"Whatever they want" != "whatever the president decides to declare". Nobody was clamoring for this; nobody was voting for this as an election issue. It feels

"Whatever they want" != "whatever the president decides to declare". Nobody was clamoring for this; nobody was voting for this as an election issue. It feels weird because it seems so random. Or maybe not random. Maybe it's meant to be a "rah, rah, America!" distraction from something else. It doesn't feel like something that needed doing on its own merits, though.