What Trump said he would do on Day 1 if re-elected

Former President Donald Trump is set to return to the White House after winning the presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.

During Trump’s third campaign for the presidency, he laid out many of the things he wanted to do on his first day back in office.

Here’s what Trump has said he would do on Day 1:

Be a dictator for the day

Trump raised new alarms last year when he referred to himself as a “dictator,” but only on “Day 1” during a town hall in Iowa.

When asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity if he promised he would “never abuse power in retaliation against anybody,” Trump replied, “except for Day 1.”

Asked what he meant by that, Trump said: “I’m going to close the border and I’m going to drill, drill, drill.”

“We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling,” Trump said. “Then I’m not a dictator.”

Fire the special counsel who charged him

If he returns to the White House, Trump has vowed to fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two federal cases against him, “within two seconds.”

“We got immunity at the Supreme Court. It’s that easy. I’d fire him in two seconds. He’ll be one of the first things brought up,” Trump said during a call to the “Hugh Hewitt Show” on the 24 . October.

Trump has also said he will punish the prosecutors and judges overseeing his many criminal cases as he has focused his third presidential campaign on retaliation.

Vice President Kamala Harris has honed in on this during her presidential campaign, saying at a rally this week that if elected, “Trump would on Day 1 walk into that office with an enemies list. When I’m elected, I will go in with a to-do list on your behalf.”

Free some convicted January 6 rioters

Trump has said that one of his first actions, if elected for a second term, would be to “exonerate” some people convicted of their roles in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, which he continues to claim is “wrongfully imprisoned”.

“I tend to pardon a lot of them. I can’t say for every one, for a couple of them, probably they got out of hand,” he said on his social media platform in March when he announced the pledge.

Trump has repeatedly downplayed the violence that followed that day, referring to the accused as the “J6 hostages” and calling for their release.

As of early October, more than 1,530 people have been charged criminally in federal court in connection with the Jan. 6, with more than half pleading guilty, according to Ministry of Justice. There were “approximately 1,000” assaults on police officers during the Jan. 6 riot, according to the DOJ.

End ‘Green New Deal atrocities’

Trump said in a campaign video last year that he would end the “Green New Deal atrocities on Day 1” if re-elected.

The Green New Deal – a public policy initiative to address climate change put forward by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey — were never signed into law, though Trump has used the term to refer generally to the climate of the Biden administration. and energy policies, such as the landmark Inflation Reduction Act.

“To further defeat inflation, my plan will end the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam. Biggest scam in history, probably,” Trump said during remarks at the Economic Club of New York in September. “(We will) rescind all unused funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”

During a rally in New Jersey in May, Trump promised to halt offshore wind energy projects “on day 1” if elected.

“I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on day 1,” Trump said, claiming that wind turbines are “killing” whales, which later became denied by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

He has also revived his “tease, baby, tease” slogan during this campaign.

Trump has said that his motivation behind withdrawing from climate initiatives and pushing for continued reliance on oil and gas is driven by economic needs.

While the United States has taken steps toward a clean energy future under President Joe Biden, the United States has continued to produce and export the most crude oil of any country, at any time, according to US Energy Information Administration.

Mass deportations

With immigration a top issue for voters, Trump has said he is determined to round up and deport millions of migrants living in the United States without legal authorization. He repeated a campaign promise to enact mass deportations on “Day 1” during his rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City last weekend.

“On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out,” he said. “I will save every town and city that has been invaded and captured, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick the hell out of our country as quickly as possible.”

To do that, the former president said he would use local law enforcement and the National Guard to find migrants living across the U.S.

Trump has spoken out against the Biden administration’s immigration policies, arguing in part that they have made America less safe, even though statistics show that American-born citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes than undocumented immigrants.

An estimated 11 million people live in this country without legal immigration status.

If possible, the cost of deporting even 1 million undocumented immigrants per year would cost over $88 billion, a total of $967.9 billion over more than 10 years, according to a new report from the American Immigration Council.

Green cards for university graduates

Trump deviated from his usual anti-immigrant rhetoric when he advocated “automatically” giving green cards to non-citizens of the United States when they graduate from college — not just people who go through the vetting process — during an episode of “All In” podcast released in June.

“(What) I want to do and what I want to do is you graduate from a college I think you should get, automatically as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. That includes junior colleges too,” Trump said in the episode, which was taped Wednesday.

“Everybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate or you get a doctorate from a college, you should be able to stay in this country,” he continued.

Asked on the podcast if he would expand H-1B work visas for tech workers after fixing the border, Trump said “yes.”

“Someone graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make an agreement with the company because they don’t think they will be able to stay in the country. It ends on day 1.” Trump said.

“It’s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the best schools,” he added.