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Effectively, this āexecutive orderā served-up a wish list that would have been compiled by any real estate mogul who doesnāt want any government agency or public group to come between him, his building, and his bottom line. In the name of building more useful infrastructure executive order is designed to let developers skirt environmental regulations, and most likely, labor, health, and safety regulations as well. The Executive Order will make it a lot easier to build more Trump towers in flood plains, but do little or nothing for the countryās true infrastructure needs.