Segment 1: Inauguration Day – ‘Retribution’ Begins
Host:
"January 20, 2025. Donald Trump takes the oath again, flanked by loyalists and a divided nation. His inaugural speech doubles down on 2016 themes but with sharper edges: ‘America’s decline ends TODAY. We will root out the communists, Marxists, and traitors poisoning our nation.’ Critics call it authoritarian; supporters cheer ‘finally, someone fighting.’"

[Hypothetical clip of Trump: ‘This isn’t a victory speech—it’s a battle plan.’]

Segment 2: Day One – The ‘Trumpian Blitz’ of Executive Actions
Host:
"January 21. True to form, Trump wastes no time:

• Order 1: Halts all federal investigations into himself and allies, citing ‘weaponization of justice.’ Legal scholars cry obstruction; Trump allies call it ‘rebalancing the scales.’
• Order 2: Restarts border wall construction and reinstates Remain in Mexico, adding a new twist: states can deploy National Guard to ‘assist’ federal agents.
• Order 3: Withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords—again—and fast-tracks permits for fossil fuel projects."

[Hypothetical clip of press conference: ‘The green agenda is dead. We’re drilling, mining, and winning!’]

Segment 3: The ‘Deep State’ Purge and Loyalty Tests
Host:
"January 22. Trump’s team demands resignations from top civil servants—starting with the FBI, DOJ, and Pentagon. Those refusing are fired. A leaked memo urges hiring ‘patriots committed to the President’s agenda.’ Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon tweets: ‘The administrative state is crumbling. MAGA 2.0 is here.’"

[Transition sound effect: typewriter clacks]

Segment 4: Social Media Wars and ‘Truth’
Host:
"January 23. Trump revives his Twitter/X account with a video: ‘THE SILENCE IS BROKEN.’ He posts daily, targeting prosecutors, judges, and ‘fake news.’ Meta reinstates his Facebook/Instagram access, citing ‘free speech.’ The posts go viral—but so do content-moderation debates. Elon Musk replies: ‘Welcome back, Mr. President.’"

[Hypothetical tweet soundbite: ‘Crooked Joe’s handlers are shaking. The storm is coming.’]

Segment 5: Pardons, Protests, and Preemptive Strikes
Host:
"January 24. Trump preemptively pardons January 6 rioters—and hints at a self-pardon for federal charges. Protests erupt in D.C., but so do MAGA counter-rallies. The National Mall becomes a battleground of dueling chants: ‘Democracy now!’ vs. ‘Take America back!’"

[Hypothetical protest clip: ‘He’s not a king! He’s a crook!’]

Here’s a look at what Trump signed on Day One — and his executive actions since:

Jan. 6 pardons

Trump pardoned some 1,500 people who were involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a sweeping grant of clemency that fulfilled a campaign-trail promise and upended years of the Justice Department’s efforts.

Immigration

Trump signed a slew of executive orders on Monday aimed at delivering on his long-promised crackdown on illegal border crossings and immigration more broadly. He also declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, deploying U.S. Armed Forces to the region.

He intends to end birthright citizenship by issuing an executive action that would reinterpret the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to all people born on domestic soil — a move that drew swift legal challenges, including from Democratic attorneys general.

Trump also moved to:

• Resume construction of the border wall
• End so-called catch and release
• Temporarily suspend refugee resettlement from certain countries for at least four months
• Restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term
• Restrict asylum using 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
• Designate drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove them — or, as he put it in his inaugural address, “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil”
• Direct the incoming attorney general to seek capital punishment for the murder of law enforcement and capital crimes committed by undocumented immigrants

Energy

Trump wants to “drill, baby, drill.” He’s going to do it by declaring a “national energy emergency” that would give him the power to increase domestic energy production — and undo many of the Biden administration’s clean-energy policies. The White House also announced that the U.S. will withdraw, again, from the Paris Climate Accord.

Among Trump’s other planned moves:

• Issue a memorandum detailing a governmentwide approach to bringing down inflation, according to the Trump team
• End what his team has referred to as an “electric vehicle mandate”
• End leasing to massive wind farms that “degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers”

Federal workforce

Want to work remote? Good luck. Trump signed executive orders last night focused on the federal workforce, including one order instructing all U.S. government departments and agencies to require employees to return to office, ending any remote accommodations. Trump also announced a hiring freeze across the executive branch except in “essential areas.”

The president also removed job protections for tens of thousands of government workers, which the White House said was necessary to rein in what Trump describes as “deep state” bureaucracy.

Among Trump’s other planned moves:

• End “radical and wasteful” diversity training programs, as well as environmental justice programs, equity-related grants and equity initiatives
• Freeze hiring except in essential areas to “end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists buried into the federal workforce,” according to the White House
• Freeze the issuing of new regulations
• Direct agencies to address the “cost of living crisis”
• Restore “freedom of speech” and “preventing government censorship”
• Create the “Depar

Donald Trump began erasing Joe Biden ’s legacy immediately after taking office as the nation’s 47th president on Monday, pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and issuing a blizzard of executive orders that signal his desire to remake American institutions.

It was an aggressive start for a returning president who feels emboldened and vindicated by his unprecedented political comeback. Four years after being voted out of the White House, Trump has a second chance to launch what he called “a golden age” for the country.
"I return to the presidency, confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success," Trump said after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. In an inaugural address where he outlined a number of policy proposals, Trump called for sending the U.S. military to the border with Mexico to curb illegal immigration, said the government would only recognize two genders, male and female, and reiterated a desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Before Trump took office, the outgoing president, Joe Biden, issued a number of preemptive pardons, including for members of his own family, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and members & staff of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.