On Monday, Donald Trump took the oath of office, bringing with him a laundry list of sweeping promises. Your head will spin. Remember, that’s what he said about his day one plans well now it’s Wednesday, and how are things looking let’s take his pledge to launch the largest deportation effort in US history has he displaced millions and upended countless families. You know, the last time such mass deportations occurred under Eisenhower and FDR, American citizens were caught in the crossfire. The human cost, unmeasurable, the financial cost, astronomical. Estimates suggest that mass deportation could cost taxpayers upwards of 400 billion. Is this how we want our money spent? And then there’s Trump’s promise to close the US border. What’s the status on that? If I recall his own advisers admitted closing borders was more of a punitive measure, and history shows that isolating ourselves economically like his proposed tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada hurts American consumers. If we recall, during Trump’s first term, tariffs cost the average American family an additional 1300 annually. Add to that today’s inflation and families are left footing an even steeper bill. So how are the price of eggs? Now? Have they gone down? Now, let’s consider Trump’s vow to cut federal funding for schools teaching so called inappropriate content or enforcing health mandates, something He also promised on day one. What’s the status there on this threat to what penalized public schools for supporting equity or promoting students health. By the way, do we really want our children’s educators subject to political retribution? Our nation’s public schools are already underfunded and in need of support, not threats. And of course, let’s not forget the promise to end birthright citizenship, something locked into that whole thing we call the US Constitution that kind of needs a very big vote from Congress to actually change beyond the impracticality Trump’s day one promises reflect a larger pattern using executive power to stoke division rather than build unity. History reminds us that authoritarian overreach never serves the people. It serves the powerful. So what’s our action plan as Americans? We must stay informed, demand accountability and defend our values. The people who put him in office must wake up. The ice cream machines at McDonald’s are more reliable than this man, and he is not going to do anything that uplifts we, the people. He’s just going to sow strife and chaos while increasing our economic cost, it’s perfectly okay to recognize that maybe you voted wrong, and now invest in leaders who actually want democracy, who want to make change that helps advance you, that moves you toward healthcare and being able to economically support yourself. Better. Jobs, better living an environment that is healthy. Invest in a leader that is not an authoritarian. That may mean staying informed, attending town halls, holding representatives accountable. Use your voice. We do have a say in the kind of nation that we leave our future generations. Now it’s easy to feel powerless when authoritarians are in control, but as history has shown, change comes when the people rise together. Now that is a promise, and it’s one that I can keep.