What promises did Trump make in his inauguration speech? Here’s a full list
Shortly after taking the oath of office in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, President Donald Trump delivered a speech laying out his vision for what he called “the golden age of America.”
Lasting just over 30 minutes, the address was filled with a wide range of promises he intends to fulfill during his second term.
Among them were curbing illegal immigration, tackling inflation, increasing domestic oil production and levying tariffs on trading partners.
Many of these pledges will be satisfied via executive orders signed on Trump’s first day in office — of which he said there will be “close to 100.”
Here is a complete list of the specific promises Trump made in the speech.
Immigration
Declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border
Halting all illegal entry into the country, and deporting “millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came”
Reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” policy
Ending the “catch and release” policy
Militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border
Invoking the Alien Enemies Act to eliminate foreign criminal networks in the U.S.
Designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
Energy
Declaring a national energy emergency and increasing oil production
Filling strategic oil reserves, and exporting “American energy all over the world”
Ending the “Green New Deal”
Revoking the “electric vehicle mandate”
Economy and trade
Defeating inflation and rapidly reducing costs
Levying tariffs on foreign countries
Establishing the External Revenue Service to collect revenues, duties and tariffs
Military
Building “the strongest military the world has ever seen,” and measuring success by “the wars that we end” and “the wars we never get into”
Stopping members of the military “from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty”
Reinstating members of the military who were “unjustly expelled” for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine
Others
Establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Taking back control of the Panama Canal
Stopping government censorship, and bringing back “free speech to America”
Returning “law and order” to U.S. cities, and bringing back “equal and impartial justice”
Ending the “government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”
Making it official government policy that there are two genders: male and female
Ending “the chronic disease epidemic”
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America” and restoring the name Mount McKinley to Mount Denali
This story was originally published January 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM with the headline "What promises did Trump make in his inauguration speech? Here’s a full list."