The 47th president, America's first convicted felon to take office, pledged a flurry of executive orders, including taking back the Panama Canal, revoking the electric-vehicle mandate and sending troops to the U.

On Monday, he joined more than a dozen billionaires in the prime seats at Trump’s second inauguration, applauding a man who has pledged to deport millions of migrants, to use the levers of American justice to pursue political opponents and to launch sweeping tariffs.