Trump signs dozens of executive orders, many of which fulfill all of his campaign promises.
As President Trump has taken office, he has renewed his presidency by following through on some of the major promises he made on the campaign trail.
“Today, I am signing a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and a revolution in common sense,” the nation’s 47th president said Monday in his inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol.
Hours later, Trump followed suit, at Washington’s Capitol One Arena, in front of thousands of supporters — a first in the nation’s history — and later at the White House in the traditional setting of the Oval Office.
“It’s just pure Trump. He’s the first president in a newly connected world where you lead from the outside in. You have to rally support and bring the people with you,” veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told Fox News Digital.
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Trump’s immigration promises were central to his successful presidential campaign to win back the White House.
At a rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden in late October, the then-Republican presidential candidate said, “On day one, I will begin the largest criminal deportation program in American history.”
And Trump took immediate action within his first hours 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 assist immigration agents. Trump ordered the resumption of a policy from his first administration that forced asylum seekers to wait at the Mexican border. But it is unclear whether Mexico will accept the refugees again.
Trump ordered the federal government to continue construction of the border wall, which was started in his first term but stopped by President Biden.
And Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. But with birthright citizenship enshrined in the US Constitution, Trump’s executive order is sure to face immediate legal challenges in court from civil rights groups and immigration advocates.
“I will declare a national emergency on our southern border. All illegal entry will cease immediately. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminals to where they came from. We will take back what I have left in Mexico. I will stop the policy of catch and release and send to the southern border to fight against this terrible invasion of our country. .
Trump promised to act at ‘historic speed’ because the inauguration would bring redemption
The president also said, “We will designate the perpetrators as foreign terrorist organizations. And I will direct our government to use the full and massive powers of federal and state law enforcement by invoking the Foreign Enemies Act of 1798. The existence of all foreign criminals and criminal networks.”
During his two-year run back to the White House, Trump has repeatedly vowed to “dig it in, baby it out” and vowed to end the Biden administration’s mandate for electric vehicles.
On Monday, Trump followed suit by suspending the executive order in an effort to control inflation.
“I urge all members of my cabinet to take control of the enormous powers at their disposal to defeat inflation and bring costs and prices down quickly. The inflation is caused by high spending and high energy prices,” Trump argued.
And that’s why today I’m 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 largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth.
During the 2024 cycle, Trump and Republicans have repeatedly targeted Democrats on the ballot over the Biden administration’s protections for transgender students.
“We’ll get it done on day one,” Trump promised last May. “Don’t forget, that was done by order of the president. That came down as an executive order. And we’re going to change it — on day one, it’s going to change.”
Trump followed suit with the president’s advisers saying, “Return women from gender, ideology, extremism, and biological truth to the federal government.”
“Starting today, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” the president said.
The president has signed executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs – abbreviated DEI – in the federal government. The orders direct the White House to identify and end programs in government.
Another promise on the campaign trail – pardoning the accused and commuting the sentences of many of the Trump supporters who tried to stop the congressional certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump did not mention the pardon in his inauguration speech, but minutes later, speaking to supporters in an overflow room at the US Capitol, he repeated his long-standing unconfirmed claims that the 2020 presidential election was “totally rigged.”
A few hours later, in front of packed supporters on a stage in downtown Washington, DC, Trump immediately announced that he would “sign a pardon for a lot of people…”
He wasn’t kidding.
The president returned to the White House and pardoned nearly 1,500 people — including some accused of assaulting police officers — ending a Justice Department effort to punish those who stormed the Capitol.
“These people are destroyed,” Trump argued as he signed the pardon. “What they did to these people is disgusting.”
Trump acted on something that was not on the campaign trail.
“From now on, we will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States,” Trump said in his inauguration speech.
And pointing to Alaska’s Mount Denali, the highest peak in North America, the president said, “We’re going to put the name of the great President William McKinley back on Mount McKinley, where it should be, and we’re going to put it back.”
“He’s flooding the zone. He’s making a case for action. He’s showing action. He’s rallying American support for massive government change,” Castellanos, a veteran of several GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox News. “I think it’s amazing and the Democrats don’t know what’s hitting them.”
“You can imagine Biden doing this. I don’t think so,” the president said as he signed executive orders in front of thousands of supporters.
But Trump has not kept all of his campaign promises.
Trump’s envoy has set a long timetable for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine
One of the most famous promises he failed to keep during his first term was to immediately end the deadly war in Eastern Europe.
Trump has repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he would end the nearly three-year war between Russia and Ukraine “one day.”
“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’m going to do that – I’m going to do it in 24 hours,” Trump promised at a May 2023 town hall.
And in September, during a one-on-one debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump promised to “fix it before I’m president.”
That, apparently, did not happen.
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And earlier this month, retired General Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, offered a longer timeline.
“Personally, professionally, I want to set a goal, I’d say let’s figure it out in 100 days,” he said in a Fox News Channel interview.