The first 100 days of the second Trump presidency began on January 20, 2025, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. The first 100 days of a presidency took on symbolic significance during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term in office, and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president. The 100th day of Trump's second presidency was April 30, 2025.
In his first 100 days, President Trump signed 143 executive orders, the most of any president in this period, 42 proclamations, 42 memorandums, the Laken Riley Act, a continuing appropriations act, and other pieces of legislation for Congress. Trump's extensive use of executive orders drew a mixed reception from both Republicans and Democrats. Some executive orders tested the limits of executive authority, and others faced immediate legal challenges. Major topics on which Trump focused included immigration reform, deportations, applying tariffs on other countries, cutting federal spending, reducing the federal workforce, increasing executive authority, and implementing a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Trump's return to office is concurrent with the Republican Party retaining its legislative majority in the House of Representatives and securing the Senate majority in the 2024 congressional elections, marking an overall government trifecta for the GOP for the first time since the 115th Congress in 2017 at the beginning of Trump's first presidency.
Background In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised major reforms during his first 100 days as president of the United States amid the Great Depression. After he introduced many significant policies during that period, the events of the "first 100 days" of a presidency became a common standard by which to measure future presidents in U.S. politics.
Following his victory in the 2016 presidential election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump made a series of promises for the first 100 days of his first presidency, which began in 2017. His efforts to fulfill key campaign promises often stalled, were compromised, or were unsuccessful due to ongoing political polarization and infighting among his Republican Party, which had legislative majorities in Congress during the 115th Congress. Trump has also dismissed the "first 100 days" benchmark as an artificial milestone; however, he enacted many major policies and signed more executive orders in his first 100 days than any other president since Harry S. Truman. In total, he signed 28 bills, 24 executive orders, 22 memorandums, and 20 proclamations.
Following the end of his first term on January 20, 2021, after his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Trump returned to power for a second non-consecutive term upon his victory in the 2024 presidential election by defeating Kamala Harris, who replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee for President after he ended his re-election campaign. Trump said that, on the first day of his second term, he would begin the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, close the U.S. border with Mexico, reinstate the travel bans on specific countries from his first term, end the federal government's electric vehicle incentives and pro-climate subsidies, expand domestic oil production, pardon defendants of the January 6 United States Capitol Riot of 2021, end protections for gender-affirming care, and cut federal funding for schools his administration deemed "woke". Trump also promised tariffs on the U.S.'s foreign trade partners, tax cuts, and a reduction of the size of the federal government.
Inauguration
The second inauguration of Donald Trump was the 60th presidential inauguration. It took place exactly eight years after Trump's first inauguration in 2017. Donald Trump and JD Vance were formally inaugurated as the 47th President and 50th Vice President of the United States at noon on January 20, 2025, in the Capitol Rotunda, marking the start of the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency.
Presidential Communications The content of Whitehouse.gov was switched from the Biden administration version to the second Trump administration version; the former was archived as BidenWhiteHouse. This was the fifth time the presidential website had switched between administrations and was the third switch of the White House's social media accounts. As Trump took the oath of office, the official @POTUS X (Twitter) account switched to President Trump and Joe Biden's previous tweets were moved to @POTUS46Archive. Members of the second Trump administration assumed control of numerous social media accounts while former Biden administration accounts were similarly archived such as Melania Trump assuming @FLOTUS, JD Vance assuming @VP, Usha Vance assuming @SLOTUS, Karoline Leavitt assuming @PressSec, among others. Trump's cabinet members were given new social media accounts as previous administrations had done and new executive branch websites were created while previous administration websites were transferred to the National Archives.
