NYT: Trump's Executive Orders are "a bit of a mess." [View all]

Trump has signed more than 300 executive orders since coming into office — and a New York Times reporter has read every one of them.

According to opinion writer Carlos Lozada, Trump "favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking." After all, "Why bother assembling legislative coalitions when you can just write, 'By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered' and then tack on whatever you like?" he asked.

"Some of the orders are so generic as to be meaningless. One of the shortest declares that U.S. foreign policy must always 'put America and American citizens first.'" Another order "requires that taxpayer money should be spent 'only on making America great.' It’s hard to know how to execute such orders, other than to proclaim them."

Lozada wrote that although some orders are "specific in their instructions," still "others list no precise actions but only instruct some new task force or council to think of things to do."

Reminds one of Jack Nicholson in The Shining: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bit-of-a-mess-ny-times-finds-many-of-trump-s-executive-orders-make-no-sense/ar-AA1C62xt