January 21, 2025: Trump’s avalanche of executive orders

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

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President Donald Trump closed his first day with an unprecedented show of executive force, signing dozens of executive orders, including orders to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization, move to end birthright citizenship and grant TikTok a reprieve from a forced shutdown. Trump also pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly every person who rioted on January 6, 2021, some 1,500 people. Playbook managing editor and author Jack Blanchard and chief Playbook correspondent Eugene Daniels talk through the biggest moments from Monday's inauguration, the impact that President Trump's earliest moves will have and what to expect next.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:05.6	Hello, good morning, everyone.
0:07.7	This is Playbook Managing Editor and author Jack Blanchard.
0:11.0	It is Tuesday, January the 21st.
0:14.0	And what's driving the day today?
0:16.2	You know it is the first full day of President Donald Trump's second term.
0:21.3	Yesterday at noon, Trump was sworn in as the 47th presence of the United States,
0:25.5	and since then we have had a cascade of activity.
0:29.4	Trump reclaims power, and there has been a huge shift in Washington.
0:34.6	Here with me to chat about it as our own chief playbook correspondent
0:38.1	Eugene Daniels Eugene we were both glued to our TV screens last night watching
0:44.1	this extraordinary scene in the Oval office as Donald Trump signed away these
0:49.7	executive orders on live TV while casually answering questions about what he was doing. I have never
0:55.9	seen anything like that. I have been like covering politics for 15 years in the UK. I have never
1:01.2	seen a scene like that. What did you make of it, man? Yeah, baby. That's how we do in America.
1:06.0	No, I haven't seen anything like that in a while either, right? I mean, this is one of the things that,
1:11.7	you know, people, when they think about how the Biden administration and the Trump
1:16.6	administrations are different, this is one of those, right? We never saw anything like this
1:22.3	with Joe Biden. We saw this quite a bit under Donald Trump over and over and over again.
1:28.1	Like his team kind of, you know, jokes with us when they, after they won.
1:32.4	And when we're in the transition is that like get ready for those Oval Office press conferences when like we didn't know they were going to be on day one.
1:38.6	But here we are on day one with that exact thing.
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