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Friday, February 28, 2025

Inauguration Day ushers in a renewed Trump era

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Evan Vucci

Don­ald Trump, who over­came im­peach­ments, crim­i­nal in­dict­ments and a pair of as­sas­si­na­tion at­tempts to win an­oth­er term in the White House, will be sworn in as the 47th pres­i­dent tak­ing charge as Re­pub­li­cans claim uni­fied con­trol of Wash­ing­ton and set out to re­shape the coun­try’s in­sti­tu­tions.

What To Know:

When the in­au­gu­ra­tion be­gins: Trump’s swear­ing-in cer­e­mo­ny, moved in­doors due to in­tense cold, will be­gin at 12 p.m. ET. But fes­tiv­i­ties will start ear­li­er when the in­com­ing pres­i­dent ar­rives for ser­vice at St. John’s Epis­co­pal Church.

The per­form­ers: Coun­try singer Car­ri­er Un­der­wood will sing “Amer­i­ca the Beau­ti­ful” at the swear­ing-in cer­e­mo­ny. Lee Green­wood and Opera singer Christo­pher Macchi­no will al­so per­form. A slur­ry of oth­er stars are sched­uled to per­form at evening balls.

The at­ten­dees: All liv­ing pres­i­dents are ex­pect­ed to be present along with for­eign dig­ni­taries from Chi­na, Ar­genti­na and Italy. Tech bil­lion­aires and donors Elon Musk, Mark Zucker­berg and Jeff Be­zos, are ex­pect­ed to be in at­ten­dance. No­table ab­sences will in­clude for­mer first la­dy Michelle Oba­ma and for­mer Speak­er of the House Nan­cy Pelosi.

Trump plans to sign a lot of ex­ec­u­tive or­ders to­day

Trump fore­cast sign­ing as many as 100 ex­ec­u­tive or­ders on his first day, pos­si­bly cov­er­ing de­por­ta­tions, the U.S.-Mex­i­co bor­der, do­mes­tic en­er­gy, Sched­ule F rules for fed­er­al work­ers, school gen­der poli­cies and vac­cine man­dates, among oth­er Day 1 promis­es made dur­ing his cam­paign. He’s al­so promised an ex­ec­u­tive or­der to give more time for the sale of Tik­Tok.

Trump has asked Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., to write an or­der stop­ping the de­vel­op­ment of off­shore wind­mills for gen­er­at­ing elec­tric­i­ty.

Many of the Re­pub­li­can’s mea­sures are like­ly to draw De­mo­c­ra­t­ic op­po­si­tion.

And in sev­er­al ma­jor cas­es, the or­ders will large­ly be state­ments of in­tent based off cam­paign promis­es made by Trump.

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