Donald Trump delivered a second speech and made a comment about wife Melania’s feet which he admitted he was probably ‘going to get hell’ for.

Yesterday (January 20), Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, delivering his inaugural speech in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC.

Shortly after his inauguration, the 78-year-old delivered a second speech during which he not only thanked his wife, Melania, but also gave a very public shout out to her feet, no less.

Delivering remarks in the emancipation hall shortly after giving his inaugural speech, Trump thanked the crowds but took a moment to praise ‘a First Lady who has been incredible’.

He said: “I shouldn’t say this, I’m going to get hell when I say this, but her feet hurt. Absolutely aching. You know, those heels.

“And we thought we were leaving, we were going home. ‘Sir would you be able to go down and say hello to some of your other fans?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that’.”

Trump went on to say Melania told him she ‘loves [him] so much’ but her feet were ‘hurting,’ the president then checking how far they’d have to walk.

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“Maybe 400 or 500 yards – that’s five football fields,” he continued. “I said, ‘Can you make it?’ She said, ‘We’re going to make it no matter what. We’re going to make it because we have to’.”

Trump explained the pair then went to the helicopter and said bye, with Melania’s fashion troubles not ending there either with her hat nearly ‘blowing away’ too.

And it’s not taken long for viewers to flock to social media to weigh in.

One Twitter user said: “TRUMP IS TALKING ABOUT MELANIA’S FEET. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”

“When he said ‘I’m gonna get hell for saying this, but her feet are absolutely…’ with that pause, I genuinely thought he was about to go down that road,” another added.

A third commented: “Oh bring her some crocs! I get sore feet too!”

And it’s not the only rogue moment you may’ve missed if you tuned into Trump’s inauguration day – there were eight ‘uncomfortable’ interactions during the event.

A failed kiss, billionaires on the front row and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden too – oh and Hillary Clinton certainly didn’t hold back either.

Caitlyn Jenner has been slammed for supporting Donald Trump as the president is set to sign off a new raft of orders impacting the LGBTQ+ community.

President Trump was inaugurated for the second time in Washington, D.C. on Monday (January 20), joined by wife and first lady Melania, as well as some of the biggest names in technology including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok CEO Shou Zi.

Jenner is a long-time Republican supporter, having attended fundraising events for Trump’s 2024 election campaign and even his election night party.

The former Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete announced in 2015 that she was a trans woman.

Caitlyn Jenner and Donald Trump pictured in New York in 2022 (Photo by Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via Getty Images)

Among the hundreds of executive orders he’s ushering in, Trump is clamping down on the rights of transgender people as he winds back many of Joe Biden’s previous policies which promoted diversity and equality.

Trump’s orders affecting LGBTQ+ people

In his inaugural address, Trump declared he will ‘end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life’.

“We will forge a society that is color blind and merit-based. … As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” he said.

So, the US government will use the term ‘sex’ rather than ‘gender,’ while ordering that identification documents issued by the government, including passports and visas, be based on what it described as ‘an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female’.

Trump has revoked at least a dozen of Biden’s policies to promote diversity and equality (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump said the use of male and female would be ‘unchangeable.’

He then repealed 78 executive orders signed by Biden, including measures ‘supporting racial equity and combating discrimination against gay and transgender people.’ Another combatted discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

Trump’s administration is also looking to limit the scope of the 2020 US Supreme Court ruling, Bostock v Clayton County, which – in a major victory for transgender rights – the high court found civil rights protections against discrimination ‘on the basis of sex’ applied to sexuality and gender identity.

And during Sunday’s pre-inauguration rally, Trump vowed to ‘keep all men out of women’s sports.’

Backlash to Jenner’s comments

Despite all this, Jenner took to X to celebrate Trump’s inauguration by writing: “Congratulations Mr. President. Thanks be to God!” with three US flag emoijs.

The post has since been viewed 30 million times, and many people were critical.

Caitlyn’s tweet sparked major backlash (X/Caitlyn Jenner)

One person wrote: “Yet he wants to take away your rights to be a trans woman,” as a second added: “He literally just ordered for you to not exist…”

“Boy oh boy, wait till you hear about the bill he just signed,” a third commented.

A fourth chipped in: “How can you be a transgender and still support someone that thinks the only two genders are male and female and basically wants to erase all the struggle you’ve been through.”

