The Highwire with Del Bigtree - BARRAGE OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS MARKS TRUMP’S FIRST DAYS

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

A barrage of Executive Orders marked our new President’s first days in office. Several orders are significant for medical freedom including the reinstatement of troops who refused a COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O., and a pause on all gain-of-function research.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Let's move in now to the slew of executive orders. Trump has put forth in just a couple days in office at this point. And first and foremost, I think this is one of the most positive. Trump says he'll reinstate troops who refuse the COVID-19 vaccination. This is gigantic. They will receive back pay. We're talking about 8,400 troops that will go back on duty. So gigantic.

And this is a testament and a kind of a salute to them saying, you stood your ground and you should be not only brought back, received back pay, but rewarded for that. We recognized what you did and the courage it took to do that. And so that was the right move and that sends a large message. And so huge, huge.

A very important message too, just to jump in, Jeffrey, which is this. So many people are afraid. We know that President Trump still celebrated this COVID vaccine that many of us, many of you that watch the highwire, we've shown all of the problems it has. Why won't he admit fault? You know, why won't he apologize?

guys, but I do think you have to recognize the nuance here. And it's an important one. Remember, he's not just giving these guys the military, their jobs back for denying a Biden vaccine. It's the vaccine he celebrated. So it shows you that there's, there's, you know, some complexity to how Trump sees things. And it does also prove to me what he's been saying, which is, hey, I'm going to let technology move forward, but I'm also going to stand for your right to choose. I would never mandate this on you. So I just think it's ironic that these military stood up against the vaccine that he's celebrating that he made and he's still saying you're going to get your jobs back. I support that. I think it's important to recognize that this president has the ability

to sort of look at this from two lenses that are very important. Absolutely. And on day one, he moved also on free speech and not on it like Biden moved on it, but actually to protect it, to further enshrine it. This was an executive order. called Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship. And there's three parts to this. I want to just really break it down quickly. He says no federal government officer, employer, agent can engage in or facilitate any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the freedom of speech of any American citizen.

Great. But then he says no taxpayer resources can be used to abridge this free speech. And then he also says that they're going to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the federal government related to censorship and protected speech. They got the word cut out for them. But that's interesting because the U.S. government propped up and funded what has been called media literacy, fact-checking, this entire infrastructure build-out since 2016. They funded this through organizations like Department of Homeland Security, CISA, USAID, HHS.

And on the other side, on the private sector side, you had organizations like META and Mark Zuckerberg, gleefully allowing fact checkers to come in and censor Americans, taking spreadsheets from the United States government and saying, yes, we'll censor this and we'll censor this. And so Zuckerberg says he's not going to allow fact checkers anymore. The government's cutting the funding. This idea of media literacy and fact checking appears to be dying on the vine, if not dead already, which is very welcome to free speech. But now we have in 2020, Trump withdrew from the World Health Organization. Remember, the World Health Organization. We had Biden. reinstate the United States into the World Health Organization. At that point, you had the pandemic

treaty international health regulations that the World Health Organization was trying to put forward to basically dictate to countries how they respond to pandemics under their edicts. And now we have 2025. Trump withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization, finishing what he started. So that appears to be happening as we speak. Which also begs the question. How good did that meeting with Bill Gates go? I mean, Bill Gates seemed pretty chipper, but WHO is the primary weapon that he's used to push his NGO agendas. And I remember last time when President Trump pulled out of the WHO, that made Bill Gates the number one funding body with all of his organizations he's involved in above China, who I think was the second nation in line. So again, I mean, I have a little bit of hope. And now people were thinking, well, what do they meet about?

Well, certainly Bill Gates didn't say, you know what I'd really love you to do? Pull out of the WHO. That'll make my job a lot easier. So again, I like this. I think it's super important. We've been reporting on the WHO treaty, all of these things. It appears that's on President Trump's radar. This is a gigantic move that I know we here at the High Wire very excited about.

