NEW: Trump Makes Democrats Melt Down With Slew Of Executive Orders

President Donald Trump set off a political earthquake Monday, rolling out a barrage of executive orders that take aim at criminal justice, free speech, and election rules—causing outrage from Democrats and drawing immediate legal threats from civil liberties groups.

Among the most contentious actions was an order ending cashless bail in Washington, D.C., with Trump threatening to cut federal funding to any jurisdiction that refuses to comply. The policy shift, which the administration says is aimed at curbing violent crime, also allows federal authorities to take custody of certain defendants in local cases.

In 2022, after losing key county seats and observing troubling trends in states such as Illinois and California, New York Democrats reduced their backing for cashless bail policies.

“This was a nationally coordinated campaign by the Republicans, and we did not, frankly, rise to the occasion to explain to people what we did do and how the point was and still is not to criminalize poverty — it’s to criminalize criminals,” New York state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in an interview at the time.

Trump spoke confidently from the Oval Office as he signed the new orders. “We are at a point where Washington is booming again,” he said. “People are pouring in like we haven’t seen for years.”

He pointed to recent crime data to defend his approach. Over the past 11 days, since his safety initiative began, Trump said there have been zero murders in the city. He also noted authorities have “arrested a total of well over a thousand people” and “took hundreds of guns away from young kids that were throwing them around like it was candy.” In addition, he said “scores of illegal aliens” were taken into custody.

In another move that stunned Democrats, Trump signed an order directing federal prosecutors to charge individuals who burn the American flag—a direct challenge to decades-old Supreme Court precedent protecting such acts under the First Amendment. Legal experts predict a swift constitutional showdown, but Trump remained defiant.

Trump also escalated federal control in the District by deploying National Guard troops and asserting authority over the Metropolitan Police Department. He justified the decision as a response to rising lawlessness.

“If you look at the top 25 cities that the crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats,” Trump said.

Washington, D.C.’s Attorney General announced a lawsuit within hours, arguing that the action violates the Home Rule Act and strips local leaders of control over their own law enforcement.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized the move as “unsettling and unprecedented” and described it as part of an “authoritarian push.” She pointed out that crime in the city had fallen significantly since the pandemic, with violent crime reaching its lowest level in three decades.

While pledging to cooperate with federal officials, the Democrat cautioned residents to keep their kids from gathering in large groups, warning, “because they will be a target.”

Adding to the political clash, Trump ordered the Justice Department to sue California over its newly passed redistricting law, claiming the legislation unfairly benefits Democrats. The state’s Democratic leaders dismissed the lawsuit as a partisan stunt designed to rally Trump’s base ahead of the 2026 midterms.