January 29, 2025
- Guantanamo Bay ordered prepared for immigrants — Trump ordered detention camp readied to house “tens of thousands” of immigrants
January 27, 2025
- Transgender military ban signed — executive order banning trans service members from Armed Forces
- Military DEI programs gutted — ordered elimination of all DEI offices, programs, and initiatives
- Air Force removed Tuskegee Airmen training — materials featuring historic Black pilots classified as DEI content requiring elimination
- WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) training removed — also classified as DEI content
January 25, 2025
- 18 Inspectors General fired in Friday night purge — violated federal law requiring 30-day notice to Congress
- Watchdogs blindsided by termination emails — received notice from Presidential Personnel Office that positions “terminated, effective immediately”
- SpaceX investigator among those fired — Defense Department IG Robert Storch’s office had been reviewing SpaceX compliance
- DOJ reversed position on Black voting districts — abandoned support for second majority-Black district in Louisiana; Supreme Court requested re-argument
- Senior civil rights officials reassigned — DOJ officials overseeing transgender rights, police misconduct, and anti-discrimination issues removed
- Top FBI officials told to resign or be fired — purge of executives promoted under Director Christopher Wray
- DOJ attorneys fired for prosecuting Trump — career attorneys involved in Trump cases terminated
January 20, 2025 (Inauguration Day)
- Pardoned ~1,600 January 6 defendants — blanket clemency for all convicted or awaiting trial
- Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders’ sentences commuted — including Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Dominic Pezzola (first to breach Capitol)
- 600+ pardoned for assaulting police — 170 for using deadly weapons; ~140 officers had been injured with cracked ribs, smashed spinal disks, brain injuries
- Restitution requirements eliminated — costing victims an estimated $1.3 billion
- Pardoned defendants include those convicted of rape, domestic violence — at least 33 have since been rearrested for other crimes
Executive Orders (26 signed — most ever on first day)
- DOGE created — Department of Government Efficiency established with Elon Musk given unprecedented access to government systems
- Federal hiring freeze — froze civilian hiring across entire executive branch
- Birthright citizenship order — attempted to deny citizenship to children of undocumented parents (blocked by courts, now at Supreme Court)
- Transgender military ban signed — ordered removal of trans service members; affects up to 8,000 people
- DEI programs ordered eliminated — across all federal agencies
- “Extreme vetting” immigration order — restored prior vetting standards from first Trump administration
- Independent agencies targeted — ordered FEC, FCC, SEC, FTC to submit regulations to White House for review