Trump's 'shock and awe': Forget first 100 days, new president shows off frenetic pace in first 100 hours

Buckle up. 

President Donald Trump is backmost successful the White House and moving astatine warp speed.

In his inauguration address, the caller president vowed that things crossed the state would "change starting today, and it volition alteration precise quickly."

And moments later, White House lawman main of unit Taylor Budowich took to societal media to tease, "Now, comes SHOCK AND AWE."

They weren't kidding.

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President Donald Trump holds a papers arsenic helium issues enforcement orders and pardons for January 6 defendants, successful the Oval Office astatine the White House, connected January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Trump signed an avalanche of enforcement orders and actions successful his first 8 hours successful office, which not lone fulfilled large run way promises, but besides allowed the returning president to flex his enforcement muscles arsenic good arsenic settee immoderate longstanding grievances.

The president instantly cracked down connected immigration, moved towards a commercialized warfare with apical allies and adversaries, reversed galore policies implemented by former President Biden, including scrapping overmuch of the erstwhile administration's national diverseness actions and vigor and clime provisions.

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He besides sparked a large contention by pardoning oregon commuting the sentences of astir 1,500 supporters who took portion successful the Jan. 6, 2021 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol successful an unsuccessful effort to upend legislature certification of Biden's 2020 predetermination victory. Among those whose sentences were commuted included immoderate who violently assaulted constabulary officers connected 1 of America's darkest days.

Trump besides fired immoderate apical authorities officials, made a high-profile half-trillion dollar tech concern announcement, held unscripted and wide-ranging, informal, and impromptu quality conferences during his archetypal 2 days backmost astatine the White House, and adjacent renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

President Donald Trump speaks successful the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

"I deliberation it’s superb however they’ve been handling it, to instantly conscionable the infinitesimal with action. It’s precisely what helium needs to bash and its precisely what the radical voted for," seasoned Republican strategist Kristin Davison told Fox News.

"Americans ballot for decisive, accelerated action, and existent leadership. And Trump understands that much than anyone. I deliberation helium and his squad knew however important it was retired the gross to amusement that they heard what the radical wanted and are answering with leadership," Davison argued.

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Longtime Republican advisor Alex Castellanos agreed

"He's flooding the zone. He's making a lawsuit for action. He's demonstrating action. He is rallying a question of American enactment for a monolithic translation of government," Castellanos, a seasoned of galore GOP statesmanlike campaigns, told Fox News. 

Seasoned Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo didn't quality Trump's frenetic actions.

"The gait of this shouldn’t beryllium astonishing to anyone. Trump made it abundantly wide helium was going to enactment quickly, helium was going to enactment boldly, and helium was going to bash precisely what helium told voters helium would do," Caiazzo said.

But helium argued that "the things helium is doing is going to straight negatively interaction moving families from seashore to coast. It’s besides a awesome helium has nary respect for the regularisation of law." 

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Asked if Trump's actions were what Americans voted for this past autumn, Caiazzo replied "of people not. What Americans voted for was cheaper groceries. What Donald Trump is going to springiness america is simply a litany of policies that enactment to deteriorate our institutions, that enactment to enrich the affluent and solidify his lasting among the oligarchy successful this country."

There's different crushed for Trump's accelerated gait – adjacent though he's the caller president, he's besides a term-limited and lame-duck president. And by Labor Day, overmuch of the governmental satellite volition commencement looking up to the 2026 midterm elections.

"This is his 2nd term. He’s got to determination quickly," Davison emphasized.

President Donald Trump reviews the troops during his Inauguration ceremonial successful Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, DC, connected January 20, 2025.  (Greg Nash/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's amusement of unit successful the opening days of his 2nd medication is besides successful opposition to 8 years ago, erstwhile helium archetypal entered the White House.

The president and his squad are overmuch much seasoned the 2nd clip around, and the supporting formed is intensely loyal to Trump.

"In the past administration, determination would beryllium logjams and bottlenecks due to the fact that determination were radical who didn’t hold with him," a elder White House root told Fox News. "Now we person a full infrastructure and unit that’s built astir him, successful enactment of him. When helium says something, it’s getting done. It’s testament to him and the squad that helium built."

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Credit is besides being fixed to White House chief of unit Susie Wiles, who, arsenic co-campaign manager of Trump's 2024 statesmanlike bid, kept the trains connected the tracks.

"What Susie has done is look astatine the totality of Trump and recovered the champion players and enactment them successful the champion positions to enactment the president. Trump is surrounded by Trump radical who’ve each proven themselves implicit the years not conscionable to beryllium loyal but ultra-competent operators," added the adviser, who asked for anonymity to talk much freely.