Trump Just Dismantled Biden's Entire Presidency With Unprecedented Move

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The implications of this are hard to fathom. President Trump’s decision to invalidate executive orders and documents not personally hand-signed by Joe Biden is one of the most consequential actions of his second term so far. By focusing on the heavy reliance on autopen signatures—reportedly used for roughly 92% of Biden’s documents—Trump is arguing that many of the previous administration’s most far-reaching policies lacked proper presidential authorization and will therefore be void. Whether courts ultimately agree or not, the practical and political effects are already rippling across the country.

The legal argument is straightforward: an autopen is permissible only when the president explicitly directs its use. If staffers applied Biden’s signature without his direct, case-by-case approval—especially during periods when his cognitive capacity was widely questioned—those documents could be unenforceable. That single premise puts hundreds of executive orders, memoranda, and even some pardons in jeopardy.

Immigration is the clearest flashpoint. Biden’s first-day actions halting border-wall construction, ending the Remain in Mexico policy, and imposing a 100-day deportation pause were all signed by autopen. If those orders are nullified, the legal basis for many of the administration’s border policies collapses. Deportation proceedings that were paused could resume immediately, and the executive branch would regain authority to reinstate Trump-era enforcement tools without waiting for new legislation. Border-state governors and ICE leadership have probably already begun reviewing which pre-2021 protocols can be reactivated overnight.

Energy policy is another area facing sudden reversal. Biden’s pause on new oil and gas leases on federal lands, along with the cancellation of the Keystone XL permit, were autopen-signed. Striking them down would reopen tens of thousands of acres to drilling and remove the single largest regulatory obstacle to the pipeline’s completion. Industry analysts estimate domestic oil production could rise by several hundred thousand barrels per day within months if permitting bottlenecks are cleared.

On the foreign-policy front, the Afghanistan withdrawal orders and certain arms-sale restrictions tied to the Abraham Accords expansion are also under review. While the withdrawal itself cannot be undone, related funding freezes and diplomatic directives could be. Perhaps most controversially, the blanket pardons issued in Biden’s final weeks—including the one for Hunter Biden and Dr. Fauci —were reportedly processed through the same autopen system. If a court accepts the unauthorized-signature argument, those pardons could be challenged, reopening cases that many Americans believed and still believe were settled through family influence rather than merit. And in the case of Dr. Fauci, he has a lot of answering to do to the American public given how atrociously he handled the pandemic.

Social policy is not exempt. The Title IX executive order that redefined “sex” to include gender identity, effectively mandating transgender participation in women’s sports, was another autopen document. Its potential invalidation would return enforcement discretion to the states and protect female athletic categories without requiring new federal legislation. Luckily Trump has already done a lot of work on this front, and for the most part common sense has been restored.

None of this is cost-free, of course. Businesses that invested under the assumption of certain subsidies are bracing for uncertainty, and federal agencies are scrambling to determine which regulations remain in force. Lawsuits from both sides are most likely already being drafted.

Yet the core question remains simple: if a president did not personally authorize a signature, does the American people’s consent still stand behind it? Trump’s answer is no. Whatever one thinks of the tactic, the practical outcome is that large parts of the Biden legacy now hang on a mechanical arm and a rubber stamp—and that arm may have moved one time too many.

CORRECTION: On our previous article, we mistakenly said that both of the Guardsmen who were shot in Washington DC had passed away. We said this because the Governor of West Virginia issued an official statement claiming that was the case. Since the Guardsmen were from West Virginia, we believed he would know. It has come to our attention, that at the time our article was published, both Guardsmen were still in the hospital, and that the Governor of West Virginia made a claim that was factually incorrect. We apologize for the error.