Donald Trump has won another term in the White House as America’s 47th President.

It will be the 78-year-old’s second term as a Republican – after first serving in 2017 – and he has promised ‘a brand new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity and pride’.

Due to the weather, Trump’s swearing-in today (20 January) has been moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda, which is the first time this has happened in 40 years.

The inauguration day is set to start at 5pm UK time, with the inaugural procession and parade beginning around 8pm UK time.

Trump has made various promises of what he plans to achieve during his second time in office, and here’s what he’s pledged to do so far.

What is Trump promising to change?

TikTok

Trump has said that he wants to ‘make a deal to protect our national security’ after a ban on TikTok was delayed on Sunday.

The businessman claimed he would sign an executive order on Inauguration Day.

Taking toTruth Social, a social media platform he owns, he said (via the BBC): “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!

“I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.”

Donald Trump is set to be sworn is as America’s 47th President today (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Immigration

After he takes power, Trump claims he ‘will launch the largest deportation program in American history’, promising to close the border to undocumented immigrants.

His controversial ‘Muslim travel ban’ is also back, banning people from several countries in the world which have a majority of Muslim people living there.

“We will seal our border and bring back the travel ban,” Trump previously said.

“Remember the famous travel ban? We didn’t take people from certain areas of the world. We’re not taking them from infested countries.”

The release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination files

“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump said at the Capital One Arena (via LBC).

“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.”

Buying Greenland

Again on Truth Social, he has promised to buy Greenland, located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean.

“Greenland is an incredible place,” he said, with it being an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

“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!”

Trump tried to negotiate a deal in his last term, but the Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen called the whole thing ‘absurd’.

Trump will take charge for his second term (Thomas Hengge/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Women’s rights

Trump appointed the US Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the historic Roe v Wade judgement that resulted in 20 states bringing in strict abortion laws.

Having called these laws as a ‘beautiful thing to watch’, Trump has said he will not push for a direct federal abortion ban.

During the campaign, he said he will give all women free IVF treatment for those who are struggling to become parents.

Education

Last year, Trump said he wants to stop schools from receiving any funding that will go towards ‘critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content’.

He also said he will put an end to school rulings on vaccine or mask mandates.

Taxing on tips

Previously, Trump claimed that the ‘first thing in office’ he is will do is ending income tax on tipped income.

Trump on taxes, the economy, and environment

Trump says he will ‘end inflation’ without revealing how this could be achieved. He has hinted at opening up the US’s oil industry in a move he says could ‘make American affordable again’.

He also is set to halt offshore wind power farms, claiming they ‘kill whales and birds’.

Trump has previously described climate change as an ‘expensive hoax’ while committing to clean air and water for US citizens.

He said he will lower interest rates, despite the POTUS not setting them or controlling them. He says he will up taxes on imports while cutting taxes worth trillions of dollars, all while deporting undocumented immigrants.

TikTok’s ban in the US could be getting reversed pretty soon.

The app went dark in the states today (19 January), with a message currently greeting users: “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now. A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”

This came into place following a law President Joe Biden signed last April, giving the app a deadline to separate its US business from parent firm ByteDance, as the government saw the China-based company’s control as a national security threat.

After an appeal was rejected at the US Supreme Court earlier this week, the TikTok ban went ahead. But, with a new President set to come into force, things could quickly change.

TikTok is currently banned in the US. (Anna Barclay/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s inauguration takes place tomorrow (20 January), and while he once favoured the ban, it seems the incoming president might reverse it immediately – with one new request.

The President-elect says he has plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the platform is subject to a permanent ban in the US.

He announced this on a post on his Truth Social account as Americans awoke to find they could no longer access the app.

Trump says his order would ‘extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect’ and ‘confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order’.

He wrote: “Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations.”

The law enables the sitting president to grant a 90-day extension if there is a viable sale under way. However, while some investors did make offers, ByteDance previously said it wouldn’t sell.

Trump’s inauguration is tomorrow. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump wrote in his post that he ‘would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture’. But it wasn’t quite clear from this if he meant the US government or an American company.

“By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to stay up,” he wrote.

“Without US approval, there is no TikTok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars – maybe trillions.”

While Brits had worried the same ban would come into place here, the UK government said: “This is a matter for the US government. There are no plans to introduce a TikTok ban in the UK.

“We engage with all major social media companies to understand their plans for ensuring the security of UK data and to ensure they meet the high data protection and cyber security standards we expect.”

A seemingly made-up global warming theory – platformed by a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience – previously went viral on TikTok.

Nonprofit watchdog Media Matters for America shared a report in 2023, issuing caution against various videos promoting the ‘Adam and Eve’ theory.

