Trump's second term begins with a salvo of executive orders mainly targeting climate and immigration
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A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,
Trump declared in his inauguration address
On Day One, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America,
the then-Republican presidential nominee vowed during a late October rally at New York City's Madison Square Garden
It's just pure Trump. He's the first president in a new connected world in which you have to govern from the outside in. You have to mount support and bring the people with you,
veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told Fox News DigitalHe's flooding the zone. He's making a case for action. He's demonstrating action. He is rallying a wave of American support for a massive transformation of government,
Castellanos, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox NewsI would like to set a goal on a personal level, professional level, I would say let’s set it at 100 days,
he said in a Fox News Channel interviewThey’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours,
Trump vowed during a May 2023 town hallToday I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of commonsense,
the nation's 47th president vowed during his inauguration address Monday at the U.S. Capitol
I will get it settled before I even become president."
And in September, during his single debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump vowedI will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country,
Trump emphasized in his inauguration addressWe’re going to end it on Day One,
Trump vowed last MayI will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation, and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,
Trump arguedCould you imagine Biden doing this. I don't think so,
the president said, as he signed executive orders in front of thousands of his supportersAs of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,
the president saidThese people have been destroyed,
Trump argued as he signed the pardons
Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley?”
Earlier Monday, former President Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon for Milley along with others, to which Trump reacted, saying
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The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is unfortunate, but multilateral climate action has proven resilient and is stronger than any single country's politics and policies,
said Laurence Tubiana, a key architect of the accord
The details of how all of this is going to be unrolled are really important, because a lot can change in term of who's impacted, the timing, and whether there are exceptions,
Ghosh, who's also a partner at Pillsbury, told DW
I do think these [culture war] issues will be prominent in the early days of the new administration and in the early days of the new Congress,
Craig Saperstein, a partner at the public policy practice of international law firm Pillsbury, told DWPardons are typically thought of as something that happens towards the end of an administration,
Ghosh saidMany Trump voters are skeptical of political organizations and institutions, so we saw some early bones thrown to that group
with the two major withdrawals, J. Miles Coleman, election analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told DW