Donald Trump has just taken away a major right from Joe Biden that every past president receives, as he ‘could not be trusted’.

Trump is on a mission to overhaul most of his predecessor’s policies and ignite what he describes as ‘the golden age of America‘ under his presidency.

Now, in an apparent snub to Biden, Trump says he is revoking the former president’s security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings, claiming that he can’t ‘be trusted’.

He wrote on his Truth Social platform: “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information.”

Donald Trump has revoked Joe Biden’s security clearance (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

“JOE, YOU’RE FIRED,” the Republican added as a joke reference to his former catchphrase on the TV show, The Apprentice, which he has been using a lot lately to clear out some of Biden’s former government staff.

Trump’s decision comes as he claims Biden had done the same to him when he was in office in 2021 which was the first time an ex-president was blocked from the briefings.

He wrote that Biden ‘set this precedent’ when ‘he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents.’

Trump also claimed Biden ‘could not be trusted with sensitive information’ while citing an inquiry into the storage of classified files which outlined the 82-year-old had poor memory.

He wrote: “The Hur Report revealed that Biden suffers from “poor memory” and, even in his “prime,” could not be trusted with sensitive information. I will always protect our National Security.”

Biden removed Trump from access in 2021 (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

All ex-presidents are invited to classified intelligence briefings as a courtesy but Biden revoked Trump back in 2021.

Biden said Trump’s ‘erratic behaviour’ was the deciding factor behind the move, adding: “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”

Trump has also removed security clearance for dozens of other former intelligence officers, including ex-CIA directors, many of whom he had accused of meddling in the 2020 election in favour of Biden.

Among those removed include top US military commander, Mark Milley, who has been a vocal critic of the president.

The new defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has reportedly ordered an investigation into Milley’s ‘conduct’ and for his military grade to be reviewed, the BBC reports.

The former chief medical adviser to the president, Anthony Fauci, has also been revoked from accessing security details. Fauci led the US response to the Coronavirus pandemic but Trump maintained that it was ‘very standard’ to remove such people from the right.

President Donald Trump hasn’t even been back in office for a month, but has already turned a lot of Joe Biden-created orders on their head.

But one of his biggest is revoking the former president’s security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings.

Apparently, Biden did the same to him when he came into office in 2021, with Trump now arguing that there’s ‘no need’ for the 82-year-old to receive intel on classified information.

Now, seemingly in another swipe at the former president, Trump has pledged to change the country’s ‘ridiculous’ plans to get rid of plastic straws by 2027.

The Biden administration shared its plans last summer to ‘phase out’ single-use plastic products from food service operations, events and packaging in two years’ time, and from all federal operations by 2035.

“The President is committed to taking ambitious actions to end plastic pollution and is calling upon the global community to do the same, with the goal to reduce the global production and consumption of virgin plastics,” The White House said in a statement at the time, as per New York Post.

Plastic and polystyrene food and beverage containers, bottles, straws, cups, cutlery and disposable plastic bags, were also mentioned in the plans to reduce waste.

Billions of straws end up polluting our oceans each year (Getty Stock Image)

According to Condor Ferries, 50 million straws are used by Americans every day, 7.5 million of which pollute US coastlines.

Elsewhere in the UK (where the use of plastic straws is restricted), 4.4 billion straws are thrown away every year.

But Trump has announced his plans to sign yet another executive order, which aims to bring back plastic straws.

It’s not clear if the order will see the whole plastic-prohibiting plans scrapped.

“I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work,” Trump penned on Truth Social.

He added: “BACK TO PLASTIC!”

The president has said that the US is going ‘back to plastic’ (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

And it’s not the first time Trump has complained about paper straws.

“They want to ban straws. Has anyone tried those paper straws? They’re not working too good,” he complained at an event in 2020.

“It disintegrates as you drink it,” Trump went on to say of the more environmentally friendly alternative.

Climate change doesn’t seem to be on the top of Trump’s agenda when it comes to oil and gas either.

In his first few days as president, the 78-year-old signed an order that promotes oil and gas drilling in Alaska.

He’s also ordered for the country to leave the Paris Climate Agreement, which was adopted by almost 200 countries back in 2015.

President Donald Trump has fired Justice Department lawyers who worked on bringing two criminal cases against him.

It’s been a little more than a week since Trump took his oath of office as the 47th president of the United States on Monday (January 20) and he’s been rather busy, with dozens of executive orders, presidential pardons and policy ideas flying out of the White House.

He sacked more than 1,000 government workers and presidential appointees within hours of his presidency and tore up diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programs with it, while staff in the Department of Labor responsible for the initiatives were placed on paid leave.

Announcing his plans to ‘Make America Great Again’ on his Truth Social platform, Trump named some of the employees he was letting go and even drew on his old The Apprentice catchphrase as he did so.

Donald Trump has made several changes since taking back the White House last week (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The post read: “Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon.

“Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council – YOU’RE FIRED!”

Now, Trump is turning his attention to the justice department team who’d worked on investigating his alleged mishandling of classified documents and of his alleged attempt to overturn his election defeat in 2020.

Jack Smith was appointed special counsel in 2022 to lead his team to investigate the cases which both resulted in criminal charges being brought – to which Trump plead not guilty.

However, the charges were later dropped in November after Trump’s election win, as regulations prohibit the prosecution of a sitting president.

Jack Smith resigned from his role before the president could fire him (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Mr Smith has maintained his professional integrity, writing in the final draft of his report (via the BBC): “The claim from [Trump] that my decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable.”

The POTUS pledged to fire Mr Smith ‘within two seconds’ of taking his oath – but he beat him to it and quit before Trump’s inauguration ceremony.

Yesterday (Monday, January 27), Trump fired more than a dozen of attorneys, which a justice department official told CBS News that Acting Attorney General James McHenry concluded they couldn’t ‘be trusted to faithfully implement the president’s agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president’.

It remains unclear which members of Mr Smith’s team have been sacked, but many worked in career corruption or as national security prosectors.

Trump’s charges were dropped (MARK PETERSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

BBC News further reports that staff received their notice on Monday, which outlined how their involvement in investigating and prosecuting the president made them unfit to work in the government department.

Commenting on the matter, former US Attorney Joyce Vance said to NBC News: “Firing prosecutors because of cases they were assigned to work on is just unacceptable. It’s anti-rule of law; it’s anti-democracy.”

But Trump and his supporters have long accused the justice department of pursuing a political agenda against him.

During his re-election campaign, he said the department has been ‘weaponised’ against him, with Pam Bondi, his nominee to lead the department, also agreeing that federal prosecutions mounted to political persecution.

The latest firings come as the justice department has already had a major overhaul and reassignments amongst its top officials, which saw the chief if public integrity section reportedly resign.

Meanwhile, CBS also reported Washington DC’s top federal prosecutor has also revealed an internal review will be launched to assess the charges brought against 200 of the January 6 Capitol rioters, some of whom have received a presidential pardon from Trump.

President Donald Trump has signed a slew of executive orders since reclaiming control of the country, and a fleet of those take aim at the millions of illegal immigrants living in the US.

The Republican put pen to paper on an order that will see those living in the nation without the proper papers will be deported, with the process having already began.

President Donald Trump has taken aim at those living in the US illegally (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Who is the US’ ‘border czar’?

Firstly, let’s clear up what it means – a czar is person appointed by government to advise on and coordinate policy in a particular area.

Former US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan was anointed the ‘border czar’ for the Trump administration, soon after the 47th president discovered he’d be moving back into the White House.

Now, speaking to ABC News, the 63-year-old confirmed that following Trump’s signature on a string of executive orders to do with foreigners settling down in the country, any resident who is in the US illegally is ‘on the table’ for deportation.

Homan explained how the military have been deployed to help out at the Mexican border, and how Trump is ‘sending a strong signal to the world, our border’s closed’.

Border czar Tom Homan spoke about deporting illegal immigrants in lengthy ABC interview (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tom Homan on deporting illegal immigrants

Co-anchor of This Week, Martha Raddatz replied: “So, is this what we will see every single day, ending in what the president has promised is millions and millions being deported?”

Homan responded: “Yes. But you’re going to see the numbers steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide as we open up the aperture. Right now, it’s concentrating on public safety threats, national security threats. That’s a smaller population.

“So, we’re going to do this on priority base, that’s President Trump‘s promise. But as that aperture opens, there’ll be more arrests nationwide.”

He continued: “If you’re in the country illegally, you’re on the table, because it’s not OK to, you know, violate the laws of this country. You got to remember, every time you enter this country illegally, you violated a crime under Title Eight, the United States Code 1325, it’s a crime.

“So, if you’re in a country illegally, you got a problem. And that’s why I’m hoping those who are in the country illegally, who have not been ordered removed by the federal judge, should leave.”

Trump has signed a slew of executive orders since taking control of the Oval Office (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Executive order: ‘Protecting American people against invasion’

The order accuses Biden’s administration of letting ‘millions of illegal aliens’ cross the borders.

“Many of these aliens unlawfully within the United States present significant threats to national security and public safety, committing vile and heinous acts against innocent Americans. Others are engaged in hostile activities, including espionage, economic espionage, and preparations for terror-related activities.” it says.

“Many have abused the generosity of the American people, and their presence in the United States has cost taxpayers billions of dollars at the Federal, State, and local levels.

“Enforcing our Nation’s immigration laws is critically important to the national security and public safety of the United States. The American people deserve a Federal Government that puts their interests first and a Government that understands its sacred obligation to prioritize the safety, security, and financial and economic well-being of Americans.”