UNILAD has contacted Caitlyn Jenner’s representatives for a comment.

As Donald Trump prepares to be inaugurated to the White House a second time, we take a look at all changes he’s vowed to usher in.

The Republican Party leader is set to officially become the 47th US President, as he’s sworn into office in Washington DC later from 11.30am Eastern Time today (20 January).

From cryptocurrency to education and everything in between, here’s everything Donald Trump has promised to do as he returns to office…

Be a ‘dictator’

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Trump admitted that one of his plans for his first day back in the Oval Office would be to be a ‘dictator’ when discussing the possibility of his win in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last year.

He referred to himself as a ‘dictator’ during the interview, when asked by Hannity if he was promising to ‘never abuse power as retribution against anybody’.

In response, Trump said: “Except for Day 1.

“I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling,” he continued.

“After that, I’m not a dictator.”

Delay the TikTok ban

The TikTok ban has been delayed (TikTok/ Twitter/ @amyewong)

TikTok went dark yesterday (January 19), but it was bought back after mere hours with a message reading: “Welcome back! Thank you for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the US!

“You can continue to create, share and discover all the things you love on TikTok.”

Trump will reportedly sign an executive order to delay the ban saying he wants to ‘make a deal to protect our national security.’

Scrap ‘electric vehicle mandates’

Trump has vowed to scrap EV mandates (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Trump plans to scrap Biden administration’s so-called electric vehicle mandate, referring to new pollution standards that incentivize auto manufacturers to increase production of electric and lower-emission vehicles.

Despite vowing to get rid of the policy on his first day, Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan the move could take ‘maybe two days, because it’s a little bit busy’.

Make US ‘crypto capital’

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Back in 2021, Trump called crypto a ‘scam against the dollar.’ But four years on, he’s pulled a u-turn as he vowed to make the US the ‘crypto capital of the planet’.

On social media, Trump claimed crypto would be ‘mined, minted and made in the US’.

Both he and wife Melania released their own memecoins ahead of the inauguration, while experts previously predicted Bitcoin could reach up to $250,000 this year.

Trump also said he would ‘fire’ Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler ‘on day one’ – referencing the Joe Biden-appointed SEC chairman who has taken an aggressive approach to crypto regulation.

Free some of the January 6 rioters

Trump supporters clashed with police and security forces as they stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

It was Trump’s loss in the 2020 election that led to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, resulting in the arrests of a number of Trump supporters.

However, the president-elect told reporters on voting day this year that his supporters are ‘not violent people’, and that there would be ‘no violence’ surrounding the most recent election.

This belief echoes Trump’s previous claim that some of the people sentenced for their role in the insurrection were ‘wrongfully imprisoned’, and explains why he has shared plans to free them of their sentences as one of his first acts when he returns as president.

In a post shared on his social media channel, Trump said: “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

End Green Deals

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Trump has spoken previously about his plan to ‘terminate the Green New Deal’, which he dubbed the ‘Green New Scam’.

The Green New Deal was pitched by Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, but it was never signed into law. However, Trump has used the term to refer more generally to Joe Biden’s climate and energy policies.

Addressing the policies in a speech in September, Trump said: “To further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam. Greatest scam in history, probably.

“We [will] rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.

“I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on Day 1.”

Fire the man who indicted him

Trump faced two federal cases due to the insurrection (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Trump faced two federal cases in relation to the 2020 election result from special counsel Jack Smith, and the future POTUS has no plans to work with him again.

Speaking on October 24, Trump told the Hugh Hewitt show he would fire Smith ‘within two seconds’.

“He’ll be one of the first things addressed,” he said.

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It’s been reported by AP that Trump plans on preparing over 100 executive orders on his first day in the White House.

Trump’s allies have reportedly spent time preparing documents that Trump can sign quickly, on issues such as deportation, school gender policies, and vaccine mandates, without input from congress.

“There will be a substantial number,” said Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Make hidden government files public

Trump has promised to increase government transparency, including information about MLK’s assassination (Alpha Historica / Alamy Stock Photo)

Including the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., Trump promised at his recent rally in Washington D.C that, in a bid to increase government transparency, he will be making these disclosures in ‘the coming days’.

“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” he said.

