It seemed like the president needed a little assurance.
It was in the eastern room of the White House, which was full of children, conservative activists, influences and six Republican rulers, from Florida, Texas, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa. Everyone had come to attend him to sign an executive order to locate the training department, something that the conservatives dreamed of doing for decades. No other president had done it, not even the first time he was in office.
Now it was back, and there was the order, sitting at the top of a small office on the front of this magnificent room, waiting to be signed.
Everyone around his office was many other small offices, the kind of sitting at school. Children of various ages, dressed in school costumes, sat down under their offices. They looked as expected as Mr Trump approached.
He turned to a little boy and said, “Do I have to do that?” The boy was eagerly nodded. The president turned around and looked at a young girl. “Should I do it?” he asked. He also shook.
He encouraged, sat down, pulled out his pen and ran. The rulers and children and their parents break out into applause.
In a way, the signing of Thursday’s executive order was in the trademark for Mr Trump. Whether he releases records related to the murder of John F. Kennedy, cleaning the Kennedy board to appoint himself his head, or to chart the education department, this president is proud of doing whatever none of the others dare to do.
But otherwise, this signature session was weird, and even he had to admit. He did not have this fiery belief that he usually brings to such cases.
He continued to emphasize that what he was doing was not as radical as it would seem: “It sounds strange, not?
In fact, only Congress can abolish a cabinet office, but Mr Trump’s mandate has essentially called on the Department of Education to end up in a plan to close.
He insisted that “everyone knows it is right”, and reminded the room that when the department was founded by President Jimmy Carter in the same room in which Mr Trump is now destroying him, many Americans opposed the idea – even the “renowned democrat” Daniel Patrick Moyni.
Mr Trump acknowledged that he put on the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, from a job that was probably a little embarrassed. “Will we find something else to do, okay?” He told her.
It often describes the people who make up the federal workforce as part of a shadowed bell that is very happy to be able to. Not so in this case. “They are good people,” he said of the 4,200 people in the Department of Education, many of whom fired effectively.
“I want to make a little personal statement,” Trump said at one point. The teachers, he said, are one of the most important people in the country and everyone should love them. Elsewhere, he promised that the money for the federal Pell Grant would not disappear. “It is supposed to be a very good program,” he said.
What was interesting to Mr Trump’s seemingly ambiguity about this thing he was going to do was that everyone around him was so overwhelming ecstatic for it. The person who seemed less excited about what was happening was the one who made him happen.
“I never thought we would make a serious significant education reform, let alone disassembling the Ministry of Education,” said Terry Schilling, a 38 -year -old father and activist from Burke, VA., A Washington suburb. He was there with his red -haired wife and six of their seven children. “It’s a beautiful day,” he said, bouncing a baby called tucker on his shoulder, “and I’m so happy to be here.”
There were room activists such as Chaya Raichik, the creator of the influence of Libs on Tiktok, and Tiffany Justice, co -founder of Moms for Liberty, a group of parents who worked hard to help Mr Trump. This was exactly how they hoped that a Trump’s restoration could go.
“You had a lot of Republican presidents to promise this,” observed Penny Nance, the president of interested women for America. Mr Trump did not have the lawsuit to break the Department of Education the last time he was president.
What changed?
“It was four years to think about it and plan,” Ms Nance said. “We all did, honestly.”
