Trump announces purge of over 1,000 Biden appointees

US President Donald Trump has announced the purge of over 1,000 Biden administration appointees while he pardoned 1,500 people involved in the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol Hill.

Trump said on Tuesday in a post on his media platform that he planned to remove over 1,000 appointees from the administration of former President Joe Biden.

“My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again,” Trump said in the post on Truth Social.

In the Tuesday post, he also fired four Biden appointees including former top general Mark Milley, celebrity chef Jose Andres, former diplomat Brian Hook, and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

“Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon,” Trump wrote.

“YOU’RE FIRED!” Trump wrote in the post, using a catchphrase from The Apprentice TV series he himself popularized.

Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US president

Donald Trump is sworn in as the President of the United States.

On Monday, right after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Trump began his second term in office by canceling all federal cases and investigations of any Trump supporters by granting sweeping clemency to all January 6 protesters. 

Trump has defended the attack on Capitol Hill, saying that the January 6 protest represented "the greatest movement in the history of our country,” when thousands of people marched against the certification of the 2020 election, which placed Joe Biden in office.

"January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again," Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

"It was about an Election that was Rigged and Stolen, and a country that was about to go to HELL.”

The other executive actions taken by Trump on Monday, Day 1 of his second term in office, included a declaration that there were only two biological sexes: male and female, ending the debates in this regard, while revoking any legal protections given to transgender American troops, and cutting funding to Biden-era education programs.

Trump permanently withdrew the US from the Paris climate accord. He also ordered the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

He also ordered federal employees back to work in office five days a week, froze federal hiring which includes the exceptions cited for posts related to national security and public safety and the military, and directed every governmental department and agency to address the cost-of-living crisis.

Trump declared the border crisis an “invasion” and ordered the attorney general and secretaries of state and homeland security to “take all appropriate action to repel, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged” in such, enforcing tougher anti-immigration measures.

He rescinded a policy created by the Biden administration that sought to guide the development of AI to prevent misuse.

Trump revoked Biden’s removal of Cuba from US state sponsors of terrorism list.

The President gave executive action orders to restore freedom of speech and prevent censorship of free speech, end the “weaponization of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration”, slap 25 percent tariffs on products from Mexico and Canada as of February 1, and the withdrawal of US from Global Minimum Tax agreement.

Trump reversed Biden's sanctions on violent law-breaking Israelis in illegal West Bank settlements.

Trump lifts sanctions on violent settlers as Israelis attack West Bank towns

Trump cancels an executive order that slapped sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers involved in violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.

He also reversed a Biden order requiring 50 percent of new cars sold in 2030 be Electric Vehicles.

Trump also ordered the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

According to the White House, the Executive Order – which has the force of the law – establishes the department “to implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”

On Monday, Trump also ended diversity, equity and inclusion programs within federal agencies, ordered enhanced screening for visa applicants from certain high-risk nations and reopened Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.

He ordered the attorney general, secretary of state, and secretary of homeland security to “take all appropriate action to prioritize” prosecution of illegal aliens who commit crimes.

In addition, he ordered a 90-day pause in the issuance of US foreign aid.

He ordered the secretaries of commerce and the interior to restart efforts to route water from California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state.

Trump ordered the Treasury Department to explore the creation of an External Revenue Service while directing the Department of Justice not to enforce TikTok “divest-or-ban” law for 75 days.

He revoked security clearances for ex-national security adviser John Bolton and 51 intelligence officials who said Hunter Biden's laptop bore “classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation.

Trump also ordered the formal renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and Alaska’s Mt. Denali to “Mt. McKinley.”

There are limitations to what the president can actually implement via an executive order. Many of Trump’s orders are expected to be challenged in court, bogged down by legal challenges that could slow down or even stop their implementation.

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