And what are the consequences? This is kind of a big deal.
None, because Truth Social posts do not carry force of law. From your link;
It’s not clear who will validate the orders or under what legal authority he will cancel Biden’s orders.
Using the autopen is legal, according to an investigation in 2005 by the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush, which found that “the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7.”
It would be except our legal system is not (yet) based on the principle that whatever Donald J Trump says instantly becomes law.
I think it’s along the lines of, “Now that Trump says he can declassify documents by thinking about it, what are the consequences?” Nothing. Except some mockery of his statement.
Somehow, I don’t think laughing this off will make it go away. I am quite sure that actions are being taken as we speak to void those orders.
What orders? I’m fairly confident that the number of “orders signed by an autopen without Biden’s knowledge” is zero.
Trump can reverse executive orders by writing executive orders. This isn’t remotely a big deal. He’s already done this a bunch of times.
Obviously Trump disagrees and he is the one with power and not you.
Listen, we all know he can’t “legally” do this, but he’s going to try to do it anyway. He can just direct all aspects of his administration to ignore any orders signed by Biden that he doesn’t want. They will immediately obey him. Someone will try to sue to reinstate them, but until some enforcement agency forces Trump to reinstate them they will be de facto void.
This isn’t new. Presidents have always had the ability to overturn or amend an earlier executive order they didn’t like.
Any executive order can be overwritten by a later one, so he can legally do this, but he has to actually, you know, DO IT, not just post on Fake Twitter about it.
Yeah but it takes an actual executive order not a Truth Social post. There is nothing stopping him from signing an executive order for each of Bidens executive orders overturning it. But this is not that it’s just a rant that changes nothing about Biden’s executive orders.
To me, it sounds like the headline here is “Idiotic, ideological fixation on autopen bullshit”.
As if Biden’s administration was the only one ever to use such a device. Similar to the age old conservative fixation on teleprompters. Except when one of their presidents uses one.
I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.
Yes, and I hereby declare myself married to Sydney Sweeney.
My proclamation carries exactly as much legal weight as Mad King Donald’s.
In case nobody else was going to say it … Mazel Tov!
You’re right, in the sense that it’s nonsense that’s going away regardless, so laughing won’t be able to make it do something it was already going to do.
Like, making a wish won’t cause a rock to return to the ground after you toss it in the air. The wish itself had nothing to do with it.
I think the burden is on the doomsayer to make the case that this particular Truth Social post is going to be consequential.
Why you you pick a conservative darling? Wouldn’t it be better if you picked one of them immoral liberal women that MAGA hates, like AOC or Jasmine Crockett?
Let’s put it this way: if Trump does void any orders, we do not currently have any idea which ones those will be, because the reason given to do so is counterfactual.
The only factual answer to your question is “none of them, as of yet.”
And just to explain the point of all of this…
Trump is a spoiled, insecure entitled little rich brat in an octogenarian body. He can’t handle being humiliated, and really hates being defeated in public. He ran against Biden once, in the 2020 election, and lost. And went so far to cover up that fact that he pushed the conspiracy theory that he won, so far as to incite an insurrection attempt and waste time and money in court over and over (destroying some legal careers in the process).
In 2024, he couldn’t even get him back, as Biden dropped out of the race. Trump beat Harris, as he’d beat Clinton before, but that won’t satisfy him. He still stings from being a loser and still obsesses over it.
This is nothing more than another attempt to plant the idea that Biden was a puppet in office, wandering slack jawed and senile, as others signed orders with an autopen as “Sleepy Joe” drooled in the corner. It’s his trademark lashing out in defamation as usual.
That’s it. There’s zero substance to it. He’s taking potshots to cover up his inadequacies again.
Plus the classic “Accuse your opponents of what you’re actually doing”