Trump touts political firings and retribution as he begins a government overhaul in his image

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump takes office for his second non-consecutive term as the 47th president of the United States.
51% : Former President Joe Biden issued a wave of pardons in the final hours of his presidency to former House January 6 Committee members and members of his family, which he said were intended to prevent Trump from launching politically motivated investigations.
50% : My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again," Trump wrote in a 12:28 a.m. Truth Social post Tuesday.
49% : Trump initially terminated his protection after he left his administration in the first term, but Biden had restored it.
46% : In addition, Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to Bolton within hours of taking office, Bolton confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
44% : Abbate was already at the FBI's mandatory retirement age, but former Director Chris Wray - who himself had resigned this month after Trump had vowed to fire him years before his term ended - gave Abbate an extension to continue working through April to ensure a smooth transition.
37% : But Trump has also made a show of the firings he's carried out, taking to his social media to boast about removing more than 1,000 Biden administration political appointees - and to announce the removal of four individuals from presidential advisory boards, including prominent critics such as former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley and José Andrés, the celebrity chef and restaurateur.
31% : In his inaugural address, Trump claimed he would end the weaponization of the justice system: "Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents - something I know something about.""We will not allow that to happen.
31% : It will not happen again," Trump said.
30% : Along with the firings of federal workers, Trump took other actions to go after his perceived enemies from outside the government.
29% : Trump also pulled Secret Service detail for his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and the security clearances for 51 people who spoke out during the 2020 Hunter Biden investigation.
28% : Trump has long complained that he was undermined by anti-Trump officials across the federal workforce in his first administration, particularly from the Justice Department and the intelligence community.
25% : Trump and his team wasted little time reassigning nearly two dozen senior Justice Department officials and dismissing career DOJ officials who oversee the nation's immigration courts, State Department diplomats and the commandant of the Coast Guard.

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