Trump Presidency Day 1 Live: US President Trump Praises First Indian-American Second Lady Usha Vance
Trump Presidency Day 1 Live Blog: After he returns to the White House, US President Donald Trump takes several decisions that erase former President Joe Biden's presidency.
Trump signed a memorandum permitting his White House counsel to grant interim six-month security clearances, including access to top government information, to some aides awaiting federal background checks. He had delayed signing an agreement with the outgoing Biden administration last year, which would have allowed the FBI to expedite processing those clearances.
Trump has reversed the protections for transgender individuals and eliminated diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the federal government. These moves represent significant shifts in federal policy and align with his campaign promises. One order states that the federal government will recognise only two immutable sexes: male and female.
Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing government agencies not to infringe on the free speech of Americans. The executive order is to immediately end the federal government's censorship of the American people.
Over the last four years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the federal government did not approve, the executive order said.
US President Donald Trump praises Usha Chilukuri Vance, JD Vance's wife and said he would have chosen her as his Vice President as "she is smarter but the line of succession did not work that way".
Usha became the first Indian-American Second Lady after her husband JD was sworn in as the 50th Vice President of the US.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer criticised Trump for what he described as ushering in a "Golden Age" for those who broke the law on January 6, 2021. Schumer said in a statement, "Donald Trump is creating a Golden Age for lawbreakers who attempt to overthrow the government."
Trump signed documents he said will formally withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreements. He made the same move during his first term but Biden reversed it.
Trump planned to sign an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. The highest mountain in North America, now known as Denali, will revert back to Mount McKinley, its name until President Barack Obama changed it.
TikTok is going to keep operating in the US for the next 75 day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday. TikTok’s China-based parent ByteDance was supposed to find a U.S. buyer or be banned on January 19. Trump’s order could give ByteDance more time to find a buyer.
Shou Zi Chew, TikTok’s CEO, attended Trump’s inauguration earlier in the day, seated with American tech heavyweights.
Trump ends birthright citizenship, ending the policy anyone born in the US automatically receives a US passport regardless of the citizenship or immigration status of the parents, says it is "ridiculous", "we are the only country in the world doing this".
Trump is likely to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico as early as February 1, while promising punitive measures on other countries as part of a new US trade policy. Trump began this threat against the two major US trading partners as he accused them of failing to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the United States.
Trump signed an executive order to withdraw America from the World Health Organisation, the second time in less than five years that the US has ordered to withdraw from the world body. The WHO came under intense criticism from Trump in 2020 for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which grew into a worldwide health crisis during the final year of his first term. The global health body stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding following Trump's order.
Immediately after returning to the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump pardoned those convicted or charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. The decision effectively granted broad impunity to Trump supporters who disrupted the nation's tradition of peaceful power exchange by attempting to overturn his election loss in 2020.
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Trump Presidency Day 1 Live Updates: US President Donald Trump returns to the White House and made several executive decisions on Day 1.
Trump reversed numerous actions taken by former President Joe Biden, initiated a crackdown on immigration, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, and worked to keep TikTok operational in the country for 75 days.
As promised, Trump pardoned about 1,500 people convicted or criminally charged for the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol after former President Joe Biden’s victory.
The US President signed an executive order beginning the process of withdrawing America from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the second time in less than five years.
His key order on immigration reinstates policies from 2017, aiming to cut federal grants to "sanctuary" jurisdictions that limit cooperation with immigration authorities claiming that these jurisdictions violate laws. The order restores deportation criteria to pursue everyone in the country illegally, not just those with serious criminal records, those deemed national security or public safety threats, and those who recently crossed the border.
“I 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 in which they came,” Trump said in his inauguration speech to thunderous applause.
The president also said that the tariff to be levied on Canada and Mexico could start as early as February.
On Monday, due to the frigid weather, the day's events were altered. Trump's swearing-in was forced indoors to the Capitol Rotunda. During his inaugural speech, Trump said the government faces “a crisis of trust.” He claimed to have “a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal,” promising to “give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy and indeed their freedom.”
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