The President's Daily Brief
January 29th, 2025: How Trump Is Shaking Up The US Military & A Russian Hit Job in Germany
29 Jan 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: President Trump issues a wave of executive orders reshaping the U.S. military—banning transgender service members and dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. A senior NATO official confirms a Russian plot to assassinate the head of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, part of a broader effort to weaken Europe’s defense industry. A developing crisis in Africa: A rebel alliance has seized the largest city in the mineral-rich eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening regional stability. And in today’s Back of the Brief: The White House finally provides some answers about last year’s mysterious drone sightings across the northeast. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Wednesday, 29 January. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, we're looking at a series of new executive orders from President Trump that are shaking up the U.S. military, from banning transgender service members to dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Later in the show, a senior NATO official confirms a Russian plot to assassinate the head of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, part of a larger effort to target Europe's defense industry and intimidate EU nations.
Plus, a developing situation in Africa, where a rebel alliance has seized the largest city in the mineral-rich eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening the stability of the region. And in today's back of the brief, do you remember the mystery drones over New Jersey? Seems like ages ago.
Well, we're now getting some answers from the White House on last year's drone sightings across the Northeast. And spoiler alert, they were not alien spaceships. Well, at least that's what we're being told. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. President Trump's executive order blitzkrieg shows no signs of letting up as the president seeks to shake up the U.S.
military and purge its ranks of, quote, woke ideology. On Monday, Trump issued a wave of executive orders reshaping Pentagon operations, namely banning transgender service members from the military and gutting diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The actions build off of an executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office, revoking the Biden administration's 2021 directive allowing trans people to serve openly in the military. That's according to an exclusive report from the New York Post.
The new orders specifically prohibit, quote, gender radicalism in the military, barring any service member who identifies as a gender other than their birth sex from serving or enlisting on the grounds of mental unfitness.
Now, it's not clear how the administration will deal with the estimated 9,000 active duty and 6,000 reserve troops already enlisted who identify as transgender, though it directs the Pentagon to determine a policy for those individuals within 30 days.
Furthermore, the orders ban biological men and women from sharing bathrooms, bedrooms, and changing areas while in the service and prohibits the use of, quote, invented and identification-based pronoun usage, end quote. President Trump said Monday, to ensure we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military.
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