Donald Trump has won another term in the White House as America’s 47th President.
It will be the 78-year-old’s second term as a Republican – after first serving in 2017 – and he has promised ‘a brand new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity and pride’.
Due to the weather, Trump’s swearing-in today (20 January) has been moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda, which is the first time this has happened in 40 years.
The inauguration day is set to start at 5pm UK time, with the inaugural procession and parade beginning around 8pm UK time.
Trump has made various promises of what he plans to achieve during his second time in office, and here’s what he’s pledged to do so far.
What is Trump promising to change?
TikTok
Trump has said that he wants to ‘make a deal to protect our national security’ after a ban on TikTok was delayed on Sunday.
The businessman claimed he would sign an executive order on Inauguration Day.
Taking toTruth Social, a social media platform he owns, he said (via the BBC): “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!
“I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.”
Immigration
After he takes power, Trump claims he ‘will launch the largest deportation program in American history‘, promising to close the border to undocumented immigrants.
His controversial ‘Muslim travel ban’ is also back, banning people from several countries in the world which have a majority of Muslim people living there.
“We will seal our border and bring back the travel ban,” Trump previously said.
“Remember the famous travel ban? We didn’t take people from certain areas of the world. We’re not taking them from infested countries.”
The release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination files
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump said at the Capital One Arena (via LBC).
“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
Buying Greenland
Again on Truth Social, he has promised to buy Greenland, located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean.
“Greenland is an incredible place,” he said, with it being an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
“The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump tried to negotiate a deal in his last term, but the Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen called the whole thing ‘absurd’.
Women’s rights
Trump appointed the US Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the historic Roe v Wade judgement that resulted in 20 states bringing in strict abortion laws.
Having called these laws as a ‘beautiful thing to watch’, Trump has said he will not push for a direct federal abortion ban.
During the campaign, he said he will give all women free IVF treatment for those who are struggling to become parents.
Education
Last year, Trump said he wants to stop schools from receiving any funding that will go towards ‘critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content’.
He also said he will put an end to school rulings on vaccine or mask mandates.
Taxing on tips
Previously, Trump claimed that the ‘first thing in office’ he is will do is ending income tax on tipped income.
Trump on taxes, the economy, and environment
Trump says he will ‘end inflation’ without revealing how this could be achieved. He has hinted at opening up the US’s oil industry in a move he says could ‘make American affordable again’.
He also is set to halt offshore wind power farms, claiming they ‘kill whales and birds’.
Trump has previously described climate change as an ‘expensive hoax’ while committing to clean air and water for US citizens.
He said he will lower interest rates, despite the POTUS not setting them or controlling them. He says he will up taxes on imports while cutting taxes worth trillions of dollars, all while deporting undocumented immigrants.
