Inside Trump’s First Year Back in the White House | Headline News 01/20/2026

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

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During the first year of his second term, President Trump took unprecedented actions. Meanwhile in Greenland, protests erupted over the weekend as Trump doubled down on his threats to take over the autonomous territory from Denmark. The President says the acquisition is necessary for security reasons, though others have denied that Greenland is under threat from China or Russia. And in California, San Diego’s development boom is shining a spotlight on Los Angeles’s own housing crisis; San Diego is building apartments at nearly twice the rate of LA, where new construction plummeted 33% over the past three years. Read more at LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an LA Times Studios podcast.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Faith Pino and you're listening to headlines from LA Times Studios.
0:13.0	Here are some of today's top stories from the Los Angeles Times.
0:17.0	It's been one year since President Trump took office for his second term.
0:22.6	LA Times staff writer Kevin Rector reflected on Trump's unprecedented return to the White House,
0:28.6	including 11 stunning moves that he's made in the past 12 months.
0:33.6	During his campaign, Trump vowed to launch the largest deportation effort in history,
0:39.3	a promise that so far defined his second term.
0:43.3	We have Latinos, workers that we represent, crying every day over what are we going to do.
0:49.3	Who will be next? And when will they come from me?
0:53.3	In a cascade of deployments, masked ice and border patrol agents swarmed American cities,
1:00.1	detaining people in large numbers, including U.S. citizens and people with no criminal convictions.
1:06.9	From Los Angeles to Minneapolis, protests erupted in response to the crackdown and in response to the agent's use of force, including the recent fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
1:21.6	On April 2nd, Trump held a Liberation Day at the White House, announcing so-called reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world,
1:30.3	including a 67% tariff on China and nearly 40% on the European Union.
1:37.3	While the tariffs raised billions for the U.S. Treasury, they raised consumer prices for Americans and added fresh instability
1:46.3	to the global markets. Then in October, the president announced his plans to demolish
1:51.8	the east wing of the White House, bulldozing the historic 1902 structure to make room for
1:58.3	his $300 million ballroom. Well, of course, the images that were first released into the press that showed the East Wing coming down was a bit jarring because of the actual circumstances of it happening.
2:12.6	Of course, the President had been saying for some time that he was going to build the ballroom.
2:16.6	We had known since late summer that the staff of the East Wing had moved out.
2:22.3	The move bypassed required federal review and ignored longstanding protections for historic sites.
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