Trump starts signing executive orders at Oval Office

Just hours after being sworn in as the 47th president of the US, Donald Trump starts signing executive orders Monday at the Oval Ofice to reverse Biden-administration policies.

Border security and migration

President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern US border that paves the way to deploy American troops there.

One of the executive orders signed by Trump is to end birthright citizenship.

"This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the United States. That's a good one. Birthright. That’s a big one," he said.

Trump also signed an executive order designating cartels and other organizations to be foreign terrorist organizations.

"Mexico probably doesn't want that. We have to do what's right. They're killing our people. They're killing 250,000-300,000 American people a year," he said.

International organizations and agreements

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement.

He also signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO).

"World Health ripped us off. Everybody rips off the United States, and that’s it. It's not going to happen anymore," Trump told reporters while signing executive orders after returning to the Oval Office.

Pardon for Jan. 6 US Capitol rioters

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pardon defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

"I think this order will apply to approximately 1,500 people," Trump said at the Oval Office.

Delaying TikTok ban

The new president signed an executive order in an attempt to delay a ban of the popular short-video app TikTok for 75 days.

"I think the US should be entitled to get half of TikTok," he told reporters while signing executive orders after returning to the Oval Office.

revokes US sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank

Revokes sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank

President Donald Trump decided to rescind an executive order by the Biden administration that imposed sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Executive order 14115 titled "Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security and Stability in the West Bank" targeted illegal Israeli settlers who committed "high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages, and property destruction.”

The order, signed by Biden on Feb. 1, 2024, said that illegal Israeli settler violence "undermines the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity and freedom."

Suspension of US foreign assistance

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to suspend all US foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews of consistency with his policy.

"All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds to foreign countries," said the executive order, which was signed by Trump in the Oval Office.

However, it did not explicitly put forward how much assistance would initially be affected by the move.

It said the US foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values, adding: "They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries."

Trump was sworn in for a second term on Monday, heralding a major shift in the US government that is widely expected to send shockwaves through American society and the world.