“Dec 8 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he would act on his first day in office to pardon rioters involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, further building expectations for a broad granting of clemency.

"I'm going to be acting very quickly, first day," Trump said on NBC News' "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker" when asked when he planned to pardon his supporters who were charged in the attack aimed at overturning his 2020 election defeat.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-pardon-jan-6-defendants-day-one-2024-12-08/

@KimberlyWilberLIgt MAKE IT HAPPEN MR PRESIDENT

awww crap, did something happen in the news ??

Does Day One expire at Midnight on 12/20/2025 or 24 hours after being sworn in? @Quillist

@SaiVazquez is this meant to be heterosexuality? That would still be unlikely but at least somewhat aligns with right wing ideology

@Krantz does this count him claiming it but not actually giving any evidence at all? What about declassifying more blurry UFO footage that's still far from true proof?

@TheAllMemeingEye Great question. Yes, it requires proof enough to convince > 90% of skeptics.

@TheAllMemeingEye example: "I said I was gonna be a dictator on day 1, so that's what I'm gonna do, don't know why people are surprised, it's gonna be GREAT, you won't BELIEVE how great it's gonna be, your grandchildren are gonna be asking you how GREAT it was and you're gonna have to tell them it was THE GREATEST, just like me at golf, people tell me that all the time, they should give me a trophy for that, Biden could never..." (continues tangent cascade for 35 minutes without taking a breath)

This seems oddly low. He did it on his first day last time! I thought maybe he'd said he wouldn't do it again but I can't find anything on that

@ShakedKoplewitz Trump tried to run away from his record on abortion during the latest election, because he realized it was pretty unpopular with the majority of the country. His new position is that it should be left to the states whenever possible.

Nobody has any reason to set that man free again

@Marnix He signed 1 in 2017, but he's probably more prepared this time.

I find it interesting that you guys think the probability of him playing golf is roughly the same as him dying 🤔

@arbitrary Second assassination attempt at his golf course confirmed? 😱

No post on truth social?

@Erskine He posts several times a day, every day. It wouldn’t make sense to have that as an option

Is this not already status quo? The federal government does not recognize any particular gender other than male or female

@thepurplebull Some states have other options

@thepurplebull I see no reason this would stop him from signing an executive order doing it again. Nothing has to actually meaningfully change in order for this to resolve yes. I expect it to be more virtue signaling, and I wrote it expecting it to resolve YES if he does some virtue signaling gesture.

@thepurplebull Not true, at least some federal agencies currently recognize nonbinary genders; see https://www.state.gov/x-gender-marker-available-on-u-s-passports-starting-april-11/

@Marnix https://nypost.com/2024/12/23/us-news/trump-vows-to-stop-transgender-lunacy-only-recognize-two-genders/

Trump vows to stop ‘transgender lunacy’ and recognize only two genders as ‘official policy’

President-elect Donald Trump says he will stop "transgender lunacy" and make the US recognize only two genders — male and female — on day one of his presidency.

@Marnix What are the currently federally recognized genders?

@Shai i don't know! probably aren't any. If there are, it's probably just male and female already. But, I see zero reason he wouldn't sign some executive order saying it anyway - even more so if it won't actually Do anything. Purely just signalling at that point

@Shai there's a gender unspecified option on US passports, for example.