# Can you name how many Obama exutive orders that Trump will overturn? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140 "2016-11-09T06:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/1 "2016-11-09T06:13:33Z")
Well, can you? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/2 "2016-11-09T06:20:51Z")
I assume he’s going to write “REPEAL ALL THE ORDERS” in gold Sharpie on a cocktail napkin, hand it to Chris Christie, then sit back and declare mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/3 "2016-11-09T06:29:23Z")
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/4 "2016-11-09T06:56:19Z")
President Obama has issued 249 executive orders. So it will be somewhat less than this. > **[2016 Executive Orders Signed by Barack Obama](https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2016.html)** > > Executive Order 13716 Revocation of Executive Orders 13574, 13590, 13622, and 13645 With Respect to Iran, Amendment of Executive Order 13628 With Respect to Iran, and Provision of Implementation Authorities for Aspects of Certain Statutory Sanctions... ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/5 "2016-11-09T15:59:51Z")
It would be interesting to review the EOs to see which ones are basically pro forma or a small change nobody would really care about. For example, orders 13735 through 13737 just establish an order of succession for some departments, which was probably de facto the case anyway. Nobody is going to bother removing those. I bet the actual number that people will care about is probably 20 ± 5. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/6 "2016-11-09T17:56:01Z")
I’m waiting to see if the one about no texting while driving survives. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/7 "2016-11-09T18:12:04Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > President Obama has issued 249 executive orders. So it will be somewhat less than this. > [https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2016.html](https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2016.html) Assuming he doesn’t issue any new ones in the next couple of months. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a flurry of them, actually. Good for PR, at the very least. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/8 "2016-11-09T20:08:22Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > President Obama has issued 249 executive orders. So it will be somewhat less than this. > [https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2016.html](https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2016.html) You mean it will be exactly 249. Trumpets wouldn’t be satisfied with anything less. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/9 "2016-11-09T20:39:23Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > You mean it will be exactly 249. Trumpets wouldn’t be satisfied with anything less. Several of the EOs are amendments to previous EOs Obama issued. In cases like that you wouldn’t need an EO for both, you’d just eliminate the first. For example, 13639 created the “Presidential Commission on Election Administration”, and that was modified by 13644, so you’d only be repealing 13639 since 13644 would be null and void afterwards. But even that would be silly, since 13644 established that the commission would cease to exist after two years, so there’s nothing to repeal anymore. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/10 "2016-11-09T20:46:05Z")
you’re not under the impression that an Executive Order allows a president to create laws, are you? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/11 "2016-11-09T21:09:26Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > you’re not under the impression that an Executive Order allows a president to create laws, are you? Trump is. He’s the one who said he was going to get rid of them. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/12 "2016-11-10T01:08:36Z")
Trump is the guy who said that if Congress doesn’t do what he wants, he’ll fire them. He believed then, at least, that he could rule by decree. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/13 "2016-11-10T02:13:53Z")
I’m assuming that DACA is toast. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/14 "2016-11-10T02:21:39Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > I’m assuming that DACA is toast. It’s been the law for four years, hard for that bell be unrung. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/15 "2016-11-10T02:51:31Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Well, can you? Not sure he can walk back that Exec Order that vapourized Bin Ladins head. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-how-many-obama-exutive-orders-that-trump-will-overturn/771140/16 "2016-11-10T03:04:04Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > It’s been the law for four years, hard for that bell be unrung. It’s not a law; it was implemented via executive action. What Obama giveth, Trump taketh away.