Emma Neely explains what to expect from Donald Trump's inauguration and the first 100 days of his presidency.
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00:00On the 20th of January, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United
00:05States.
00:06This comes eight years after his first inauguration, making him the second president to serve two
00:12non-consecutive terms.
00:14The ceremony will take place at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with Elon Musk,
00:19Nigel Farage and Argentine President Javier Mele expected to attend.
00:25In 2017, Trump used his inauguration speech to set out a vision of American carnage.
00:31Rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape, and the crime, and the
00:38gangs, and the drugs.
00:40This American carnage stops right now.
00:45It remains to be seen what this year's speech will focus on, but what can we predict from
00:50Trump's presidency, and what will his second, first 100 days bring?
00:55This will truly be the golden age of America, that's what we have to hope.
01:00Well to start with, Trump has already made his cabinet picks, and they'll be facing confirmation
01:05hearings from the 14th of January.
01:08With a Republican-majority Senate, his nominees will likely face an easier path, even some
01:14of his most controversial picks.
01:16The first to face the Senate is Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary.
01:21Kamala, your political future is done.
01:25A military veteran and Fox News host, Hegseth is facing allegations of sexual misconduct,
01:31financial mismanagement, and alcohol abuse.
01:33But Trump's made it clear that support for him among GOP senators is strong and deep.
01:39Trump's other picks include Florida Senator and China critic Marco Rubio for Secretary
01:44of State, Wall Street financier Scott Besent for the Treasury, and prominent vaccine skeptic
01:51Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
01:52There's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.
01:56For health, as for Attorney General, Trump has now nominated Pam Bondi.
02:01His first pick, Matt Gaetz, withdrew over a congressional investigation into sexual
02:06misconduct and drug allegations against him.
02:10And what about the allegations against Trump?
02:13Once he becomes president, what happens to the criminal cases against him?
02:17The two federal prosecutions for mishandling classified documents have already been dismissed
02:22on the grounds of presidential immunity.
02:24As for the state case over election interference in Georgia, there's no chance that a trial
02:29will take place until he's out of office, if it takes place at all.
02:34So what are Trump's policies?
02:36Well, he has big plans.
02:39In his first press conference of the year, the president-elect said he wanted to rename
02:43the Gulf of Mexico Gulf of America, discussed a possible military seizure of Greenland and
02:48the Panama Canal and suggested he might reverse the upcoming ban on TikTok in the U.S.
02:54The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name.
02:56Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.
03:00We need Greenland for national security purposes.
03:03The people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.
03:07But if they did, if they did do that, then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.
03:12And as for his actual campaign promises, well, it's clear that the economy will be one of
03:17his key priorities in his first 100 days.
03:21Trump wants to make a quick start on cutting taxes and protecting U.S. business from foreign
03:26competition.
03:27He's promised to reward companies that move their overseas supply chains back to the U.S.,
03:32as well as threatening to put tariffs of 10 percent on global imports and 60 percent on
03:37Chinese goods.
03:38As for his tax cuts, projections suggest they could add $9.15 trillion to the U.S. debt
03:46over the next decade.
03:48Trump has also promised to gut President Biden's climate subsidies and offer tax breaks to
03:54oil, gas and coal producers.
03:56It remains to be seen whether Trump will once again withdraw from the Paris climate agreement,
04:01meaning the U.S. would no longer need to meet set carbon emissions reductions.
04:06We know that another one of his key priorities is controlling immigration and the border.
04:10We have to get the criminals out of our country.
04:13We have to get people that were taken out of mental institutions and put them back into
04:17their mental institution.
04:18These are murderers, many of whom murdered more than one person.
04:22You don't want those people in this country.
04:25Trump has pledged to deport as many as 20 million migrants.
04:29His press secretary, Caroline Levitt, recently told Fox News that he would sign an executive
04:34order to secure the southern border.
04:36Securing the southern border, deporting illegal criminals, rapists and murderers from our
04:41American communities.
04:43But Trump may face challenges on this front.
04:45Groups like the American Immigration Council estimate it would cost billions of dollars
04:50to implement his deportation plan and could have a drastic impact on the construction,
04:55hospitality and agricultural industries, shrinking the economy by at least 4.2%.
05:02As for Russia, Trump previously said he could end the war in Ukraine in a day.
05:07He hasn't given any indication of how he would negotiate the war's end, but many predict
05:12that a deal between Russia and Ukraine may be reached before the year is out.
05:17So what will all this mean for the UK?
05:19Well, the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have been working to foster a
05:24strong relationship with the incoming president.
05:28In September, they had dinner at Trump Tower in New York.
05:31In Washington DC, Lammy told US Republicans that he could find common cause with Trump
05:37and gets the agenda that drives America first.
05:40A strong pivot from a man who once called him a Nazi sympathiser and a tyrant in a toupee.
05:47Since then, the road has been bumpy.
05:50In October, the Trump campaign called for an investigation into election interference
05:55over Labour staff volunteering for Kamala Harris.
05:58Nigel Farage will of course be hoping to use his friendship with Trump to assert influence
06:03over politics at home.
06:04But the prospects for a wider US-UK trade deal look gloomy.
06:09And if Trump follows through on his blanket 10% tariffs, the UK could really suffer, because
06:14the US is Britain's largest export market.
06:18Estimates suggest this would reduce the UK's GDP growth by 0.7 percentage points next year.
06:24And of course, Trump's next moves on Ukraine will have an enormous impact on European politics
06:30and on the future of NATO.
06:33Trump has promised to echo in a golden age for America, with a party remade in his image
06:38and what he describes as an unprecedented mandate.
06:42With January 20th just around the corner, the world will be holding its breath to find
06:47out just exactly what that means.