KEEPING SCORE: Here Are The Executive Actions Trump Promised To Enact On Day One
Last Updated on January 6, 2025
Donald Trump has created a long list of executive actions he says he wants to carry out on his first day back in the White House.
Among those Executive Actions: Prosecute the Biden Crime Family, Initiate mass deportations, do away with perks for electric vehicles, and impose a complete prohibition on transgender “women” (READ: Men) from women’s sports.
Trump has made at least forty separate and distinct promises about what he says he wants to do “on day one” as president.
The President-elect has mentioned those promises over 200 times on the campaign trail.
National File has compiled a select list of at least 200 mentions according to various media analyses of Trump’s speeches beginning on the day his campaign launched in November of 2022 through September of 2024.
PROSECUTE THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Trump vowed: “I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family.”
Trump has frequently called Biden corrupt and, in June, reposted a Truth Social message that said he should be “arrested for treason.”
PROSECUTE KAMALA HARRIS
Trump announced during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in September that Harris “should be impeached and prosecuted” for her role in permitting what he described as an “invasion” of the United States by illegal aliens.
Trump has described Harris’ failure to control migration as so severe that people have been “murdered because of her action at the border.”
PROSECUTE BARACK OBAMA AND THE FBI
In 2020, then-candidate Trump accused Obama of “treason” for the Obama administration’s FBI’s surveillance of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and its efforts to falsely characterize deep ties between Russia and the Trump camp.
The FBI’s email snooping was aimed at a former foreign policy adviser to that campaign.
In August of this year, Trump reposted a message on Truth Social calling for “public military tribunals” for Obama.
An FBI attorney, Kevin Clinesmith, accepted responsibility for altering an email used to obtain permission to wiretap a Trump campaign aide.
The email from another FBI official was illegally edited in order to support the claim that there was “probable cause” to suspect Carter Page was “a knowing agent” of Russia.
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s inquiry found no criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the Trump campaign. Trump characterized the failed investigation as a “witch hunt”.
“The fact is they [the FBI] spied on my campaign and they got caught and you’ll be hearing more,” then-President Trump said at the time.
Bob Barr’s subsequent investigation of the Mueller probe found “17 significant errors or omissions” in the FBI applications to spy on Carter Page.
PROSECUTE FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY
Trump has long pushed behind the scenes for Comey to be prosecuted over his interactions with journalists. Then, Trump fired Comey in 2017.
When Comey released a book the following year, Trump blasted Comey on Twitter, claiming the former FBI chief “leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted.” Trump also accused Comey of lying to Congress.
Biden’s Justice Department declined to bring any charges against Comey, even after finding that he has violated DOJ policies on handling of sensitive information.
PROSECUTE LIZ CHENEY
Liz Cheney worked for Democrats as vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, “fedsurrection” at the Capitol. Cheney (R-Wyo.) who opposed the entire America First movement and Donald Trump in her effort to elect Kamala Harris, was also one of the most prominent Republican figures to publicly endorse Harris over Trump.
Trump said in March on Truth Social that Cheney “should go to jail.” In June, he double down, reposting a message calling Cheney “guilty of treason.” Later, as the campaign neared its end, Trump suggested Liz Cheney go serve in one of the wars she and her father are famous for fomenting, and quipped: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.” Trump was clearly highlighting Cheney’s hypocrisy for supporting the war in Iraq, and endless wars everywhere.
PROSECUTE SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH
Arguably no man is more directly responsible for the weaponizing of the federal government against Trump than Special Prosecutor Jack Smith. Smith brought both of the federal criminal cases against Trump, so it’s no surprise he ends up a regular punching bag for Trump and MAGA faithful.
Last year, Trump reposted a social media message from NeoCon warmongering talk show host Mark Levin saying Smith “must go to prison.”
In August, Trump reposted to Truth Social a message calling “Jackal Smith … a career criminal” and saying he “should be prosecuted for election interference and prosecutorial misconduct.”
