Dear Leader signed 10 Holy Executive Orders last night. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll say, “this is the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen!” Starting with how they all begin “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,” and then decreeing rules that the Constitution makes clear are supposed to be made by Congress.

An Executive Order is a wish list, a statement of intent, it is not law. But with Congress rolling over and playing dead, and the Supreme Court willing to let him do just about whatever, the orders are more like “this is what’s happening until a court steps in to stop it.” Okay, probably you won’t laugh. We were just trying to hook you with the lede.

. . . There’s Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at Universities; Trump insists that a whole lot of foreign money is flowing into universities, and the universities are hiding it, so he wants to “protect the marketplace of ideas from propaganda sponsored by foreign governments.” Hoo boy is that rich, coming from the guy who has never met a Russian talking point he doesn’t repeat! Surprise, surprise, this is one more way to threaten, probe, and extort universities into giving up their academic freedom to become mouthpieces of the state, and to harass Harvard some more, in particular.

. . . There is also an order to make a task force to “promote AI literacy” in students starting in kindergarten, so they can learn about the robot overlords that will replace them after they grow up to toil in manufacturing. Here is ONE most important thing to know about AI, kids, the error rate for American AI products is 62 percent, so you shouldn’t rely on it for anything more crucial than making videos of Trump sewing Nikes in a factory.