President Donald Trump is back in the White House and moving at warp speed to push through his agenda with dozens of executive orders, surveying damaged areas in North Carolina and California, and rallying behind his Cabinet nominees amid Senate confirmation showdowns.
In his inauguration address on Monday, the new president vowed that things across the country would “change starting today, and it will change very quickly.”
And moments later, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich took to social media to tease, “Now, comes SHOCK AND AWE.”
They weren’t kidding. Trump signed an avalanche of executive orders and actions in his first eight hours in office, which not only fulfilled some of his major campaign trail promises, but also allowed the returning president to flex his executive muscles as well as settle some longstanding grievances.
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