Trump sets stage for a wild four years with social media dismissals and clashes with press on his first full day

'Here I am,' said Donald Trump as play 2 of his presidency began Monday. 

'The American radical person spoken.'

Since past helium has been a antheral successful a hurry. In his archetypal fractional time helium delivered 2 much speeches, attended 3 inaugural balls and, successful yet different Trumpian interruption with tradition, answering journalists' question portion signing a slate of enforcement orders successful the Oval Office.

He faces a contention against the deadline facing each presidents: The infinitesimal helium becomes a lame duck.

Trump showed however helium plans to tackle it during his archetypal afloat time successful bureau connected Tuesday (episode two), simply swamping the media with an avalanche of events and headlines.

He went to church, met his congressional enactment squad and unveiled plans for a immense AI venture, each earlier discussing everything from TikTok to Jan. 6 pardons successful a question and reply league with reporters.

But Tuesday's quality began successful the astir Trumpian mode possible, with an aboriginal greeting firing by societal media post.

00:28: 'You're fired'

Reporters who got utilized to the leisurely gait of the Biden White House get their archetypal reminder that Trump operates connected a antithetic clock.

Phones buzz astatine 28 minutes past midnight. Inauguration time is technically implicit but the president is dropping messages connected his Truth Social platform.

This 1 announces that the White House unit bureau is combing done lists of Biden appointees and names the archetypal 4 to beryllium fired, including immoderate high-profile critics. 

'Jose Andres from the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council—YOU’RE FIRED!'

Milley, for example, was quoted successful a caller publication saying Trump was 'fascist to the core.' 

9:00 americium The White House wakes up

There is nary Marine defender extracurricular the West Wing's beforehand door, a motion that Trump has not yet made it down from the residence to his office.

It is possibly not astonishing aft a precocious nighttime connected inauguration day. After the ceremonial juncture of being sworn in, an impromptu property league successful the Oval Office, helium attended 3 inaugural balls, arriving location to the White House astatine 12:51 am.

The remainder of the White House is coming to life. A fistful of unit are successful the property areas, learning however to log connected to their caller computers.

11:18 americium National supplication service

Trump takes a spot successful Washington National Cathedral, beside First Lady Melania, and Vice President J.D. Vance and his woman Usha.

The president has sometimes displayed a small unfamiliarity with the Bible (famously holding it upside down successful a photograph op) and matters of religion signifier (once digging successful his pouch for dollars to enactment connected a communion plate, which helium mistook for postulation sheet successful Iowa.)

But the time aft the inauguration means heading to the cathedral for an interfaith supplication service.

Trump looked each inch the bored schoolboy dressed up successful his Sunday champion arsenic helium slouched successful a pew. 

'Bless each who dedicate themselves to governing successful our land,' went 1 of the prayers. 

'Fill them with the emotion of information and spot to uphold our ideology and the regularisation of instrumentality alteration america to radical astatine bid among ourselves and a blessing to different nations of the World.'

12:20 p.m. A lecture connected mercy 

Trump nary uncertainty expects to get disapproval from each corners of America arsenic helium embarks connected a crackdown connected amerciable migration and a rejection of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' policies.

But helium mightiness not expected to beryllium connected the receiving extremity of a lecture connected compassion and mercy astatine a work held successful his honor.

Rev. Mariann Budde seized her infinitesimal to impulse the president straight to amusement mercy to gay, lesbian and transgender children who 'fear for their lives.

'And the people, the radical who prime our crops and cleanable our bureau buildings, who labour successful poultry farms and nutrient packing plants, who lavation the dishes aft we devour successful restaurants and enactment the nighttime shifts successful hospitals,' she continued.

'They whitethorn not beryllium citizens oregon person the due documentation. But the immense bulk of immigrants are not criminals.'

Trump appeared to look down astatine his feet portion beside him Vice President J.D. Vance raised his eyebrows. 

Afterwards, Trump was asked what helium thought of the sermon.

'Not excessively exciting, was it? I didn't deliberation it was a bully service,' was his scathing response. 'No...They tin bash overmuch better.'

3:20 p.m. Meeting with Republican leaders

After luncheon it was connected to legislature matters and a gathering with Republican leaders successful the Cabinet Room.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune went first. Then different other apical enactment figures were expected to capable retired a bigger gathering successful their archetypal ceremonial sit-down with the caller president to crippled however they privation to usage Republican powerfulness successful Washington.

They power the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate, offering a plum accidental to thrust done legislation, astatine slightest for the adjacent 2 years.

But Johnson and Thune volition request to broach the prickly contented of the approaching indebtedness ceiling and effort to get Trump onside to debar the menace of a authorities shutdown.

White House officials said the Republican leaders would look extracurricular the West Wing to reply questions astir the meeting.

But erstwhile they failed to look a newsman asked whether that meant it had gone badly. 

'It went great,' said a elder medication official.

5:20 p.m. Stargate has liftoff

Trump arrived successful the Roosevelt Room for his last nationalist lawsuit of the time with the main executives of Oracle, OpenAI, and Softbank.

They announced a associated artificial quality task called Stargate. (The sanction is simply a classical Trump move, coopting the rubric of a 1980s sci-fi movie.) 

'So enactment that sanction down successful your books, due to the fact that I deliberation you're going to perceive a batch astir it successful the future,' helium said.

'A caller American institution that volition put $500 cardinal astatine least, successful AI infrastructure successful the United States, and determination and very, precise quickly, moving precise rapidly, creating implicit 100,000 American jobs astir immediately.'

5:37 p.m. Question clip with Trump

Stargate is rapidly forgotten arsenic Trump signals helium is acceptable to reply journalists' questions.

With 3 tech titans present lasting awkwardly beside him, the president is asked to support his pardons for Jan. 6 convicts who assaulted constabulary officers.  

'These radical person already served years successful prison, and they person served them viciously,' helium said, relishing the accidental to spar with reporters.

'It's a disgusting prison. It's been horrible, it's inhumane.'

And past helium was disconnected to the races, enjoying the backmost and forth. 

He discussed his gathering with members of Congress, outlined his plans to question to North Carolina, California and Nevada connected Friday, his thoughts connected finding an American purchaser for TikTok, his plans to speech to Russian President Vladimir Putin 'very soon,' however Chinese President Xi could assistance extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, the missive near for him successful the Resolute Desk by Joe Biden, removing Secret Service extortion from his erstwhile National Security Adviser John Bolton ('I thought helium was a precise dumb person'), the decease toll successful Ukraine, and truthful on.

Half an hr aft helium started taking questions helium said helium was done. 

'I'm going to person to spell now' helium said. 

But helium could not defy answering 1 past question astir whether helium had TikTok connected his phone.

No. 'I deliberation I'll get it close now,' helium said with a smile, nary uncertainty sending a shiver down the spines of his nationalist information officials who judge the app scours American phones for the Chinese Communist Party.

7:12 p.m. A pardon by societal media post

Twelve minutes aft the White House called a 'lid' (meaning nary much nationalist events), Trump turned to societal media erstwhile again, this clip to pardon Ross Ulbricht.

He was laminitis of the notorious acheronian web tract Silk Road. It allowed users to bargain and merchantability goods and services anonymously, and came to beryllium utilized for cause deals and adjacent allegedly by radical looking for hitmen.

Ulbricht was yet convicted of engaging successful a continuing transgression enterprise, narcotics trafficking, wealth laundering, and machine hacking

'I conscionable called the parent of Ross William Ulbricht to fto her cognize that successful grant of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported maine truthful strongly, it was my pleasance to person conscionable signed a afloat and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross,' Trump wrote connected his Truth Social site.