The Inauguration of Donald J Trump as the 47th President of the United States marked the beginning of a new era for the country – and for the world.
If he gets his agenda right, America will return to being a global leader.
There’s no doubt Donald Trump learnt from his experience as the 45th President. During that time he issued just over 200 Executive Orders – the mechanism used by Presidents to manage the Executive Branch of Government that bypasses Congress.
*All Presidential Orders can all be viewed on the White House website HERE.
This time around he has hit the ground running, signing more than 200 Executive Orders during his first three days in Office. A hundred were signed straight after being sworn in – many in front of his supporters. Hundreds more are expected to follow.
Before we examine a selection of Orders of relevance to New Zealand, let’s look at some of the highlights from the communications masterclass that was President Trump’s inauguration address:
The Golden Age of America begins right now.
I will, very simply, put America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced.
Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free.
But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. The pillars of our society lay broken. We have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases, to hate our country.
My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed, their freedom. From this moment on, America’s decline is over.
Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.
America will be a manufacturing nation once again. We have the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth. And we are going to use it. We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, and export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again.
We will end the Green New Deal and revoke the electric vehicle mandate.
After years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.
This week, I will end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.
As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.
This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate with full back pay.
We are one people, one family and one glorious nation under God.
America will be respected again and admired again. We will be prosperous, we will be proud. We will be strong. We will not be conquered, we will not be intimidated, we will not be broken, and we will not fail.
President Trump acknowledged the Inauguration was held on Martin Luther King Day: “In his honour, we will strive together to make his dream a reality” and he pledged: “We will forge a society that is colour blind and merit based.”
That is essentially what our Coalition promised when they were elected. But while they have made good progress, they still have a long way to go to achieve that crucial goal.
The reality is that when New Zealanders voted for a change in Government, they gave the Coalition the mandate to deliver us from the dangerous agenda put in place by the Ardern administration.
The country’s rejection of Labour was not just because of their appalling mismanagement of the economy and public services, it was also in response to their attempt to overturn our social order by forcing their unmandated identity politics and He Puapua agendas onto our country.
Virtually without warning, they changed New Zealand from a nation that rewarded hard work, that encouraged free speech and open debate, and that treated everyone equally, to one obsessed with race and gender and sexuality, that totally divided society, restricted free speech, and unleashed greed-driven tribal interests to undermine our democracy and take control of our country.
Restoring New Zealand to being colour blind and merit based would go a long towards healing our society and rebuilding our optimism for the future.
So, what are some of President Trump’s Executive Orders that have particular relevance for New Zealand?
While matters related to trade and security have been well-canvassed, let’s examine some that have received little media coverage.
A key one of relevance to New Zealand is the President’s Order to rescind Diversity, Equity, Inclusion programs from all federal agencies, and private sector groups that contract with the government. From now on it will be illegal to hire employees in the US to fill diversity quotas based on race, gender, sexuality, disability, or religion.
As a result, all State employees in DEI roles have been placed on leave, all institutions have been instructed to “take down all outward facing media (websites, social media, etc.) of DEI offices”, all upcoming DEI training has been cancelled, all contracts with DEI organisations have been revoked, and federal agencies are required to come up with “up to nine potential civil compliance investigations” of publicly traded companies, large nonprofits and other private institutions with DEI programs that now constitute “illegal discrimination or preferences”.
In other words, the President not only wants to terminate DEI in the federal government, but the private sector as well. His policy will force educational institutions to end discriminatory admissions policies and re-prioritise merit in hiring. He wants every man and woman in the US to be given back the opportunity to go as far as their hard work, individual initiative, and competence can take them.
Our Coalition should follow suit. It’s now clear that many of the 19,000 additional State workers employed by Labour during their 6 years in office were DEI hires, Maori in particular. The result is a radical influence has been embedded throughout the government service – and increasingly within the private sector as well. This grossly discriminatory policy should be axed.
Another Executive Order with profound implications for New Zealand, is President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement: “It is the policy of my Administration to put the interests of the United States and the American people first in the development and negotiation of any international agreements with the potential to damage or stifle the American economy.”
The objective of the UN’s Paris Agreement is de-industrialisation. That’s why China, Russia and India have delayed compliance until 2060 or 2070. With the USA now withdrawing and others expected to follow, the only countries now pursuing UN targets are woke nations that care more about upholding the UN’s socialist agenda than defending the wellbeing of their people and their economies.
