Homeland Security in gaining full operational control over the border at southern” of the USA, declared Donald Trump.
The state of emergency is part of the new president’s measures to curb migration to the United States.
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Donald Trump signs executive order to expand application of the death penalty
Among the numerous decrees signed Monday evening by the new American President Donald Trump, there is one which reinstates the death penalty at the federal level, report the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The Department of Justice is assigned to seek the death penalty for very serious crimes, when a federal official is killed or when the accused is a person illegally residing in the United States.
Outgoing President Joe Biden recently commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 death row inmates to life imprisonment. According to American media, he did this to prevent them from receiving a lethal injection under the new Trump administration.
In the last six months of Donald Trump’s first term as president of the United States, 13 convicts were executed, more than under any other president in a hundred years. During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to expand the use of the death penalty at the federal level under his presidency.
Dismissal of four officials
US President Donald Trump fired four senior government officials appointed by his predecessor early Tuesday and warned that more than “a thousand others” risked being fired as well, in the first message posted on his Truth Social social network since his inauguration.
“My Office of Presidential Personnel is actively identifying and removing more than a thousand appointees from the previous administration who are not aligned with our vision for making America great again,” Mr. Trump said on the platform.
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Trump wants to rename Denali, highest peak in North America
American President Donald Trump announced during his inauguration speech on Monday that he wanted to restore Denali, the highest peak in North America located in Alaska, to its former name of “Mount McKinley”, modified according to the wishes of the indigenous populations. .
The decree making this name change effective must be published during the day.
The peak, which rises to more than 20,000 feet, was renamed “Denali” by former President Barack Obama in 2015, adopting the name used by Alaska Natives for centuries, the government of the State having done the same in the 1970s.
-“We are going to restore this name of Mount McKinley in honor of William McKinley, a great president, that’s the way it should be,” Donald Trump said during his swearing-in, during which he also declared that the United States- United would henceforth call the Gulf of Mexico, “Gulf of America”.
William McKinley, the 25th US president, never visited Denali and has no connection to Alaska or the mountain, although it was named in his honor in 1917.
“This announcement goes against the wishes of Alaska Natives, Alaska’s elected officials and centuries of tradition,” said Athan Manuel, land protection program director for the Sierra Club, an environmental organization.
“The Koyukon people have called this summit ‘Denali’ for centuries, and even Alaska’s elected officials oppose this attempt to rename it. It is clear that Donald Trump is more interested in (…) the culture war than in taking into account the concerns of the American people,” he added.
Trump wants to “plant” the American flag “on the planet Mars”
Donald Trump said Monday during his inauguration speech that the Americans were going to “plant” the American flag “on the planet Mars”, without mentioning the planned return of American astronauts to the Moon, an omission which sows doubts about his program spatial.
Under his tenure, he said, “we will pursue our destiny to the stars, sending American astronauts to plant the Star-Spangled Banner on the planet Mars.”
No mention therefore of NASA’s Artemis program providing for the return of Americans to the Moon, although announced during his first mandate.
During his presidential campaign, the Republican had already indicated that he wanted to reach Mars during his presidency.
An objective shared by his now advisor and faithful ally Elon Musk, who is obsessed with the red planet and advocates ignoring the Moon.
The richest man on the planet is at the head of the successful space company SpaceX and aims to “colonize Mars”.
“America is going to Mars,” he proclaimed Monday on his X platform.
Known for his very optimistic predictions, Elon Musk plans to land his Starship rocket on Mars in 2026, and to carry out manned missions there from 2028. A few years ago, he promised to carry out such flights by 2024.
The proximity between the two men and this omission of the Moon in the inauguration speech fuel the fears of observers in the sector as to a possible abandonment or profound revision of the Artemis program.
