Will Trump follow through on all his Day One promises? Doesn't look like it.

In rally after rally, and speech upon speech, Donald Trump built a verbal skyscraper of campaign promises about what he would do on his first day in the White House.

Begin building a wall at the nation’s southern border. End the “war on coal.” Label China a currency manipulator. The list went on and on.

But now, as Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, his Day One executive actions and policy plans are a closely held secret, another prop in the Donald Trump show waiting to be unveiled with his trademark flourish and fanfare. And, his aides are playing down how much will be done during that first day, while also sending conflicting signals about whether the real work of governing will begin Friday, when Trump officially becomes president, or Monday, his first full workday in the White House.

Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump will probably sign four or five executive actions on Friday, mainly focused on logistics and government operations, with more coming Monday.

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President-elect Donald Trump will have a busy day after his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
Asked Thursday about Trump’s coming executive actions, Spicer declined to give specifics, but he mentioned President Obama’s health-care law, the fight against the Islamic State and immigration as “key issues” important to Trump. Dedicated Server Dubai, UAE

“He is committed to not just Day One, but Day Two, Day Three, of enacting an agenda of real change,” Spicer told reporters. “And I think that you’re going to see that in the days and weeks to come.”

Regardless of what happens on Day One, advisers to the president-elect and others close to the transition process say that Trump will act quickly in the early days of his administration. His initial plans are to undo many of Obama’s executive actions and begin rolling back regulations, especially those that he believes are financially burdensome. At least to start, the advisers said, Trump will focus more on unraveling the past eight years of the outgoing administration than on launching a new vision.

Source:-Washingtonpost

Barack Obama pays tribute at Hiroshima nuclear memorial

Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the 140,000 people killed by the world's first atomic bomb attack and sought to bring global attention to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima.

"Death fell from the sky and the world was changed," Obama said, after laying a wreath, closing his eyes and briefly bowing his head before an arched monument in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park that honors those killed on August 6, 1945, when US forces dropped the bomb that ushered in the nuclear age. The bombing, Obama said, "demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself."

Obama did not apologize, instead offering, in a carefully choreographed display, a simple reflection on the horrors of war and his hope the horror of Hiroshima could spark a "moral awakening." As he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood near an iconic bombed-out domed building, Obama acknowledged the devastating toll of war and urged the world to do better.

"We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell ... we listen to a silent cry." Obama said.

A second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki three days later Hiroshima, killed 70,000 more.

Obama also sought to look forward to the day when there was less danger of nuclear war. He received a Nobel Peace Prize early on his presidency for his anti-nuclear agenda but has since seen uneven progress.

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