Donald Trump is now the 47th President of the United States. He was sworn in just after Noon Eastern Time on Monday. Trump is just the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms. The swearing-in ceremony took place in the Capitol Rotunda, and it was moved indoors due to freezing temperatures in the nation’s capital.
President Trump has taken his first actions of his second term in office. He signed executive actions regarding presidential appointments in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Trump is promising a “golden age of America” and is signing executive orders to secure the southern border. He is declaring an emergency at the border and plans to send troops to the area. He is also set to begin mass deportations, ramp up energy production and reverse recent climate change policies and transgender rights.
Trump also signed a proclamation to order flags to be flown at full staff for this and all inaugurations moving forward.
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed off on an executive order pardoning roughly 15-hundred people convicted in the January 6th riots. He called them “hostages” and also signed commutations of sentences for six defendants. Another one of the first orders signed by the President requires federal employees to return to full-time, in-office work and freezes federal hiring except for positions needed for national security, the military and public safety.
