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The Golden Age of America begins right now.

From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration,

I will very simply put America first.

And so it begins, Republican Donald Trump's second presidential term commenced with a flurry of pronouncements and orders promulgated in the hours following his inauguration on January 20th.

The new administration gives every indication of trying to move more forcefully than in Trump's first chaotic term.

And yet day one action on tariffs, the centerpiece of his trade agenda was curiously missing.

Still, from nixing a host of policies from the outgoing Biden administration to setting

up the techmogul-driven Department of Government efficiency and quickly ramping up a more

draconian approach to immigration enforcement, an agenda is taking shape with rapidity, even

if big questions about how it will actually be prosecuted largely remain.

What this means for energy, migration, technology and trade is the focus of this week's Viewroom. Welcome back to the Viewerum, the weekly podcast that invites you, the listener,

into a lively debate with our fellow columnists about the biggest stories of the week. I'm your

host, Jonathan Guilford.

Hundreds of executive orders and memos, the proposed removal of thousands of government appointees, decreed emergencies on the border and in energy markets. President Trump has

begun his second term with a rush of activity. Much of it is about breaking with the recent

past, ending or

investigating a swath of policy left by his predecessor, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement,

stridently laying out the case for expanded oil and gas production, undoing tweaks to immigration

enforcement, and unwinding executive action on artificial intelligence. Legal challenges are already

rolling in, including against an effort to end the granting

of citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil, a more substantial potential rupture with

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