President Trump hits the ground running

ISIS forces in Iraq suffered several casualties as well. One strike in the city of Rutbah destroyed a tactical unit and vehicle, two weapons caches and a mortar. Another in Beiji left a unit and vehicle destroyed. A strike in Kisik destroyed a building and tactical unit. Another in Tal Afar also destroyed a unit, truck and command node. The city of Mosul, which acts as the terrorist group’s regional capital in Iraq, received two strikes, which destroyed two units, three fighting positions, a tank, and a car bomb factory. How's that for a first day on the job? No dragging of feet like pro-Islamist Barack Obama did for the last several years. General Mattis had described the Obama administration's approach to ISIS by saying “the current U.S. effort against ISIS is unguided by a sustained policy or sound strategy [and] replete with half-measures.” And speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2015 Mattis had said "that the U.S. effort against ISIS was 'strategy free,' elaborating that the U.S. needs to 'come out from our reactive crouch and take a firm, strategic stance in defense of our values.’ ” As Donald Trump went about his business on day one of his presidency, hundreds of thousands across the country were protesting a false Donald Trump straw man. One of the leaders of the protest was Linda Sarsour, a pro-sharia law, anti-Israel Palestinian-American community activist:

“An outspoken critic of Israel, Sarsour supports the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative that uses various forms of public protest, economic pressure, and court rulings to advance the Hamas agenda of permanently destroying Israel as a Jewish nation-state. “Vis-a-vis the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, Sarsour favors a one-state solution where an Arab majority and a Jewish minority would live together within the borders of a single country. She made clear her opposition to Israel's existence as a Jewish state when she tweeted in October 2012 that ‘nothing is creepier than Zionism.’ “Falsely maintaining that ‘Palestine existed before the State of Israel,’ Sarsour seeks to help ‘bring back a Palestinian State for the Palestinian people.’ To advance this agenda, Sarsour has tweeted images of fraudulent maps claiming to depict the ‘Palestinian loss of land’ that supposedly occurred between 1946 and 2000.”

Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed to reporters late Sunday afternoon that President Trump will meet at the White House with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders on Monday. The President will have a very busy first week:

“Mr. Trump is planning executive actions early in the week on immigration and trade, two White House officials said, and will have a chance to lay the groundwork for a trade deal during a meeting Friday with British Prime Minister Theresa May, the first foreign leader to visit the new president in the White House. He also will meet with congressional leaders on Monday and attend a lawmakers’ retreat later in the week, where he could discuss his legislative agenda.” “The president’s pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, is scheduled for a confirmation vote in the Senate on Monday, and White House officials expect at least three more cabinet nominees—Ben Carson for Housing and Urban Development, Nikki Haley as United Nations ambassador and Rick Perry for energy secretary—to face votes by week’s end. Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, on Sunday cleared a key hurdle on his path to become secretary of state.”

And while “numerous unconfirmed reports...in the international media were circulating Sunday that President Donald Trump intends to announce on Monday that “he will relocate the U.S. embassy to Israel from the coastal city of Tel Aviv to the capital city of Jerusalem,” the Trump administration said otherwise: "The White House has responded to the reports in the foreign press with a statement indicating that no statement on Jerusalem was ‘imminent,’ and that the administration was ‘at the very beginning stages of even discussing this subject.’ ”