Absolutely. And it'll be interesting to see because the U.S. is about 12% roughly funder of Bill Gates initiative, Gavi, the vaccine. initiative. And so it would be interesting to see moving forward in 2025 what that looks like as far as U.S. funding. There's been no signal to to increase or decrease funding there. But this Trump administration has also frozen many health agency reports and an online post from the CDC, FDA, HHS. And a lot of people are really trying to look into this and saying this looks like a conspiracy was happening. They're trying to silence the CDC. Oh my God, both sides of the aisle are really

trying to read into this. But you go into this article. It seems very simple. It says whether stated publicly or not, every new administration wants important commitments and positions to wait until new teams are in place and some semblance of herocracy restored. A pause is reasonable as a change, a changing executive branch takes steps to become coordinated, says Dr. Ali Khan, a former CDC outbreak investigator who is now the Dean of University of Nebraska's public health college. So this is kind of just standard operating procedure. So everyone can get on the same page, especially with a lot of these changes happening. And one of the biggest things here we're talking about...

Well, it makes sense. I mean, when you look at it, especially when we're seeing some feet dragging around confirmations right now and getting people into office, you have this government sitting there that's not yours, right? It's all the old unemployed, old employees that are, you know, not sure if they're staying or going, but they could really wreak havoc by, you know, continuing to put out things that are, you know, you are disagreeing that you plan on changing. So I understand this. Everybody, hold on a second. We're not going to put out any reports until it's the people that I'm bringing in. So I think that makes perfect sense. Seems like a smart move. Yeah. And just a couple final headlines here. We go back talking about that 2014 pause on gain of

function. It looks like Trump has taken a page from that. Here we are a little over 10 years later. Trump orders seeks to stop virus research that critics have linked to COVID. This is the gain of function. So doing the investigation into that. And then something a little funny, but not really Trump's doing. Maybe RFK is doing. We don't really know. But steak and shake to cook fries and beef tallow, the authentic way they say. So this is really kind of a sea change. And it's interesting because we're talking about making America healthy again. And what would be a really great way to do that? Well, in every city and every state in the United States are multiple chains of fast food change with terrible ultra-processed food ingredients. So one of the easiest ways would be to start

replacing that with taking out the canola oils, the seed oils. We know all of the issues, health issues of those cause and put something like this in there. And just these small steps would have pretty big, far-reaching change for just a small movement. So this is one of the last things that we're seeing right now. But these executive orders are coming hot and heavy. So we're going to keep an eye on them. Yeah, and I want to say to people, even though it may seem, you know, funny that steak and shake is making this move. But these are those opportunities where you actually can influence markets and really start forcing change. I would recommend not necessarily if you don't go to fast food restaurants to go out and start eating fast food. But if you do,

definitely make sure you go to steak and shake over these next couple of weeks because if we see that that stock value goes up and that people are really responding, if we're seeing that, guess who's seeing that? Burger King is seeing that. McDonald's is seeing that. Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nabisco. All of these companies are watching right now. How much do people really care? Do these things make a difference? You want to affect the market. We've said it over and over again. You vote with your dollars. I would recommend supporting steak and shake on this. This is a move we want to see every, you want every restaurant to be doing this. Wouldn't it be great if we never have to ask, you know, what is this food being fried in? Is a bunch of chemicals and seed oils? And just know that, you know, we've now reached a place where it's understood. The mega-3s are much higher. There's actually, some nutritional value to it. I mean, not recommending fried foods, but if you're going to do it, there's certainly better products. Great reporting, Jeffrey. Super exciting time. I mean, I'm sure there's going to be plenty for us to complain about. We're not going to, you know, keep, take our foot off of the gas. But it is a whole different type of reporting we're listening

to right now as you're the first statements coming out of President Trump's mouth. All of them, Well, I mean, all of the ones in our sector of natural health, I suppose, sans the M RNA cancer vaccine, but so many things moving our direction and things that we care about, which is exciting. I think that change is happening and good things can happen. And I feel like we've played some part in that by bringing this pressure.