Donald Trump faces a major problem after renaming the Gulf of Mexico

Donald Trump has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico in one of his first acts as the 47th President of the United States.

But that is only the start of things for the former reality television star when it comes to the massive body of water that sits between the USA, Mexico, and Cuba.

Speaking about his plans during his inauguration speech, those watching from the comfort of their own homes couldn’t help but notice his former political rival Hillary Clinton being left in stitches when he brought up the matter.

Now, Trump renaming it leaves him with a pretty large problem; one he is almost powerless to fix. That can’t go down well in MAGA land.

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The Gulf of Mexico renamed

For more than 400 years the Gulf of Mexico has been known as just that. Sitting south of Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi in the United States, Mexico loops around its west and south sides.

Cuba then sits in the mouth of the Gulf, with ships able to pass north and south of the island nation.

Now, the four century long history of the body of water has been trashed through one of President Trump’s executive orders, signed in the day after being sworn back in to office after four years away.

“President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American Civilization,” the executive order said.

“The area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an indelible part of America.”

The Gulf of Mexico (Getty Stock Images)

The Gulf of Mexico (Getty Stock Images)

Recognition of Trump’s change?

In the USA, the US Coast Guard and the state of Florida have already began referring to the body of water as the Gulf of America.

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, cited the new name a piece of legislation regarding weather in the area.

Officially, the United States Secretary of the Interior will be required to ‘take all appropriate action’ to rename the 617,800 square mile area within 30 days of President Trump’s order being signed off.

That means officially changing Mexico to America in all official government systems and bodies that are run by the state.

He does as he pleases (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

He does as he pleases (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s an international ‘no’

The UK, which has endured a frosty relationship with Trump under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, has reportedly confirmed it will not start calling the area the Gulf of America.

The Telegraph reports that the name will not change on official maps in Britain until the new term became the most commonly used name for the area in the English language.

A government source said the gulf’s name ‘cannot be universally changed by a single country’.

Pressure is now growing from leading Republicans for the likes of Google and Apple to change the name on its Maps apps.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, said on the matter: “For us, it is still the Gulf of Mexico, and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico.

It is not the only thing President Trump has renamed in his executive orders. Up in Alaska, he renamed the Delani mountain to Mount McKinley, in recognition of former President William McKinley.

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This had been its name prior to 2015 when then President Barack Obama renamed it Delani in recognition of what the indigenous Koyukon people of the area around the mountain call it.

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People can't get over Hillary Clinton's reaction to Donald Trump announcing he's renaming the Gulf Of Mexico

People can’t get over Hillary Clinton’s reaction to Donald Trump announcing he’s renaming the Gulf Of Mexico

Trump made plenty of promises in his speech today

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

People can’t get over Hillary Clinton’s reaction to one of Donald Trump’s announcements during his inaugural address.

The 47th US President was sworn into office today (20 January) as former presidents, cabinet nominees, tech giants and other guests watched on.

During Trump‘s initial speech in the hall of the Capitol Rotunda, he said the country’s ‘decline’ will now immediately end as he begins ‘the golden age of America’.

Hillary Clinton was in attendance with her husband Bill today (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton was in attendance with her husband Bill today (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

He went on to list the promises he had previously made that he now intends to make true, including sending troops to the US-Mexico border, boost domestic oil production and impose tariffs to ‘enrich our citizens’.

“Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced,” Trump continued. “Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free.”

And part of the promises he went over was the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

This quickly went viral but not necessarily because of what he said, but because viewers noticed Clinton laughing. Take a look:

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“Hillary Clinton p***ing her pants laughing when Trump said he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” it was pointed out on X.

“Ah, well, Hillary laughing her tits off when Donnie said he’s going to retitle the Gulf of Mexico, made it worth the watch,” one wrote.

As another put: “Hillary Clinton just had the best reaction to Trump’s statement changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.”

“Hillary Clinton laughing hysterically when Trump said he’s renaming the Gulf of Mexico… she is all of us. What a joke,” a third echoed.