Mass deportations

Trump, his wife Melania and their son Barron (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Making it clear this will be a priority from day one, Trump wants to start his second presidential reign by using the military to deport masses of undocumented immigrants.

In November 2024, Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton put these claims to social media, to which Trump simply replied: “TRUE!”

In a lengthier statement during a rally at Madison Square Garden, he said: “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.

“I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”

It’s thought the move will impact an estimated 11 million people.

Getting rid of birthright citizenship

Exactly as it sounds, Trump once declared he wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship, which immediately gives citizenship to anyone born in the US.

Noting that this may not be possible as it’s written into the constitution, he said he wants to achieve this by executive order – bypassing congress again – ‘if we can’.

Arrange green cards for college graduates

Despite making his stance on immigration clear, Trump has advocated for non-US citizens to receive green cards to stay in the country if they graduate from college.

During an episode of the ‘All In’ podcast recorded this year, Trump said: “Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate, or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country […]

“Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make a deal with the company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on Day 1.”

The ‘Make Greenland Great Again Act’

Trump has his sights set on Greenland (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

In a bid that has not gone down well with Greenlanders – shocking – Trump has said he wants to buy Greenland, with Republican lawmakers having drawn up a bill which will allow Trump to start negotiations when he enters the White House January 20.

Taking to his social media platform Truth Social, he said: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.

“Greenland is an incredible place. The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World.

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Cut federal funding for schools educating on ‘inappropriate’ topics

Speaking early last year, Trump addressed a crowd in Iowa and made plans to ‘save [the] country from destruction’.

As part of this, the president-elect shared his plans to crack down on schools which include certain lessons about race, gender or politics.

“On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity,” he said, per NPR.

Trump also said he would target schools pushing ‘any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children’.

Donald Trump is planning to prepare more than 100 executive orders as he becomes president for a second time.

After winning November’s US election against Kamala Harris, Trump officially takes office today (January 20), for the first time since 2021.

Now, Trump has vowed to make a lot of bold changes to the country once he’s inaugurated – from making the US the ‘crypto capital of the planet’ to freeing some of the January 6 rioters.

It’s been reported by AP that Trump plans on preparing over 100 executive orders on his first day in the White House.

Trump’s allies have reportedly spent time preparing documents that he can sign quickly, on issues including deportation, school gender policies, and vaccine mandates, without input from Congress.

“There will be a substantial number,” said Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D.

What are executive orders?

Donald Trump signing a Covid-19 vaccine executive order in 2020 (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

An executive order is a ‘rule’ issued by the president to an executive branch of the government which has ‘the force of law’.

They do not require congressional approval but are subject to legal and judicial review.

Executive orders remain in place until they either expire, are canceled or are revoked – usually by subsequent presidents.

What is Trump expected to make law with his executive orders?

At his Washington rally on Sunday (January 19), Trump promised ‘by the time the sun sets’ tonight he will have signed dozens of new executive orders.

“Expect shock and awe,” Texas Senator Ted Cruz said.

These will concern tightening immigration, changes to subjects taught in schools and the ‘unwinding’ of diversity, equity and inclusion programs for the federal workforce, as well as laying the groundwork to reduce staff.

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Trump is also set to pardon some January 6 rioters as well as further roll back Biden administration policies, including his so-called electric vehicle mandate and his green energy policies.

Birthright citizenship could be ended, but people who complete college in the US could now be eligible for a green card.

Elsewhere, transgender women could be prevented from competing in women’s sports and gender-affirming care practices could also be ended.

The US TikTok ban could also be temporarily revoked, while Trump considers an executive order to suspend the app’s ‘ban or sale law’ for 90 days.

Can you contest an executive order?

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Yes, executive orders can be contested.

Firstly, they need to work within the confines of the law and each one is meant to be reviewed by the Office of Legal Counsel for ‘form and legality’.

This doesn’t always happen, however.

Orders can be overturned in court if they’re deemed unconstitutional, or if a president is found to have ‘lacked authority’ to issue them.

Courts can be used to confirm an executive order, as well.

Back in 2017, when Trump attempted to impose a travel ban on arrivals from several majority-Muslim countries, the order was challenged in the judicial system. It was eventually deemed legal by the Supreme Court, but only after alternations were made.

Congress can also pass a law to override executive orders, however, a president still has a ‘veto’ over that law, according to the National Constitution Center.