On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to enact any number of presidential edicts and executive orders on Day One of his presidency. Day One was Monday, Inauguration Day.

A person can only sign so many pieces of paper on a busy afternoon filled with solemn events and gala parties. But a desk was literally set up for Trump to sit at inside the Capitol Arena after his inauguration, and aides said he was expected to sign up to 100 executive orders within hours of taking office.

How many of those Day One orders can actually, practically, take real effect, and how many will be stalled by some bureaucratic hurdle or question of how to implement?

That’s our Question of the Week for readers.

In his inaugural address, Trump said that he would sign “orders declaring a national emergency at the border, allowing the deployment of troops, and a national energy emergency, allowing him to unlock powers to speed permitting for pipelines. Mr. Trump said he would also sign orders designating cartel organizations as ‘global terrorists,’ and ending electric vehicle mandates passed by the Biden administration,” The New York Times reported from Washington Monday. What would the use of troops inside our borders actually look like?

Last year, a record amount of oil was pumped within U.S. borders. Major oil companies are actually against pumping much more, as the consequent lower prices would hurt the bottom line. How much more oil will be pumped?

If Mexican drug cartels are designated as terrorists, would President Trump actually take military action against them outside our borders?

How will the president square ending policies favoring electric vehicles with his friendship with Elon Musk?

Trump wants to end birthright citizenship — the guarantee in the Constitution that anyone born in the United States is automatically an American citizen. How can an executive order supersede the Constitution?

What will the president’s first moves be toward his promise to deport all undocumented immigrants?

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