Trump sweeps away Biden era with an avalanche of decrees against immigration, the green agenda and diversity
The president withdraws the US from the Paris Agreement, pardons those convicted of the assault on the Capitol and renames the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, but has not yet imposed tariffs on imports
Donald Trump decided not to wait until he was installed in the White House to begin governing. The president had a desk set up on the stage of the Capital One Arena, the indoor sports stadium where his followers followed the inauguration on screens, to sign his first decrees there, fresh from the Capitol. The crowd had been waiting for him for hours and cheered him on his arrival with cries of “U-S-A” and “fight, fight, fight,” the words he uttered after surviving an assassination attempt. In the stands, together with members of his family and his team, he witnessed a parade of troops that lasted almost an hour, led by the helmet and uniform of the firefighter who died on the day of that attack. Then, after a speech in which he took the credit for the ceasefire in the Middle East and repeated some of his standard falsehoods, he sat in a red seat where there were a pile of folders stacked up and began signing decrees.
