Donald Trump tends to deflect attention from his witlessness by talking a lot, spewing a continual stream of hot air signifying nothing but narcissism and hate. It's a strategy now adopted by the people writing his stampede of executive orders, which read less like legal documents and more like Facebook rants written by a newly pardoned J6er on his 8th glass of Wild Turkey. But Trump has a tell: The more he talks, the less he has to say. And it seems this may also hold for his executive orders. The most verbose executive orders are likely the ones with the least power to effect change, a fact Trump's minions are trying to hide by overwhelming people with verbiage.
So it was with an executive order with the typical hyperventilating title "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling," which clocked in at a miserable 2,391 words, all devoted to solving a "problem" that exists only in the imaginations of right-wing activists. "In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight," the document breathlessly claims. It goes on to allege that "innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color" and even that "young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body." Yep, they are accusing your local schoolteacher of badgering your cis kid until they turn trans, which is not how any of this works. It's a genuine surprise the authors of this order held back from claims that teachers summoned demons or practiced witchcraft, though you know they say that stuff to each other off the clock. Trump, after all, infamously repeated during his campaign the lie that "they’re allowed to take your child when he goes to school and turn him into a male — to a female — without parental consent.”
