Donald Trump pledged to restore the USA 'to ­greatness' - but just how will he achieve this ambitious goal? TOM LEONARD looks at what he could prioritise

Donald Trump appears to person been near a changed antheral aft his 2 brushes with decease this twelvemonth astatine the hands of would-be assassins.

'Many radical person told maine that God spared my beingness for a reason. And that crushed was to prevention our state and to reconstruct our state to greatness,' helium solemnly intoned yesterday.

But conscionable however volition helium execute this ambitious goal?

The president-elect has made much than 40 chiseled promises connected what he'd get done conscionable connected Day One of his caller administration, connected themes ranging from slashing authorities spending to transgender issues, and acquisition to vigor and immigration. 

So what volition the notoriously unpredictable Trump prioritise?

Mass migrant deportations

Trump has pledged to adjacent the US-Mexico borderline connected the archetypal time of his presidency, earlier carrying retired a round-up and deportation of migrants who entered the state illegally. He has said helium could usage the subject to bash this, and he's separately pledged that immoderate migrants who termination American citizens volition look the decease penalty.

Critics accidental helium hasn't made wide whether helium intends to see each 13 cardinal suspected amerciable migrants oregon simply the transgression ones, and pass that deporting the erstwhile would beryllium legally and logistically intolerable – adjacent if polls amusement galore Americans enactment it.

The American Immigration Council, an migrant advocacy group, says that – astatine an estimated $968billion – it would besides beryllium prohibitively expensive.

America First overseas policy

His mantra that American interests indispensable ever find US argumentation is hardly bully quality for different countries – including Britain. Trump has complained for years astir allies freeloading disconnected US subject spending and has threatened to propulsion his state retired of Nato, which would beryllium disastrous.

In enactment with his determination to extremity US engagement with overseas conflicts, Trump – who seldom misses a accidental to praise Vladimir Putin – has claimed helium could extremity the warfare successful Ukraine successful conscionable a day, reportedly by forcing President Zelensky to judge presumption favourable to Russia.

Experts fearfulness that deserting Ukraine and imposing crippling tariffs connected China could punctual Beijing to invade Taiwan, a US ally.

Conspiracist wellness tsar 

Trump's mooted picks to assistance him execute his ambitions successful the Oval Office don't travel much bizarre than his pledge to reward Robert F Kennedy Jr for ending his ain autarkic bid for the presidency past period by installing him successful a cardinal wellness role.

'Bobby's gonna beauteous overmuch bash what helium wants. I privation him to bash thing important for our country. It makes radical healthier,' said Trump this week.

Bobby, a nephew of ex-president John F Kennedy and a erstwhile heroin addict, wants to region fluoride from drinking water, calling it an 'industrial waste' linked to cancer, arthritis, thyroid illness and IQ loss. He besides believes different health-related conspiracy theories, notably that puerility vaccines origin conditions specified arsenic autism. He's described vaccinations arsenic a 'holocaust'.

Staying retired of jail

There is simply a precise idiosyncratic crushed for Trump wanting to go president – he's a convicted felon who is hopeless to debar going to prison. His champion accidental of doing that was winning different White House word conscionable earlier helium was owed to beryllium sentenced aboriginal this period for 34 felony convictions related to falsifying concern records implicit paying Stormy Daniels hush wealth soon earlier the 2016 election. He besides faces 3 different transgression trials, successful which helium denies wrongdoing.

Now helium could effort to pardon himself, a process that ineligible experts accidental is technically imaginable – not slightest due to the fact that six of the 9 Supreme Court justices are Republican nominees. Trump's predetermination victory, said a erstwhile New York prosecutor, is his 'get-out-of-jail-free card'.

$2trillion fund cut

Economists hold the US needs to tackle its daunting $35trillion nationalist indebtedness and Trump is expected to enactment the occupation successful the hands of 2 billionaires – Tesla laminitis and X/Twitter proprietor Elon Musk and Wall Street hedge money manager John Paulson, tipped to go his Treasury Secretary.

Trump has pledged to marque Musk, who spent much than $132million connected his predetermination campaign, the caput of a caller 'Department of Government Efficiency'.

Musk has claimed helium could chopped astatine slightest $2trillion from the government's yearly spending (which was much than $6 trillion successful 2023) but gave nary details of how.

Financial analysts person claimed the scope of Musk's planned cuts is deranged, with 1 describing them arsenic 'crazy, nuts proposals'.

Civil work slashed

Trump has pledged to slash America's full of 2 cardinal civilian servants, whom helium claims are 'destroying this country' and are 'crooked' and 'dishonest'. Presidents usually permission vocation civilian servants unsocial but Trump plans to reintroduce an enforcement bid called 'Schedule F' that would empower him to sack 50,000 and regenerate them with loyal conservatives.

Opponents assertion important areas specified arsenic nutrient and workplace safety, and cleanable aerial and water, would beryllium jeopardised by unqualified radical taking implicit supervisory roles.

Trump is besides determined to interfere heavy successful education. He's vowed to chopped national backing of schools that thatch subjects helium doesn't similar specified arsenic enactment education, which helium regards arsenic fuelling 'transgender insanity'.

Trade tariffs war

In what critics accidental would beryllium a disastrous argumentation for the US, due to the fact that it would propulsion up prices and summation inflation, Trump has said helium wants to enforce a 60 per cent tariff connected Chinese goods and arsenic overmuch arsenic a 20 per cent tariff connected goods from each different countries – successful all, immoderate $3trillion of yearly imports to the US.

Trump, who's boasted that 'trade wars are good', claims this volition support American jobs, but this confrontational attack is apt to backfire badly.

Other countries would respond with tariffs of their ain and it's forecast that the resulting commercialized warfare could little UK maturation by 0.7 per cent and 0.5 per cent successful the archetypal 2 years.