Sri Lanka, Jan. 31 -- Just hours into his presidency, Donald Trump signed more than 10 executive orders. All of them address areas and issues he talked about at length in his campaigns, including immigration, gender rights, relations with Mexico and Canada, and his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - the latter of which will now be overseen by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy having departed under mysterious circumstances.

Whatever one may say of them, Trump's executive orders certainly do not lack ambition. In one grand sweep, he has pledged mass deportations, declared an emergency at the US-Mexico border, attempted to end birthright citizenship, done away with climate change and green energy safeguards, and withdrawn the US from...