President Donald Trump is determined to make America greater than ever before and has taken many executive actions to try to achieve that goal.

Trump is now planning an impending executive order to make English the official language of the United States, according to the Associated Press.

The U.S. has never had an official language in its nearly 250-year history, but English has been the unofficial language used by the federal government since the beginning and is spoken by an overwhelming majority of the nation's citizens and residents.

Trump order on English language pending

The Wall Street Journal was the first to report that, according to unnamed White House officials, President Trump was expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English as the official language of the U.S.

The primary purpose of the move is to "promote unity, establish efficiency in the government, and provide a pathway to civic engagement."

Per the officials, Trump's order would rescind a federal mandate first issued by former President Bill Clinton that required all federal departments, agencies, and other recipients of federal funds to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.

However, the order would not prohibit those same departments, agencies, and federal funds recipients from choosing to continue to offer such assistance upon request.

Spanish dominates hundreds of languages other than English in the U.S.

It has been estimated that nearly 80% of U.S. citizens and legal residents, or around 240 million people, speak only English, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, leaving slightly more than 20%, or around 68 million people, who primarily speak some language other than English.

Of those tens of millions of non-English speakers, Spanish is the primary language for more than 60% of them, with Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Arabic rounding out the top five but trailing far behind and accounting for just 2-5% of people in the U.S.

That list of non-English languages spoken in the U.S. is long, however, and features more than 350 different dialects, including several Native American languages.

Notably, though, anywhere from around one-third to half of those individuals who primarily speak a foreign language at home are also proficient in English as a second language.

More than half of the states have made English the official language

Most, though not all, of the 190+ nations around the globe have an officially designated language, and there have been multiple failed attempts made throughout U.S. history to make English the official language of the nation's people.

Yet, while the nation as a whole lacks an official language, at least 32 states have made English their official dialect, according to the language advocacy group ProEnglish.

President Trump's order to finally make English the official language of the U.S. was reportedly expected to be signed on Friday, but that didn't happen and it is unclear when the issue will be addressed.