Others were in stitches that the ‘stoic queen couldn’t keep it together’ as Trump listed his priorities.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as President (Ricky Carioti - Pool/Getty Images)

Donald Trump has been sworn in as President (Ricky Carioti – Pool/Getty Images)

“We are all Hillary Clinton right now. Donald Trump literally lives in a universe of his own, thinking he could change the name of the Gulf of Mexico with one stroke of a pen,” another slammed.

During his address, Trump slammed America’s past leadership as corrupt as he said: “We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad.”

But he has cast himself as uniquely positioned to fix it all, with him having said: “All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly.”

The 47th President of the United States has a lot of plans (SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The 47th President of the United States has a lot of plans (SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Everything Trump has pledged to do as 47th US President

Delaying the TikTok ban

After TikTok went dark on January 19 in the US, 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!”

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

Immigration

In a statement during a rally at Madison Square Garden during his presidential race, 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.”

Planning over 100 executive orders

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.

Making hidden government files public

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.”

‘Make Greenland Great Again Act’

In a bid that has not gone down well with Greenlanders, taking to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump 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. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”

January 6 pardons

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

In an interview with TIME, Trump said that looking into the cases of the rioters’ will take place in ‘the first nine minutes’ of his time in office.

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.”

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 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’.

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’.

“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’.

Making the US the ‘crypto capital’

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.

Be a ‘dictator’

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last year, he referred to himself as a ‘dictator’ when asked 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. After that, I’m not a dictator.”

End Green Deals

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.

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.”

Arrange green cards for college graduates

Despite making his stance on migration 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.”

Scrap ‘electric vehicle mandates’

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’.

Fire the man who indicted him

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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Every major policy Donald Trump has already signed since becoming president again

Every major policy Donald Trump has already signed since becoming president again

Donald Trump got to work right away after being sworn in as POTUS once more

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. And within hours of becoming POTUS once again, he has introduced a range of major changes to the USA, domestically and internationally.

Trump was inaugurated as President on Monday (20 January) as the US said goodbye to its outgoing leader, Joe Biden, who has now retired from frontline politics.

Sitting next to wife Melania Trump and son Barron Trump, other people present included Elon Musk as well as Hillary Clinton, who Trump beat to be president back in 2016.

After taking the presidential oath, he found himself back in the White House signing a number of documents known as executive orders. These are instantaneous laws relating to the rules of the US. Essentially written orders, they don’t require Congress to approve them.

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‘National emergency’ at Mexico border, birthrights, and refugees

Trump declared the situation at the US – Mexico border is now a ‘national emergency’. As a result, it has paved the way for sending American armed forces to the border to police it.

The order also declared Mexican drug cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organisations’.

Alongside this, Trump said that a new order will limit automatic citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants that are born in the US, with the executive order calling American citizenship ‘a priceless and profound gift’.

It states that US citizenship doesn’t pass onto a person if their ‘mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth’, or ‘when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary’.

This act is in direct opposition to the US Constitution, with civil rights groups saying it will end up in court due to this.

Another executive order has suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program ‘until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States’.

Donald Trump and wife Melania at the inauguration (Saul Loeb-Pool / Getty Images)

Donald Trump and wife Melania at the inauguration (Saul Loeb-Pool / Getty Images)

It reads: “The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security may jointly determine to admit aliens to the United States as refugees on a case-by-case basis, in their discretion, but only so long as they determine that the entry of such aliens as refugees is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.”

Pardoning 1,500 US Capitol rioters

Trump has moved to pardon a staggering 1,500 people convicted, or facing conviction, for their roles in the US Capitol riots back in January 2021.

This was a protest on Congress that turned in to a riot, with the Capitol Building stormed by those taking part.

Some were convicted in court for their role in the violence. That included Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys organisation, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

According to The Guardian, this means justice department investigations into the incident will cease.

