Just moments after President Donald Trump took the oath of office today, the official White House website was transformed into a set of policy pledges that offered the broad contours of the Trump administration's top priorities -- a list that included fierce support for law enforcement bordering on vigilantism, an immediate elimination of the White House's policy page on climate page and a notable absence of any directives involving President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
"Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter," reads the law and order section, which calls for "more law enforcement" and "more effective policing." "Our job is to make life more comfortable for parents who want their kids to be able to walk the streets safely. Or the senior citizen waiting for a bus. Or the young child walking home from school."
The issues page of Trump's White House offers no new plans or policies but rather a rehash of many of his most prominent campaign promises -- a signal to the nation that Trump, more pragmatic than ideological, plans to implement at least the key guideposts of his campaign vision.
His policies include plans to both withdraw from and renegotiate major trade deals, grow the nation's military and increase cyber-security capabilities, build a wall at the nation's southern border and deport undocumented immigrants who have committed violent crimes.
Strikingly absent from the six issues the website highlights -- and from his speech today -- was anything on repealing or replacing Obamacare. The issue was a defining feature of his campaign, and aides have signalled he may begin the process of undoing the law in a series of executive actions he hopes to sign in the early days of his presidency.