Edit: damn, Trump’s first term should be labelled 2017, not 2016.
Can you layer which days the current President went golfing to see whether it aligns with the date without executive orders?
For all non Trump presidents here is it their first term? (Excluding Biden obviously)
AI is cranking out those EOs!
There’s precedent. Though the next Dem president can just sign an executive order that ‘undoes everything Trump enacted’. So instead of signing a thousand, they can sign 1.
I wish there were a limit to EOs like…5 a year or something.
Ok, I get FDR, the depression will do that. I get Trump because he’s a fascist sack of shit. Truman makes sense with WWII.
What the hell is Herbert Hoover doing here?
Fox News did a segment during the Biden administration saying that Biden was a dictator and hungry for control bc of all of his executive orders.
and Trump complained so much about Obama’s exec orders
And now I realize that I have fallen victim to propaganda because I have always heard that Obama and Biden were executive order crazy and did wild amounts of them. I assumed that might be somewhat exaggerated, but that they would still be up there instead of having a downright modest amount lol
Remember the outrage over Obama’s use of executive orders? Seems almost quaint, now.
Just talked to my Faux News brother about Trump ruling from EO and he said Oh that was because of Obama.
I will have to send him this image
That’s funny because during Obama’s term his opposition made it seem like he was the reigning king of executive orders
Instead of the New Deal, this time Americans are getting the Raw Deal.
What were those other guys doing?
Man I remember back in 2009-2010 arguing with right wingers about Obama. They told me he wasn’t fit to be president because of how many executive orders he was signing.
EOs have become more widely used in recent years due to divisive politics. Undoing the last guy’s legacy is considered a required mandate.
The supreme court’s willingness to cede power to the executive branch will only make EOs more common going forward.
Sad state of affairs for those of us who respect(ed) checks and balances.
Now the real question is how many of the executive orders are just flat out illegal. I’d wager over 50% and that’s generously low
Honestly shocked at how low Obama was given folks were humming and hawing about how many he signed. If my math is right he signed less than any two term POTUS since Grover Cleveland.
I love how a lot of ignorant Americans see executive orders as reducing rights over making changes. LOL. So take a step back folks to see simliar variances of these people doing executive orders. They are DOING something for chanage for the American people WE ASK FOR. Its why People still reference FDR items in place to day.
And before people go off about how Trump is removing said things that FDR put in place, we are not in a Depression or War for real people, even if you try to vote and put our money to it via congress and yelling lol.
He is doing the same things as others before him to get is back on track, and those so upset over bullshit things like race, gender etc. are reason we CAN’T progress. We are beyond that.
I feel like they’d weigh their EO’s much more carefully if they were capped at like, 50 per year.
good chart, confirms Trump’s people came prepared to enact their idiotic chaos this time
I remember when republicans freaked out at bidens eo’s in his first 100 days too
Totally minor, but why is Trumps first presidency listed as 2016, but the second as 2025? Is there something I’m not getting or is that just a typo?
Trump and FDR have things in common?
I have an idea.
Abolish the presidency and then have congress vote on creating a new executive branch. It needs its power back. Congress, that is. Presidency has been granted too much of it.
And don’t let that data deceive you there’s a story behind each one of those orders.
Some of them aren’t bad at all. Some of them are MONSTROUS.
There is a big difference between FDR and Trump. FDR used executive authority to make people’s lives better. Trump uses executive authority to rape the people for his personal gain.
Number of EO’s is not really a useful metric. An order declaring National Pottery Day is not the same thing as one abolishing an entire cabinet-level Department of the government (like what happened today).
Hopefully whoever the next Democrat president is learns from this current presidency
All I can think of is Steve Bannon saying “muzzle velocity”
Takes a lot to fix an unprecedented level of damage done. Doesn’t matter if the toxic spill was spread out evenly over four years. Can’t afford to wait four years to start fixing it.
