Donald Trump is out here making Twitter threats, signing executive orders and ordering media blackouts, and that’s just within the last twenty-four hours. On Tuesday night, President Trump took to his favorite social platform to warn the city of Chicago to get its act together, tweeting: "I will send in the Feds" if they don't fix the "horrible 'carnage'" going on.

While Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuell has not issued a response to the Tweet, in an interview with WTTW's Chicago Tonight on Monday, he did express the need for federal support in addressing Chicago’s crime issue saying, “Over the years the federal government's stepped back their resources, which we have stepped up.” Mayor Emanuell went on to say, “The federal government can be a partner, and to be honest they haven't been for decades." Minutes after addressing Chicago, Trump followed up with a “Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY,” tweeting, “Among many other things, we will build the wall!”

According to the Associated Press, President Trump will begin rolling out executive actions on immigration on Wednesday that will, among other things, tighten border security and make good on his campaign promise to erect a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In the midst of all this, Trump signed executive actions to advance the approval of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, previously rejected by President Obama.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has long protested the construction of the Pipeline that stands to disrupt their reservation. In response to the order, Dallas Goldtooth, campaign director for the Indigenous Environmental Network, said, "We are prepared to push back on any reckless decision made by this administration…If Trump does not pull back from implementing these orders it will only result in more massive mobilization and civil disobedience on a scale never seen [by] a newly seated president of the United States." Following this decision, Trump suspended all EPA contracts and issued a media blackout banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency’s social media accounts. Amidst all of this, President Trump, who still insists that he only lost the popular vote due to voter fraud, had time to take to Twitter in defense of that account.

Less than one week into Donald Trump's presidency and here we are folks. Real life.

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