Trump’s busy first 24 hours back in office filled with change and executive orders.

By: Katie Dusza, Contributor 

On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump became the second president in history – the first being Grover Cleveland – to have a second inauguration for two non-consecutive terms. 

Trump was sworn into office as the 47th president of the United States, being the first convicted felon to do so. On his first day of presidency, he signed an array of executive orders in front of an audience at the Capital One Arena before signing the rest in the Oval Office. 

Here are a couple of them: 

One of his executive orders was the mass pardoning of at least 1,500 people from the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021, which were a violent attempt to invalidate the 2020 presidential election results. 

Some of these rioters were convicted of charges relating to violence against police, yet the police department – including the Blue Lives Matter movement – is heavily backed by Trump and his supporters. 

Originally, Trump promised to pardon only those who committed nonviolent crimes during the insurrection, however, Trump expanded these pardons to the other rioters.

Another executive order signed earlier this week was to delay the long-awaited TikTok ban. On Jan. 18, the TikTok app became unavailable to U.S. users. This ban was put into place due to the government’s concerns – due to privacy reasons – about TikTok’s data collection policy. 

On the day of Trump’s inauguration, he signed an executive order pausing the law banning TikTok for 75 days. This delay is supposed to give the platform more time to be sold to an American company in order to avoid the ban altogether.