Trump Signs Order To Withdraw Us From Paris Climate Accord In Slew Of Executive Orders – Live Updates

President also told crowd he will pardon ‘a lot of people’ convicted over the January 6 Capitol attack, turning day one actions into crowd spectacle

• Trump expected to sign barrage of executive orders
• Factchecking Trump’s inaugural address
• Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes

My colleague Joseph Gedeon in Washington DC also had this look at what Trump might have planned for day one:

In the grand theatre of American politics, presidential inaugurations typically follow a familiar script: the oath, the speech, a few carefully chosen executive orders to satisfy campaign promises. Franklin D Roosevelt used his first day to tackle the banking crisis. Barack Obama moved to close Guantánamo Bay (though it remains open). Donald Trump’s first term began with a single executive order targeting Obamacare. Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders on his first day in 2021.