The Capitol Building riot in January 2021 (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

The Capitol Building riot in January 2021 (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Creating a policy that recognises only ‘two genders’

Trump has ruled that there are now only two genders in the US – male and female.

He said the move was to ‘defend women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth’.

The order also stresses that a person’s gender is not ‘changeable’ in what is a huge blow to trans rights in the States.

Issues regarding gender ideology will get no more federal funding, and gender identity will no longer be requested in official communications and forms from government agencies.

Instead, it will just ask if a person is male or female.

TikTok has been banned and now un-banned in the US (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

TikTok has been banned and now un-banned in the US (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

TikTok ban is stopped in its tracks

Days before Trump was sworn in as the 47th president, TikTok was banned in the US following a decision made by the Supreme Court.

But he’s temporarily reversed it, with the app restored in the country after briefly going offline.

The White House website states: “To fulfil those responsibilities, I intend to consult with my advisors, including the heads of relevant departments and agencies on the national security concerns posed by TikTok, and to pursue a resolution that protects national security while saving a platform used by 170 million Americans.

“My Administration must also review sensitive intelligence related to those concerns and evaluate the sufficiency of mitigation measures TikTok has taken to date.”

Trump’s administration will now spend the next ’75 days’ looking at how the app can continue in the US – if indeed, it can.

Trump got to work right away (Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump got to work right away (Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The death penalty ‘restored’

One executive order is titled ‘restoring the death penalty’ in an extreme change to law and order.

“Capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of lethal violence against American citizens,” the order says.

Trump’s executive order on the death penalty says his administration ‘will not tolerate efforts to stymie and eviscerate the laws that authorise capital punishment against those who commit horrible acts of violence against American citizens’.

As a result, Trump has said that ‘the Attorney General shall pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use’.

Back in power (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Back in power (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Goodbye World Health Organization (WHO) and Paris climate agreement

Trump has taken the US out of the World Health Organization (WHO) over issues relating to payment. He’s also criticised its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The executive order says: “The WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments.

“China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO.”

On the issue of global relations, Trump has also stopped the US’ commitment to the Paris climate agreement again, claiming the States is involved in ‘international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect the country’s values or its contributions to the pursuit of economic and environmental objectives’.

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Trump and Musk (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE Agenda’

Trump has officially created the Department of Government Efficiency; known online as the ‘DOGE Agenda’.

Led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, the department will reportedly ‘modernise Federal technology and software to maximise governmental efficiency and productivity’, according to the order.

The department has also had one lawsuit filed against it by public interest law firm called National Security Counselors, saying it violates transparency rules relating to federal government, CBS reports.

Trump is POTUS again (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Trump is POTUS again (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

‘Punishing’ election interference

One executive order has accused ’51 former intelligence officials’ of working with the Joe Biden election campaign to ‘issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had abandoned his laptop at a computer repair business’.

The order revokes ‘any current or active clearances’ of these people.

Anyone who holds ‘government-issued security clearances should not use their clearance status to influence US elections’, it says.

Alaska’s potential

Trump is focusing on unlocking Alaska’s ‘extraordinary resource potential’.

“The State of Alaska holds an abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. Unlocking this bounty of natural wealth will raise the prosperity of our citizens while helping to enhance our Nation’s economic and national security for generations to come,” his executive order says.

Trump says it will create jobs for US citizens and help the country ‘guard against foreign powers weaponising energy supplies in theatres of geopolitical conflict’.

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Donald Trump has already made an extreme law change less than 24 hours after becoming president

Donald Trump has already made an extreme law change less than 24 hours after becoming president

President Donald Trump has been quick with his executive orders since his inauguration yesterday (20 January)

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Donald Trump is already making some sweeping changes in his second term as President of the United States.

The inauguration yesterday (20 January) saw the 78-year-old become America’s 47th president after his first term ended in 2021.

The event saw Trump’s wife Melania wear an eye-catching hat (which has resulted in conspiracy theories), and Elon Musk forced to defend claims he gave a ‘Nazi’ salute.

