It wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic disaster.”He’s switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did President Obama during the same time span. Back in 2012, Trump had tweeted: “Why Is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?”That criticism continued once he entered the presidential race. Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority? This is the latesthttp://t.co/4IVBckTE — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2012Advertisement“The country wasn’t based on executive orders,” Trump said at a South Carolina campaign stop in February 2016. He can’t even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 19, 2019 22:41 UTC