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This photograph shows Donald Trump signing a document on March 6, 2017. He is in a dark suit with a red tie, and he sits at a dark brown desk. Behind him is a portion of the American flag on the far left. A window is directly behind him, and another window is to the right of the photograph. Through the windows, green plants and a daytime sky are visible. SOURCE: File:Trump signing Executive Order 13780.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. (2017, March 6). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_signing_Executive_Order_13780.jpg. LICENSING: This file is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain.

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Here's an easy way to learn what the White House thinks: Read Executive Orders! And you don't have to read all of an Executive Order either—just read the first few paragraphs. Those paragraphs serve as the marketing copy—the hook to draw the reader in and attempt to convince the reader to think like the President.

A number of people on my feed have referenced a brand new Executive Order on law enforcement in the United States of America. This Executive Order portrays America's police forces as unjustly criticized and unfairly restricted from doing their jobs. Whether that's true or not is not of issue here. What I want to emphasize is the portrayal as shown in the Executive Order—or really, ANY Executive Order that is released by a presidential administration in the United States of America.

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