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Donald Trump signed several executive orders as soon as the oath was taken in as the US President on January 20, 2025. The main purpose of President Donald Trump’s signed executive orders was to cancel the previous president Joe Biden’s policies and to fulfil his election campaign promises. These orders had different impacts on national and international levels.

 

Separation from the Paris Climate Agreement

President Trump has again separated America from the climate agreement through one executive order. He argues that “this agreement unnecessarily burdens the American economy, and the field of energy it is an obstacle to progress”. 

 

Critics say that global environmental efforts will be destroyed by this step and the international reputation will be affected.

 

Withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO)

In another move, Trump ordered to take out America from the World Health Organization. He blamed that “during the COVID-19 epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) did not perform well leadership and colluded with China”. 

 

The funding of the World Health Organization will likely be affected by this decision because America is the largest contributor to WHO.

 

Changes in Immigration Policy

Donald Trump also has issued an executive order to tighten immigration laws. This move would speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants and the right to citizenship will be limited based on birth.

 

Reforms in the Federal Bureaucracy

President Trump banned new hires in federal institutes, however, it will not apply in the army. To improve the efficiency of the federal bureaucracy he has announced to establishment of a new institute called “The Department of Government Performance”. Elon Musk will lead “The Department of Government Performance”. The purpose of this action is to monitor the efficiency of federal institutions and reduce unnecessary expenditures.

 

Diversity, Equality and Transgender Rights

In the federal government, Trump ordered to end of diversity and equity programs and acknowledgment of only male and female genders. This move is likely to affect the rights of transgender people. And human rights organizations have expressed concern over it.

 

Legal Challenges and Public Response

Against these executive orders of President Trump various states and organizations have started legal proceedings.

 

Attorneys General of New Jersey and Arizona have challenged restricting the right to birthright citizenship in the court. They say “These actions violate constitutional rights and no president can be allowed to run the affairs of the country in the style of a kingship”. 

 

These decisions of President Trump have been an international reaction. Decisions to separate from the Paris Climate Agreement and withdraw from the WHO have been criticized by world leaders. They say that these actions will harm global cooperation and affect efforts to deal with global challenges.

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In comparison, the last few US presidents have issued fewer executive orders. We have studied the history of executive orders before the Donald Trump era.

Trump is expected to start issuing multips on his first day at work, putting into action a hundred-order plan he made known to Senate Republicans on January 8th. He will take an oath as the forty-seventh president of the United States on Monday. His orders will address immigration, border control, energy production, pardons, etc. 

The following are a few of the most significant presidential orders:

• The Emancipation Proclamation (1863): The order by Lincoln outlawed slavery and set free slaves living in the Confederate states.

• Executive Order 9066 (1942): FDR’s order permitted the relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans, who were considered a threat to US security during World War 2.

• Executive Order 9981 (1948): Truman abolished segregation based on ethnicity, religion, and skin color in the US armed forces.

• Executive Order 10924 (1961): The order established the Peace Corps and was issued by John F. Kennedy.

• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (2012): It was introduced by Barack Obama. DACA was quietly embedded in a policy for some children who entered the US without legal status with a frequent view to giving deferred action from deportation for two years.

• Executive Order 13769 (2017): Trump’s travel ban was known as Executive Order 13769, an executive order restricting entry into the US by certain foreign nationals. It was called a “Muslim ban” by many and quickly gained that title for what it did to constitute severe curtailments against countries with predominantly Muslim populations. 

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Executive Orders Donald Trump Plans to Use His First Days in Office

Donald Trump is widely expected to endorse executive orders during his first days in office.  His intention includes over one hundred executive orders, a few of which have plans for mass deportation of immigrants, undoing most of Biden’s energy policies, and similarly trying to pardon those Americans who were arrested for attending the Capitol riots, along with many others.

The First Thing On The List Seems To Be The Mass Deportation Of Migrants

According to many, Donald Trump is planning to reinstate the travel ban that was placed on Muslim countries along with some of the US-Mexico border procedures. Additionally, it has been claimed by top Trump surrogates that all operations for detaining and deporting illegal immigrants will begin from day one of the presidency.

Domestic Energy Production

Second, there are allegations that Donald Trump plans to implement damage control measures to address Biden’s energy policies. More specifically, he plans to remove the ban on gas and oil offshore drilling, eliminate the electric car mandate, and cease the restrictions on natural gas exports.

Donald Trump on Thursday tapped anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his secretary of health in the latest provocative nomination from the incoming Republican president.

“We want you to come up with things and ideas and what you’ve been talking about for a long time and I think you’re going to do some unbelievable things,” Trump told Kennedy Jr. during an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Thursday evening.

Moving quickly since his election last week, Trump has embarked on a campaign of political shock and awe as he rolls out an administration designed to upend — and in some cases literally dismantle — the US government.

Several of Trump’s choices for top jobs — including a TV news anchor at the helm of the Pentagon and an ally embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations for attorney general — have unnerved the Washington establishment.

Trump also announced Thursday that his personal attorneys, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who defended him at trial this year over hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, would serve as deputy attorneys general.

Kennedy, a scion of the famous political family who is popularly known as RFK Jr., is a longtime environmental campaigner who abandoned a fringe bid for the presidency to endorse Trump against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Trump had said previously he wanted Kennedy to “go wild” in changing health care, and the two campaigned together, promising to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Vaccine scepticism 

If approved by the Senate, which Trump’s Republican Party controls, 70-year-old Kennedy will take over the Health and Human Services Department, a mammoth institution with a budget of close to $2 trillion.

