Donald Trump changes the map on day one, unleashes 200 executive actions

Donald Trump is planning to hit America’s closest trading partners with punishing tariffs, and has also put the world on notice.

Donald Trump has got straight to work after being sworn in as America’s President for the second time, signing executive orders on stage and moving immediately to crack down on immigration into the country.

Mr Trump had promised, on the eve of his inauguration, to swiftly declare a “national emergency” along the nation’s southern border with Mexico, and to issue a series of executive orders dealing with the crisis.

“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 from which they came,” said Mr Trump, who has pledged to conduct mass deportations.

“I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”

There are, by most estimates, well over ten million undocumented migrants living in the United States. The sort of deportation program Mr Trump has promised to implement is a huge undertaking.

Among his first actions, today, was a move to shut down the US government’s CBP One app, which has been used for asylum applications since 2023.

Video of distraught would-be migrants whose appointments, scheduled through the app, had been abruptly cancelled went viral in the immediate aftermath of the inauguration.

Mr Trump, who was the 45th president and is now officially number 47 as well, is only the second person in American history to serve non-consecutive terms in the White House (if you care to know, in anticipation of a trivia question perhaps, the other was Grover Cleveland).

He was joined, in the rotunda, by the outgoing president Joe Biden, his defeated opponent Kamala Harris, both of their spouses, and members of the Trump family, including Melania, Donald Jr, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany and Barron.

J.D. Vance, formerly a senator representing Ohio, has also been sworn in as Vice President.

In the first speech of Mr Trump’s second term as President, he said he’d been “saved by God” from an assassination attempt during the election campaign.

He also issued a sweeping threat to his political opponents, saying his victory in November delivered a mandate to “completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal” of Americans and “give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy and their freedom”.

“From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” he said.

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