Donald Trump took the Oath of Office and was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. He is only the second man in the nation’s history to return to the Oval Office after a hiatus. He has promised to "act with historic speed" – and on his first day in office,

The president pledged to remove more than 1,000 presidential appointees “who are not aligned with our vision.”

President Donald Trump spent his first full day in the White House attempting to diffuse a weekslong dispute over how to pass his agenda through Congress, hosting Republican leaders in two separate meetings in the Oval Office.