Or as Vance says, LIKE EATING A BIG MAC.

President-elect Donald Trump verified Monday that he intends to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military to deport millions of people when he takes office in January.

Tom Fitton, who leads the conservative activist group Judicial Watch, wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform earlier this month that the Republican politician is “prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.”

Trump quoted his post with an emphatic corroboration: “TRUE!!”

Trump pledged throughout the campaign that he would swiftly move to detain and deport millions of undocumented migrants.

Unlike his first run for office in 2016, when his hardline immigration campaigning focused on building a border wall, this year he preached aggressive legal crackdowns that would involve a broad swath of agencies and, potentially, America’s military.

Sources familiar with the plans told CNN over the weekend that Trump’s aides are already plotting how to expand detention facilities, including in metropolitan areas.

Politico reported Monday that Trump’s team is also devising ways to create executive orders that will withstand legal challenges from human rights groups, noting he can also count on a friendlier judiciary than he faced during his first time in office, in particular thanks to the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

There were roughly 11.7 million undocumented people in the United States as of last year, the most since 2010, according to the Center for Migration Studies.

Trump told Time earlier this year he would deport 15 to 20 million.

His running mate, vice president-elect JD Vance, blithely compared the ticket’s plans—which would tear apart families, disrupt local economies and put pressure on the labor market supply—to eating a Big Mac.

“You say, you can’t possibly eat that whole thing. It’s bigger than your mouth,” Vance said, during a podcast appearance last month. “Well, the way you do it is you take one bite, then a second bite, and then a third bite. And that’s how I think about deportations here.”

Trump has promised to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a 226-year-old law that was used to detain “enemy aliens” during times of war—since the U.S. is not currently at war, legal challenges would likely target the law’s applicability.

Trump also plans to end fast tracked humanitarian visa paroles for undocumented people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

To mete out his policies, Trump has begun assembling a team of hard-liners who share his stark view of immigration. Tom Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will be appointed “border czar.”

He has also nominated South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Homeland Security secretary—while not from a border state, the MAGA loyalist has long echoed Trump’s anti-immigration views.

Trump also plans to welcome back to his side immigration hardliner Stephen Miller. An advisor during Trump’s first term in office, he will serve as homeland security advisor and deputy chief of staff for policy.

Miller was a leading architect of policies including the Trump travel ban that targeted people from Muslim-majority countries, as well as the president-elect’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents.

Danielle Moodie found some common themes within the group.

“It is evident to me that one of the goals of white delusion, white supremacy is to shove in people’s faces that you don’t need to be qualified,” Moodie said. “You don’t need to be smart. You don’t even need to have been an active lawyer for a bunch of years in a credible firm or credible space. All you have to do to ascend to power is to be white, is to be cis, is to be associated with Donald Trump and love him and have tap-danced for him over the past nine years. And that is a shoo-in for any position.”

And don’t be a musk.

Elon had a “massive blowup” in front of Mar-a-Lago guests last week, the latest sign of “tensions” between the men.

The incident broke out after a “heated discussion” led Musk to accuse Boris Epshteyn of leaking Trump’s cabinet picks to the media, Axios reported. Epshteyn is said to have responded by telling Musk he “didn’t know what he was talking about.”

That encounter, also described as being a “huge explosion,” reportedly occurred at a dinner table inside Trump’s club. The president-elect’s transition team and Musk declined to comment to Axios. Epshteyn, the longtime coordinator of Trump’s legal defense, referred the website to Trump’s transition team.

Those who’ve hung around Mar-a-Lago since Election Day weren’t surprised by Musk and Epshteyn’s beef. Axios’ sources said Trump advisers and confidants saw “tensions between them bubble up during the transition meetings.”

Epshteyn, 42, has been a close adviser to Trump since his 2016 campaign. He’s reportedly had a heavy hand in advising Trump’s appointments, which included the polarizing pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Musk, a 53-year-old MAGA newcomer who pumped $119 million into the president-elect’s campaign, is also said to have Trump’s ear regarding appointments.

Boris Epshteyn has been a top adviser to Trump for years. Most recently, he led the president-elect’s criminal defense.

Musk has recently pushed to have Trump’s transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick, be named Treasury secretary over the hedge fund manager Scott Bessent. Both men have been actively vying for the position, which has reportedly left Trump annoyed.

Sources told The New York Times the annoyance stems in part from Lutnick hovering too around Trump too often in recent weeks. Trump is also said to have bristled at Lutnick’s performance as transition chief, believing he may manipulated things for his own personal benefit.

Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr have both publicly threw their weight behind Lutnick to lead the Department of Treasury, but that may do more harm than good for their preferred candidate. Musk’s public fight over the role has also irritated Trump and other aides, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Trumpland insiders told the Financial Times that the president-elect’s advisers have sought assurances that they’d commit to Trump’s plans to enact significant tariffs—a centerpiece of his economic agenda.