ANALYSIS | By Diego Hernández | On the first day in office of his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made it very clear that he will quickly implement the nationalist agenda he promised on the campaign trail. He announced that his administration will put America first and that he will focus all his efforts on making the country strong, safe and prosperous again.
But his speeches on Capitol Hill and at the inauguration rally, as well as his first executive orders, also heralded the beginning of a “revolution” – so he called it – to restore common sense to public service. That “revolution” was reaffirmed by Trump as he addressed the World Economic Forum.
One of the longest standing ovations during his speech on Capitol Hill was for a phrase that shows what that “common sense revolution” will mean: “as of today, the official policy of the United States Government will be that there are only two genders, male and female.”
With that bid for “common sense,” Trump opened windows of opportunity on five issues of capital importance for those who push a cultural and political agenda that promotes fundamental values:
- Combating gender ideology.
- Strengthening the role of parents in their children’s education.
- The defense of freedom of expression.
- The protection of religious freedom.
- The affirmation of national sovereignty in the face of interference from international organisms.
A blunt blow to the gender lobby
Trump affirmed on Capitol Rotunda that he would put an end to “the government policy of imposing race and gender as determining criteria in all aspects of public and private life” and a few hours later he made that announcement concrete with three of the 41 executive orders he signed that day.
He began by demolishing the government support that the Biden administration assembled to push and strengthen the gender agenda and lobbies. His first executive order repealed 70 of his predecessor’s orders, five of which imposed transgender ideology in various forms, including in the military.
Two other Trump executive orders establish government protection for the reality of the existence of only two sexes and eradicate all “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs in the federal administration.
Read the executive orders here, here and here.
Biden’s orders related to this topic that were rescinded can be read here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Indirect Support for Parents
The implementation of these executive orders will have a significant impact on school environments, indirectly supporting the role of parents in their children’s education. At the inauguration rally the president was emphatic: “we will get critical race theory and transgender madness out of our schools.” Therefore, other governmental actions in that direction can be expected.
This issue has mobilized millions of people across the country and is on the docket of the Supreme Court, which this year will analyze a lawsuit against a school board in Maryland that barred a group of Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim families from removing their children, as young as 3 and 4 years old, from classes where they teach gender ideology and display sexual content.
Explicitly strengthening the right of parents to educate their children is of paramount importance to progressively consolidate the relevant cultural change taking place in the United States.
Defense and protection of fundamental freedoms
In his inauguration speech, Trump also criticized the Biden administration’s efforts to restrict freedom of speech under the pretext of combating “disinformation” and, hours later, signed an executive order that immediately ceases all types of government-operated censorship and makes other provisions to restore the right to peacefully express one’s convictions.
Read that executive order here.
In the same vein, in the afternoon, at the inauguration rally, Trump pledged to defend religious freedom and, although he has not yet issued any provision in that sense, attorney Pam Bondi, former Florida attorney general, nominated by the president to become Secretary of Justice, has said that he will end all types of government persecution of Christians and any attempt of instrumentalization to restrict religious freedom.
Stopping globalist interference
Finally, in his inauguration speech, Trump said: “our sovereignty will be restored” and the first step he has taken to stop the undue interference of international organizations in the internal politics of his country was to sign an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO). This represents a severe financial blow to this agency which will lose 18% of its total budget. He also withdrew his country from the Paris Agreement.
He also signed another executive order suspending U.S. foreign aid. All financial reviews will be reviewed and those that are not aligned with “U.S. interests and values” will be eliminated, as well as those that “promote ideas that are contrary to harmonious and stable relations” with the people.
These initiatives will limit the action of international organizations and agencies that promote forms of ideological colonization and weaken the family and the right to life, the big missing issue in the Trump agenda.
Read those executive orders here and here.
A possible domino effect
The withdrawal of the United States from the WHO weakens a United Nations agency that, deviating from its mandate, is one of the main promoters of abortion as a “public health issue” and under the euphemisms of “sexual and reproductive rights”.
If Trump moves forward with other similar actions, such as reducing funding to the UN, he could condition the ideological agenda that this multilateral organization has been imposing in recent decades. The United States is its largest contributor and its support represents one-fifth of the UN’s budget.
Globally, Trump’s return is perceived as a momentum, an environment conducive to a vigorous impulse in the opposite direction of the dominant progressivism. Windows of opportunity were opened. Associations, institutes, political and civic leaders working for a fundamental values agenda must be assertive and move boldly forward, taking full advantage of the current conjuncture.
The Trump administration’s open and firm position on the five issues mentioned here, its first actions and its “revolution of common sense” are already reshaping the international scenario and may encourage governments of other countries to take similar steps to reaffirm their sovereignty and act in line with the values of their peoples.
What we could call the “homeland and freedom club”, made up of Giorgia Meloni, Viktor Orban, Javier Milei, and now Donald Trump, may soon receive new “members”.
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Diego Hernández is Director of Communications and Development for Ibero-America at Political Network for Values.
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