A quick funny showing Presidential abilities and outlooks:

Heh! Already, some of the Deep State has figured out where this stick ended up:
“The CBP One app, a government platform that the Biden administration used to admit more than 740,000 immigrants into the United States, was shuttered within moments of President Donald Trump taking office this afternoon.
Customs and Border Protection announced Monday afternoon that CBP One would no longer allow immigrants outside the U.S. border to schedule appointments with U.S. customs officers at ports of entry on the southern border or submit information for permission to fly on commercial flights into the country from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Effective January 20, 2025 at 12:00PM Eastern Time, the functionalities of CBP One™ that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available. All appointments have been cancelled,” said the post to Instagram.”
Remember those “51 Intelligence officers” that wrote that now infamous “Letter” during the election castigating Trump and deeming him not worthy of being President? Ayup, sharp and of the stick. Names here.
President Trump’s State Department transition team has asked scores of bureaucrats to resign from their positions no later than noon on Monday. The focus of the changes seems aimed at gutting the notoriously recalcitrant, hidebound, and, yes, leftist State Department staff and preventing any centers of resistance from forming as Marco Rubio builds his team.
“Adm. Linda Lee Fagan has been terminated by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman, the official said. Fagan has demonstrated leadership deficiencies, operational failures and an inability to advance the strategic objectives of the Coast Guard.
These include the failure to address border security threats, insufficient leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in acquiring key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and an “erosion of trust” over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor.”
- …Fires Immigration Judges
“The acting head of the U.S. immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday soon after President Trump took office, according to three people familiar with the matter, in a purge of the top echelon of a critical part of the government’s immigration system.
…Immigration judges oversee an essential part of the system: granting asylum to migrants whose claims pass muster and ordering the deportation of those whose cases do not. “
And one more…for now:
The acting DHS head has put an end to the last of the Ministry of Truth functions pushed by the Biden administration:
Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security chief has ordered the dismantling of all the department’s advisory boards to guard against “misuse of resources” after the Biden administration’s disastrous attempt to create a Big Brother-style “Disinformation Governance Board,” The Post has learned.
In a memo dispatched Monday evening, Benjamine Huffman mandated the “termination of all current memberships on advisory committees with DHS, effective immediately.”
“Future committee activities will be focused solely on advancing our critical mission to protect the homeland and support DHS’s strategic priorities,” the memo went on.
“…who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again.
“Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon,” he continued, announcing the following removals: “Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, [General] Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council.”
Milley – you know, the general that called his Chinese counterpart to rat out Trump’s moves ( you know, TREASON??)? Who Trump just had his pic removed from the Pentagon? Yeah, that one.
Sure, there are some areas of Govt that have sent their DEI and Ministry of Truth personnel to burrow into other areas – officially gone but still functioning?
Perhaps – and for a while but with news like this, it’s clear that just like Obama purging 200+ flag (e.g., generals, admirals) that didn’t toe his Alinsky / DEI / Marxism line, Trump is just starting to do some big time pruning and running down the rabbit holes to make sure that Government is not only “America First” but also hewing to the Constitution limitations placed upon them (and Chevron and Major Decisions SCOTUS decisions are also helping).
And this is just Day Two, there are others, and I’m very sure we’ll be hearing about tons of other cases.
Unfortunately, we have seen the old Spoils System comes back – except the same staff never left when Presidents and political appointees did. I have some tabs, somewhere, on that history. The reform for the “Civil Service”, however and over the decades, has let the “Party of Government” take it over to where the greatest threat to the Republic – the right to self-government – is in danger of the invasion of the Administrative State (e.g., unelected, unaccountable, and unassailable bureaucrats) that is close to winning the war.
(H/T: Instapundit)