Hello and welcome to The Spectator's Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency in 2017.

I'm Freddie Gray and I'm deputy editor of The Spectator.

I'm joined down the line by Gabby Mirongello, who is White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner,

and we're going to be discussing the first days of Trump's presidency.

So Gabby, as a White House correspondent, could you tell us your idea of the character and the

tenor of this new administration based on the first few days of Trump's presidency?

Yeah, well, I think that they are extremely intent on getting things moving, particularly

the parts of Donald Trump's agenda that he had really embraced during the campaign and

election cycle and promised that he would push through during his first 100 days.

They have released a number of

executive orders, and the president has taken a number of executive actions to start to implement

some of the policies on immigration and national security and health care that he promised he

would. And they're doing so without a full cabinet.

I mean, President Obama had seven of his cabinet nominees approved and in their positions on

the first day of his administration. And Trump now has less than five still. So they're doing

what they can with what they have at the moment.

There was a think of a assumption, wasn't there, both on the left and the right, that Trump

wouldn't really mean the economic people usually call it economic protectionism stuff.

But certainly the first few executive orders really seem to be betting down on that. I mean,

there's the protecting of US steel, making sure that all federal spending on steel is US steel. I mean, these are pretty dramatic gestures that

show Trump means it when he talks about America first. Yes, I think there was a lot of,

there were a lot of individuals who looked at his campaign and the promises that he made and were

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