Do Not Mess With Trump

Colombia refused to accept Colombian deportees.   1/27/25 BBC:

"A looming trade war between the US and Colombia appears to have been averted after the Colombian government agreed to allow US military flights carrying deported migrants to land in the Andean country.

"The spat erupted on Sunday when President Gustavo Petro barred two military planes carrying Colombians deported from the US from landing.

"The Trump administration responded by threatening to slap punitive tariffs on Colombian exports to the US.

"President Petro at first said Colombia would retaliate by imposing tariffs on US goods, but the White House later announced that Colombia had agreed to accept migrants - including those arriving on US military aircraft - "without limitation or delay"."

What makes this article especially interesting from the anti-Trump BBC:

"Petro responded on X with a long, rambling but ultimately defiant post in which he said he would match any US-imposed tariffs.

"Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world," he wrote."

That Evidence of Trump's Poorly Hidden Anti-Muslim Bias

The list of countries on the limited entry list?  It turns out that they were part of a bill Obama signed.  Snopes of course calls this "mixed" because that Obama-signed bill didn't have travel restrictions, but that's from where Trump's list came.

WHAT'S TRUE: The "seven countries" targeted by President Trump's 27 January 2017 executive order pertaining to immigration were not mentioned by name and instead originated with "countr[ies] or area[s] of concern" first identified in the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 (expanded to all seven countries "of concern" in February 2016).

A Good Extreme Step

1/30/17 Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically pare back federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced.

I'm skeptical this always makes sense, but I am sure there are many obsolete regulations that can be repealed with no loss of safety.  I remember the sign of progress in the Reagan Administration was cutting new regulations from 900 pages per day to 600.