Long list of tasks for first 100 days in office

DONALD Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.

He has said his supporters are going to win so big they will soon be sick of winning.

When it comes to mapping out the details of his presidency, he has been no less extravagant.

Trump has slashed the timeline of his proposals once in the Oval office from 100 days to one, promising 24 hours designed to erase traces of Barack Obama’s presidency and set America on a protectionist, nativist, track.

Trump’s rhetoric on immigration came to define his presidential campaign.

But he has quietly dropped his call to remove all undocumented immigrants from the US, a move that, aside from being so impractical it might be impossible, would damage the US economy by taking too many people out of the labour market.

Instead he would immediately begin the process of deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records.

Recent studies estimate there are fewer than 168 000 such people in the US.

But Trump put the number at some two million, suggesting his calculations of criminals include people who have had minor runins with the law, such as getting a speeding ticket.

He will suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur.

Though the terminology is vague, Syria would almost certainly be on this list.

Trump has claimed the government does not know where the refugees it lets into the country are from, despite their being scrutinised for up to two years before being allowed to enter the US.

And then there is the wall. This would not happen on his first day, he admitted, but eventually a Trump administration would push through legislation to build a wall along the southern border of the US and make Mexico bear the costs.

Trump has promised to drain the swamp of big-money Washington politics.

In one of his most popular campaign pitches, he has said he will reduce the corrupting influence of special interests.

His day one reforms include a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress and a five-year ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave the government service.

On trade, a Trump presidency would break from the traditional Republican commitment to free trade, imposing a set of protectionist policies to close America’s economic borders.

He will immediately announce his intention to renegotiate the North American Free Trade agreement with Canada and Mexico and cancel participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade arrangement with 12 countries.

The pact aims to deepen economic ties between these nations, slashing tariffs and fostering trade to boost growth.

But critics argue that it will also intensify competition between countries’ labour forces.