Donald Trump’s week: ‘manifest destiny’, overseas expansion and planting the American flag on Mars
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Full coverage of Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration as the 47th US president.
Donald Trump’s stunning first week back in the White House shows he’s on a mission to leave a legacy
For the president’s popularity in the US to last, he will have to make sure all his talk of a golden age translates into more money in ordinary people’s pockets
‘Nasty tone’: Trump demands apology after bishop calls on him to ‘have mercy’ on migrants, LGBTQ+ people
Right Rev Mariann Budde made the appeal at Washington National Cathedral as Trump sat stone-faced in the front row
Donald Trump’s first day: A bishop’s plea for mercy; cancer vaccine promise; pardons for Capitol rioters
A bishop’s plea for mercy, a promise of AI cancer vaccines and a defence of pardons for Capitol rioters were among the extraordinary range of developments
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But what are the chances of a co-ordinated international approach now? Take a look at Trump’s inauguration images. The whole event could as easily have been rendered in the form of a gigantic crypto coin
Democratic-led states take legal action against Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Lawsuits challenging US president’s order filed by states and civil rights groups in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Ireland risks being caught in the middle of Trump’s tax war
The US president has pulled out of the OECD tax deal and made threats which will worry the new Irish government
Donald Trump threatens tax war over US multinationals
Ireland is home to the regional headquarters of many US multinationals and could be in the firing line of this move
Trump executive orders: What we know about the orders targeting immigration, climate, TikTok and more
From withdrawing the US from the World Health Organisation to renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Trump was quick to sign several orders on his first day back in office
In pictures: Melania and Ivanka Trump go for glamour at Donald Trump’s inauguration balls
Melania Trump was dressed in a white gown with dramatic black pattern, while Ivanka Trump went for Givenchy Haute Couture
‘Don of a new era’ and ‘Defiant Trump regains power’: How newspapers reported Donald Trump’s return
Trump’s inauguration as US president on Monday took the front page spot of several newspapers across the globe
‘You sound sexy’ – Caitríona Perry brushes off Kid Rock’s flirtation on live TV
Former RTÉ anchor was interviewing musician on BBC as part of Donald Trump inauguration coverage
Trump orders government employees back to the office
Allies say move is intended to help Trump replace long-serving workers with loyalists faithful to agenda
‘Mob wife at a funeral’: Melania Trump brings note of fashion menace to inauguration
New president’s wife chose to wear a dark, high-necked coat and a boater hat to celebrate her husband’s second inauguration
Trump inauguration as it happened: ‘We will be the envy of every nation,’ Donald Trump says as he becomes 47th US president
Trump completes extraordinary political comeback with Washington DC ceremony in the US Capitol
Donald Trump returns to strike sombre tone of vindication and providential intercession
Icy, strained inauguration day is rich with human drama - and the abiding American theme of defeat and redemption
Right-wing figures jockey to be UK’s Trump whisperer as Keir Starmer is left to watch from afar
Nigel Farage has the best claim to personify Britain’s “special relationship” with Trump’s US
Trump inauguration speech signals regime change rather than a transfer of power
Former Democrat and Republican presidents listen with thinly disguised astonishment to an agenda that would undo virtually everything they stood for
Trump inauguration in photos: pomp, sub-zero temperatures and all manner of tech bros
Donald Trump begins second term as US president promising a ‘golden age of America’
US multinationals in Ireland take a ‘longer view’ than White House cycles - Minister for Finance
EU needs to avoid ‘tit for tat’ tariff dispute with new US administration, Jack Chambers says
Trump inauguration: New US president promises a border crackdown
Trump quickly moves to undo Biden’s policies in US Capitol speech
Ukraine and Russia turn to Trumpology – and flattery – to handle erratic new US leader
Few clues as to how Trump will meet pledge to end Europe’s biggest war in 80 years
Donald Trump plans blitz of executive orders for first days in White House
President-elect tells a rally of supporters in Washington he will act with ‘historic speed and strength’
Why is Donald Trump glaring in his inauguration portrait?
The eerie image of a scowling president-elect does not scream celebration, more startling drama
Donald Trump set to be sworn in as 47th US president, completing remarkable comeback
Among the first tasks on incoming US president’s agenda are starting mass deportations and keeping TikTok from ‘going dark’
Donald Trump inauguration 2025: Full schedule of timings and key events
Pomp and tradition are set to unfold in sub-zero temperatures in Washington DC as US presidential inauguration marks the passing of power
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