The groundless ‘end of the world’ theory was first mentioned in The Adam and Eve Story, a book written in 1965 by Chan Thomas, an electrical engineer/psychic. The book has recently been declassified in full by the CIA.

The Joe Rogan episode in question was from 2023 (YouTube/PowerfulJRE)

YouTuber Jimmy Corsetti – who featured on the 18 January, 2023, edition of Joe Rogan’s podcast – explained: “It happens in cycles of 6,500 years and that it’s a 90-degree flip, but six days later, around the seventh day, it corrects itself.”

The investigator said it would be ‘a planet flip, 90 degrees, and that because of it the Earth essentially does a standstill, the sun will be direct – will basically stay in the same spot, causing heating like we’ve never experienced – and that the wind and the waters continue with their momentum, because essentially the wind travels at approximately 1,000 miles an hour [1,609 kilometers an hour] at the equator, so the theory is that when that event happens it’s going to be cataclysmic’.

The theory simply isn’t true (Getty Stock Images)

However, Media Matters says these claims, which have gained millions of views across social media platforms, are false with there being a complete lack of evidence.

“That is total bogus. If that’s what happened every 6,500 years, we would certainly see it; it would be in all the records,” senior research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, Martin Mlynczak, told The Verge.

“The amount of energy to bring that about is tremendous. And you know, there’s nothing to initiate it.

“1,000-mile-an-hour winds are past supersonic. Just right there, I mean, the person has no idea what they’re talking about.”

The outlet notes that the strongest hurricane winds can only reach around 160 miles per hour.

NASA has also said that ‘there’s no evidence that Earth’s climate has been significantly impacted by the last three magnetic field excursions, nor by any excursion event within at least the last 2.8 million years’.

“While it was not written to provide an alternative explanation for climate change, The Adam and Eve Story provides a framework for interpreting its effects outside of an anthropogenic explanation,” Media Matters added.

“This narrative, which shifts blame away from our fossil fuel economy onto planetary forces beyond human control, can serve as climate misinformation

“In the past, the Earth’s orbit, the Sun, and cosmic rays have all similarly been used to provide alternative explanations for climate change.

“There is overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels.

“The only way to avert increasing social, political, and ecological effects of climate change is by transitioning away from a fossil fuel economy.”

Meanwhile, people in the comments always had their doubts, as one person said: “This man put two and two together and got 4,376,241.”

“Happens every 6,500 years but we’re 200,000 years overdue,” another penned.

The Joe Rogan Experience is one of the biggest podcasts in the world but there’s one famous face that won’t be appearing on it any time soon.

The mega-popular show brings in million of listens every episode with its 56-year-old host signing a lucrative deal with Spotify back in 2020 worth a reported $100 million (£78.5 million).

A whole host of celebs have appeared on the podcast over the years, including Elon Musk, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Snoop Dogg.

But Rogan reportedly keeps turning down a particular person who’s keen to make an appearance.

Joe Rogan has revealed the one podcast guest he keeps turning down. (YouTube/The Joe Rogan Experience)

It has previously been reported that former US President Donald Trump is a listener of The Joe Rogan Experience with his team regularly reaching out to Rogan.

But, while a good portion of the podcast’s fans are Trump supporters, the host and UFC commentator has distanced himself from the Republican, calling him a ‘man-baby’.

In a 2023 interview with Lex Fridman, Rogan said: “I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form.

“I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”

But, it seems Trump’s camp haven’t given up on an appearance just yet.

“The mere discussion of Donald Trump on a blockbuster podcast like Joe Rogan builds a remarkable audience,” a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast.

“Perhaps the only person bigger in the new media world than Joe Rogan is Donald Trump and the whole idea that the two of them would be together at long last – it would be an incredible audience.”

Rogan has revealed that he doesn’t want to give the former President a platform. (Netflix)

But, while Trump is a fan, people aren’t impressed with Rogan’s new stand-up special on Netflix, with some even claiming he ripped off a joke from British comedian Lee Evans.

Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats was released on 3 August and overall, it seems viewers just didn’t find it funny.

One wrote on: “I listen to Joe everyday. I watched this whole special with a complete straight face.”

A second person added: “And the crowd goes mild.”

And a third seemingly accused Rogan of recycling a joke, stating: “Lee Evans did the that fish bit in the 90s.”

This refers to Evans’ ‘Gone Fishing’ bit, which sees the comedian recount his confusion that fish are able to be repeatedly get caught and then thrown back into the water over and over again.

While the two routines aren’t identical word for word, the jokes both use the idea of the fish being ‘abducted by aliens’ as the punchline, making Rogan’s bit feel a little bit too familiar.