Promises made, promises soon to be kept: What to expect on day one and beyond in Trump’s historic second term

by Summer Lane

Photo: Alamy | Analysis by Summer Lane

President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign brought forth some of the most historic political promises this nation has ever seen, and starting on day one of the 47th president-elect’s new administration, many of those promises will be immediately fulfilled.

While he was running for reelection, Trump’s Agenda47 platform was based on one simple but brilliant idea: America First. The genius of his third presidential campaign was how Trump spoke directly to the people by utilizing independent media platforms like podcasts and social media.

President Trump largely bypassed the dying legacy media outlets that have had a stranglehold on information for decades, and in doing so, he was able to make promises directly to the American public. And now, America is waiting for those promises to come to fruition.

Reviewing his major promises

The president’s promises made throughout his campaign largely focused on five major areas: border security, law and order, foreign policy, the economy, and American health. As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris denigrated American sovereignty and fettered away billions of taxpayer dollars to far-off foreign lands like Ukraine during their administration, President Trump’s common sense policy pitches struck a chord with voters.

Trump has vowed to carry out a nationwide deportation operation to remove millions of illegal aliens who have entered America on Biden’s watch, and in the thick of 2024, this was a policy pitch that 62 percent of registered voters supported, according to data from CBS News/YouGov. His parallel vow to elevate law and order works hand in hand with his policies on the border, where law enforcement will be heavily involved in deportation and removing illegal aliens with criminal records or gang connections.

Trump also vowed to bring back the economic might of America, and over the past few months, he has detailed his plan to utilize the power of tariffs and tax cuts to reignite the manufacturing engine and export power of the United States.

On foreign policy, President Trump has consistently stated in the years since the war between Russia and Ukraine kicked off that he would bring peace to the world stage. This promise became especially poignant in the wake of Hamas terrorists’ bloody incursion into the nation of Israel in 2023. “I’m the only one who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III, I promise,” he told rallygoers two years ago in New Hampshire.

Revitalizing American health became a fourth-quarter cornerstone of his campaign when he welcomed former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a political ally, and Trump has further prioritized women’s health by vowing to announce a plan to ensure healthcare providers cover costly fertility treatments.

Day one

While it’s impossible to cover every individual promise President Trump made, the bulk of those vows will be immediately fulfilled with executive orders, starting with securing the border and stopping the illegal invasion. He will immediately close the border, suspend refugee admissions, and reimplement the Trump-era travel ban on countries with known hostility toward the United States.

The president told TIME magazine in late 2024, “Look, I can undo almost everything Biden did, he [sic] through executive order. And on day one, much of that will be undone.”

According to a report from the Associated Press, President Trump is considering as many as 100 executive orders on his first day in the Oval Office, ranging from the border to the elimination of DEI and Marxist policies in federal agencies.

In other words, President Trump is poised to hit the ground running as soon as the transfer of power takes place on January 20, 2025.

The anticipation of day one and the turning tide

With common sense and business savvy, President Trump can successfully re-center the United States by merely standing on stage as the leader of the free world. With President Trump comes respect from world leaders, businessmen, and mainstream American citizens.

And Trump is already carving a successful path. Before even taking office, he announced this week that a ceasefire deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas, including a negotiation for the release of the long-suffering hostages in enemy territory.

“We have achieved so much without even being in the White House,” Trump wrote in a statement on Truth Social.
He continued, “Just imagine all of the wonderful things that will happen when I return to the White House, and my Administration is fully confirmed, so they can secure more Victories for the United States!”

Also announced this week was an official ban on Red Dye 03 in the United States, according to the New York Post. It is clear that this ban is an anticipatory move ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s likely confirmation as the next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy has roundly criticized the use of cancer-linked food dyes in American food, and his commitment to “Make America Healthy Again” is an early fulfillment of President Trump’s promise to allow Kennedy to clean up American food sources and medicine.

Beyond foreign policy and American health, the industrial censorship complex forged by Big Tech social media platforms like Meta and Twitter has been dismantled. Twitter was acquired by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in 2022, and since then, he has turned the platform – now rebranded as X – into a public square of civic discourse and lightning-fast news.

Even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg – whose platform engaged in intense censorship against conservatives over the past few years and even banned President Trump from its site in 2021 – has bent the knee to the America First agenda. His company announced that it would no longer be “fact-checking” posts on its platform because “too much harmless content gets censored, too many people find themselves wrongly locked up in Facebook jail,” according to Meta CGAO Joel Kaplan.

Incredibly, changes like this are all happening in anticipation of President Trump’s first day in office, which is a testament to just how effective his second term is going to be.

The tide has not just turned in America, the tide has lunged forward with breathtaking speed.

Beyond day one

With Trump poised to undo much of Joe Biden’s catastrophic damage with a stroke of his pen on January 20, it stands to reason that the first week of his administration will work at a rapid-fire pace as it addresses the key issues Americans care about.

In his election eve speech in November, Trump declared to a crowd of supporters, “When we win the election, only one day from now, I WILL END INFLATION, I WILL STOP THE INVASION OF CRIMINALS COMING ACROSS OUR BORDER, I WILL STRENGTHEN OUR MILITARY, I WILL RESTORE PEACE IN THE WORLD, and I WILL RESCUE THE AMERICAN DREAM.”

It all comes down to this: the revival of the American dream. With day one set to be busy, joyful, and beautiful, it will signal the starting point to a brighter tomorrow and usher in the long-awaited “Golden Age” Trump has envisioned.

Day one of the second Trump administration will permanently change the direction of this country for the better, and Americans will be able to feel the effects quickly as prices drop, crime decreases, and jobs return to the market once again.

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