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Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again,
No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,
Milley said, according to a 2024 book by journalist Bob Woodward Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon: Jose Andres from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council—YOU'RE FIRED
A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,
Trump declared in his inauguration address It's just pure Trump. He's the first president in a new connected world in which you have to govern from the outside in. You have to mount support and bring the people with you,
veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told Fox News Digital He's flooding the zone. He's making a case for action. He's demonstrating action. He is rallying a wave of American support for a massive transformation of government,
Castellanos, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, told Fox News They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours,
Trump vowed during a May 2023 town hall On Day One, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America,
the then-Republican presidential nominee vowed during a late October rally at New York City's Madison Square Garden I would like to set a goal on a personal level, professional level, I would say let’s set it at 100 days,
he said in a Fox News Channel interview We’re going to end it on Day One,
I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation, and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,
Could you imagine Biden doing this. I don't think so,
the president said, as he signed executive orders in front of thousands of his supporters I will get it settled before I even become president."
And in September, during his single debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump vowed These people have been destroyed,
Trump argued as he signed the pardons Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley?”
Earlier Monday, former President Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon for Milley along with others, to which Trump reacted, saying The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is unfortunate, but multilateral climate action has proven resilient and is stronger than any single country's politics and policies,
said Laurence Tubiana, a key architect of the accord The details of how all of this is going to be unrolled are really important, because a lot can change in term of who's impacted, the timing, and whether there are exceptions,
Ghosh, who's also a partner at Pillsbury, told DW Many Trump voters are skeptical of political organizations and institutions, so we saw some early bones thrown to that group
with the two major withdrawals, J. Miles Coleman, election analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told DW I do think these [culture war] issues will be prominent in the early days of the new administration and in the early days of the new Congress,
Craig Saperstein, a partner at the public policy practice of international law firm Pillsbury, told DW Pardons are typically thought of as something that happens towards the end of an administration,