RECAP: Inauguration Day 2025

Good morning!

Yesterday 47th President Donald Trump was sworn in. The world is reacting with a spectrum of emotions as to be expected; some overjoyed and others deeply upset about him taking office.

Whether you followed along or not—I did! So let’s dive into a brief overview of yesterday’s takeaways.

President Trump’s First Priorities:

• Make America safe again

• Make America affordable and energy dominant again

• Drain the swamp

• Bring back American values

Executive Orders Signed:

• Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship

• U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization

• Suspending any new foreign assistance for 3 months

• Suspending security clearances for 51 national security officials who claimed Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation”

• Ending the weaponization of the federal government to push a political agenda

• Declaring a national emergency at the border

• Designating criminal cartels as terrorists

• Ending birthright citizenship

• U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord

• Recognizing two biologically distinct sexes, male and female, and ending federal government DEI programs

• Declaring a national energy emergency

• Rescinding 78 of Biden’s executive orders including EV mandate

There were a slew of others he did officially sign, but many previously discussed executive orders are just intentions right now, like renaming the “Gulf of America.”

Who was in attendance:

Political Leaders

• President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden

• Former President Barack Obama

• Former President George W. Bush and Former First Lady Laura Bush

• Former President Bill Clinton and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

• Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff

• Former Vice President Mike Pence

• Former Vice President Dan Quayle

Tech Leaders

• Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)

• Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

• Elon Musk (Tesla)

• Sundar Pichai (Google)

• Shou Zi Chew (TikTok)

• Tim Cook (Apple)

Foreign Leaders

• Argentinian President Javier Milei

• China's Vice President Han Zheng

• Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar

• Former DUP MP Ian Paisley

Performers

• Carrie Underwood (singing "America the Beautiful")

• Christopher Macchio (National Anthem)

• Lee Greenwood

• Rascal Flatts

• Parker McCollum

Celebrities and Influencers

• Logan and Jake Paul

• Theo Von

• Caitlyn Jenner

• Dana White (UFC CEO)

• Jon Voight

• Kid Rock

• Billy Ray Cyrus

Many more not listed! The ceremony was held at Capitol Rotunda and limited to 750 individuals.

Other Inauguration Day Notables:

• Trump asked his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, to immediately find out everything going on with the drones after being asked by a reporter about them

• Trump said inauguration activities were moved inside solely for weather purposes, not further security concerns

• All Jan. 6 committee documents and materials were destroyed Trump told a reporter

• The new administration ended the CBP One immigration app shortly after swearing-in

• Carrie Underwood sang “America the Beautiful” at the swearing-in ceremony without backup audio due to a glitch

• Zelenskyy, Netanyahu and Orban congratulate Donald Trump

• Hillary Clinton laughed while Trump spoke about the “Gulf of America,” and it’s one of the few moments during the swearing-in that Bill Clinton didn’t look happy as a clam

And last but not least on yesterday…

Joe Biden spent his last hours in office signing his final pardons which included, but were not limited to, 5 of his family members, Anthony Fauci, members of Congress on the Jan. 6 committee, staff of the Jan 6. committee, and police officers who testified before the Jan 6. committee.

Here are the pardon and clemency numbers for the last 10 U.S. presidents (source: Perplexity):

Total Acts of Clemency

Welp, there ya have it folks. Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow!

XOXO,

Jackie

PS: HUGE SHOUTOUT AND VERRRRRY SPECIAL THANKS TO MY TOP REFERRERS CAROLINE, KRISTINA, MIKE, JACKIE, AND KATE. ❤️‍🔥