Shortly after taking the oath of office in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, President Donald Trump delivered a speech laying out his vision for what he called “the golden age of America.”

Lasting just over 30 minutes, the address was filled with a wide range of promises he intends to fulfill during his second term.

Among them were curbing illegal immigration, tackling inflation, increasing domestic oil production and levying tariffs on trading partners.

Many of these pledges will be satisfied via executive orders signed on Trump’s first day in office — of which he said there will be “close to 100.”

Here is a complete list of the specific promises Trump made in the speech.

Immigration

— Declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border

— Halting all illegal entry into the country, and deporting “millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came”

— Reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” policy

— Ending the “catch and release” policy

— Militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border

— Invoking the Alien Enemies Act to eliminate foreign criminal networks in the U.S.

— Designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations

Energy

— Declaring a national energy emergency and increasing oil production

— Filling strategic oil reserves, and exporting “American energy all over the world”

— Ending the “Green New Deal”

— Revoking the “electric vehicle mandate”

Economy and trade

— Defeating inflation and rapidly reducing costs

— Levying tariffs on foreign countries

— Establishing the External Revenue Service to collect revenues, duties and tariffs

Military

— Building “the strongest military the world has ever seen,” and measuring success by “the wars that we end” and “the wars we never get into”

— Stopping members of the military “from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty”

— Reinstating members of the military who were “unjustly expelled” for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine

Others

— Establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

— Taking back control of the Panama Canal

— Stopping government censorship, and bringing back “free speech to America”

— Returning “law and order” to U.S. cities, and bringing back “equal and impartial justice”

— Ending the “government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”

— Making it official government policy that there are two genders: male and female

— Ending “the chronic disease epidemic”

— Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America” and restoring the name Mount McKinley to Mount Denali

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