A recap of today’s events

Our live page will soon come to a close. Here’s a summary of all the events that happened on Monday, the first day of Donald Trump’s second term as president.

In the final hours of his presidency, Democrat Joe Biden issued a series of “preemptive pardons” for those he feared would come under attack during a Trump presidency.

They include Biden’s brothers, immunologist Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and the members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack, including former Congress member Liz Cheney.

Faced with an Arctic blast outdoors, Trump held his inauguration ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda, surrounded by dignitaries and family.

Trump’s inauguration was the first to invite foreign leaders to participate, and many far-right politicians were in attendance, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.

In his inaugural address, Trump denounced the “radical and corrupt establishment” of his predecessor, as well as the alleged “weaponisation” of the justice system.

He also advanced a vision of the future that called for the expansion of US territory, including by “taking” the Panama Canal “back” from Panama.

The Republican leader also announced he would declare a state of emergency at the southern border with Mexico and declare drug-trafficking cartels “terrorists” in order to expel them from the country.

Trump also withdrew the US for a second time from the Paris Agreement, a landmark international treaty designed to combat climate change.

Later, at a rally for supporters at the Capital One Arena, Trump signed a series of executive orders freezing government hiring and halting the addition of federal regulations, among other things.