Unfortunately for New Zealand, successive governments have submitted to the radical climate demands of the UN. The new Coalition is no different. On the one hand they claim to be prioritising growth, while on the other, they are forcing the UN’s de-industrialisation strategy onto the country.
So, in spite of all the world’s major emitters thumbing their noses at UN objectives, New Zealand continues to submit to their socialist directives even though they are damaging our economy.
In effect, Jacinda Ardern’s Zero Carbon law imposed ‘global governance’ onto the country by replacing economic policies designed to lift the living standards of New Zealanders, with policies satisfying the UN’s radical demands.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told New Zealanders in his State of the Nation address, that economic growth is his number one priority for 2025: “I am obsessed with doing everything it takes to unleash the growth, innovation, and investment we need to thrive because Kiwis deserve nothing less”. We applaud his ambition for our country, but if he is serious about his words, he needs to abandon the climate change folly and follow the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement. It is nonsensical to remain in.
Removing climate levies off petrol, diesel and electricity, would, of course, lower prices across the board and kick start the economy.
But if the PM is too woke to do that, he should at least correct the erroneous assumptions that Labour adopted in its climate change modelling – that even the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has rejected – which have artificially elevated New Zealand’s emissions problems. If corrected, the modelling would show we are already meeting our UN climate commitments!
De-industrialising our economy would be completely unnecessary!
President Trump also issued an Executive Order putting an end to the creation of massive wind farms, including those offshore, that degrade the natural landscapes and, through their intermittency, fail to serve consumers well.
And he declared a national energy emergency: “An affordable and reliable domestic supply of energy is a fundamental requirement for the national and economic security of any nation… High energy prices devastate Americans, particularly those living on low- and fixed-incomes.”
It’s the same situation here, which is why successive governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year subsiding winter energy costs for beneficiaries and pensioners.
By declaring a national energy emergency, President Trump will prioritise the opening up of public lands for energy projects, along with the building of critical energy infrastructure.
While the opening up of public land for mining is also being considered in New Zealand, this seems to be at odds with major changes being planned by the Conservation Minister and his Department.
With submissions on two Department of Conservation discussion documents – see HERE – due to close on 28 February, this week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator Fiona Mackenzie, a communications and marketing specialist, explains the problem:
“DOC’s discussion document, Modernising Conservation Land Management, outlines a framework heavily weighted toward racial prioritising of iwi and hapu interests. The document suggests that those identifying as Maori possess unique entitlements to conservation land, citing ancestral ties and kaitiakitanga (undefined) as justification. However, this approach raises critical questions about fairness and equality in public land management.
“DOC’s stated commitment to engage with iwi as ‘Treaty partners’ highlights the co-governance philosophy that has been so rapidly undermining our democracy and economic productivity under recent governments.
“The current coalition Government is failing to rein in race-based practices in our public services. Existing and proposed privileges in the allocation of conservation resources and decision-making processes include prioritising iwi consultation, easing concession requirements for Maori businesses, enabling land disposals or exchanges to benefit iwi, and devolving certain other powers to iwi.”
It is imperative that the Coalition honours its election promise to stop He Puapua and co-governance, and halts all plans to give tribal groups special power over our Conservation Estate. Favouring Maori is discriminatory and against the law.
*If you would like to send in a submission on the Conservation discussion document – the details are HERE. A submission prepared by Fiona Mackenzie can be seen HERE. And if you would like to contact MPs or local Councillors their email addresses are HERE.
President Trump has instigated a multitude of other important changes including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, imposing a hiring freeze on government workers – and making it easier to remove those who are disloyal, as well as pressing ahead with plans to reduce American company tax down to 15 percent to turbo-charge the economy.
Without a doubt, the scene has been set for a major transformation of the US, including mechanisms to replace woke racism and identity politics with equality, unity and prosperity.
