President Donald Trump, and in the roughly 24 hours since he has taken office, he has very publicly claimed for himself an extraordinary amount of executive power: He issued more executive orders on Day 1 than any previous president,
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said he thinks the biggest lesson President Trump has learned over the last four years is that he can “get away with anything.” “I think the lesson he’s drawn
President Trump has vowed to clamp down on immigration and undo Biden-era policies that he said were too permissive and blamed for allowing a large influx of undocumented immigrants. Here’s what we know about his policy changes.
Trump won the popular vote by the smallest margin of any president since Richard Nixon — for the second time, winning the presidency without winning a majority of votes.
Mr. Trump’s decision to intervene in even the most violent cases sends an unmistakable message about his plans for power these next four years: He intends — even more so than in his first term — to test the outer limits of what he can get away with.
Police unions and the chief of the Capitol Police condemned Trump's pardons of the violent felons who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Hundreds of rioters accused of violently assaulting police at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were pardoned Monday by President Trump, despite remarks from his allies in recent weeks condemning those
Trump's actions were the latest step in his drive to overhaul Washington and erase the work of President Joe Biden's administration.
The day before his second inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally at an arena in Washington, where he repeated some of the most frequent false claims from the campaign trail while also sprinkling in some new falsehoods.
President Trump stuck with his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. “That election was totally rigged, but that's okay. It was a rigged election,” Trump said, as he addressed supporters in the Capitol following his inauguration speech.
One Trump voter told NPR he supported pardons related to the Capitol attack, but has a tougher time reconciling pardons for rioters who were violent with police.
Trump narrowly won the critical swing state of Pennsylvania over Vice President Kamala Harris last fall, which clinched his return to the White House. During his pre-inauguration rally speech on Sunday, Trump lauded Musk for all his help with the campaign.