--- title: President Donald Trump: Photos From First Week in Office description: The best images from President Donald Trump's whirlwind first week as President of the United States. canonical: https://time.com/4649990/donald-trump-first-week/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-26T21:30:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:23.221Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump's First Week in Pictures og:description: It was a whirlwind og:url: https://time.com/4649990/donald-trump-first-week/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b5ac9f256e7c3e8/6988b779ab6d774f0c6aca32/trump-facebook-first-week.jpg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1120 og:image:height: 630 og:image:alt: trump-facebook-first-week og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump's First Week in Pictures twitter:description: It was a whirlwind twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b5ac9f256e7c3e8/6988b779ab6d774f0c6aca32/trump-facebook-first-week.jpg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump's First Week in Pictures > Sponsored content. 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Natalie Keyssar for TIME by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) and [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) Jan 26, 2017 9:30 PM UTC President Trump is having a whirlwind first week in office, and these pictures prove it. After his [swearing-in on Friday](http://time.com/4641156/donald-trump-inauguration-oath-swear-in-president/), Trump saw protests both [large](http://time.com/4642376/women-march-trump-inauguration-washington-antarctica/) and [small](http://time.com/4640737/donald-trump-inauguration-protests-demonstrations/) of his incoming Administration, [moved into the Oval Office](http://time.com/4649081/andrew-jackson-donald-trump-portrait/) and got to work. On Saturday, he [visited the CIA](http://time.com/4642306/trump-inauguration-cia/) to mend fences but made news when he used the occasion to [complain about reporting on crowd sizes](http://time.com/4642306/trump-inauguration-cia/) at his inauguration. By Monday, which he considered his [first working day](http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Trump-Day-one-of-my-administration-starts-on-Monday.html) in office, Trump got to work on some of his campaign promises, signing executive actions to roll back some of President Obama’s policies. [Among other things](http://time.com/4643431/donald-trump-president-first-day-accomplishments/), Trump withdrew the United States from [the Trans Pacific Partnership](http://time.com/4643380/donald-trump-tpp-mexico-city-trade-business/), green-lit [construction on a wall](http://time.com/4648516/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/) along the U.S. border with Mexico, ordered [a freeze on federal hiring](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/23/trump-freezes-federal-hiring/?utm%5Fterm=.b4d20a635100) and [moved forward](http://time.com/4645142/donald-trump-keystone-dakota-access-pipeline-executive-order/) on two controversial oil pipelines. He also made news when a planned visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto [was canceled](http://time.com/4650459/mexico-president-enrique-pena-nieto-donald-trump-meeting-cancel/) over a dispute over whether Mexico could pay for the border wall. Trump later said that Mexico might [end up paying indirectly](http://time.com/4650732/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall-pay/) through a U.S. tax reform measure.  At the inauguration of Donald Trump who was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. Christopher Morris—VII for TIME  President Donald Trump walks with his wife Melania and son Barron to the White House during the parade in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images  President Donald Trump's armored limousine is escorted for the inaugural parade in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. Lucas Jackson—Reuters  Protesters demonstrate on the streets of Washington on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2017. Natalie Keyssar for TIME  Police pepper spray at anti-Trump protesters in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images  President Donald Trump is joined by the Congressional leadership and his family as he formally signs his cabinet nominations into law, in the President's Room of the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017. J. Scott Applewhite—Getty Images  U.S. President Donald Trump applauds members of the armed services during the Armed Services Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Peter van Agtmael—Magnum for TIME  President Donald Trump speaks at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., on Jan. 21, 2017. Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images  President Donald Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway gets ready to speak on television outside the White House, on Jan. 22, 2017. Andrew Harnik—AP  President Donald Trump speaks during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 22, 2017. Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images  President Donald Trump holds up a letter left for him by former President Barack Obama as he speaks at a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Jan. 22, 2017. Andrew Harnik—AP  President Donald Trump walks into the Roosevelt Room for a meeting with business leaders at the White House, on Jan. 23, 2017. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  President Donald Trump looks on during a reception with Congressional leaders at the White House, on Jan. 23, 2017. Nicholas Kamm—AFP/Getty Images  White House spokesman Sean Spicer holds his daily briefing at the White House, on Jan. 24, 2017. Jonathan Ernst—Reuters  President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, on Jan. 24, 2017. Doug Mills—The New York Times/Redux  A sign saying "resist" hung from a construction crane by protestors, with the group Greenpeace, can be seen near the White House, on Jan. 25, 2017. Samuel Corum—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence return to the White House after visiting the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, on Jan. 25, 2017. Chip Somodevilla—EPA  President Donald Trump is saluted as he walks up the stairs of Air Force One before departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Jan. 26, 2017. 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