From Jim Wright on FB --
“Why is Barack Obama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"
- Trump, 7/10/12
“This is how it starts. Obama is now threatening to use an Executive Order for gun control. Welcome to his 2nd term.”
- Trump 1/9/13
“Look at Obama [...] you’ve got to close the door and get things done without signing your executive orders all the time. That’s the easy way out.”
- Trump 10/20/15
"[Obama] signs executive orders all the time, because he can’t get his own people to go along.”
- Trump 11/2/15
“I don’t think he even tries anymore. I think [Obama] just signs executive actions.”
- Trump 12/12/15
“You know, it’s supposed to be negotiated. You’re supposed to cajole, get people in a room; you’re supposed to deal with them, you have Republicans, you have Democrats, you have all these people that get elected to do this stuff, and you’re supposed to get together and pass a law. [Obama] doesn’t want to do that because it’s too much work. So he doesn’t want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf.”
- Trump 1/4/16
“The problem with Washington, they don’t make deals. It’s all gridlock. And then you have a president that signs executive orders because he can’t get anything done. I’ll get everybody together.”
- Trump 1/20/16
“We have a president that can’t get anything done so he just keeps signing executive orders all over the place.”
- Trump 1/26/16
“Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can’t even get along with the Democrats. He goes around signing all these executive orders. It’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”
- Trump 2/19/16
“I want to not use too many executive orders, folks. Executive orders sort of came about more recently. Nobody ever heard of an executive order. Then all of a sudden Obama, because he couldn’t get anybody to agree with him, he starts signing them like they’re butter. So I want to do away with executive orders for the most part.”
- Trump 3/29/16
"Every radical and foolish executive order of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of when I take the oath of office."
- Trump 1/19/25
Trump signed over 200 Executive Orders on his first day in office, and more than 200 since.