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Since being sworn in, Trump has wasted no time in signing a few executive orders – including one on the death penalty.

Since 2021, a moratorium on federal executions has been in place, after just three defendants remain on federal death row when former Democratic President Joe Biden converted 37 of their sentences to life in prison.

In the executive order, which aren’t required to be approved by Congress, Trump has blamed the former president for ‘commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 most vile and sadistic rapists, child molesters, and murderers on Federal death row: remorseless criminals who brutalised young children, strangled and drowned their victims, and hunted strangers for sport’.

Donald Trump has become America’s 47th president (Sky News)

Donald Trump has become America’s 47th president (Sky News)

It also claimed that ‘judges who oppose capital punishment have likewise disregarded the law by falsely claiming that capital punishment is unconstitutional, even though the Constitution explicitly acknowledges the legality of capital punishment’.

The order issued by Trump states that ‘capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of lethal violence against American citizens’.

When the Trump administration was first in power from 2017 to 2021, it carried out 13 federal executions during – more than under any president in modern history, Associated Press reports.

“Before, during, and after the founding of the United States, our cities, States, and country have continuously relied upon capital punishment as the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes,” the order read.

“Our Founders knew well that only capital punishment can bring justice and restore order in response to such evil. For this and other reasons, capital punishment continues to enjoy broad popular support.

“Yet for too long, politicians and judges who oppose capital punishment have defied and subverted the laws of our country.

“At every turn, they seek to thwart the execution of lawfully imposed capital sentences and choose to enforce their personal beliefs rather than the law.”

Trump is making some big changes in his second term (Sky News)

Trump is making some big changes in his second term (Sky News)

It added: “The Government’s most solemn responsibility is to protect its citizens from abhorrent acts.

“And my Administration will not tolerate efforts to stymie and eviscerate the laws that authorise capital punishment against those who commit horrible acts of violence against American citizens.”

The order also says the Attorney General ‘shall take all necessary and lawful action to ensure that each state that allows capital punishment has a sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection’.

All the executive orders Donald Trump has signed so far

Policy recognising only ‘two genders’

The president signed an order which will make it an official policy that there are only ‘two genders’.

The policy reads: “Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.

“These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”

The order will also bring to an end ‘wasteful’ government programmes which promote diversity and inclusivity, as well as ‘defending women from gender ideology extremism’.

Free speech

The president accused the previous administration of ‘trampling free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech’ and vowed to restore freedom of speech.

The order states it will ‘ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen’ and will ‘end censorship of protected speech’.

Leaving the World Health Organisation

The president accused the organisation of fumbling the COVID-19 pandemic and said the US would no longer be ‘ripped off’ by it.

While signing a document to have the US leave the health agency, Trump said: “World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore.”

TikTok ban

As expected, Trump signed an executive order which hits pause on the US’ ban of the popular app, allowing time for an ‘appropriate course forward’.

“I guess I have a warm spot for TikTok that I didn’t have originally,” he said.

Trump has signed a few executive orders since his inauguration on Monday (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump has signed a few executive orders since his inauguration on Monday (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

January 6 pardons

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

And as anticipated, the president has wasted no time in issuing pardons for offenders. Trump said he’s pardoned around 1,500 people and issued six commutations.

Immigration

Trump has issued a slew of immigration-related policies during his first day back in the White House as he declared illegal immigration at the US-Mexico border a national emergency.

Trump has already gotten started on reversing several Biden-era immigration orders and has plans to send US troops to help immigration agents and restrict refugees.

The president has also got the wheels in motion to prevent children of immigrants in the US illegally from having citizenship.

Speaking at his inauguration, he said: “All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”

Restoring the death penalty

Calling capital punishment an ‘essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes’, Trump signed an order which will ensure states have enough lethal injection drugs for executions.

“The Attorney General shall pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use,” the order says.

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico

Following through on his promise during a press conference earlier this month, Trump has now ordered the Gulf of Mexico to be called the Gulf of America.

