This is the kind of logic that drives me nuts.  Trump has used executive orders for the exact same reason Obama used them.  Neither president can get any legislation passed through this mess of a congress totally controlled by a GOP that can't get it's own act together and never will.  Trump himself has signed a number of Executive orders which have not been totally legal or moved beyond the scope of the presidency which is why so many of them wind up in court.  Trump can continue his weaponization of Executive Orders to force Congress to act, but he won't be any more successful than Obama because Congressional Republicans don't want to govern.  They want to be re elected.