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briefings-statements/2025-02/2025-02-09-presidential-message-on-super-bowl-lix.md

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+---
+date: '2025-02-09'
+published_time: 2025-02-09 17:10:41-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/02/presidential-message-on-super-bowl-lix/
+tags: briefings-statements
+title: Presidential Message on Super Bowl LIX
+---
+
+I look forward to joining the fans in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX to
+cheer on two great teams—the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia
+Eagles—as they battle for the National Football League’s Vince Lombardi
+Trophy.  
+
+The coaches, players, and team staff on the field tonight represent the
+best of the best in professional football, but they also embody the best
+of the American Dream.  Their hard work, dedication, and tenacity is
+admirable, and their individual journeys are as inspiring as the drive
+and determination that has led them to this extraordinary moment.  They
+also represent the hopes and dreams of our Nation’s young athletes as we
+restore safety and fairness in sports and equal opportunities among
+their teams.  
+
+Football is America’s most popular sport—for good reason—it fosters a
+sense of national unity, bringing families, friends, and fans together
+and strengthening communities.  This annual tradition transcends our
+differences and personifies our shared patriotic values of family,
+faith, and freedom heroically defended by our military service members,
+law enforcement officers, and first responders.  We value their devotion
+to protecting our great Nation and salute their selfless service.  
+
+This year, the Super Bowl returns to the Caesars Superdome for a record
+setting 8th time.  While thousands of fans from across our Nation gather
+in New Orleans to cheer on their favorite team, we remember that 14
+families will be missing a loved one who was tragically murdered during
+a senseless terrorist attack while celebrating the New Year on Bourbon
+Street.  Our thoughts are also with the 35 individuals injured during
+the attack whose lives were changed forever that fateful night, and our
+prayers will remain with them for continued strength, comfort, and
+healing.   
+
+Tonight, we look forward to a terrific game and the crowning of the
+Super Bowl Champions.  Melania joins me in sending our best wishes for a
+great Super Bowl Sunday.  May the best team win, and may God bless you,
+your family, and the United States of America.

fact-sheets/2025-02/2025-02-06-fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-eradicates-anti-christian-bias.md

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+---
+date: '2025-02-06'
+modified_time: 2025-02-09 16:48:53-05:00
+published_time: 2025-02-06 16:47:59-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-eradicates-anti-christian-bias/
+tags: fact-sheets
+title: 'Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Eradicates Anti-Christian Bias'
+---
+
+**ERADICATING ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS:** Today, President Donald J. Trump
+signed an Executive Order establishing a task force to end the
+anti-Christian weaponization of government and unlawful conduct
+targeting Christians.
+
+-   The task force, officially known as the Task Force to Eradicate
+    Anti-Christian Bias, will be comprised of members of President
+    Trump’s cabinet and key government agencies.
+-   The task force will review the activities of all departments and
+    agencies to identify and eliminate anti-Christian policies,
+    practices, or conduct.
+-   The task force will gather input from various stakeholders to ensure
+    broad perspectives are considered, including faith-based
+    organizations, State, local, and Tribal governments, and Americans
+    affected by anti-Christian conduct.
+-   It will identify and address gaps in laws and enforcement that have
+    contributed to anti-Christian conduct, including by remedying any
+    failures to fully enforce the law against acts of anti-Christian
+    hostility, vandalism, and violence.
+-   The task force will recommend further presidential or legislative
+    actions necessary to rectify past wrongs and protect Americans’
+    religious liberties.
+-   The task force will submit an annual report on its progress, with a
+    final report upon its conclusion.
+
+**PROTECTING AMERICANS’ RELIGIOUS FREEDOM:** The previous Administration
+engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while
+ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. President Trump will not
+tolerate this abuse of government and is taking action to ensure that
+any unlawful and improper anti-Christian conduct, policies or practices
+are identified, terminated, and rectified.
+
+-   The United States Constitution enshrines the fundamental right to
+    religious liberty in the First Amendment.
+-   The Biden Department of Justice brought felony charges and obtained
+    multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen pro-life
+    Christians for praying and peacefully demonstrating outside abortion
+    facilities.
+-   The Biden Department of Justice ignored hundreds of attacks on
+    Catholic churches, charities, and pro-life centers.
+-   In 2023, a Federal Bureau of Investigation memo asserted that
+    traditional Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested
+    infiltrating Catholic churches as “threat mitigation.” 
+-   The Biden Department of Education sought to repeal religious-liberty
+    protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses. 
+-   The Biden Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought to force
+    Christians to affirm radical transgender ideology against their
+    faith.
+-   The Biden Department of Health and Human Services sought to drive
+    Christians out of the foster-care system. 
+-   In 2024, the Biden Administration declared Easter Sunday as
+    “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
+
+**STANDING UP FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:** President Donald J. Trump is
+committed to protecting Americans’ fundamental right to religious
+freedom.
+
+-   On his fourth day in office, President Trump pardoned the Christians
+    and pro-life activists who were persecuted by the Biden
+    Administration for praying and peacefully living out their faith.
+-   Last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order to combat
+    anti-Semitism on our campuses and in our streets.
+-   President Trump: “I will create a new federal task force on fighting
+    anti-Christian bias. That’ll be done immediately.”
+-   This Executive Order also builds on the long list of accomplishments
+    from the first Trump Administration:
+    -   During his first year in office, President Trump signed an
+        Executive Order upholding religious liberty and the right to
+        engage in religious speech.
+
+    <!-- -->
+
+    -   President Trump signed an Executive Order recognizing the
+        essential contributions of faith-based organizations and
+        establishing the Faith and Opportunity Initiative.
+
+    <!-- -->
+
+    -   President Trump reversed the Obama-era policy that prevented the
+        government from providing disaster relief to religious
+        organizations.
+
+President Trump hosted a Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom event
+at the United Nations and called on the international community and
+business lead

