President Trump, immediately upon taking office, used his presidential powers while delivering on some of the major promises he made during the campaign.
“Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” the nation's 47th president promised during his inauguration speech Monday at the United States Capitol. Joined.
Hours later, Trump pressed ahead, with an avalanche of executive order signings at Washington's Capitol One Arena, in front of thousands of supporters – a first in the nation's history – and later in the more traditional setting of the Office. White House Oval.
“He's just pure Trump. He's the first president in a new connected world where you have to govern from the outside in. You have to get support and bring people with you,” veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told Fox News Digital. .
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President Donald Trump shows his signature on an executive order he signed in front of supporters inside the Capital One Arena during inauguration day ceremonies for his second presidential term, in Washington, January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli)
Trump's immigration promises were a centerpiece of his successful presidential campaign to retake the White House.
“On day one I will launch the largest criminal deportation program in American history,” the then-Republican presidential candidate promised during a late October rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
And Trump took immediate action during his first hours back in office.
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The new president declared a national emergency along the southern border with Mexico and ordered the deployment of US troops to help support immigration agents. Trump also ordered restarting a policy from his first administration that forced asylum seekers to wait at the border with Mexico. But it is unclear whether Mexico would accept immigrants again.
Trump also ordered the federal government to resume construction of the border wall, begun during his first term but halted by President Biden.
President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony in the Emancipation Hall of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Greg Nash/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
And Trump signed an order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. But since birthright citizenship is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, Trump's executive order is sure to face immediate legal challenges in court from civil rights groups and immigration activists.
“I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately stop. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came. We will restore my stay in Mexico “I will end the practice of capturing and release and send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country,” Trump emphasized in his inauguration speech.
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And the president also announced that “we will also designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will order our government to use the full power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence from all foreign gangs and criminal networks.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
During his two-year run to return to the White House, Trump repeatedly promised to “drill, care, drill” and pledged to end the Biden administration's electric vehicle mandate.
On Monday, Trump made good on his promise, tying his executive orders on energy to his efforts to keep inflation under control.
“I will order all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly reduce costs and prices. The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and rising commodity prices. energy,” Trump argued.
And he said, “That's why today I'm also declaring a national energy emergency. We're going to drill, baby, we're going to drill. America is going to be a manufacturing nation again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have. The most oil and gas in any country in the world.”
During the 2024 cycle, Trump and Republicans repeatedly attacked Democrats up and down the ballot over the Biden administration's protections for transgender students.
“We're going to get this over with on day one,” Trump promised last May. “Don't forget, that was made as an order from the president. It became an executive order. And we're going to change it; on the first day, it will be changed.”
Trump went ahead and took executive actions that the president's advisers said would “defend women from gender, ideology, extremism, and restore biological truth to the federal government.”
President Donald Trump sings a second executive order during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena on the day of the inauguration of his second presidential term, in Washington, January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
“Starting today, the official policy of the United States government will be that there are only two genders, male and female,” the president said.
The president also signed orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs – better known by their acronym DEI – within the federal government. The orders direct the White House to identify and end the programs within the government.
Another campaign promise: pardoning defendants and commuting the sentences of many of those convicted of charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who tried unsuccessfully to stop the Congressional certification of President Biden's 2020 election victory.
Trump did not mention pardons in his inauguration speech, but minutes later, while speaking to supporters gathered in an overflow room at the U.S. Capitol, he reiterated his long-unproven claim that the 2020 presidential election ” “They were totally manipulated.”
A couple of hours later, in front of cheering supporters packed into the stadium in downtown Washington, DC, Trump announced that he would “sign pardons for a lot of people… to get them out” immediately.
I wasn't kidding.
The president, back at the White House, ended up pardoning about 1,500 people, including some convicted of attacking police officers, reversing the Justice Department's efforts to punish those who stormed the Capitol on one of the darkest days in history. USA.
“These people have been destroyed,” Trump argued as he signed the pardons. “What they have done to these people has been scandalous.”
President Donald Trump signs pardons for the January 6 defendants in the Oval Office of the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Trump also took action on something that didn't come up during the campaign.
“Before long we will be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump declared in his inauguration speech.
And pointing to Alaska's Mount Denali, which is the highest peak in North America, the president said, “we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it belongs and where it belongs.”
“He's flooding the zone. He's advocating action. He's demonstrating action. He's rallying a wave of American support for a massive transformation of government,” Castellanos, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox News. “I think it's overwhelming and Democrats just don't know what's affecting them.”
“Can you imagine Biden doing this? I don't think so,” the president said, as he signed executive orders in front of thousands of his supporters.
But Trump did not keep all of his campaign promises.
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One of his most notable vows, which he failed to fulfill during his first day in office, was to immediately end a deadly war in Eastern Europe.
Trump repeatedly touted during his election campaign that he would end the nearly three-year war between Russia and Ukraine “in one day.”
“They are dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I will, I will do it in 24 hours,” Trump promised during a town hall in May 2023.
And in September, during his only debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump promised “I'll figure it out before I even become president.”
That obviously didn't happen.
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And earlier this month, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, offered a longer timetable.
“I would like to set a goal on a personal level, on a professional level. I would say let's set it in 100 days,” he said in an interview with Fox News Channel.
