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February 8, 2017
This week in Trump's Worid
By Jordon Morgan
Arts & Life Editor
As we head into the third week of the presi
dency of Donald J. Trump, it can be quite a
mind workout to keep up with everything that
is happening. Little of it is promising, however.
One of the most recent things to have taken
place, as reported by The Independent, was a
raid in Yemen conducted by U.S. Navy SEALs
on a suspected Al-Qaeda camp in Yemen’s
Bayda province that resulted in the deaths of
one member of the US special forces team and
up to 30 Yemeni civilians, among them an eight-
year-old girl.
To be completely objective and fair to the
president, it is tough to judge whether he bears
the responsibility for this operation’s failure. The
Atlantic reported that the operation, “according
to The New York Times, was approved by and
recommended to the president by his secretary
of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.’’
The article also goes on to state that for said
recommendation to go forward, the senior lead
ership of the Department of Defense would have
signed off on the operation. So, if there is one
situation where the President doesn’t deserve the
full brunt of the backlash, it would be this one.
Something he does deserve full backlash on is
his continued insistence on his ban from people
from seven specific Muslim countries. From
numerous protests at multiple airports across
the country, untold amounts of families who
have no association whatsoever with terrorism
are being separated or are unable to reunite with
each other, it’s fair to say that the ban has been
at best, not very efficient.
However, as reported by Aljazeera, US District
Judge James Robart of Seattle has put a nation
wide block on the President’s executive order.
Said block will remain in place nationwide until
a full review of a complaint by Washington State
Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
Of the decision, Ferguson said, again accord
ing to Aljazeera, "The constitution prevailed
today. No one is above the law, not even the
president.” They also reported that he went on
to say that, “Not everybody may like this deci
sion - I'm certain the president will not like this
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decision - but it is his job, it is his responsibility,
it is his obligation as president to honor it and
I'll make sure he does."
Trump wasn’t done with this action. In a blurb
by CBS News, the President signed yet another
executive order on Friday that will direct the
Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-
Frank financial oversight law, which reshaped
financial regulation after the 2008-09 financial
crisis.
According to The New York Times, President
Trump also signed a memorandum that will
begin reversing a policy known as the fiduciary
rule, which requires brokers to act in the client’s
best interests, rather than seek the highest profit
for themselves, when providing retirement ad
vice. It’s hard to envision any positive scenario
for such a repeal if it were to happen.
The New York Times in that same article
pointed out how these efforts to loosen regula
tions on banks and other major financial com
panies go directly against his campaign theme
of being a champion of the working Americans
and as a critic of the Wall Street elite.
Hopefully Trump realizes, sooner than later,
that these sorts of actions and policies will have
nothing but negative effects on his constituents,
and subsequently, his political reputation, as
well as that of the Republican Party. For now,
we simply have to hope for the best, but expect
the worst.
BC Theatre to present
U.S. premiere of 'There Is a War'
BC Theatre students rehearse scenes from their upcoming production
“There Is a War,” which opens tomorrow night in the Porter Center’s
Morrison Playhouse. Read more about this show on page 5.