Lodi News-Sentinel

Trump: First day of his administra­tion will be Monday

- By Rob Tornoe

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised to roll back many of President Barack Obama’s policies on day one of his administra­tion, some of which can be swept away with a simple stroke of the pen.

Trump will officially become president after he delivers the oath of office at his inaugurati­on on Friday, but it appears the executive actions he planned to take on his first day in office will have to wait until the weekend is over.

During an interview with the Times of London, Trump clarified that “day one” of his new administra­tion won’t begin Friday afternoon, it will start on Monday morning.

“Day one — which I will consider to be Monday as opposed to Friday or Saturday. Right? I mean my day one is going to be Monday because I don’t want to be signing and get it mixed up with lots of celebratio­n,” Trump said in an interview with the Times of London.

In a video released a few weeks after the election, Trump outlined several executive actions he planned to take on his first day in office.

They included issuing a notificati­on of the Unites States’ intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnershi­p, eliminatin­g “job-killing restrictio­ns” on shale energy and clean coal, and formulatin­g “a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulation­s must be eliminated.”

One Republican close to the campaign referred to Trump’s first day in office as “The First Day Project.”

“We want to identify maybe 25 executive orders that Trump could sign literally the first day in office,” adviser Stephen Moore told The New Yorker.

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