![[OC] Executive Orders Issued During the First Years of U.S. Presidents](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/gbbjmlnhcype1-1706x1024.png)
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Didn’t realize how much FDR used EOs…
The source is the [Federal Register](https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders), which documents all published EOs going back to the 1930s, in addition to the [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/), which publishes the latest EOs. I used ggplot2 in R to make the graph and added the annotations in Adobe Illustrator.
Edit: damn, Trump’s first term should be labelled 2017, not 2016.
Can you layer which days the current President went golfing to see whether it aligns with the date without executive orders?
For all non Trump presidents here is it their first term? (Excluding Biden obviously)
AI is cranking out those EOs!
There’s precedent. Though the next Dem president can just sign an executive order that ‘undoes everything Trump enacted’. So instead of signing a thousand, they can sign 1.
I wish there were a limit to EOs like…5 a year or something.
Ok, I get FDR, the depression will do that. I get Trump because he’s a fascist sack of shit. Truman makes sense with WWII.
What the hell is Herbert Hoover doing here?
Fox News did a segment during the Biden administration saying that Biden was a dictator and hungry for control bc of all of his executive orders.
and Trump complained so much about Obama’s exec orders
And now I realize that I have fallen victim to propaganda because I have always heard that Obama and Biden were executive order crazy and did wild amounts of them. I assumed that might be somewhat exaggerated, but that they would still be up there instead of having a downright modest amount lol
Remember the outrage over Obama’s use of executive orders? Seems almost quaint, now.
Just talked to my Faux News brother about Trump ruling from EO and he said Oh that was because of Obama.
I will have to send him this image
That’s funny because during Obama’s term his opposition made it seem like he was the reigning king of executive orders
Instead of the New Deal, this time Americans are getting the Raw Deal.
What were those other guys doing?
Man I remember back in 2009-2010 arguing with right wingers about Obama. They told me he wasn’t fit to be president because of how many executive orders he was signing.
EOs have become more widely used in recent years due to divisive politics. Undoing the last guy’s legacy is considered a required mandate.
The supreme court’s willingness to cede power to the executive branch will only make EOs more common going forward.
Sad state of affairs for those of us who respect(ed) checks and balances.
Now the real question is how many of the executive orders are just flat out illegal. I’d wager over 50% and that’s generously low
Honestly shocked at how low Obama was given folks were humming and hawing about how many he signed. If my math is right he signed less than any two term POTUS since Grover Cleveland.
I love how a lot of ignorant Americans see executive orders as reducing rights over making changes. LOL. So take a step back folks to see simliar variances of these people doing executive orders. They are DOING something for chanage for the American people WE ASK FOR. Its why People still reference FDR items in place to day.
And before people go off about how Trump is removing said things that FDR put in place, we are not in a Depression or War for real people, even if you try to vote and put our money to it via congress and yelling lol.
He is doing the same things as others before him to get is back on track, and those so upset over bullshit things like race, gender etc. are reason we CAN’T progress. We are beyond that.
I feel like they’d weigh their EO’s much more carefully if they were capped at like, 50 per year.
good chart, confirms Trump’s people came prepared to enact their idiotic chaos this time
I remember when republicans freaked out at bidens eo’s in his first 100 days too
Totally minor, but why is Trumps first presidency listed as 2016, but the second as 2025? Is there something I’m not getting or is that just a typo?
Trump and FDR have things in common?
I have an idea.
Abolish the presidency and then have congress vote on creating a new executive branch. It needs its power back. Congress, that is. Presidency has been granted too much of it.
And don’t let that data deceive you there’s a story behind each one of those orders.
Some of them aren’t bad at all. Some of them are MONSTROUS.
There is a big difference between FDR and Trump. FDR used executive authority to make people’s lives better. Trump uses executive authority to rape the people for his personal gain.
Number of EO’s is not really a useful metric. An order declaring National Pottery Day is not the same thing as one abolishing an entire cabinet-level Department of the government (like what happened today).
Hopefully whoever the next Democrat president is learns from this current presidency
All I can think of is Steve Bannon saying “muzzle velocity”
Takes a lot to fix an unprecedented level of damage done. Doesn’t matter if the toxic spill was spread out evenly over four years. Can’t afford to wait four years to start fixing it.
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