page_title: Presidency of Donald Trump
section_title: Transition period, inauguration and first 100 days
hierarchical_section_title: Presidency of Donald Trump / Transition period, inauguration and first 100 days
caption_attribution_description: English: President Donald Trump being sworn in on January 20, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Melania Trump wears a sky-blue cashmere Ralph Lauren ensemble. He holds his left hand on two versions of the Bible, one childhood Bible given to him by his mother, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. Jonathan Adams&#32;(2017-01-20).&#32;Donald Trump’s Inauguration Bible: What Bible Is Donald Trump Using to Get Sworn in Today?.&#32;Heavy.com.
context_page_description: The presidency of Donald Trump began at noon EST on January 20, 2017, when he was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, succeeding Barack Obama. A Republican, Trump was a businessman and reality television personality from New York City at the time of his 2016 presidential election victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. While Trump lost the popular vote, he won the Electoral College vote, 304 to 227, in a presidential contest that American intelligence agencies concluded was targeted by a Russian interference campaign. Trump has made many false or misleading statements during his campaign and presidency. The statements have been documented by fact-checkers, with political scientists and historians widely describing the phenomenon as unprecedented in modern American politics. Trump's approval rating has been stable, hovering at high-30 to mid-40 percent throughout his presidency.
  Trump rolled back numerous environmental protections, as well as reducing enforcement of existing regulations.
context_section_description: Prior to the election, Chris Christie was leader of Trump's transition team. After the election, Mike Pence replaced Christie as chairman of the transition team, while Christie became a vice-chairman alongside Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Ben Carson, and Newt Gingrich.
  Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. He was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts. In his seventeen-minute inaugural address, Trump made a broad condemnation of contemporary America, pledging to end "American carnage" and saying America's "wealth, strength and confidence has dissipated". He repeated the "America First" slogan he had used in the campaign and promised that "[e]very decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American factories". At the age of seventy, Trump surpassed Ronald Reagan and became the oldest person to assume the presidency, and the first without any prior government or military experience. The largest single-day protest in the history of the United States, the Women's March, took place the day after his inauguration and was driven by opposition to Trump and his policies and views.
  One of Trump's major first year accomplishments, made as part of a "100-day pledge", was the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Structurally, President Trump had the advantage of a Republican Party majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, but was unable to fulfill his major pledges in his first 100 days and had an approval rating around 40 percent, the lowest for any first-term president at this point in his tenure. Although he tried to make progress on one of his key economic policies—the dismantling of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act—his failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in the first 100 days was a major setback. None of the bills passed by Trump are considered to be "major bills"—based on a "longstanding political-science standard for 'major bills'". Trump signed 24 executive orders in his first 100 days, the most executive orders of any president since World War II.
caption: Inauguration swearing in ceremony
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