Recently, appearing on a radio show, Trump called Smith “mentally deranged” and said he “should be thrown out of the country.”
PROSECUTE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG
Alvin Bragg brought the case that led to the former president’s conviction in New York on 34 “felony charges” stemming from a scheme to pay Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet during the 2016 election about her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump. Stormy, of course, took the money, and there’s nothing illegal about the agreement.
In addition to putting together perhaps the weakest prosecution of thirty-four supposed “felonies” ever assembled, Bragg is famously soft on crime.
“There is a case to be made … that the prosecutor should be prosecuted — the district attorney should be prosecuted,” Trump told reporters during the trial in May.
ENDING TRANS INSANITY IN THE SCHOOLS
Trump has promised as many as 82 times to cut funds to schools that teach “critical race theory” and “transgender insanity,” on day one.
Trump also repeatedly promised to “keep men out of women’s sports” — as many as 25 times.
Trump’s most frequent promise on the trans front has been to ban men dressed as women from participating in women’s sports — a promise he has made at least 18 times.
PROSECUTE FORMER FBI “SPECIAL” AGENT PETER STRZOK
For six years now, Trump has rightly accused Strzok of treason based on text messages he exchanged while attempting to lay groundwork for the bogus investigation into figmented Russian influence on Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Some messages released by DOJ’s officials in 2017 showed Strzok disparaging Trump as an “idiot” and saying in reference to Trump potentially becoming president: “I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.”
Trump has also blasted former FBI attorney Lisa Page, who was engaged in an illicit romantic relationship with Strzok.
Trump has suggesting Lisa Page is guilty of treason, pointing to her comments in the text exchanges.
PROSECUTE SENATOR-ELECT ADAM SCHIFF
Trump has repeatedly excoriated Schiff (D-Calif.),
Schiff was elevated to the U.S. Senate representing California on Tuesday, and has served as chair of the House Intelligence Committee while Trump was in office. Schiff headed up the intense congressional scrutiny on Trump over the make-believe ties to Russia.
After Schiff read what he admitted was an exaggerated version of what Trump might have said — hypothetically — in what they turned into a controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump clashed with Schiff over the bogus dramatization.
“It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for Treason?” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump’s anger against Schiff has continued, with the former president posting on Truth Social last year: “Schiff is a sleazebag and traitor, and should be prosecuted for the damage he has done to our Country!”
HALTING ILLEGAL INVASION
Trump mentioned starting the “largest deportation operation in American history” over 20 times on the campaign trail.
Trump also vowed to close the southern border.
Trump openly promised to terminate “every open border policy of the Biden administration” at least twenty times.
Five times, Trump promised to “restore the Trump travel ban on entry from terror-plagued countries.”
Three times Trump promised to sign an order to “end automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.”
Another day-one promise Trump has made on immigration is to end birthright citizenship.
Trump will have significant leeway when it comes to rolling back executive actions on immigration, such as Biden’s protections for the undocumented immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens.
The office of the president afford broad power to shape immigration policies under the Constitution and federal immigration law. That Trump has made large promises on this issue isn’t a surprise, especially given the issue’s importance to voters.
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Trump has promised nine times that he will “repeal the Green New Deal.”
Trump has promised 31 times to repeal what he describes as Biden’s “electric vehicle mandate.”
Trump has also promised to expand oil drilling.
DESTROY FAUCI’S PFIZER MANDATES AND TYRANNY IN SCHOOLS
Trump has promised to cut federal funds for schools that have a “vaccine mandate or mask mandate”
Trump has promised to cut federal funding for schools that allow discussions about race, gender or sexual orientation on at least 45 occasions.
Trump has said 37 times that he’ll cut funding for schools that have vaccine or mask mandates.
MISCELLANEOUS PROMISES
Trump has further suggested over a dozen day-one promises beyond those listed above, including promises on veterans’ issues and Justice Department prosecutions.
He has made at least seven day-one remarks related to easing various fishing commercial regulations, and three references to eliminating taxes on tips,