President Donald Trump was sworn into office Monday. And he didn’t waste anytime. Trump signed a slew of executive orders. GOP strategist, Colin Reed, talks

Sunlight is pouring over the entire world,” the newly sworn-in president told America, as former presidents Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden looked on, without clapping.

President-elect Donald Trump held a massive rally in DC Sunday, mere hours before taking the oath of office as the 47th US president.

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Given the chaos of Trump’s first term, and his radical plans for the second, Vanity Fair writers and editors take stock on day one of what’s sure to be a tumultuous time in America.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

The new president’s advisers have become masters of the government bureaucracy they have promised to upend. During his Inaugural Address on Monday, President Trump made a point of telling the country that he had learned “a lot” over the past eight years. The four and a half days since have revealed what he meant.

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Trump’s “America First” philosophy is often described as a return to the kind of isolationism that prevailed between the two world wars. But that’s not quite accurate. He wants to stride the global stage. But he’s advocating a foreign policy where America is dominant in its own hemisphere and engages elsewhere selectively.

Research on the role of US presidents has attempted to define how previous presidents rank compared to their peers. There is general agreement that the United States has had three truly great presidents – George Washington (1789-1797),

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.”