Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-executive-orders-strategy
Months before President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on individuals from more than a dozen countries, his team of lawyers and advisers had already started crafting the ban, a process that was underway before he stepped back into the Oval Office in January.....
The announcement was the latest example of how the Trump administration has dipped into its large reserve of proclamations and executive orders — many of which have been long in the making — to drive its chosen narrative, push the president’s priorities and sometimes change the subject when news coverage focuses on topics that Trump officials prefer to downplay.
Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape, a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.
Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said. Others are teed up the night before they are signed depending on impulse, political strategy and the overall mood within the White House, the official said.....
Trump’s approach to executive action has differed notably from that of his predecessors, who resorted to it at times but never with the intense frequency of Trump’s first months in office.
In less than five months, Trump has signed 157 executive orders and 62 proclamations, according to data from the Federal Register, a pace faster than any modern president. Trump surpassed the pace of his first term, when he signed an average of 55 orders a year, according to data compiled by the American Presidency Project.
trump's executive orders are mainly stunts and have little if any actual legal effect. These executive orders are signed to make trump happy.
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