President Donald J. Trump of the USA has served a month of his second term as US President. Here are some of the significant events of the last month.

By Adam Behan | Mar 3 2025

Executive Orders:

According to the Federal Register, Trump has signed 73 Executive Orders, 54 of which were signed in the first two weeks. This surpasses the amount signed by every previous President in terms of executive orders signed in the first 100 days since Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, both wartime Presidents.

Executive orders direct executive government agencies on how to implement federal law.

Some of these executive orders include:

EO 14147, “Ending the Weaponisation of the Federal Government”, which aims to review the ‘past misconduct’ of specific federal agencies under the Biden administration which Trump alleges were ‘inconsistent with the Constitution.’

EO 14156, “Declaring a National Energy Emergency”, saw Trump withdraw America from the 2015 Paris Agreement once again, and a pledge to extract and refine the abundant stores of fossil fuel energy from American territory. In other words, “drill, baby, drill.”

EO 14164, “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety”, establishes a federal commitment to punish those who murder law enforcement officers, and people “illegally present in this country” who are found guilty of capital crimes with the death penalty.

DOGE:

As part of Trump’s plan to make sweeping cuts to federal spending, the President established a new advisory body called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. This new body is not official, as it requires an act of Congress to be so. DOGE’s mission, according to its leader, Elon Musk, is to reduce the national debt of $36 trillion, saving taxpayer’s money in doing so.

On February 13, up to 350 employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration were sacked, prompting criticism towards DOGE and the Trump administration.

Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists said that the sacking could “throw a monkey wrench in the whole national security apparatus and cause disarray”, which would “only benefit the adversaries of this country.”

Foreign Relations:

President Trump opened his second administration with a mix of traditionally Republican hawkish and interventionalist objectives. Trump expressed his desire to see Canada integrated as the 51st state into the Union, to annex Panama and Greenland for both of their economic assets, and to relocate the internally displaced population of Gaza, turning an area where 70% of its critical infrastructure is destroyed (estimates vary) into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” In response to Trump’s expansionist ambitions for Greenland, Danish MEP Anders Vistisen told the President to “f**k off” on the floor of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.

With negotiations between US and Russian diplomats having concluded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, steps were made towards the conclusion of the war in Ukraine. These negotiations did not include a Ukrainian detachment.  Trump has accused Ukraine of instigating the conflict which erupted after Russia invaded on February 24 2022, stating “you should have never started it. You could have made a deal.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that these talks are “held behind Ukraine’s back” and has not committed to respecting the result of such negotiations.