fact-sheets/2025-02/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-human-rights-violations-in-south-africa.md

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+---
+date: '2025-02-07'
+modified_time: 2025-02-09 16:40:14-05:00
+published_time: 2025-02-07 16:39:08-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-human-rights-violations-in-south-africa/
+tags: fact-sheets
+title: 'Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Human Rights Violations in
+  South Africa'
+---
+
+**ADDRESSING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA:** On Friday,
+President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to address serious
+human rights violations occurring in South Africa.
+
+-   As encapsulated in its recent land confiscation act to seize
+    disfavored citizens’ property without compensation, the government
+    of South Africa blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority
+    descendants of settler groups.
+-   As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world
+    stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority
+    farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the
+    country.
+-   The United States will establish a plan to resettle disfavored
+    minorities in South Africa discriminated against because of their
+    race as refugees.
+
+**STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION:** President Donald J.
+Trump is committed to holding South Africa accountable for its actions.
+
+-   South Africa has taken positions against the United States and its
+    allies.
+    -   Merely two months after the October 7<sup>th</sup> terrorist
+        attacks on Israel, South Africa accused Israel, not Hamas, of
+        genocide in the International Court of Justice.
+
+    <!-- -->
+
+    -   South Africa also strengthened ties with Iran, which supports
+        terrorism globally.
+-   While championing terrorism and autocratic regimes abroad, South
+    Africa has committed similar human rights violations at home. The
+    recent Expropriation Act enables the government of South Africa to
+    seize ethnic minority descendants of settler groups’ agricultural
+    property without compensation.         
+    -   The Expropriation Act follows countless government policies
+        designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment,
+        education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government
+        actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially
+        disfavored landowners.
+
+    <!-- -->
+
+    -   Years ago, the South African government disbanded volunteer
+        forces defending rural farmers, turning a blind eye to the
+        ensuing farm attacks.
+
+**REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS:** A commitment to human
+rights is central to President Trump’s America First agenda.
+
+-   President Trump: “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating
+    certain classes of people very badly \[…\] I will be cutting off all
+    future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this
+    situation has been completed!”
+-   President Trump believes in sending a clear message to the world’s
+    bad actors—and to their victims—by condemning human rights abuses in
+    no uncertain terms.

fact-sheets/2025-02/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-white-house-faith-office.md

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+---
+date: '2025-02-07'
+modified_time: 2025-02-09 16:49:38-05:00
+published_time: 2025-02-07 16:46:15-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-white-house-faith-office/
+tags: fact-sheets
+title: 'Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes White House Faith Office'
+---
+
+**ESTABLISHING A FAITH OFFICE:** Today, President Donald J. Trump signed
+an Executive Order to establish the White House Faith Office.
+
+-   The White House Faith Office will empower faith-based entities,
+    community organizations, and houses of worship to better serve
+    families and communities.
+-   The Office will be housed in the Domestic Policy Council and will
+    consult with experts within the faith community and make
+    recommendations to the President regarding changes to policies,
+    programs, and practices to better align with the American values.
+-   The Office will coordinate with agencies on religious liberty
+    training and on identifying and promoting grant opportunities for
+    non-profit faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses
+    of worship.  
+-   The Office will work in collaboration with the Attorney General to
+    identify failures to enforce constitutional and Federal statutory
+    protections for religious liberty.
+
+**DEFENDING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:** President Trump is committed to
+protecting the liberty and freedom of our religious communities,
+organizations, and students.
+
+-   In his first week, President Trump pardoned Christians and pro-life
+    activists who were persecuted by the weaponized Biden Administration
+    for praying and peacefully living out their faith.
+-   President Trump reinstated service members forced out of the
+    military over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, including those
+    discharged over their religious objections to the vaccine.
+-   Last week, President Trump signed executive actions to ensure
+    Federal overreach and taxpayer dollars will no longer force
+    individuals to violate their commitment to life.
+-   Yesterday, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a
+    task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias.
+
+**PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT:** These actions build on President
+Trump’s longstanding commitment to safeguarding the fundamental right to
+religious freedom, as evidenced by his first term.
+
+-   In 2017, President Trump stopped the Johnson Amendment from
+    interfering with pastors’ rights to speak their minds.
+-   In 2018, President Trump established the Faith and Opportunity
+    Initiative which recognized and promoted the essential contributions
+    of faith-based organizations.
+-   In 2018, President Trump reversed the Obama-era policy that
+    prevented the government from providing disaster relief to religious
+    organizations.
+-   In 2019, President Trump hosted a Global Call to Protect Religious
+    Freedom event at the United Nations and called on the international
+    community and business leaders to work to protect religious freedom
+    around the world.
+-   In 2020, President Trump issued new guidance to protect religious
+    liberty and expression in public schools.

