President Donald Trump was so busy on his first day in office that it’s been a challenge to cover everything that he did.
The best way to know which are the best ones to discuss is to look at the way Democrats are reacting to them. His pardon of J6 prisoners was a big one; they’re really up in arms about that. Another one was his executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants in the United States.
The first woman to lead a branch of the US Armed Forces has been sacked by Donald Trump for excessively focusing on diversity policies while neglecting border security.
Adml Linda Fagan, who Joe Biden appointed to lead the US Coast Guard in 2022, was relieved of her duties by acting secretary of homeland security Benjamine Huffman.
The president said on Tuesday that his administration was in the process of “identifying and removing” more than 1,000 of his predecessors’ appointees.
President Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose tariffs and sanctions on Russia if there is no deal to stop the fighting in Ukraine “soon.”
“I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin – and this despite the Radical Left’s Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX,” Trump posted on Truth Social, referencing a special counsel investigation into any coordination between his 2016 campaign and Moscow.
“All of that being said, I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE,” Trump continued.
Wind chills hovered in the teens on Monday morning in the nation’s capital as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepared to take the presidential oath of office inside the more comfortable U.S. Capitol Rotunda. It was fitting it was so frigid in Washington, D.C., on this Inauguration Day. Democrats had long thought it would be a cold day in hell before Republican Trump would be elected president again.
But here he was, the man the left loves to hate, being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
“This was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization.”
That was Elon Musk, super-hyped in his Trump inaugural rally victory speech. And he’s one hundred percent right.
The single most important thing that’s happening now, and that will unfold over the next several decades, is humanity’s transition from a planetary to an interplanetary species. (And, eventually, to an interstellar one.) And that’s tied to the election.
President Donald Trump pulled the security clearances of more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
A total of 51 former national security officials released a public letter in 2020 claiming that even though the laptop did not have “any evidence of Russian involvement,” it looked like a “Russian information operation.”
The letter came after the New York Post reported they had emails showing Hunter Biden coordinated for Joe Biden to meet with a top executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before pressuring Ukrainian officials to oust a prosecutor investigating the company.
MUST-Read Thread Explains How Trump PULLING 51 Security Clearances Will ABSOLUTELY Nuke the Deep State
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Oooh, that’s a big one,” the newly inaugurated US president said as he approved the document after arriving back at the White House. It was one of dozens of executive actions he put his signature to on day one in office.
This marks the second time Trump has ordered the US be pulled out of the WHO.
After delivering a sober inaugural address that called for a new “golden age in America,” President Trump cannonballed into an overflow room at the U.S. Capitol, where he shed the teleprompter and told the assembled crowd what was really on his mind.
“I had a couple of things to say that were extremely controversial, but between JD and Melania, and everybody else, they said, ‘Please, sir. It’s such a beautiful unifying speech. Please, sir, don’t say these things,’” Trump said, referring to Vice President JD Vance and first lady Melania Trump.
Donald Trump is president. Here’s what he’s already changing.
President Donald J. Trump, in one of his first official acts, issued a sweeping grant of clemency on Monday to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, issuing pardons to most of the defendants and commuting the sentences of 14 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militia, most of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Mr. Trump’s moves amounted to an extraordinary reversal for rioters accused of both low-level, nonviolent offenses and for those who had assaulted police officers.
And they effectively erased years of efforts by federal investigators to seek accountability for the mob assault on the peaceful transfer of presidential power after Mr. Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. As part of his pardon order, Mr. Trump also directed the Justice Department to dismiss “all pending indictments” that remained against people facing charges for Jan. 6.
Watch this touching reunion between a mother and her 16 son.
President Trump is great! God is much greater!
Every single J6 hostage/political prisoner should be paid millions in restitution for all the hardship and heartache it has caused them and their families. pic.twitter.com/ZkREW3AA1A
— M-Û-R-Č-H (@TheEXECUTlONER_) January 21, 2025
Donald Trump’s second inaugural address got a little repetitive in parts.
“The golden age of America begins right now,” he began. “America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.” Indeed, “our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free,” and a “thrilling new era of national success” is upon us. Trump will work with “purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, and safety,” and he’s already producing results. “National unity is now returning to America, and confidence is soaring like never before,” he said. “A tide of change is sweeping the country. Sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before,” he added. And although we “must be honest about the challenges we face,” they are surmountable. “From this moment on,” Trump declared, “America’s decline is over.”
As President Donald J. Trump takes office as the 47th president, he declares, “I was saved by God to make America great again.”
The irony of Donald Trump taking his presidential oath of office in the same rotunda where QAnon Shaman wandered unmolested four years and 14 days ago seemed lost on nobody.
Certainly not on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who walked side by side into the inauguration as though pallbearers at their own funeral. If only they could have broken their hips in Luxembourg, then they might have avoided the excruciating pain of Monday, too.
Can he keep his coalition together?
The Donald Trump who will begin his second term today is a bigger political bruiser than the neophyte who arrived in Washington after his shocking 2016 upset of Hillary Clinton. The White House he has assembled is a more formidable political machine than the one that was so easily checkmated by clever Democrats last time around. But this extraordinary reinvigoration is less a sign that Trump has grown more professional than that the country has grown more Trumpian.
Trump has never been known for learning on the job. That’s actually what people like about him. Learning on the job suggests adaptability, a character flaw for a public that believes Washington corrupts politicians. His gifts and drawbacks are those he had in 2016 and in 1983. His attorney-general nomination of Matt Gaetz, a man who would never have been confirmed by the Senate, was a classic Trump move. It was reminiscent of eight years ago.
The cultural elites got a free ride under Biden. That ends now.
The tragedy of Joe Biden is not only his cognitive decline. It is not only his very public demise, his transformation from an upright man who spoke in a Pennsylvania boom to a shuffling old fella whispering inanities to the world. It is not only that he ascended to power posing as the defender of the republic and three years later was yakking incoherently in a CNN clash with Donald Trump. ‘Democracy has prevailed’, he told the audience at his inauguration on 20 January 2021, two weeks after a Trumpist mob had sacked the Capitol in a fit of undemocratic pique. ‘We finally beat Medicare’, he mumbled surreally in that CNN debate. From the republic’s protector to its most memed jester – it was a fall of King Lear proportions.
For all the bravado about retaliation, Canadians were like prisoners on death row on Monday morning, waiting for the door handle to turn to find out if they’d been granted a reprieve or were about to have their final breakfast.
The Wall Street Journal story that Donald Trump won’t impose broad tariffs on Day One of his presidency , instead ordering a review of trade and currency imbalances, was like a stay of execution.
