1 day ago

Tracking Trump – updates on the presidency’s first 100 days

Donald Trump has completed an extraordinary return to power as the 47th president, vowing to impose his vision and re-altering the political and cultural landscape of the nation.

To keep up with the dizzying array of executive orders, directives, firings and policy changes, the Guardian will be tracking the major developments of the second Trump administration’s first 100 days, just like we did during the first 100 days of Trump’s first presidency in 2017.

The second first 100 days, in numbers

Executive orders signed: 55
Resignations: 0
Appearances with Elon Musk: 1

This story will be updated every Monday during Trump’s first 100 days.

26 January 2025Day 7

Trump announced retaliatory sanctions on Colombia after its president, Gustavo Petro, said his country would not accept deportation flights from the United States unless the Trump administration ensured the repatriated migrants were treated with “dignity that a human being deserves” and not “like criminals”.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was imposing 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods, a travel ban and immediate visa revocations for Colombian government officials, their allies and their supporters, as well as visa sanctions on all party members, family members and supporters of the Colombian government.

Also on Sunday:

JD Vance endorsed immigration raids on schools, telling CBS’s Face the Nation in his first interview since taking office that he hoped they would have a “chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming to our country”.

Republican senators Tom Cotton, the chairman of the intelligence committee, and Lindsey Graham urged Trump to reconsider his decision to strip security details from three members of his first administration who are under threat.

25 January 2025Day 6

Trump defended his removal of 15 inspectors general of nearly every cabinet-level agency in a Friday night purge as lawmakers in both parties raised concerns about the legality of firings that first require a notice to Congress. “It’s a very common thing to do,” Trump claimed to reporters on Air Force One while traveling to Florida, although he added that he would not be firing the justice department inspector general Michael Horowitz, because he had been by impressed by Horowitz’s report that criticized the former FBI director James Comey for releasing memos that described Trump’s attempts to get him to end the criminal investigation into his then national security adviser Mike Flynn.

Also on Saturday:

Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One that he wanted Jordan and Egypt to house Palestinians from Gaza, adding he mentioned it during his call with the king of Jordan.

24 January 2025Day 5

A man speaks at a podium next to a woman who is Melania Trump

Trump proposed shutting down the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying that the states could do a better job at responding to disasters, even though he lacks the power to unilaterally dissolve the agency and would need congressional action. “I think we’re going to recommend that Fema go away and we pay directly – we pay a percentage to the state,” Trump said, while he toured Asheville, North Carolina, which was devastated by the remnants of Hurricane Helene last year. “The state should fix it.” Trump also inaccurately characterized Fema’s role, which intervenes only if a state governor requests it.

Also on Friday:

The Trump administration summarily fired 15 inspectors general in a late-night purge that could clear the way for Trump to install loyalists in the crucial roles on identifying fraud and working on whistleblower allegations in the government.

Pete Hegseth was confirmed by the US Senate as Trump’s defense secretary in the narrowest vote for the role in the modern era. Hegseth was confirmed 51-50 with JD Vance acting as the tiebreaker after the Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against his nomination.

23 January 2025Day 4

A man holds his right hand up as his left hand is on the Bible held by a woman; they both face another man reading from a book

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order trying to end automatic citizenship for babies born on US soil, calling the attempt “blatantly unconstitutional”. The US district judge John Coughenour issued a 14-day restraining order, after siding with the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, which brought the lawsuit. Trump later said he would appeal the decision as he pushes ahead with his executive order to end birthright citizenship.

Also on Thursday:

John Ratcliffe was confirmed by the US Senate to be the next CIA director.

22 January 2025Day 3

A man speaks on Fox news with a chyron that says “Hannity sits down with Trump in the Oval Office”

The Trump administration threatened tens of thousands of federal workers with “adverse consequences” if they failed to report on colleagues who defy directives to cease diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies. The directives gave employees 10 days to report instances of efforts to continue the programs under alternative guises to a special email account to avoid disciplinary action. The warnings, based on an email template from the office of personnel management, marked a dramatic escalation of Trump’s war on diversity programs that were introduced to reverse decades of systemic inequities.

Also on Wednesday:

Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity in the Oval Office that he might withhold federal funding from cities that do not cooperate with his deportation plans.

Trump’s political appointees ordered US attorneys to investigate and prosecute state and city law enforcement officials if they refused to carry out the administration’s immigration crackdown.

21 January 2025Day 2

A man who is Donald Trump and a female bishop walk past each other in a crowd of people

Attorneys general from 22 states sued the Trump administration in two federal district courts to block Trump’s executive order seeking to stop children born to unauthorized immigrants on US soil from automatically becoming citizens, decrying the order as unconstitutional. The lawsuits argued that the 14th amendment is “automatic” and neither the president nor Congress has the authority to revise it. Trump’s executive order flew in the face of more than 100 years of legal precedent, the lawsuits added, and babies born in the US have long been guaranteed citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

Also on Tuesday:

The bishop at Trump’s inaugural prayer service implored him to “have mercy” on gay, lesbian and transgender children, as well as undocumented immigrants – which Trump told reporters he did not appreciate.

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, faced new allegations that he denied from his ex-sister-in-law that his second wife once hid from him in a closet and had a safe word to call for help if she needed to get away from him.

20 January 2025Day 1

A man signs papers at a desk as people gather around him and a crowd takes photos

Trump was sworn in as the 47th commander in chief under the dome of the US Capitol in a made-for-television ceremony that saw him stick to the script in his official speech but unleash his true feelings in his second speech that attacked the January 6 committee as “political thugs” and the pardons Joe Biden granted the members on the panel. Meanwhile at the Capital One Arena, where Trump had his inaugural parade, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, briefly shocked the news cycle by twice doing what resembled a Hitler salute. Trump wasted no time starting his agenda to dramatically reshape the political and cultural landscape of the nation, signing executive orders at the arena and then at the White House while he gave a freewheeling commentary to reporters.

The executive orders included: