Donald Trump updates: World on edge as US president takes office

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• World leaders expressed hope and fear after Donald Trump took office by signing a flurry of executive orders that one leader said would “change the entire world”.
• European leaders voiced alarm over the US president’s decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement and withdraw from the World Health Organization.
• Trump is expected to follow up his first day by signing even more measures, this time mostly focused on revitalising US infrastructure.
• Immigration authorities are gearing up to launch large-scale raids across the United States to crack down on undocumented immigration as part of Trump’s policy.
• Russia said overall US policy remains unchanged despite the change of leaders as President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed ties with China in a call with President Xi Jinping.
• Iran said it remains prepared for talks that could lead to the lifting sanctions in exchange for curbs on its rapidly advancing nuclear programme as its supreme leader sent a message of “self-reliance”.

Greenland’s prime minister says the Danish autonomous territory wants to stake out its own future and doesn’t want to become American.

The comments come following US President Donald Trump’s renewed remarks about taking control of the island.

“We are Greenlanders. We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be Danish either. Greenland’s future will be decided by Greenland,” Prime Minister Mute Egede told a news conference.

Egede noted Greenland faces a “difficult situation”.

European officials are taking a “wait and see” approach to relations with the Trump administration.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said an era of harsh global competition has been developing over the past quarter-century. She did not mention Trump by name but referred to the increasing use of sanctions, export controls and tariffs to safeguard national interests, which she said ended the previous era marked by freer trade.

“We will need to work together to avoid a global race to the bottom,” von der Leyen said. “Because it is in no one’s interest to break the bonds in the global economy. Rather we need to modernise the rules to sustain our ability to produce mutual gain for our citizens.”

A large number of immigration agents are expected to begin raids across the US later today to try to enforce the new president’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, reiterated his stance in an interview with Fox News that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is “going to start doing their job” from today.

Homan declined to say where exactly the raids are to take place, how many people are being targeted or how the administration plans to deal with “sanctuary cities”, which refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

But the operations are expected to take place “throughout the country”, he said. US media have pointed to Michigan as a main target of the raids.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.

Across the world, various leaders and politicians congratulated Trump, with some urging good relations while others expressing concern.

Read the full reactions from across the globe here.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum calls for “cool heads” to prevail in the face of Trump’s announcement of severe new restrictions on migration.

Sheinbaum said she will defend her nation’s “sovereignty and independence” but also pursue dialogue with Trump, a day after he began his new term with a flurry of orders.

“It’s important to always keep a cool head and refer to signed agreements beyond actual speeches,” Sheinbaum said at a news conference.

On Monday, Trump took office and announced he would send troops to the Mexican border to halt illegal immigration and again threatened to place tariffs on Mexican goods.

In a response to Trump’s initial moves to halt unlawful migration, Sheinbaum said her government will act in a “humanitarian” way, even as she also pledged to repatriate foreign migrants to their home nations.

Members of the Democratic Party have denounced President Trump’s move to extend pardons to violent January 6 rioters, many of whose crimes were captured on camera and broadcast on live TV.

The decision means more than 1,500 people – including people convicted of assaulting police officers – will no longer be charged with those crimes.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it “an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution”.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned: “Donald Trump is ushering in a Golden Age for people that break the law and attempt to overthrow the government.”

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the need for the Paris Climate Agreement is more important than ever as natural disasters continue to strike the planet with temperatures rising.

“The need for the Paris Agreement is pretty obvious,” WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis told a UN press briefing in Geneva, responding questions on Donald Trump’s decision to leave the deal.

“We reported two weeks ago that 2024 was the hottest year on record. We temporarily hit the 1.5-degree-Celsius [2.7-degree-Fahrenheit] level at one point, an estimated 1.15 degrees [2.07F] above the pre-industrial areas. The need for climate action, the need for the Paris Agreement, is more pressing than ever.”

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised a “golden age” for the United States, casting himself as a uniter. But for a speech that heralded a bright future, it often echoed the past.

Much of Trump’s rhetoric mirrored his words eight years ago, when he was first sworn in as president and spoke about a country with a failing economy and cities torn apart by crime.

Read the address in its entirety here.

What we know from White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt is we expect there will be even more actions from the US president and we will be hearing from him.

He is expected to give his first news briefing at 21:00 GMT in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. What we’re being told is he’ll be giving some sort of infrastructure announcement.

We’re not sure what exactly that will entail, but we’re told this is some sort of announcement that will be major in terms of outlining how to repair the broken infrastructure in the United States. The previous president, Joe Biden, already made historic investments in infrastructure. So it’s hard to know if this is an addition or some sort of modification.

We also know the first swearing-in of a cabinet member – which will be Marco Rubio for secretary of state after he was approved by lawmakers – is taking place. The US president and his Vice President JD Vance will head to the Washington National Cathedral where they will be attending a prayer breakfast.

President Donald Trump has revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to consumers, workers and national security.

Biden’s order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to US national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the American government before they’re released to the public.

The 2024 Republican Party platform pledged to repeal the order it said hinders AI innovation, and added “Republicans support AI development rooted in free speech and human flourishing.”

Generative AI – which can create text, photos and videos in response to open-ended prompts – has spurred excitement as well as fears it could make some jobs obsolete or have other negative consequences.

China says it is concerned about Trump’s announcement that he is again pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement, citing climate change as a common challenge faced by all humankind.

“No country can stand aloof from it, nor can any country do it alone,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a news briefing.

China has been consistent in addressing climate change, and will actively respond to the challenges and jointly promote global green and low-carbon transformation, Guo said.

Trump’s move places the US alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries in the world outside the 2015 pact.

The European Commission has expressed worry over Trump’s decision to pull the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), warning it could undermine the response to future pandemics.

“If we want to be resilient to global health threats, we need to have global cooperation,” commission spokeswoman Eva Hrncirova told reporters. “We trust that the US administration will consider all this ahead of the formal withdrawal.”

This isn’t the first time Trump has tried to sever ties with the WHO. In July 2020, several months after the UN agency declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, Trump’s first administration pulled out of the WHO and suspended funding.

Biden reversed Trump’s decision on his first day in office in January 2021 – only to have Trump essentially revive it on his first day back at the White House on Monday.

The World Health Organization and Germany say they hope Donald Trump decides against implementing an executive order to withdraw from the global health agency.

“We hope that United States will reconsider and we really hope that there will be constructive dialogue for the benefit of everyone, for Americans but also for people around the world,” WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva.

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said in a statement the decision would represent a “serious blow to the international fight against global health crises”.

“We will try to persuade Donald Trump to reconsider this decision. Many programmes to combat the consequences of famine, war and natural disasters are paid for with these funds.”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to “defend free trade as the basis of our prosperity” a day after US President Donald Trump promised tariffs and taxes on trade partners.

“Isolation comes at the expense of prosperity,” Scholz told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We will defend free trade as the basis of our prosperity, together with other partners.”

Earlier, Scholz congratulated Trump on becoming president saying in a statement the leaders could work to provide an impetus “for freedom, peace and security as well as for prosperity and economic development”.