Executive Power

There are two ways for one executive order to act on another. Revoking it ends it; amending it keeps the machinery and changes the settings. Across every order signed since 1993, presidents have swung hard from the second to the first — and this record sits at the turn, revoking 36.4 times per hundred orders, the highest rate of any completed presidency in the index. Amendment barely moved. Revocation tripled.

The six universal dives are asked of every subject at this tier. This is not one of them. It exists because of one thing this subject has been — head of government — and a subject who has not been that never gets this page. That is why this record has 7 overlay dives to write rather than a number every record shares. All six base dives were written first, and that ordering is a rule rather than a habit: an overlay dive published on its own is a page about the part of someone chosen by whoever built it.

The six base dives and the other 6 overlay dives are listed on the full record.

Two ways to undo an order, and only one of them is counted anywhere else

A revoked order is gone. An amended order is kept alive and changed — the machinery retained, the settings altered. The Executive Power dive on the other record at this tier counts revocation and had to build a parse whose job was to throw amendment away. This page counts what that parse discarded.

Every executive order signed since December 1993, parsed for references to earlier orders. Per 100 orders signed, so a long presidency and a short one are comparable. Orders 12890–14419.

An amendment keeps a predecessor’s structure and disagrees with its contents. A revocation refuses the structure. The dive on the other record at this tier counts only the second, and had to write a parse whose job was to throw the first away — so this page counts what that parse discarded. See /donald-trump/executive-power.