He swept into office on multiple promises. He wasted no time addressing them.
President Donald Trump set expectations mighty high for day one executive orders, but Inauguration Day ceremonies and traditions leave little time for anything else – especially when you are the star of the show. Why not make the signing of a few of those orders a part of the schedule, then? At a little after 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, in front of an enthusiastic crowd in the Capital One Arena in D.C., the 47th president of the United States sat down to sign a handful of presidential actions before traveling to the White House, where he would sign multiple others.
The first executive order, not surprisingly, revoked Biden-era executive orders and actions – 78 of them, to be precise, affecting a range of issues. Next, Trump put his signature on…