“President Trump is bringing common sense to government and renewing the pillars of American Civilization,” the executive order said.

Despite the order, it won’t change how it is named globally.

Energy policy

Trump has vowed to ‘unleash American energy’, promising to export US energy globally as he signed the order amid what he describes as a ‘national energy emergency’.

“America is blessed with an abundance of energy and natural resources that have historically powered our Nation’s economic prosperity. In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens,” the order states.

The order will also reverse Biden’s ban on drilling in Alaska as Trump declared America ‘will be a rich nation again’.

Cost of living

In the order, Trump vowed to issue ’emergency price relief’ to Americans aimed at lowering housing prices and availability and creating ’employment opportunities for American workers’.

Trump will also ‘eliminate harmful, coercive “climate” policies that increase the costs of food and fuel’.

Drug cartels

Trump has said drug cartels will now be classified as terrorist organisations.

“International cartels constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organised crime,” the orders says.

Federal workers

Federal employees have now been classified as political hires – a move which in theory would make them easier to fire.

Trump also declared a federal hiring freeze which will reduce the size of federal government.

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All changes Donald Trump has made to White House office after being re-elected as president

All changes Donald Trump has made to White House office after being re-elected as president

Donald Trump is settling into his second term as US President in a predictable fashion

Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper

Donald Trump returned to the White House earlier this week and has already started remodelling the Oval Office to meet his needs.

Have you ever sat and wondered what the average workday of a US President actually looks like?

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Yeah there’s press conferences, photo ops and meetings with other world leaders – but what else do they do in order to fill the workday?

We may never know the specifics of what goes on in the Oval Office but it’s reasonable to assume they spends a lot of time in there – which is why each president adds personal touches to the iconic space.

So what changes has President Trump made – and does he really have a Diet Coke button?

Here is everything we know about how Donald Trump has changed the oval office:

Family photos, different portraits and military flags can be seen in Donald Trump's Oval Office (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Family photos, different portraits and military flags can be seen in Donald Trump’s Oval Office (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Swapping out Biden era portraits

While Joe Biden was in office, he hung portraits of several key figures in US history, such as placing an image of founding father Benjamin Franklin near his desk and hanging one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt near the mantle.

According to an update shared by the Associated Press, Trump has since swapped the portrait of Franklin out for one of Andrew Jackson – the seventh US President who has a controversial legacy.

Trump has also swapped the Roosevelt image out for one of George Washington.

It’s also been reported that Trump has returned a bust of former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which appeared in the Oval Office during his first presidency.

Military flags

Another addition includes returning the five military service flags – with one to represent each branch to surround the desk.

Changes to the Oval Office, including the lighter rug, can be seen in photos (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Changes to the Oval Office, including the lighter rug, can be seen in photos (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A lighter Oval Office rug

Biden had used a dark blue Oval Office rug during his tenure with Trump swapping this one out for the lighter, neutral one seen during his first tenure in the White House.

Personal photographs

Presidents will also bring various photographs of family members and loved ones into the officer to give it a personal touch. Photos of Trump’s Scottish mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump can be seen in the background of the Oval Office, alongside images which show his children.

The infamous ‘Diet Coke button’

During Trump’s first tenure, there was much fanfare about a rumoured Diet Coke button which the President had installed in the Oval Office.

Rumours stated that Trump was able to press this button and an aide would appear with a can of Diet Coke – the former businessman’s favourite drink – in order to quench his thirst.

The Presidential Call button aka Diet Coke button is on the left side of the desk (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Presidential Call button aka Diet Coke button is on the left side of the desk (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

But it would appear the fabled Diet Coke button was slightly exaggerated as it made its way around the internet.

A Presidential Call button has long existed on the has long existed on the famous Resolute desk, which allows aides to be called into the Oval Office when needed.

However, this feature was primarily used as a signal from Trump that he had a hankering for the fizzy stuff while at work – and the rest is history.

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