Trump inauguration live updates: President to sign Day One executive orders before rally

That was quick.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office referred to the “Gulf of America” in a state of emergency declaration that related to what most of the rest of the world calls the “Gulf of Mexico.”

DeSantis’ statement is a clear nod to Trump and his recent fixation on renaming the gulf after hundreds of years.

“Whereas, an area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2025,” the declaration says.

– Dan Mangan

Mark Uyeda has been named acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Trump.

Uyeda is a Republican and a current commissioner of the SEC. The commission is expected to see a pullback in its work on regulation under Trump.

Trump has picked former commissioner Paul Atkins to lead the SEC full-time. But the position requires Senate confirmation, which will take some time. Atkins is known, in part, for his crypto-friendly positions.

— Alex Harring

Biden and Jill Biden have departed from Joint Base Andrews en route to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Ynez, California, for what appears to be a post-presidency vacation.

“We’re leaving office. We’re not leaving the fight,” Biden told a group of his former administration officials and staff who came to see him off at Andrews.

The last time the Bidens landed at the Santa Ynez airport was in August, when they spent a week on vacation at the ranch of friend and political donor Joe Kiani.

At the time, Joe Biden was president, and the couple traveled in a massive 30-vehicle motorcade that included a Secret Service counter assault team, an ambulance, a communications team and a bomb squad. Nearly everywhere Biden went, he was accompanied by a “protective pool” of reporters who chronicled his every move.

This time, however, the Bidens’ plans after they land in California have not been provided to the White House press corps. And there won’t be any reporters pre-positioned at the airport to accompany them on the next leg of their trip.

Instead, for the first time in four years, the Bidens will be something akin to private citizens. And their airport arrival will be closed to the press.

– Dan Mangan

Trump has signed several proclamations and designations for dozens of executive appointees, including 22 Cabinet-level positions and 93 other roles.

Trump also signed a proclamation ordering flags to fly at full staff for all future inauguration days, including this one. Flags had been flying at half staff in honor of President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29.

The new president is expected to start signing his promised executive orders during an indoor rally event at D.C.’s Capital One Arena later Monday.

Those executive actions could include declaring a national emergency at the U.S. southern border and other measures aimed to crack down on illegal immigration. He is also poised to declare a “national energy emergency” and take other steps aimed at boosting U.S. energy production.

— Kevin Breuninger

Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Washington Headquarters Service at the Pentagon, will be acting secretary of defense while Trump’s pick for the role awaits Senate confirmation, two officials told the Associated Press.

Salesses, a retired Marine, served in the Gulf War and has a Bronze Star, according to the AP. CNBC has not independently confirmed the appointment.

Trump needed to tap a senior executive at the Pentagon who had already received Senate approval. Salesses will lead the Defense Department until a secretary is confirmed. Trump has nominated former Fox News host Pete Hegseth for the post.

— Alex Harring, with AP reporting by Tara Copp and Lolita Baldor

The CBP One app is no longer allowing undocumented immigrants to submit information and schedule appointments at U.S. ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

“Existing appointments have been cancelled,” the agency said.

Trump is poised to sign a slew of executive orders aiming to quash illegal immigration. One of them will invoke the Alien Enemies Act — which then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt used to enact a policy of Japanese internment during World War II — to try to clamp down on and remove criminal gang members from the country.

The crackdown comes as illegal entries have declined sharply during Biden’s final year in office. Weeks earlier, the CBP said that encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border in November were down 76% from a year earlier.

— Kevin Breuninger

Former President Biden and Jill Biden departed the U.S. Capitol in a helicopter after Trump’s inaugural speech.

Trump pledged to make America an independent and prosperous country in his unprecedented political comeback.

“America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith and good will. We will be prosperous,” Trump said.

He laid the groundwork for changes he vowed to make to overhaul immigration, trade, tax and energy policies in the U.S.

“We will be proud. We will be strong and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken. And we will not fail. From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign and independent nation,” he said.

— Yun Li

U.S. stock futures were higher as Trump was sworn in as the 47th president.

Regular trading is closed for the Martin Luther King holiday, but we are getting a glimpse at equities trading through the futures market.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures have been higher all session and were last up about 189 points in the hour after Trump officially became president. S&P 500 futures were up 0.4%.

Markets were likely encouraged that Trump did not install tariffs right away on countries like China and Mexico.

Bitcoin touched a record earlier Monday, but has since turned lower.

—John Melloy

“The golden age of America begins right now,” President Trump said in his inaugural address on Monday.

“From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first,” he added.

— Brian Evans

Trump did not place his hand on a Bible as he took the oath of office.

It is traditional for presidents to have their left palm resting on a Bible when they are sworn in.

Trump, instead, had his left hand at his side, with his right hand raised, as he took the oath, with Melania Trump standing at his side holding two Bibles.

– Dan Mangan

Trump vowed to take back control over the Panama Canal during his inauguration speech.

“We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken,” Trump said.

Chinese and companies from other countries operate ports nearby the canal, but the Panama Canal Authority, an agency of Panama, governs the canal. Trump previously said the Panama…