fact-sheets/2025-02/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-is-protecting-americans-second-amendment-rights.md

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+---
+date: '2025-02-07'
+modified_time: 2025-02-09 16:51:29-05:00
+published_time: 2025-02-07 16:50:06-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-is-protecting-americans-second-amendment-rights/
+tags: fact-sheets
+title: "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Is Protecting Americans\u2019 Second\
+  \ Amendment Rights"
+---
+
+**STOPPING FEDERAL INFRINGEMENT ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS:** Today,
+President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the federal
+government’s violation of Americans’ fundamental Second Amendment right
+to protect themselves, their families, and their freedoms.
+
+-   This Executive Order will halt existing policies designed to curtail
+    the clear right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.
+-   The order directs the incoming Attorney General to immediately
+    complete a specific review of all orders, regulations, guidance,
+    plans, and other actions by the Biden Administration regarding
+    firearms—listing several specific documents to be reviewed—and
+    deliver a plan of action to the President to eliminate all
+    infringements on Americans’ Second Amendment rights. 
+
+**ENDING THE ATTACKS ON LAW-ABIDING GUN OWNERS AND GUN BUSINESSES:** The
+Biden Administration has flagrantly sought to eliminate Second Amendment
+rights. Among other infringements, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
+Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was weaponized to end the livelihoods of
+law-abiding small business owners in an effort to limit Americans’
+ability to acquire firearms:
+
+-   The so-called “zero tolerance” or “enhanced regulatory enforcement
+    policy” put in place under the previous administration led to a
+    nearly six-fold increase in enforcement actions against Federal
+    Firearms Licensees (FFL’s), many of whom are mom-and-pop shop small
+    businesses who made innocent paperwork errors.
+-   Firearms manufacturers have been de-banked or denied services simply
+    because they make guns—which allow Americans to exercise a
+    constitutional right.
+
+**DEFENDING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:** President
+Trump is standing up for our constitutional Second Amendment right to
+keep and bear arms, building on progress made during his first term:
+
+-   President Trump removed the United States from the United Nations
+    (UN) misguided Arms Trade Treaty to protect Americans from the
+    threat of global regulations of conventional firearms.
+-   President Trump’s Department of Justice narrowed the definition of
+    “fugitive from justice” to more specific guidelines when determining
+    who is prohibited from buying a gun.
+
+During the pandemic, President Trump designated the firearms industry
+“essential” in order to protect gun stores, shooting ranges, and
+ammunition dealers from being shut down.

presidential-actions/2025-02/2025-02-09-gulf-of-america-day-2025.md

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+---
+date: '2025-02-09'
+modified_time: 2025-02-09 17:08:58-05:00
+published_time: 2025-02-09 17:08:57-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/
+tags: presidential-actions
+title: Gulf of America Day, 2025
+---
+
+BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
+
+A PROCLAMATION  
+
+
+Today, I am very honored to recognize February 9, 2025, as the first
+ever Gulf of America Day.  
+
+     On January 20, 2025, I signed Executive Order 14172 (“Restoring
+Names That Honor American Greatness”).  Among other actions, that
+Executive Order required the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant
+to 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, to “take all appropriate actions to
+rename as the ‘Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded
+on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana,
+Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary
+with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of
+Mexico.”  
+
+     I took this action in part because, as stated in that Order,
+“\[t\]he area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been an
+integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an
+indelible part of America.”  
+
+     Today, I am making my first visit to the Gulf of America since its
+renaming.  As my Administration restores American pride in the history
+of American greatness, it is fitting and appropriate for our great
+Nation to come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the
+renaming of the Gulf of America.  
+
+     NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States
+of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
+and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 9, 2025,
+as Gulf of America Day.  I call upon public officials and all the people
+of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs,
+ceremonies, and activities.  
+
+     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of
+February, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the
+Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
+forty-ninth.