Washington, D.C.– US President-elect Donald Trump has promised to be a dictator – but only on his upcoming “day one” in office.

This was a statement Trump made to Fox News in December 2023 during his most recent re-election campaign.

Sitting at a town hall with host Sean Hannity, Trump pivoted to his long list of first-day priorities with a question about whether he might abuse his presidential power.

“I love this guy,” Trump told the audience, pointing to Hannity. “He said, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, ‘No, no, no, except on day one. We’re closing the borders, we’re drilling, drilling, drilling’.”

Since then, Trump’s first-day promises have only grown, from immigration to redesigning the federal government.

On Monday, Trump was sworn in after a shocking oath of office. political comeback in the November election.

The swearing-in ceremony will officially kick off his second term as president. All eyes will be on how he will use his authority when he returns to the White House.

Trump is expected to sign numerous executive orders during his presidency.

Such moves are common practice for incoming administrations looking to make their mark, even if the orders are weakened by congressional or legal challenges.

But with nearly 60 first-day commitments expected and as many as 100 executive orders, Trump’s workload is set to be particularly heavy once he returns to the White House.

One Republican senator, John Barrasso, has already predicted a “blizzard” of executive orders aimed at “shock and awe.”

Here are some of the most important promises Trump made on day one.

mass deportations

Immigration — and reducing irregular crossings at the southern border — became one of the major issues in Trump’s re-election campaign.

On November 4, just days before winning the presidency, Trump reiterated a promise he had made many times during the campaign: “Starting on Day One, I will initiate the largest deportation of criminals in American history. Plan. We have to get them out.”

Details on how Trump would launch and fund such a project Massive operations Still elusive.

The U.S. government estimates there are nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country, although Trump said he would “declare a national emergency and use military assets.”

Trump’s possible targets are also vague. Some supporters argue that all undocumented people in the country are “criminals.” Others want Trump to limit “mass deportations” to those convicted of crimes such as theft or assault.

“Muslim Ban”

Another promise on his first day was to look back at his first term, when he signed a 2017 executive order known as “ban muslims“.

It restricts entry to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries including Syria, Libya, Yemen and Sudan. The ban faced numerous legal challenges and was ultimately defeated under President Joe Biden.

But in his new term, Trump promised to reinstate the ban and “pause refugee admissions, stop resettlement, and keep terrorists away from our country.”

“We will ban resettlement of refugees from terrorist-infested areas like the Gaza Strip, we will seal our borders and reinstate travel bans,” he told Republican donors in Washington, D.C., in September.

“Remember the famous travel ban? We didn’t take people from certain parts of the world because I didn’t want people tearing down our malls and burning them down and killing people.”

restrict citizenship

An executive order Trump is considering on his first day back in the White House would seek to limit who is eligible for U.S. citizenship.

The plan has been a long time coming. As early as May 2023, Trump released a video on his campaign website outlining his intentions.

Trump said: “On the first day of my new term, I will sign an executive order making it clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, future children of illegal immigrants will not automatically receive U.S. citizenship.” ” explain.

Under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, anyone born within the United States becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of the status of his or her parents.

Ending the Russian-Ukrainian War

Trump has repeatedly insisted that the wars in Ukraine and Gaza would never break out on his watch.

Despite a ceasefire agreed days before Trump’s inauguration to halt Israel’s destructive actions in Gaza, fighting in Ukraine has continued, with Russia launching a full-scale invasion of the region in 2022.

Trump has pledged to quickly end the conflict during his second term. In May 2023, Trump said at a CNN town hall that the war would be “absolutely over” within “24 hours” of his taking office.

Trump has more cautious More recently, as his second term approaches. Nonetheless, he announced on January 13 that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon” after taking office.

Trump’s team said he would pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reach a deal, raising concerns it could mean concessions to Moscow.

Upward pressure from tariffs

Part of Trump’s vision for his first days in office is to reimagine the federal government.

January 14, Trump Announce On Inauguration Day, he will create an “External Revenue Service” that will “collect our duties, tariffs and all revenue from abroad.”

Trump has called for a broad tariff plan – including tariffs of up to 60% on Chinese goods – to boost domestic manufacturing.

Trump also threatened The United States will impose tariffs of up to 25% on Mexico and Canada if they do not do more to prevent transit and drug smuggling.

However, economists are skeptical of the approach, saying such high tariffs could lead to a trade war that would harm the U.S. economy.

Pardon the January 6 defendants

Trump has mentioned this many times arrested On January 6, 2021, he stormed the U.S. Capitol Building as a “political prisoner” and “hostage”.

He even promised to start pardoning within his first minutes in office.

But Trump has since become more ambiguous on the matter. timeline – and whether all defendants charged in the riot would be eligible for clemency.

“I’ll probably do it very soon,” Trump said last month on the television show “Meet the Press,” while noting that there “may be some exceptions” to his pardon plan.

Separately, on Sunday, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said that only peaceful protesters should be pardoned, angering some supporters. He added that there were “some gray areas” in some cases.

Deregulate industries

Trump has said he plans to pursue a broad deregulation program upon returning to office.

He blamed regulations for holding back business and passing too many costs on to American consumers.

“On Day One, I will sign an executive order directing every federal agency to immediately eliminate every burdensome regulation that drives up the cost of goods,” Trump said at a campaign event in October.

“This will be the largest deregulation in the history of our country, and it’s going to happen very quickly,” he added.

At a December press conference, Trump went a step further, pledging to cut 10 regulations for every new one added.

He plans to create a new non-governmental commission – the Department of Government Effectiveness – to identify regulations that can be rolled back.

Some of the regulations Trump is targeting relate to the environment.

They include a day-one pledge to reverse President Joe Biden’s executive action banning offshore drilling in 625 million acres (253 million hectares) of coastal waters.

Trump also said he would immediately revoke Biden’s so-called “electric vehicle mandate” that imposes higher emissions limits on automakers to combat climate change.

Action against “woke” ideology

Trump’s first-day promises included several “culture war” issues that have long energized his supporters.

That includes stopping “transgender madness,” as Trump said in December.

The president-elect has pledged to ban trans women from participating in women’s sports. He also said he would move to ban gender-affirming care for minors, which he called “child sexual mutilation.”

“From day one, I will undo Joe Biden’s cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care,” Trump said in a February 2023 statement. Event video.

“I will sign a new executive order directing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote sexual and gender transition concepts at any age.”

Trump further threatened cut off immediately Federal funding from schools and colleges promotes “critical race theory, transsexual insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content.”

Resigned over troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

On the reality TV show “The Apprentice,” Trump portrayed a tough-talking real estate mogul with ruthless business acumen.

His catchphrase “You’re fired” followed him into politics.

Even on the campaign trail, Trump entertained audiences with plans to fire people he deemed incompetent.

In his vision for his first day in office, he told viewers he planned to hold accountable those responsible for the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021.

Trump struck a deal with the Taliban in 2020 to divest the U.S. presence in the country. But as U.S. troops retreated, the Taliban launched an offensive that overthrew the fragile U.S.-backed government.

After the fall of the capital Kabul, a suicide bombing killed 13 American soldiers and about 170 Afghan civilians, and people evacuated hastily.

Trump blamed his successor Joe Biden for the deaths, despite 2023 report Showing that both leaders share responsibility. But Trump insisted on pointing the finger elsewhere.

“We will have a resignation letter from every senior official involved in the disaster in Afghanistan on my desk at noon on Inauguration Day,” he said in Michigan in August. “You know, you have to fire people. When people don’t do a good job, you have to fire them.”