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Donald Trump
Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida in July 2024
Second presidency of Donald Trump
starts on January 20, 2025 – ends on January 20, 2029
Vice President
JD Vance (elect)
CabinetSee list
PartyRepublican
Election2024
SeatWhite House

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The second presidency of Donald Trump is expected to begin on January 20, 2025, when Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. Trump, a Republican from Florida, who previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021, is scheduled to take office following his victory over Democratic incumbent vice president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Upon taking office, he will become the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in 1893 and the oldest individual to assume the presidency.

Background

2024 election

Main articles: Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign and 2024 United States presidential election
Further information: 2024 United States elections, 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries, and 2024 Republican National Convention

Donald Trump officially announced his candidacy for the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election on November 15, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in a roughly hour-long speech.[1][2] In March 2024, Trump clinched the nomination by winning a majority of the delegates to become the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party following the party's presidential primaries.[3] Trump selected Senator JD Vance of Ohio, a former critic of his, as his running mate, and the two were officially nominated as the Republican ticket at the 2024 Republican National Convention.[4][5]

Incumbent president Joe Biden initially ran for re-election for the Democratic nomination, becoming the party's presumptive nominee in March 2024 after comfortably winning the primaries with little opposition.[6][7] However, following a widely panned debate performance and amid increasing concerns about his age and health, Biden officially withdrew from the race in July 2024.[8][9] Biden endorsed Kamala Harris, his 2020 running mate and vice president of the United States, as his successor, who announced her campaign on July 21.[10] The following day, Harris received enough non-binding delegates to become the party's new presumptive nominee;[11] at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in August 2024, she formally accepted the party's nomination.[12]

On November 6, 2024, Trump flipped Wisconsin from the Democrats, receiving enough electoral votes to secure the presidency.[13][14] The electoral votes will be certified on January 6, 2025.[15] Trump, upon taking office, will be the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in 1893,[16] the oldest individual to assume the presidency, and the first convicted felon to serve the presidency following his conviction in May 2024.[17] Vance, as one of the youngest vice presidents in U.S. history, will be the first Millennial vice president; additionally, he will be the first vice president to have served in the Marine Corps.[17]

Transition period and inauguration

Main articles: Second presidential transition of Donald Trump and Second inauguration of Donald Trump

Trump is expected to be inaugurated at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2025.[18]

Administration

Cabinet

Trump has proposed multiple candidates for several Cabinet positions, including hedge fund investor John Paulson or Scott Bessent for secretary of the Treasury.[19]

Two days after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, Susie Wiles, a co-chair of his presidential campaign, was selected as his new White House Chief of Staff. She will serve as the 32nd White House chief of staff and the first woman ever to hold the position. [20][21][22]

Vice presidency

In July 2024, Trump selected Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate at that year's Republican National Convention. Vance was supported by Donald Trump Jr., Elon Musk, and Tucker Carlson and bolstered by a series of media events, including a contentious primary debate with Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons, an affirmation of his support for Trump in The Wall Street Journal as Ron DeSantis advanced in conservative media, and a cooperative visit to East Palestine, Ohio, following a train derailment in February 2023.[23]

Other positions

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ran against Trump but withdrew his nomination, has privately discussed a senior health role in Trump's second presidency. Kennedy stated that Trump "asked me to clean up corruption and conflicts at the agencies and to end the chronic disease epidemic" in an interview with The Washington Post in October 2024.[24]

Trump has promised to establish a "government efficiency commission" led by Elon Musk.[25]

Domestic affairs

Economy

Trump has promised to impose higher tariffs on imports from all countries, particularly China.[26]

Immigration

Trump intends to expand and revive immigration policies he imposed during his first presidency, including his travel ban on Muslims, expel asylum seekers by asserting that they carry infectious diseases, deputize police officers and soldiers to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement in mass deportations, and establish sprawling detention camps, according to The New York Times.[27]

Prosecutions

In September 2024, Trump stated that "those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law". He threatened to prosecute Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg for donating US$400 million to election agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Save America (2024).[28]

Trump is expected to end the Department of Justice's prosecutions against him in Washington, D.C. and Florida. Special counsel Jack Smith is considering ending his prosecutions early and submitting a final report to attorney general Merrick Garland before Trump is inaugurated, according to The Washington Post.[29]

Pardons

Main article: List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump

Trump has said multiple times that if he were reelected in 2024, he would pardon rioters of the January 6 Capitol attack.[30][31][32] As of March 2024, 500 people had been sentenced to prison terms and 1,358 had been criminally charged.[33]

In May 2024, Trump said that he would commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence on his first day in office.[34][35] Ulbricht is serving a life sentence for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road, which operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services.[36]

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