The president could have made a special new human rights enforcement branch to rein in the BATFE, DEA, CBP/ICE, FBI, et al, and close the concentration camps, end parallel construction, fix the torture culture in prisons, and address pig violence and abuse.
Instead he made a new branch of the military to better militarize space, which has, so far, been entirely peaceful throughout its history (notwithstanding any antisatellite warfare that has occurred before).