-Mexican border and roll back outgoing President Barack Obama’s policies.
And, CNN said, that person – whose identity will not be revealed before the event – will be an Obama appointee, since none of Trump’s successors have been sworn in yet.
The president has long said he wants to go someplace warm after sitting on the Capitol steps to watch Trump take the oath of office.
“The president vowed to take his family somewhere warmer than Washington, D.C. on Friday, and Palm Springs fits the bill”, Earnest said.
It would technically be possible for Mr Trump to issue a blanket order which repeals every executive order Mr Obama signed on his first day as President.
It was for President Obama a day of thank you calls, farewells, wrapping up loose ends – and business as usual.
But while he said he would pull out of the deal on his first day in office, the incoming president may not actually have to lift a finger to fulfil his promise.
“It sends two messages”.
“If you’re polarized enough that you can’t fathom voting for the other party, then in some sense who the leader is becomes unimportant”, said Thurston. The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the USA electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president.
The 70-year-old president-elect traveled aboard an official government jet to a military base near Washington with his wife Melania. “What can he do as an executive to make a clean break?“.
Expectations were high when Obama won a landslide victory in the general election in November 2008, and more than 200,000 people packed into a Chicago park to hear his victory speech.
Advisors to Trump expect him to put restrictions on people entering the United States from certain countries until a system for “extreme vetting” for Islamic extremists can be set up.
In that series he plays a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who is made president after everyone in the line of succession is killed during a bombing attack on the Capitol building during a State of the Union address. Afterward, he will work in the White House where he may sign some executive orders.
He was also expected to impose a federal hiring freeze, reverse some environmental protections.
Here are the things Trump promised to do in his first 24 hours as commander in chief.
Trump’s motorcade then drove straight to a lunch with inaugural officials, top Republican lawmakers, cabinet members and senior staff in the ballroom of his Trump International Hotel, near the White House.
Trump and Pence will participate in an interfaith prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral. “We used it a lot to decorate our display window”.
He’ll devote himself to writing and contemplation, he said, taking time for reflection that he hasn’t had under the pressures of the Oval Office. With that, Spicer said, Trump can now turn his attention to filling other appointments to his administration. Trump spokesman Spicer accused Senate Democrats of “stalling tactics”.
Beginning on Friday, the schedule will take place through some rather cloudy and cool weather.
Another Breitbart post focused on Obama’s legacy though the lens of the war in Afghanistan. Obama commuted his sentence of life imprisonment, 10 years’ supervised release and a $450,000 judgment to a prison term of 292 months and the unpaid balance of the $450,000 judgment, to be remitted when his sentence expires.