And there was one thing America noticed: Team Trump is wasting no time to move on his boldest promises.

From the minute Trump finished his inaugural address, which many equated to a State of the Union type of list of goals, he began putting out executive orders and rulings that tore down former President Joe Biden’s most controversial actions. He shut the border, banned DEI, and called for interest rate cuts. His goal of ending birthright citizenship has so far been denied by a federal court.

He also saw his Cabinet picks win approval. The last was the Senate’s approval of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Friday night by one vote, a tiebreaker cast by Vice President JD Vance.

Not only was that a long list of accomplishments in just four days, but he ended the week meeting with storm victims in North Carolina and fire victims in Los Angeles, promising federal action that Biden failed to deliver. Notably, first lady Melania Trump accompanied the president to reinforce a meaningfulness to the trip.

Our graders were impressed with the president’s first week. Democratic pollster John Zogby graded the week a B-minus and said that Trump showed strength despite having a tiny majority in Congress.

Republican grader Jed Babbin listed the many highlights of the new president’s first week in grading an A.

John Zogby

Grade B-

President Donald Trump wasted no time getting down to business in his first few days and full week in office. He fulfilled campaign promises to his most ardent supporters with executive orders on immigration, Jan. 6 pardons, climate change, transgender rights, and more.

Working nonstop, he was sending an unequivocal message that he is a man who does not make idle promises and gets things done quickly. But already, we saw a federal judge (a Reagan appointee, no less) block his decision to deny birthright status to children of those whose parents entered the U.S. illegally. His orders on most of his actions can expect quick challenges; some already have.

For a man who holds such a tenuous majority in the House of Representative, he appears to be barely holding on to that support. He needed a tiebreaking vote in the Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth as secretary of Defense.

The issue for me is whether these prompt executive orders were examples of governance or shtick. Governance suggests that he is building a governing majority, while shtick signals to me that Trump is continuing on as a showman, and he is sending both a warning and message to those on the fence that he is in charge. Early polls suggest that he may have support on most aspects of his immigration policy, though majorities oppose detaining those who have not committed a crime. And he has clearly gone too far in pardoning/commuting sentences of many Jan. 6 violators. There is already trouble in Musk-land with his sidekick Viveck Ramaswamy taking leave from the “Department of Government Efficiency.” Is it only a matter of time before Trump and Elon Musk lock horns, as they have on several occasions already?

Jed Babbin

Grade: A

President Donald Trump’s inauguration was indoors because of the very cold weather. He said it was “liberation day” for Americans, and it sure feels like it. (The side benefit was to thwart long-range snipers. The Iranians still want to kill Trump, having never forgotten the hit he ordered on their chief terrorist, Gen. Soleimani, in January 2021.)

Trump has a lot of damage to repair, and he hit the ground running, signing nearly 80 executive orders — many of which revoked those of former President Joe Biden. The highlights:

• Quitting the United Nations World Health Organization and the U.N.-managed Paris Accords on climate change.
• Ceasing funding of UNWRA, the U.N. organization for Palestinians, which hired terrorists and enabled Hamas to hide hostages in U.N. facilities in Gaza.
• Declaring a national emergency at the southern border and began securing it. He’s already made illegal immigration vastly harder, ending the “catch and release” policy and re-instituting his “remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers. Deportation flights have already begun, and Mexico is setting up tent cities to hold some of those deported. And about 10,000 troops are being sent to the border;
• Calling the hyper-violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and MS-13 “foreign terrorist organizations,” which carries severe sanctions on people who help them.
• Ordering that only U.S. flags be flown at American facilities and declaring DEI dead.
• Ending government censorship of social media.
• Revoking the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officers who signed the Biden-created letter declaring that the Hunter Biden laptop from hell was Russian disinformation.
• Declaring a national energy emergency with the words, “drill, baby, drill.

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All in all, a great and fast start.

John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His latest book, Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should, was just released. His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on X @ZogbyStrategies.

Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.