In a statement explaining his choice, Trump echoed many of Kennedy’s talking points, saying, “Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation.”

The nomination could meet opposition, given Kennedy’s history of promoting medical conspiracy theories  — including the disproven claim that childhood vaccines cause autism — and saying that the COVID-19 vaccine was deadly.

He is also burdened by a string of colourful and even bizarre stories from his personal life.

These include his statement that a parasitic worm once entered his “brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

An admission this year that he was behind the long unsolved mystery of a dead bear dumped in New York’s Central Park a decade ago raised eyebrows.

Energy 

Trump has yet to select treasury and commerce chiefs, or an education secretary, whose department he wants to abolish.

During the event in Mar-a-Lago on Thursday evening, he said that wealthy North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum would be appointed secretary of the interior, putting him in charge of national parks which could be opened to more oil exploration.

“We’re going to slash energy costs,” Trump told the event organized by the America First Policy Institute, where he was introduced by libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei and Hollywood A-lister Sylvester Stallone.

“Rocky” star Stallone told the audience, which included ever-present Tesla CEO Elon Musk, that Trump was a “mythical character.”

Trump joked that he couldn’t get Musk out of his Mar-a-Lago resort.

“He likes this place, I can’t get him out of here,” he said. “I like having him here as well. He’s done a fantastic job, an incredible mind.”

Trump’s first recruitments — including secretary of state pick Marco Rubio, a traditional conservative on foreign policy — were seen as relatively mainstream choices.

But then he caused concern even among some in the Republican Party as he appeared to put preference for personal loyalty above expertise or suitability.

– Personal lawyers –

A major shock was naming Matt Gaetz — a firebrand Republican far-right figure in Congress who was drawn into a years-long criminal probe into sex trafficking — as future attorney general.

Gaetz denies wrongdoing and has never faced charges but was still being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.

That decision followed Trump’s nomination of former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard — who met Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad and echoes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points — to take charge of the nation’s most sensitive secrets as director of national intelligence.

Trump recruited Pete Hegseth — a combat veteran who has no experience running large organizations but is a host on Trump’s favorite Fox News network — as defense secretary.

Trump and his aides have vowed that much of his second term will be about clearing the deck of federal officials who acted as a restraining influence on his populist, right-wing agenda during his first term.

Gaetz’s appointment would hand Trump, whose election likely means being freed from a string of serious criminal investigations, the advantage of a fierce partisan at the top of the Justice Department.

He intends to place a third personal attorney at the department by nominating John Sauer as solicitor general, which represents the US government at the Supreme Court.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to go after a variety of political opponents.

US President-elect Donald Trump thanked President Joe Biden for pledging a smooth transfer of power as the victorious Republican made a historic return visit to the White House on Wednesday.

“Politics is tough, and in many cases, it’s not a very nice world. It is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much,” Trump said after the two men shook hands in the Oval Office.

Trump, 78, added that the transition would be “smooth as you can get.” Biden greeted Trump in front of a roaring fire, offering him congratulations and saying: “Welcome back.”

The 81-year-old Biden invited his sworn rival to the White House — despite the fact that Trump, who refused to admit his 2020 election loss, never afforded Biden the same courtesy.

Biden, who dropped out of the election in July but saw his successor Kamala Harris lose to Trump last week, said he was “looking forward to having a smooth transition.”

“We’ll do everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated, [have] what you need,” he told Trump.

Triumphant Trump

Their talks after the public handshake may have been a bitter pill to swallow for Biden, who branded Trump a threat to democracy.

Biden was expected to push during the meeting for Trump to continue US support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, which the Republican has called into question.

Ahead of the White House visit, Trump addressed Republicans from the House of Representatives at a Washington hotel near the Capitol, which a mob of his supporters stormed in 2021 to try to reverse his election loss. An ebullient Trump suggested that he could even be open to a third term in office — which would violate the US Constitution.

“I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s good, we got to figure something else,’” he said, drawing some laughter.

Trump’s party looks set to take both chambers of Congress and consolidate his extraordinary comeback.

He was accompanied at the meeting with Republicans by the world’s richest man Elon Musk, whom he named on Tuesday as head of a new group aimed at slashing government spending. Trump has launched a flurry of nominations as he moves swiftly to name his administration.

Picking his team

Biden’s Oval Office invitation restored a presidential transition tradition that Trump tore up when he lost the 2020 election, refusing to sit down with Biden or even attend the inauguration.

Then-president Barack Obama had welcomed Trump to the White House when the tycoon won the 2016 election.

But by the time Trump took his last Marine One flight from the White House lawn on January 20, 2021, he had also been repudiated by many in his own party for having stoked the assault on the Capitol.

That period of disgrace soon evaporated, however, as Republicans returned to Trump’s side, recognizing his unique electoral power at the head of his right-wing movement.

Trump enters his second term with a near-total grip on his party and the Democrats in disarray. He has spent the week since the election at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida assembling his top team, as the world watches to see how closely he sticks to his pledges of isolationism, mass deportations and sweeping tariffs.

Trump named Space X, Tesla and X boss Musk, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a “Department of Government Efficiency (‘DOGE’)” — a tongue-in-cheek reference to an internet meme and cryptocurrency.

Trump is moving quickly to fill out his administration, picking a host of ultra-loyalists.

Trump nominated Fox News host and army veteran Pete Hegseth as his incoming defence secretary. An outspoken opponent of so-called “woke” ideology in the armed forces, Hegseth has little experience similar to managing the mammoth US military budget and bureaucracy.

Trump named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem — an ally who famously wrote about shooting her dog because it did not respond to training — as head of the Department of Homeland Security.