Since Donald Trump was elected President of the USA, has there been one piece of legislation that was not the result of a direct presidential order?

I have the impression the USA is now run by a dictator, am I mistaken?

Lots I expect, but that's just day to day Congressional business. Much more "interesting" to the media to see Trump signing yet another order.

Meanwhile Johnny Depp is the latest to "threaten" to kill Trump.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40377075

Key phrase there is "I lie for a living". He's been caught out before lying about things he's done in his life so take what he said with a large pinch of salt.

...you mean that Swiss system that has FMOP with the EU?

No, the one for non-EU or in the UK's case for non-UK nationals.

But every year there were more non-EU immigrants than EU and non-EU visas are controlled; in 2016 the gross numbers were (the net numbers you quote account for emigrants) were EU 250,000 and non-EU 264,000.

Anybody who believes Theresa will reduce immigration to "tens of thousands" is living in a fantasy world.

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Doesn't change the fact that you're a hypocrite of the highest magnitude.

Why? Because I don't appreciate economic migrants rocking up on our shores because they can't get in any other way? We got here legitimately. If that offends you, sorry.

The only way to do that is to scrap most of the current legitimate immigration routes.

In other words time to brick up the Chunnel?

Oh, like the one the UK has always had?

But see, we should be paying attention to what congress is doing rather than bombastic ravings of the loon in chief.

A classic case of "f#ck you, got mine" if I ever saw it.


What offends me, personally, is that you seem to think being the spouse of someone with a marketable skill makes you more valuable to your host country than one of those dirty "economic migrants". Why don't we ever refer to British IT workers as economic migrants?

But has she really got hers? She's on a C-permit. She is not Swiss! So she is by no means 'home and dry' as it were, for as she herself has said on a number of occasions, it is only Swiss passport holders who have the right to remain here indefinitely.

Yes. Since Trump took office, Congress has passed 42 pieces of legislation through both houses. Of those, 40 are now signed into law and 2 are still pending Trump's signature. Many of these are rolling back previous regulations from various departments (Labor, Education, Energy to name a few). Source, if you need a cure for insomnia.

Trump has signed 37 executive orders so far in his young presidency. While not "laws" in the traditional sense, they do have legal weight so long as they don't violate the Constitution or existing laws. Thus the reason for some of the court activity so far. Source.

Dictator? Not yet. Buffoon? Most certainly.

And is that a lot for the time he has been in office?

The "immigrant" scenario I was referring to was Medea's naturalisation as a British citizen; iirc, she is an American who acquired British citizenship and now objects to others emigrating to the U.K. Since then, Medea moved to CH as a trailing spouse and has taken up the cudgels again.

Understood. Well since she hasn't naturalised again here in CH ... like many of us she is here on a C-permit... so semi-safe for the long-term stay... but never 100% safe...

Compared to several of the more recent presidents, I'd say yes. If you look at this list, Trump is on track for an average of 90 executive orders per year in office. That's assuming he stays 4 years or more.

Bush 43 and Obama averaged 36.4 and 34.6 EOs per year, so less than Trump has in 6 months.

You have to go back 12 presidents to Harry S Truman to get someone with that level of executive ordering going around (average of 116 per year). The closest "recent" president is Carter, with an average of 80 per year.

Since Trump is accustomed to a CEO role, I expect he will use more EOs than his recent predecessors. If he gets a full 8 years, maybe he'll match up with FDR's average of 308 per year. He seems to think he's the greatest president since FDR, so I guess that's a goal...

So can we perhaps say he is actually doing something, doing his job, really working hard, trying to implement change? Is America changing under Trump?

Not all economic migrants are illegal. Presumably you and your other half migrated to Switzerland (at least in part) because of the economic opportunities, not just because you like chocolate and cheese.

It's a bit of a loaded question because he's so unconventional. He is trying to implement change, starting with the number of executive orders and bringing in millionaires with no public sector experience to run various cabinet departments. No one since Kennedy has had so much family involved in the inner workings of the administration. No one has ever had the level of worldwide business contacts and private wealth that can lead to conflicts of interest at best, and serious legal tangles at worst.

It remains to be seen whether the changes he and the Republicans are implementing will benefit average Americans or simply make the divide between the rich and poor even larger.

Thanks, it isn't very obvious to me that Congress and HoR are doing anything. The press are not reporting the day to day stuff.