What Trumpism Left Behind

It is January 20, 2025, and the United States Capitol's Rotunda is packed with dignitaries, former presidents, and invited guests because cold weather has moved the ceremony indoors. Donald John Trump, convicted of 34 felonies ten days earlier and sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan to an unconditional discharge, places his left hand on two Bibles — his mother's Bible and the Lincoln Bible — and takes the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States. He wins 312 electoral votes in November 2024, carrying all seven swing states and becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the national popular vote since 2004. Within hours of the ceremony's conclusion, aides carry a stack of pre-signed executive orders into the Oval Office, and Trump begins signing them at a pace that sets a modern record for executive action in a presidency's opening hours.

Donald Trump — portrait against the New York skyline and presidential seal motif.

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Contents — 7 sections

OPENING SCENE
THE LEGAL RECKONING THAT NEVER CAME
DAY ONE: THE SECOND TERM BEGINS
THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
THE TARIFF CAMPAIGN
THE PARTY HE REBUILT
GO DEEPER: BOOKS AND RESOURCES

OPENING SCENE

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What's in the rest of Day 6

THE LEGAL RECKONING THAT NEVER CAME
DAY ONE: THE SECOND TERM BEGINS
THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
THE TARIFF CAMPAIGN
THE PARTY HE REBUILT
GO DEEPER: BOOKS AND RESOURCES

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What Trumpism Left Behind

OPENING SCENE

Donald Trump takes the oath of office as the 47th President on January 20, 2025, inside the Capitol Rotunda — the first indoor inauguration since Ronald Reagan's second term in 1985.Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

What's in the rest of Day 6

THE LEGAL RECKONING THAT NEVER CAME

DAY ONE: THE SECOND TERM BEGINS

THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

THE TARIFF CAMPAIGN

THE PARTY HE REBUILT

GO DEEPER: BOOKS AND RESOURCES

You've completed Day 6. Share your score, earn your certificate, and explore the next course on Nomor. History doesn't repeat itself — but it does leave patterns, and now you can read them.