Trump signs dozens of executive orders, fulfilling many but not all campaign promises

President Trumpimmediately after taking office, he changed his presidential powers as he fulfilled some of the major promises he made during the campaign.

“Today I will be signing a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin a complete rebuilding of America and a revolution of common sense,” the nation’s 47th president pledged during his inaugural address Monday at the US Capitol.

A few hours later, Trump followed, with an avalanche of executive order signings in Washington’s Capitol One Arena, in front of thousands of supporters—a first in the nation’s history—and later in the more traditional Oval Office of the White House.

“It’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 rally support and pull people along,” 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 recapture the White House.

“On day one, I will launch the largest criminal deportation program in the history of America,” the then-Republican presidential candidate promised during a rally in late October at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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 assist immigration agents. Trump also ordered the resumption of a policy from his first administration that forced asylum seekers to wait across the border in Mexico. But it is not clear whether Mexico will accept the migrants again.

Trump also ordered the federal government to continue construction of a border wall, started during his first term but halted by President Biden.

And Trump signed an order revoking the right to citizenship for the 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 activists.

“I will declare a state of emergency on our southern border. All illegal entry will be stopped immediately. And we will begin the process of sending millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places they came from. We will restore my stay in Mexico. I will end the practice of catch and release and I will send troops to the southern border to repel a catastrophic invasion of our country,” Trump emphasized at his inauguration. address.

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And the president also announced that “we will also designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And invoking the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and overwhelming power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks.”

During his two-year bid to return to the White House, Trump repeatedly promised to “drill, baby, drill” and vowed to end the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate.

On Monday, Trump followed suit, while tying his own energy executive orders his efforts to keep inflation under control.

“I will direct all members of my Cabinet to direct the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what has been record inflation and rapidly lower costs and prices. The inflationary crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,” Trump said.

And he said “that’s why today I’m also going to declare a national energy emergency. We’re going to drill, baby, drill. America is going to be a producing nation again, and we’re going to have something that no other producing nation will ever have. The largest amount of oil and gas of any country in the world.”

During the 2024 cycle, Trump and Republicans repeatedly targeted Democrats in the election over the Biden administration’s protections for transgender students

“We’re going to end it on day one,” Trump promised last May. “Don’t forget, it was done as an order of the president. It came as an executive order. And we’re going to change it — day one, it’s going to be changed.”

Trump continued, taking executive action from what the president’s advisers said would “defend women from gender, ideology, extremism and bringing biological truth back to the federal government.”

“As of today, the official policy of the United States government will be that there are only two sexes, male and female,” the president said.

The president also signed executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs — best known by the acronym DEI — within the federal government. The orders direct the White House to identify and terminate programs within the government.

Another campaign promise – pardoning the accused and commuting sentences for many of those convicted of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters who tried unsuccessfully to stop congressional certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Trump did not mention the pardons in his inaugural address, but minutes later, while speaking to supporters gathered in a room at the US Capitol, he repeated his long-standing unproven claim that the 2020 presidential election “was totally rigged.”

Hours later, in front of cheering fans gathered in an arena in downtown Washington, DC, Trump said he was “going to sign pardons for a lot of people…to get them out right away.”

He wasn’t kidding.

The president, still in the White House, eventually pardoned about 1,500 people — including some convicted of assaulting police officers — reversing a Justice Department effort to punish those who stormed the Capitol on one of America’s darkest days.

“These people are destroyed,” Trump claimed as he signed the pardons. “What they did to these people is outrageous.”

Trump also took steps on something that didn’t appear on the campaign trail.

“We will soon change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico,” Trump said in his inaugural address.

And pointing to Mount Denali in Alaska, which is the highest peak in North America, the president said “we will restore the name of the great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be 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 devastating and the Democrats just don’t know what’s hitting 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 fulfill all his campaign promises.

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One of his most notable broken promises on his first day in office was to end the deadly war in Eastern Europe immediately.

During the election campaign, Trump repeatedly boasted that he would end the almost three-year war between Russia and Ukraine “in one day.”

“They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’m going to do it — I’m going to do it in 24 hours,” Trump vowed during a May 2023 town hall.

And in September, during his one-on-one debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump promised “I’m going to fix this before I even become president.”

Obviously, that didn’t happen.

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Earlier this month, retired General Keith Kellog, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, offered a longer timetable.

“I would like to set a goal on a personal level, a professional level, I would say let’s set it at 100 days,” he said in an interview with Fox News Channel.