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

President Trump immediately exercised his presidential power after taking office and fulfilled some of the major promises he made during the campaign.

“Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. Through these actions, we will begin the radical restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” the 47th president of the United States vowed in his inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol on Monday.

Hours later, Trump made good on his promise, signing a slew of executive orders in front of thousands of supporters at First Capitol Arena in Washington — a first in U.S. history — followed by a more traditional appearance at the White House The executive order was signed in an Oval Office setting.

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

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Trump’s immigration pledge was a centerpiece of his successful presidential campaign that won him the White House.

“From day one, I will launch the largest criminal deportation program in American history,” the then-Republican presidential candidate vowed at a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in late October.

Trump took immediate action within his first hours back in office.

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The new president declared a national emergency on Mexico’s southern border and ordered the deployment of U.S. troops to help support migrants. Trump also ordered the resumption of a first-administration policy that forced asylum seekers to wait at the Mexican border. But it’s unclear whether Mexico will accept migrants again.

Trump also directed the federal government to resume border wall construction, which began during his first term but was halted by President Biden.

President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signs an order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. But because the U.S. Constitution enshrines birthright citizenship, Trump’s executive order is certain 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 entry will stop immediately. We will begin sending millions of criminal aliens back to where they came from. We will restore my residency in Mexico. I will Ending the practice of catch and release, I will send troops to the southern border to repel a catastrophic invasion of our country,” Trump emphasized in his inaugural address.

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The President also announced, “We will also designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. By invoking the Foreign Enemy Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and vast powers of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate these cartels.” you.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Uniondale, New York, Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

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

On Monday, Trump took action to tie the energy executive order to efforts to control inflation.

Trump said: “I will direct all members of my Cabinet to use their tremendous powers to defeat record inflation and quickly reduce costs and prices. The inflation crisis is caused by massive overspending and rising energy prices. ”

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

Trump and Republicans have repeatedly attacked Democrats up and down the ballot over the Biden administration’s protections for transgender students in the 2024 cycle

“We’re going to end it on day one,” Trump vowed last May. “Don’t forget, this is done by order of the president. It’s an executive order. We’re going to change it — it will change from day one.”

Trump followed suit with executive actions that presidential advisers said would “protect women from gender, ideology, extremism and restore biological truth to the federal government.”

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed his second executive order during the Inaugural Parade inside Capital One Arena on Inauguration Day of his second presidential term in Washington. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

“As of today, it is the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” the president said.

The president also signed an order ending the diversity, equity and inclusion program — 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 promise on the campaign trail was to pardon defendants and commute the sentences of many people convicted of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who sought to block Congress’s review of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Authentication without success.

Trump made no mention of pardons in his inaugural address, but minutes later, as he addressed supporters gathered in an overflow room at the U.S. Capitol, he reiterated his longstanding, unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 presidential election “Completely manipulated.”

Hours later, before cheering supporters who packed into a downtown Washington arena, Trump declared that he would immediately “sign pardons for a lot of people… to get them out.”

He’s not kidding.

Back in the White House, the president ultimately pardoned about 1,500 people, including some convicted of assaulting police officers, scuttling the Justice Department’s efforts to punish those who stormed the Capitol on one of America’s darkest days.

“These people have been devastated,” Trump said as he signed the pardon order. “It’s an outrage what they did to these people.”

President Donald Trump signs pardons for the January 6 defendants in the Oval Office of the White House on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Trump also took action on things that were not mentioned on the campaign trail.

In his inaugural address, Trump declared: “Soon, we will be renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.”

Pointing to Mount Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest peak, the president said, “We will restore the name of our great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it belongs, where it belongs.”

“He’s pouring into the area. He’s making the case for action. He’s demonstrating action. He’s rallying the American people to protest against the government,” Castellanos, a veteran of multiple Republican presidential campaigns, told Fox News. “I think it’s overwhelming, and Democrats don’t know what’s hitting them. “

“Can you imagine Biden doing this? I don’t think so,” the president said as he signed the executive order in front of thousands of supporters.

But Trump has not fulfilled all of his campaign promises.

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One of the most important vows he failed to keep on his first day in office was to immediately end a deadly war in Eastern Europe.

Trump repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail that he would “one day” end the nearly three-year war between Russia and Ukraine.

“The Russians and the Ukrainians, they’re dying. I want them to stop dying. I’m going to get it done — and I’m going to get it done in 24 hours,” Trump vowed at a May 2023 town hall.

In September, during a lone debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump vowed “I will fix this before I become president.”

Obviously, that didn’t happen.

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Earlier this month, Trump’s Ukraine envoy, retired general Keith Kellogg, proposed a longer timeline.

“I want to set a goal on a personal level, on a professional level, and I would say, let’s set it to 100 days,” he told Fox News Channel.