Trump Just Ordered the Return of Mental Institutions — And That's Not Even the Wildest Thing He Did Today
Trump signed EOs on mental institutions & Army-Navy game, named a crypto insider to lead the CFTC, and called Iran "great negotiators" — all in one Cabinet meeting.
HIGH ALERT
Multiple executive orders signed in a single day — including the unprecedented mental institution directive — plus continued Iran diplomatic whiplash, a major crypto regulatory appointment, and a live DHS funding standoff make this a high-activity, high-consequence news cycle.
Key Developments
Here's a sentence you probably never expected to read in 2026.
The President of the United States signed an executive order today directing the government to **bring back mental institutions and insane asylums**.
Not a proposal. Not a study. A signed order.
"We are going to have to bring them back," Trump said at today's Cabinet meeting. "Hate to build those suckers but you've got to get the people off the streets."
That quote alone set social media on fire — with supporters cheering and critics immediately raising questions about civil liberties, costs, and what exactly "bringing back" such institutions would mean in practice [11][14].
But that wasn't the only executive order signed today.
Trump also put his signature on something called the **"Preserving America's Game" executive order** — directing the FCC and the Commerce Department to work with the College Football Playoff and the NCAA to carve out an exclusive broadcast window for the Army-Navy Game [20].
No college football games would be allowed to air at the same time.