President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders on 1st day of presidency.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that President Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time Monday afternoon, becoming one of just two U.S. presidents to return to the White House, after losing reelection four years earlier.
“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump declared in his inaugural address. “We will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.”
Soon after, the president appeared center stage at Washington’s Capital One Arena and started to sign “a series of historic executive orders” representing the “complete restoration of America and a revolution of common sense,” as he characterized them during his inaugural address.
Trump spent much of Monday’s big speech ticking through these executive orders one by one — another unusual move on a day typically reserved for lofty themes rather than State of the Union-style laundry lists.
But Trump’s focus on policy underscored how serious he is about making immediate changes this time around.
Among the orders Trump signed at Capital One arena:
- Revoking 78 executive actions of the previous administration
- Issuing “an immediate regulation freeze” and “a temporary hiring freeze” until Republicans have full control of the government
- Pausing the hiring of “any new IRS agents”
- Requiring “federal workers to return to the office in person”
- Signing “a presidential memorandum directing every member of my cabinet to … defeat inflation and bring down the cost of everyday life”
- Withdrawing from the Paris climate treaty
- Directing the federal government to preserve free speech and avoid political persecutions of prior administrations
“Can you imagine Biden doing this?” Trump asked the audience. “I don’t think so.”
Back at the White House, Trump said he was issuing pardons for roughly 1,500 of his supporters who were charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and commuting six of their sentences.
Among the other executive actions he planned to sign tonight in the Oval Office:
- Declaring a “national emergency” at America’s southern border and “send[ing] troops” there to halt “all illegal entry” and “begin the process of returning millions and millions” of immigrants who entered the country illegally “back to the places from which they came”
- Designating drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1978 to “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks”
- Declaring a “national energy emergency” to vastly expand domestic drilling and undo the Biden Administration’s electric vehicle incentives
- Overhauling America’s “trade system” in order to “tax and tariff foreign countries” via an “External Revenue Service”
- Reinstating military service members who “objected to the COVID [vaccine] mandate with full back pay”
- Ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies
- Eliminating various protections for transgender Americans, including the ability to select the gender-neutral “X” as a marker on their passports
“As of today, it will henceforth be the policy of the United States government that there are only two genders,” Trump said in his inaugural address. “Male and female.”
