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Donald Trump is not renowned as an orator. Although speech-making has been a potent tool of past US presidents - his predecessor one of the most compelling - the mish-mash of "America first" jingoism Mr Trump has presented at his inauguration ceremony in Washington hardly amounts to a cogent agenda to guide his term in office.
The Senate on Friday confirmed President Trump 's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, the second cabinet pick to receive Senate approval. John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general who commanded the U.S. military in South America, had one of the smoothest confirmation hearings of any Trump nominee, despite his coming role in implementing the president's immigration policies.
Senate Democrats resisted entreaties from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to vote on Rep. Mike Pompeo's nomination to become CIA director late Friday, punting the vote to Monday. The move will leave the nation's top intelligence agency without a leader over the weekend because former CIA director John Brennan and his deputy David Cohen formally departed when President Obama left office Friday.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said he is "relatively confident" secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson will win confirmation. Corker's panel will vote on the Tillerson nomination on Monday but the outcome is not certain.
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's first Cabinet members Friday, formally approving his defense secretary and secretary of homeland security. The final vote to confirm retired Marine Gen.
The former Republican vice president, inside the Capitol following Friday's inauguration ceremony, extolled the new president's speech as "fabulous" and "right on target." "He's going to make America great again," Quayle said.
The freshly-inaugurated Trump administration has halted a cut to the FHA mortgage insurance premium that Obama's team announced during his final days in office. The Department of Housing and Urban Development said Friday that the reduction to the annual mortgage insurance premiums borrowers pay when taking out government-backed home loans has been "suspended indefinitely."
President Donald Trump plans to name Ajit Pai as head of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report from Politico's Alex Byers and Tony Romm. Pai has served as a GOP commissioner at the FCC since 2012.
After a presidential election that many deemed historically contentious and brutal, Americans likely want a break from election campaigns, but Virginia voters unfortunately do not have that luxury.
Trump violated his lease for the Trump International Hotel in D.C. the second he was sworn in, according to the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The hotel is located in a renovated historic post office that Trump leases from the government - and the paperwork explicitly forbids any elected government official from holding the lease or benefiting from it.
U.S. President Donald Trump applauds in the presidential review stand outside the White House during the 58th presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 20, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump applauds in the presidential review stand outside the White House during the 58th presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 20, 2017.
"Congratulations to President Trump," said the South Carolina senator, who also sought the Republican nomination last year. "It was an amazing rise in American politics and I look forward to working with him.
But the day after Trump pulled off a stunning upset over Democrat Hillary Clinton , Dominguez made a decision: He would travel to Washington D.C. to watch the brazen, often controversial Republican get inaugurated. "I thought his style was dismissive," Dominguez said about an hour after seeing Trump get sworn in as America's 45th president on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Donald Trump's moment in history proved a patriotic occasion described in terms of it being "warm and fuzzy" and sending "chill bumps" through residents of Gaston and Cleveland counties who attended the transition of power. Charlotte attorney Brad Overcash of Belmont traveled to the nation's capital to witness a "special moment in American history."
US stocks rose and the dollar fell Friday as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the president of the United States and Barack Obama's term ended. Trump's inauguration dominated a day that saw most major equity markets rise as the long-telegraphed transfer of power in the world's biggest economy finally took place.
The new president delivered an inaugural address Friday that was straight from his campaign script - to the delight or dismay of different subsets of Americans. Trump gave nods to unity and began with kind words for Barack and Michelle Obama, but pivoted immediately to a searing indictment of the status quo and the Obama years.
US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence wave goodbye to the Obamas as they depart following Trump's inauguration at the Capitol in Washington. As Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America on Friday, he delivered an inaugural address that's being perceived as an unapologetic reprisal of the economic populism and nationalism that fueled his improbable campaign.
President Donald Trump on Friday quickly claimed the mantle of the White House, signing legislation allowing retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as his defense secretary, as well as the nomination papers for his Cabinet choices.