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

President Trumpimmediately after taking office, changed his presidential powers, fulfilling some of the main promises he made during the election campaign.

“Today I will sign a number of historic decrees. With these actions, we will begin the complete recovery of America and the revolution of common sense,” the 47th president of the country promised during his inaugural address Monday at the U.S. Capitol.

Hours later, Trump followed by signing a flurry of executive orders at Capitol One Arena in Washington in front of thousands of supporters — a first in the nation’s history — and later in the more traditional Oval Office at the White House.

“It’s just Trump. He is the first president in a new connected world where you have to rule from the outside in. You have to get support and get people with you,” veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told Fox News Digital.

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Trump immigration promises were the centerpiece of his successful presidential campaign to regain the White House.

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

And Trump took immediate action in his first hours in office.

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The new president declared a state of emergency along the southern border with Mexico and ordered the deployment of US troops to support immigration agents. Trump also ordered the reinstatement of his first administration’s policy of making asylum seekers wait at the border in Mexico. But it is unclear whether Mexico will accept migrants again.

Trump also ordered the federal government to resume construction of a border wall that was started during 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 activists.

“I will declare a national emergency on our southern border. All illegal entries will be stopped immediately. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places they came from. We will resume my stay in Mexico. I will end the practice of “catch and release” and 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 call the cartels foreign terrorist organizations. And invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and overwhelming power of federal and state law enforcement agencies to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks.”

In the two years since his return to the White House, Trump has repeatedly vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and vowed to end the Biden administration’s electric car mandate.

Trump followed suit on Monday when he tied his energy orders his efforts to control inflation.

“I will direct all members of my cabinet to use the enormous powers at their disposal to defeat what has been record inflation and bring costs and prices down quickly. The inflationary crisis was caused by huge overspending and rising energy prices,” Trump claimed.

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

Throughout the 2024 cycle, Trump and Republicans have repeatedly hammered Democrats over the Biden administration’s protection of transgender students

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

Trump followed up by taking executive action that the president’s advisers said “protects women from gender, ideology, extremism and returns biological truth to the federal government.”

“Starting today, the official policy of the United States government will be only two genders, male and female,” the president said.

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

Another promise during the election campaign is to pardon the accused and commute the sentences of many of those convicted of the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 by Trump supporters who unsuccessfully tried to stop Congress from certifying the victory of President Biden in the 2020 election.

Trump did not mention the pardon in his inaugural address, but minutes later, as he spoke to supporters gathered in a packed room at the US Capitol, he repeated his longstanding, unproven claim that the 2020 presidential election “was completely rigged.”

A couple of hours later, in front of jubilant supporters packed into an arena in downtown Washington, Trump said he would “sign clemency to a lot of people … to release them immediately.”

He wasn’t kidding.

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

“These people were destroyed,” Trump said as he signed the pardon. “What they did to these people was outrageous.”

Trump also took action on something that didn’t come up during the campaign.

“In a short time, we will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States,” Trump said in his inaugural address.

And pointing to Mount Denali in Alaska, which is North America’s highest peak, the president said, “we will put the name of the great President William McKinley back on Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs.”

“He fills the zone. It justifies actions. It demonstrates action. He is gathering a wave of American support for a massive transformation of government,” Castellanos, a veteran of multiple GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox News. “I think it’s stunning, and the Democrats just don’t know what’s hitting them.”

“Can you imagine Biden doing that. I don’t think so,” said the president, signing the decrees in front of thousands of his supporters.

But Trump has not fulfilled all his campaign promises.

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One of his most famous vows, which he failed to keep on his first day in office, called for an immediate end to the deadly war in Eastern Europe.

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

“They are 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 promised during a May 2023 town hall.

And in September, during a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump promised: “I’ll fix this before I’m president.”

This obviously did not happen.

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And earlier this month, retired General Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, suggested a longer timetable.

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