Breaking down the executive actions Trump is using to govern
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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In the day since he's once again become President, Trump has signed more than 200 executive actions aimed at delivering on campaign promises such as lower energy prices, mass deportations and an end to birthright citizenship.
There's been a deluge of actions, orders and pronouncements during the President's first day. From tariffs to immigration to the January 6th pardons – we breakdown everything down.
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| 0:00.0 | The golden age of America begins right now. |
| 0:06.9 | Donald Trump has not wasted any time getting to work now that he is back in the White House. |
| 0:12.7 | He started within hours after being sworn in as the 47th president. |
| 0:17.3 | At Capitol One Arena in D.C.'s Chinatown, Trump began making good on many second-term promises. |
| 0:23.6 | Why don't you say what I'm saying? |
| 0:25.7 | Sure. The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and others. |
| 0:36.9 | And he didn't stop there. |
| 0:39.3 | On the evening of inauguration day, Trump sat behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office |
| 0:44.1 | and continued putting pen to paper, signing executive action after executive action. |
| 0:50.6 | So this is January 6th. |
| 0:53.1 | These are the hostages. |
| 0:55.0 | Approximately 1,500 for a pardon. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes. |
| 1:00.0 | Full pardon. |
| 1:01.0 | This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the United States. |
| 1:07.0 | That's a good one. Birthright. That's a big one. This next one, sir, is a declaration of a national energy emergency. |
| 1:14.6 | What is this one? |
| 1:16.6 | Withdrawing from the World Health Organization, sir. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh, that's a big one. |
| 1:20.6 | Protecting women from radical gender ideology, sir. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh. |
| 1:24.6 | Sir, this is a proclamation declaring a national emergency at the southern border of the United States? |
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