Thrilled, scared and unsurprised: Americans react to Trump's first week
If President Donald Trump was polarising on the campaign trail, his first week back in office was no different.
He was officially sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday before signing hundreds of executive actions, reversing policies from President Joe Biden's administration and following through on many of the promises he made on the campaign trail.
We spoke to 10 Americans across the political spectrum about how they felt about the week.
Here are their big takeaways
Kyle Plessa, 39, an independent who voted for Trump: "I felt like I was watching like WWE, professional wrestling. Just the boisterousness, the showmanship, the playing for the cameras. You can tell that the entertainment is a big part of Donald Trump's credo as opposed to whether you had Barack Obama or Joe Biden inaugurated."
Greg Bruno, 67, a Republican who voted for Trump: "I think Trump proved he's a man of the people when he threw those pens into the audience after signing the executive orders in front of 20,000 people. It just showed you who he really is working for."
Richard Weil, 74, an independent who voted for Kamala Harris: "[His inaugural address] was not quite as dark as his first speech [in 2017], but it was certainly bitter. There was nothing in there that said good things about America."
Angela Ramos, 37, an independent who voted for Harris: "I found a lot of Trump's speech to be disingenuous, because he mentioned specific things like justice, honour, integrity, trustworthiness, but these are not qualities that I think are reflected in his policy or his behaviour... I watched it out of a sense of civic duty."
