U.S. President Donald Trump started his administration with dazzling speed, albeit with some confusion, issuing one executive order after another to repeal the policies of his predecessor. He signed his first executive order for the repeal of Obamacare hours after he took office on Jan. 20. Trump has since issued some dozen or more executive orders to carry out his campaign promises, including withdrawal of the United States from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, construction of a wall along the Mexican border and the temporary restrictions on the entry of visitors from seven Muslim countries.
Pledging to bring back power to the hands of the American people from the Washington establishment, Trump seems committed to shake up everything conventional and create a climate where business is no longer conducted as usual and perceived common sense is no longer considered common sense. It is a political revolution launched by Trump, a business tycoon and political outsider, to grab power from America's traditional political and business elites in the name of the American people who he declared in his inaugural address should be "the rulers of this nation again."
In so doing, Trump has employed Twitter, a social networking service that allows users to post messages, known as "tweets," of up to 140 characters, as his primary weapon. He has skillfully used Twitter to disseminate his messages directly to the people, rather than through the media, which he has criticized as "dishonest."