Let’s hope our Coalition follows suit.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Should the Coalition follow the lead of the US and to rescind all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion programs from all State agencies – and private sector groups that contract with the government?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| And please recind it immediately! | Janette |
| Merit not race | Mick |
| It is time new Zealanders listened to their own consciences and learned to resist the efforts of the LGBT lobby in its attempts to control our society as it has plainly been doing for some time now. Every New Zealander counts and fairness to all must be our goal. | Harvey |
| Yes | John |
| Yellow belly Luxon too scared of being called a racist to support any such move. No wonder talented young people are leaving in droves! | Tony |
| Time to remove all wokeness and return to common sense. The best person for the job is the person with the knowledge and expertise required for the position full stop. | Carol |
| Absolutly and without exception.DEI has forgotten about hard work,effort and merit. | gale |
| Fuck YES | grant |
| Absolutely | Kevin |
| Absolutely. It will change this country for the better for everybody and not just for a certain group | Don |
| Most definitely, and while they are at it they should withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the WHO | Kevin |
| Should have been done a year ago. That’s what we voted for and what we were promised. | Lee |
| Agree entirely ! | Jonathan |
| Sooner the better. DEI is a cancer on our society. | Neil |
| We should not have a single reference to race anywhere in our government, NGOs or private life. I vote for defending our sovereign nation and re-emphasising meritocracy. And we must hear from Luxon that he will protect NZ from a) the hordes of aliens now being expelled from USA & b) Open Borders mass migration. | Anne |
| How refreshing that would be | John |
| Act now! | Graham |
| Absolutely!! Long overdue for the eradication of ALL ‘Wokeness’!! | Tony |
| Let us go back when we were all equal. If you worked hard and used your brain you could have a high standard f living | LGF |
| Huge problem right throughout all govt depts | Hone |
| YES, they should, But i am pretty sure that our illustrious leader does not have the backbone to do it. | Bill |
| Stopping the Conservation Department bowing down to Iwi and continuing with the assumption there is a partnership is an essential action. There is not, and never was a partnership. Constitutional matters should be determined by Parliament, not the Courts or any other public servants | Peter |
| Of course it should…but it won’t! In NZ most of our political parties are still infected, some irretrievably, by the woke virus. This includes National and our PM, in particular. Even when he and his party promise to do something, inevitably the final result is a shadow of what we expected. Ultimately, its Kiwis themselves who have to decide they want to rid our society of all the racist, DEI crap. But will they? Probably not. There is one party in government who is openly committed to that – ACT. In a recent poll National dropped but did ACT gain? No – Labour did!!! That says it all. | Derek |
| They also need to go further and eliminate all references to Treaty partnership with Maori/Iwi. | Mike |
| equql opportunity for ALL Kiwis not just the brown. | anna |
| All positions should be filled on absolute merit,skill and knowledge. Not just to tick some boxes. | Cathy |
| Flick Donald an email, ask him to threaten NZ with tariffs (Colombia turned within six hours). Explain the apartheid creep in NZ and himself honouring MLK ‘colour blindness’. Finally, ‘fluff’ his ego and mention you’d like a round of golf at his new resort in the eastern med, in the near future……… | sam |
| Yes, but I don’t think Luxon has the balls to make such a bold move. | John |
| Not as a blanket rule. | Brian |
| DEI is totally unnecessary | Yanna |
| Let’s return to hiring the best not giving jobs to people because they tick the right boxes. Productivity will increase and the work environment will have an edge of competition. | Fi |
| Makes sense | Geoff |
| Of course it should. Dei ought never have been allowed to gain traction in the first place. | John |
| Without doubt | Caren |
| They should BUT will National do that I doubt it as they have done very little so far but promised so much they nead to get rid of Luxton he%u2019s not the leader we hoped for promising what | Peter |
| Let determination and desire to better oneself thrive unfettered by quotas | tony |
| This country should “grow up” and get back to the basics of human civilisation..freedom…prosperity and hard work. We have been there before. Lets’ get back on track Now. | Chris |
| DEI is racism! Plain and simple. It needs to go! | Sheila |
| Without a doubt. | Pauline |
| Sooner the better | Evans |
| They were voted in to do this, of course! | Giles |
| Absolutely they should abolish DEI. | Simon |
| absolutely yes, time for the nonsense to stop | john |
| Of course it should. Ive recently been surprised how slow our coalition is at reading the world signs. The expression Go woke – Go broke is now years old. The lack of open public discussion and debate by our leadership regarding the climate change issue has always been disturbing. Love him or hate him – at least Trump is demonstrating an example of strong leadership for his people. | Andrew |
