President-elect Donald Trump is poised to hit the ground running on day one of his second term — or as he calls it, “liberation day” — with potential pardons for January 6 prisoners, key immigration and energy executive orders, and more.
He will take the oath of office at high noon on January 20 at the Inaugural platform on the U.S. Capitol’s Western Front. Once he is president, he can begin enacting executive orders to establish significant changes in executive branch policy.
Trump seems prepared to keep his promises, having acknowledged them to a packed crowd at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in December.
“As you know I made a series of big day-one promises in my campaign. You know ’em just as well as I do, and 29 days from now, I intend to keep those promises to the American people,” Trump said to cheers.
He noted that his adminsitration will be “fully operational, I would say, by about 2:00 p.m. on the 2oth.”
January 6 Pardons
One major campaign pledge of Trump’s has been to pardon many of the prisoners who were involved in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump said