On January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 45th president of the United States. During his inaugural speech, Trump painted a bleak picture of “American carnage” across the country, speaking about inequality, abandoned factories and crime. He promised to fix these issues by making “America strong again, wealthy again, proud again, safe again and, yes…great again.” The same day, the White House website, where Obama’s administration’s information on civil rights, climate change, LGBT rights, health care, immigration, education and the “Iran Deal” had been available, was changed to just six “issues” with the “America first energy plan” replacing climate change.
On January 23, Trump has begun doing away with the Obama administration’s actions by putting an end to a flagship trade deal with 11 countries in the Pacific rim. Trump also placed a hiring freeze on non-military federal workers. Trump also signed an anti-abortion executive order which requires international non-governmental organizations receiving federal US funding to agree to “neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations”.
On January 24, Trump signed an executive order reviving two crude oil pipelines. The Dakota Access pipeline was blocked in mid-December amid claims of infringement on Native American territory and possible harmful side effects of such a project along a major waterway. The Keystone XL Pipeline was vetoed by president Obama last year, and has now been brought back onto the table, with President Trump stating his attentions to bring American resources, funding, and labor onto the two major projects that will push millions of barrels of crude oil across the US each year. Trump also made drastic changes to the US government structure, blocking employees at both the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture from talking to reporters and other members of the media, as well as signing into law major cuts in the EPA’s budget, as well as forbidding the creation of new contracts and grants.
President Donald J. Trump has set up his cabinet nominees. Here is the list:
Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson
Attorney General: Jeff Sessions
Education: Betsy DeVos
Health and Human Services: Tom Price
Transportation: Elaine Chao
Secretary of Treasury: Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of Commerce: Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Defense: Gen. James Mattis (Ret.)
Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson
Department of Homeland Security: Gen. John Kelly
Secretary of the Interior: Ryan Zinke
Energy: Rick Perry
Veteran Affairs: David Shulkin
Agriculture: Sonny Purdue
Chief of Staff: Reince Priebus
Ambassador to the United Nations: Nikki Haley
Administrator of Small Business Administration: Linda McMahon
Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency: Scott Pruitt
National Security Advisor: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
CIA Director: Rep. Mike Pompeo
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Trump’s staff apparently relayed to him, as the president-elect’s Twitter account declared its “love” of the protestors’ “passion” nine hours later. Instead, the president-elect promised to place his assets into what he refers to as a “blind trust,” but is actually an entity that would allow him perfect knowledge of the assets he holds — and that would be managed by his children, who are also members of his transition team.