| Merit should be the only criteria | Graeme |
| This country needs to go back to basics totally agree with Martin Luther King forging a society that is colour blind and merit based. | Diane |
| all labours agend should be wiped, but this govt will not do it | Colin |
| Absolutely. And hopefully it’ll filter down to private companies as well. DEI has been a disaster world wide. Hopefully it’ll soon just be viewed as a time where the whole world went silly for a while… There’ll be loads of bleating from the Maori radicals of course, but hopefully it’ll be countered by the silent majority of Maori who have unfortunately been too silent for too long. | Dave |
| Immediately | Mark |
| Merit based with commonsense. Then follow the real science | RICHard |
| This coalition is all talk no do especially Luxon who is hopeless trying to apeeze everybody,we need a real leader | Maurice |
| However, out coalition govt thinks it is all very cool. Can’t see that changing anytime soon. | Jan |
| Absolutely – and diversity should be stopped from being taught in school and confusing our kids. | Gerry |
| Absolutely. One benefit is that it might stop the Navy losing any more ships……… | john |
| Easy fix. When David Seymour becomes Deputy Prime Minister shift him up one position. | Peter |
| Definitely as it is a foolish, illogical and dangerous policy that many around the world are now regretting going along with. | Ray |
| if only they had the guts. NZ First & National are both stepping back from their election promises. Typical of politicians!!! why did I think it would be different! Never trust a politician!!! | Chris |
| One nation one people | Mat |
| Well over due !! | Paul |
| It’s a no-brainer – NZ should be a meritocracy with no DEI. | Dave |
| Yes | Frank |
| Luxon is a disappointment. He is far too slow to act | John |
| absolutely, it should be the best person for the job, black , white, male or female, stop this WOKE BS. | mike |
| and fire all those who have been hired under those policies if they dont meet the pre DEI hiring standard. | gary |
| Anything other than this brings NZ into an apartheid outcome. Currently we are well forward as a country practising this unfortunate race based nonsense. It is time to return our country to an equitable system for everyone. Not one where Maori get priority in nearly every state setting. We are all NZ’ers and to be treated equally under the law. We never want a return to the dark ages. | John |
| Absolutely. NZ is as bad as California with the woke ideology. | Doug |
| So long as the private sector groups are there for DEI reasons. If they are, on the other hand, actually effective then their contracts should be changed to eliminate DEI. | Brenton |
| And a whole lot more! Get rid of that stone age language names for stuff! | John |
| New Zealand has too many rules that are set by other countries and DEI is right at the top along with blatant racism at the highest level from what we know as our native New Zealanders. I was born and bred in New Zealand but now reside in the USA and I can tell you a wave of relief and enthusiasm flowed across this great country when Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. New Zealand for me is now just a place to visit after they cleanup their act. | Richard |
| I would hate to see those who are different excluded from regular daily life. | Janet |
| DEI is destroying any meritocracy we have left and reducing us to 3rd World status | Peter |
| Yes Yes and YES – ab so bl.. lutely The whole scene is repulsive and pulling NZ into the gutter | Carolyn |
| Please! | Mark |
| DEI is dead. If Luxon wants growth then MEI is where it’s at and has always been: Merit, Excellence and Intelligence. And drop the maori partnership lies, grifting and duplicate governance nonsense. NZ needs at lot less hui and lots more doey. | Wendy |
| Get rid of it all. Lets get back to normal. | Helen |
| I voted yes but with Luxon in charge there’s not a hope in hell of the necessary changes being made, ditto the climate change hoax. | Alan |
| I hope they have but it is doubtful. | Florence |
| Yes they should get rid of DEI – it is poisoning workplace relations and has totally wrecked universities. It is a dangerous ideology that needs to be removed from all State agencies – and private sector groups associated with the government through regulation and funding. Because DEI covers race, that should mean the elimination of all racial categorisation as well. | David |
| The Coalition should adopt many of President Trump’s policies. But do they have the courage? I’m not sure! | Maureen |
| DEI has resulted in huge discrimination against New Zealanders who do not tick the diversity box. What’s gone on is truly appalling. | Paul |
| Yes, the Coalition should cancel DEI, and they should pull out of the Paris Climate Accord as well. Reducing company tax down to 15% is a great idea too! | Ian |
| It has been interesting to see that some of these important changes introduced by President Trump have been hardly reported on by NZ’s mainstream media. They must be afraid that good ideas catch on! | Michael |