Early executive actions Executive Orders
Upon taking office, Trump signed a record 26 executive orders on his first day. The orders prohibited the weaponization of federal agencies against political opponents, repealed many of Biden's executive actions, reaffirmed the existing constitutional right to free speech, banned federal censorship of online speech, banned DEI in federal agencies, encouraged energy exploration and production, ended the electric vehicle (EV) mandate, started the second withdrawal process of the U.S. from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accords, declared a national energy emergency, reversed the Family Reunification Task Force, pardoned over 1,500 January 6 rioters, designated certain international drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, reorganized the U.S. Digital Service into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), prioritized the removal and identification of illegal migrants, attempted to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal migrants born on American soil, expanded the U.S.–Mexico border wall, declared a national emergency on the southern border, delayed the impending ban of TikTok in the U.S., defined gender by an immutable male-female binary, ordered a 90 day pause on most foreign aid, revived Schedule F as Schedule Policy/Career, and ordered federal agencies to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" and Mount Denali as Mount McKinley.
Later executive orders attempted to ban transgender women from competing in women's sports and expand the president's control over independent agencies, symbolically declared English as the official language of the United States, and implemented a broad reciprocal tariff policy.
Four days into Trump's second term, nearly two-thirds of his executive actions mirrored or partially mirrored proposals from Project 2025, a plan published in April 2023 by The Heritage Foundation.
Presidential Memorandums President Trump issued a total of 12 memorandums on his first day in office. These memorandums established an America First Trade Policy, began a 90-day hiring freeze (with exceptions for troops, secretaries, and others), require all government employees to work in-office and end federal remote-work, prohibit federal agencies from issuing new regulations until they are reviewed and approved, pause offshore wind projects, restart efforts to reroute water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to other parts of California, deliver emergency price relief, ensure federal buildings are visually identifiable as civic buildings, create a list of personnel eligible for TS/SCI security clearances for a six-month period, and implement improvements to California's water infrastructure.
According to some legal scholars, several of Trump's executive actions ignored or violated federal laws, regulations, and the Constitution. After multiple orders were blocked by federal judges, Trump administration officials increased their criticism of the judiciary, while some Republicans in Congress called for impeaching federal judges who ruled against Trump.
Domestic policy
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Background In the summer of 2024, during a X (Twitter) discussion with Trump, Elon Musk proposed the establishment of a government efficiency commission, saying, "I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money, the taxpayers hard-earned money is spent in a good way. I'd be happy to help out on such a commission." During an interview with Reuters, Trump said he was open to giving Musk an advisory role in his administration and on September 5, 2024, he officially announced that "at the suggestion of Elon Musk... I will create a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms." The New York Times compared the project to other Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt's Keep Commission, Ronald Reagan's Grace Commission, and vice president Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. After his election victory on November 5, 2024, Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would serve as co-chairs of DOGE to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.
Ramaswamy parted with the incoming Trump administration to pursue a run for Ohio Governor in the 2026 US elections. After being inaugurated for a second term, Trump signed an executive order formally establishing three DOGE entities. The Department of Government Efficiency, the United States DOGE Service (USDS): formed from the reorganization of the United States Digital Service, and the DOGE Service Temporary Organization, with the USDS serving as its parent organization. The DOGE Temporary Organization was given an expiration date of July 4, 2026. DOGE teams were established for federal agencies with each team consisting of four members: a team leader, an engineer, an HR specialist, and an attorney. DOGE Documents are classified as presidential records, preventing public access to the information until at least 2034.
Immigration policy
Trump made immigration policy, particularly cracking down on the United States-Mexico border crisis, a center point of his campaign, and many of his early actions focused on this issue. Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump signed an array of executive orders towards immigration reform and ending much of his predecessor's policies on Immigration. Within minutes of the Second Trump presidency, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shut down the CBP One app Throughout the early days of his presidency, Trump signed executive orders that declared a second national emergency on the southern border; enabling the deployment of armed forces and addressing the fentanyl crisis, the designation of international Drug Cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, repealing a Biden executive order that created the Family Reunification Task Force, suspending the Refugee Admissions Program for 90 days, ended the CNHV Parole Program for nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and attempting to end birthright citizenship for descendants of illegal immigrants who were born in America. Policies and initiatives revived from Trump's first term include Remain in Mexico, construction on the US-Mexico border, and travel bans.