Trump signs a number of executive orders, fulfilling many of his campaign promises but not all

President Trump, soon after taking office, changed his presidential power as he followed through on some of the big promises he made on the campaign trail.

“Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin a complete restoration of America and a commonsense revolution,” the country’s 47th president vowed during his inaugural address on Monday at the US Capitol.

A few hours later, Trump followed, with the signing of senior officials in Washington’s Capitol One Arena, in front of thousands of supporters – the first in the history of the country – and later in the traditional Oval Office in the White House.

“It’s pure Trump. He’s the first president in a new connected world where you have to manage from the outside. You have to raise support and bring people in,” veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told Fox News Digital.

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Trump’s immigration promises were central to his successful presidential campaign to reclaim the White House.

“On Day One, I will introduce the largest criminal deportation program in American history,” the then-Republican presidential nominee vowed during a late October rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

And Trump acted quickly within his first hours in office.

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The new president declared a national emergency along the southern border with Mexico and ordered the deployment of US troops to help support the migrants. Trump also ordered a resumption of a policy from his first administration that forced asylum seekers to wait at the Mexican border. But it is not clear whether Mexico will accept the migrants again.

Trump also ordered the federal government to restart construction of the border wall, which began during his first term but was stopped by President Biden.

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

And Trump signed an executive order ending citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. But with birthright citizenship enshrined in the US Constitution, Trump’s executive order is sure to face 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 be stopped immediately. And we will begin the process of sending millions and millions of criminal aliens back to their places of origin. We will restore my residency in Mexico. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to deport them. a catastrophic attack on our country,” Trump emphasized in his inauguration speech.

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And the president also announced that “we will again designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and powerful powers of federal and state law to eradicate the existence of all foreign criminals.” and criminal organizations.”

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

During his two-year run back to the White House, Trump repeatedly vowed to “screw it, baby, screw it,” and promised to end the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate.

On Monday, Trump followed suit, as he tied his energy executive orders to his efforts to control inflation.

“I will direct all the members of my cabinet to use great power to defeat what has been a history of inflation, and to quickly reduce costs and prices. The problem of inflation is caused by excessive spending and rising energy prices,” said Trump.

And he said “that’s why today I’m going to declare a national energy emergency. We’re going to drill, baby, we’re going to drill. America is going to be a manufacturing nation again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have. The largest amount of oil and gas of any country in the world.”

In the 2024 cycle, Trump and Republicans have repeatedly targeted Democrats up and down the ballot over the Biden administration’s protections for transgender students.

“We’re going to finish it on Day One,” Trump vowed last May. “Don’t forget, that was done as an order from the president. That came down as an executive order. And we’re going to change it — on Day One, it’s going to be changed.”

Trump followed, taking executive action that presidential advisers said would “protect women from sexism, stereotypes, exaggeration and restore biological reality to the federal government.”

President Donald Trump sings the second executive order during the inauguration ceremony inside Capital One Arena on inauguration day for his second term as president, in Washington, January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

“Starting today, it will be the official policy of the United States government to have only two genders, male and female,” the president said.

The president also signed executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs — better known by their acronym DEI — within the federal government. The directives direct the White House to identify and eliminate programs within the government.

Another promise from the campaign trail – to pardon the defendants and reduce the sentences of many of those convicted from the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters who tried unsuccessfully to stop the congressional certification of President Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Trump did not mention the pardon in his inauguration speech, but minutes later when he addressed supporters gathered in an overflow room at the US Capitol, he reiterated his unverified claim that the 2020 presidential election was “absolutely flawed.”

A few hours later, in front of cheering fans packed into Washington DC’s downtown arena, Trump announced that he would be “signing amnesty to more people…to get them out” immediately.

He wasn’t kidding.

The president, returning to the White House, ended up pardoning about 1,500 people – including those convicted of attacking police officers – ending the Justice Department’s efforts to punish those who stormed the Capitol on one of America’s darkest days.

“These people have been destroyed,” Trump said as he signed the pardon. “What they did to these people is traumatizing.”

President Donald Trump signs a pardon for defendants January 6 in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Trump also took action on something that didn’t appear on the campaign trail.

“In a short time from now, we will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” Trump said in his inauguration speech.

And pointing to Alaska’s Mount Denali, the highest mountain in North America, the president said “we will restore the name of the great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it belongs and where it belongs.”

“He’s everywhere. He’s making a case for action. He’s showing action. He’s mobilizing a wave of American support for radical change in government,” Castellanos, a veteran of multiple GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox News. “I think it’s amazing and the Democrats just don’t know what’s hitting them.”

“You would think Biden is doing this. I don’t think so,” the president said, as he signed executive orders in front of thousands of his supporters.

But Trump hasn’t followed through on all of his campaign promises.

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One of his most prominent promises he failed to make during his first day in office involved an immediate end to the deadly war in Eastern Europe.

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

“They’re dying, the Russians and the Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’m going to do that — I’m going to do that in 24 hours,” Trump vowed during a May 2023 town hall.

And in September, during his one-on-one debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump vowed “I’m going to solve it before I’m president.”

That, apparently, did not happen.

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And earlier this month, retired General Keith Kellog, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, offered a lengthy timetable.

“I would like to set a goal on a personal level, a career level, I would say let’s set it in 100 days,” he said in an interview with Fox News Channel.