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President Trump did not hold back in his first interview as president. USA TODAY
President Trump walks along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House on Jan. 26, 2017. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — President Trump swooped into the presidency with a flurry of executive actions and saber-rattling that upended establishment thinking but also triggered uncertainty and in some cases, alarm, about what lies ahead in the next four years.
“High-energy, high-impact,” senior aide Kellyanne Conway tweeted Friday. “Washington still adjusting.”
In seven days, Trump made clear that he intends to make good on his “America First” mantra and fulfill campaign pledges to the “forgotten men and women” who helped put him in office. He issued directives targeting manufacturing regulations, expediting permitting reviews — including for the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines — and officially withdrawing U.S. support for a Pacific trade deal negotiated by the Obama administration.
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"We’ve been talking about this for a long time. A great thing for the American worker, what we just did," Trump said when he signed the memorandum Monday.
He also signed orders directing agencies to find ways to ease the burdens of the Affordable Care Act while awaiting a plan to repeal and replace the health care law, and to target illegal immigration, which he called a "clear and present danger."
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In a pair of executive orders Wednesday, he kick-started construction of the southern border wall, directed the hiring of 5,000 new border patrol agents and 10,000 immigration officers, and shutting off federal funds for so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to inform federal officials about undocumented immigrants in their custody.
How to pay for the wall, however, has so far tripped up the new administration. After Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto made clear his country will not pay for it and canceled a planned meeting with Trump, the White House said Trump would slap a 20% tax on imports from Mexico, but later said that was only one option as criticism mounted, including from Republicans in Congress.
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On his first day as president, Trump signed a number of executive orders, including one that orders all federal agencies and departments to start finding a way to ease the transition away from Obamacare and replace it with another healthcare plan. USA TODAY NETWORK
“Border security yes, tariffs no,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted, noting that Mexico is our third-largest trading partner. “Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea. Mucho Sad.”
“Tariffs are a tax on American families,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said.
And Trump also drew criticism for threatening to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement if our partners “refuse a renegotiation that gives American workers a fair deal.”
“Retreating from NAFTA and other international trade agreements will harm our ability to compete in today’s global economy, raise costs for consumers, threaten jobs, and undermine our relations with our closest neighbors,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said, noting that he is “deeply concerned” by the prospect.
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Governing as he campaigned
If anyone thought President Trump would be different than campaign Trump, they now know the answer after week one: No.
As he did on the trail, Trump displayed an obsession with his own image, first dispatching his press secretary Sean Spicer, who yelled at the press about coverage of crowd sizes at his inauguration and then lamented negative media coverage overall.
“The default narrative is always negative, and it's demoralizing," Spicer said Monday.
And Trump stuck to the same hyperbole — and outright disregard for facts, some would say — that he did during the campaign. Seemingly stung by losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, Trump promised a “major investigation” of voter fraud, and continued to proffer widely debunked assertions that millions voted illegally.
“You have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals, who are in two states. You have people registered in two states. They're registered in a New York and a New Jersey. They vote twice,” he told ABC __news in his first sit-down interview as president Wednesday. “There are millions of votes, in my opinion.”
He will cap off his first week Friday with a meeting and joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, and the signing of another executive order, according to his schedule.
On to week two.
As Pope Francis said when reserving judgment on the new U.S. president, “We'll see what Trump does."
Contributing: Associated Press.
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