Here's everything Donald Trump has done so far in his first week as president
Topics: Donald Trump, US News, News, Politics
Niamh Shackleton
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Topics: Donald Trump, US News, News, Politics
Donald Trump has wasted no time in making some drastic changes to the way America will be run following his inauguration.
President Trump returned to office for a second time on Monday (January 20) and took back the White House from Joe Biden — whom the businessman lost to in 2020.
While Trump declined to attend Biden's inauguration and host him at the White House ahead of the ceremony, Biden welcomed his successor with open arms, declaring 'Welcome Home!' when he and Melania Trump arrived in Washington DC earlier this week.
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But fast forward to November 2024 and Trump was once more voted to be president, with Republicans across the US working hard to get him there.
It's been a mere few days since he took his seat in the oval office once more, but President Trump's already signed numerous orders that will make drastic changes to the US.
Here's some of the other things he's done since becoming president.
Trump has clamped down on immigration once more, regarding the US-Mexico border in particular.
It was announced yesterday (January 22) that The Pentagon is deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the US-Mexico border in the coming days, officials said (via Associated Press).
The active duty forces would join the roughly 2,500 US National Guard and Reserve forces already there.
He's further insulted Mexicans by suggesting that the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed the Gulf of America.
Away from the US-Mexico border, Trump has ordered the suspension of refugee admissions into the US and all refugee travel was canceled just a day after he became president.
Trump also wasted no time in sharing his intentions of scrapping the country's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes.
All DEI workers were put on paid leave from 5pm EST yesterday (January 22), ahead of their offices being shut down.
While many have felt that the DEI scheme has helped the LGBTQ+ community in particular, Trump's new order will remove aims to stop companies hiring candidates on the basis of race and sex.
Elsewhere, the new president has ordered for federal workers to return to the office full time and for agencies to stop giving remote working options to employees.
Trump has also frozen almost all federal agencies from hiring, apart from military, immigration enforcement, national security and public safety jobs, Reuters reported.
Trump has ordered for the US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement; a legally binding international treaty on climate change.
The agreement came into force in 2016 and was agreed to by nearly 200 countries, the US included.
This marks the second time Trump has ordered for America to withdraw from the agreement in 2020, but Biden reversed his predecessor's decision when he became president in 2021.
While most countries are trying to move away from oil and gas as sources of energy with climate change in mind, Trump has signed orders aiming to promote the the two things in Alaska.
"We will drill, baby," Trump said in his inaugural address on Monday.
"We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have – the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We’re going to use it."
Of course, Trump has made himself at home since returning to the White House and has already made some tweaks to the Oval Office.
He's already reinstated his infamous Coca-Cola button, and – obviously — swapped out any Biden portraits from his time in office.
Meanwhile Trump's added his own personal photographs, as well as swapping out Biden's darker rug for a neutral-colored one.