--- title: Donald Trump Outlines Policy Plans for First 100 Days description: Donald Trump released a video on Monday to detail his policy plans for his first 100 days in office canonical: https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-21T23:34:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:55.758Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Outlines Policy Plans for First 100 Days in Office og:description: He touched on several campaign promises og:url: https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc87e7ffa2068e2a4/6988af5cab6d7711276ac081/donald-trump-day-one-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Weekend Meetings In Bedminster, NJ og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Outlines Policy Plans for First 100 Days in Office twitter:description: He touched on several campaign promises twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc87e7ffa2068e2a4/6988af5cab6d7711276ac081/donald-trump-day-one-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Outlines Policy Plans for First 100 Days in Office > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is headed to the White House, where she’ll serve as counselor to the president._ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 21, 2016 11:34 PM UTC  President-elect Donald Trump stands outside the clubhouse at Trump International Golf Club in Bedminster Township, N.J., on Nov. 20, 2016. President-elect Donald Trump stands outside the clubhouse at Trump International Golf Club in Bedminster Township, N.J., on Nov. 20, 2016. Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 21, 2016 11:34 PM UTC Donald Trump [released a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX%5FKaStFT8&feature=share) on Monday to detail his policy plans for his first 100 days in office, including withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. In the short message released online, Trump rehashed some of his campaign promises. Among the plans he addressed, Trump promised to “restore our laws and bring back our jobs.” To do so, Trump said he would withdraw from the TPP, cancel restrictions on shale and clean coal and develop a plan to protect American infrastructure. Regarding his immigration plan, Trump said he would direct the department of labor to “investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker.” Following up on his promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington D.C., Trump said he would enact a five-year ban on executive officials becoming lobbyists. He also said that he would implement a new rule requiring the elimination of two regulations for every new one. Notably missing from his policy points were the [building of a wall](http://time.com/4281926/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall-explanation/) along the U.S.-Mexico border and [repealing](http://time.com/4574486/trump-obamacare-conundrum/) Obamacare—platforms Trump repeated throughout his campaign. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Outlines Policy Plans for First 100 Days in Office","datePublished":"2016-11-21T23:34:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:54:55.758Z","description":"He touched on several campaign promises","url":"https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/","keywords":["Donald Trump","trump 100 days"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc87e7ffa2068e2a4/6988af5cab6d7711276ac081/donald-trump-day-one-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc87e7ffa2068e2a4/6988af5cab6d7711276ac081/donald-trump-day-one-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Holds Weekend Meetings In Bedminster, NJ","caption":"BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - NOVEMBER 20: President-elect Donald Trump stands outside the clubhouse following his meeting with Peter Kirsanow, attorney and member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, at Trump International Golf Club, November 20, 2016 in","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/","name":"Donald Trump Outlines Policy Plans for First 100 Days in Office"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Donald Trump's Staff Picks","description":"Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is headed to the White House, where she’ll serve as counselor to the president.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hxBwlUGs/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-11-13T23:25:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hxBwlUGs.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/","duration":"PT1M53S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```