--- title: President Donald Trump: Photos From Second Week in Office description: The best images from President Donald Trump's second week as President of the United States. canonical: https://time.com/4657209/president-trump-second-week-politics-pictures/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T14:29:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:23.059Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump's Second Week in Pictures og:description: Another whirlwind of a week og:url: https://time.com/4657209/president-trump-second-week-politics-pictures/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21ab0937737e4034/6988b89b196cf4dadc03eb93/donald-trump-week-two-mandel-ngan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2389 og:image:height: 1344 og:image:alt: donald-trump-week-two-mandel-ngan og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump's Second Week in Pictures twitter:description: Another whirlwind of a week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21ab0937737e4034/6988b89b196cf4dadc03eb93/donald-trump-week-two-mandel-ngan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump's Second Week in Pictures > Sponsored content. 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Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) and [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) Feb 3, 2017 2:29 PM UTC President Trump continued his fast pace in his second week in office, as these pictures show. After [signing an executive order suspending the refugee resettlement program](http://time.com/4652552/president-trump-is-suspending-a-refugee-program-and-banning-visas-from-7-countries/) and barring visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries on Friday, Trump saw [protests at airports](http://time.com/4652654/jfk-detain-trump-immigration-order/) across the country [as well as lawsuits](http://time.com/4657654/trumps-immigration-order-is-legal-for-now/), including [ones from three states](http://time.com/4655719/washington-massachusetts-new-york-donald-trump-lawsuit/) and another from [San Francisco](http://time.com/4655515/san-francisco-lawsuit-sanctuary-city-trump/). The [conservative Koch brothers](http://time.com/4652905/koch-brothers-donald-trump-immigration-ban-order/) came out against the ban, as did the [CEOs of Ford](http://time.com/4653621/ford-mark-fields-donald-trump-immigration-criticism/), [Apple, Google and Facebook](http://fortune.com/2017/01/28/tech-execs-criticize-trump-immigrant-ban/). Trump blamed some of [the weekend’s chaos](http://time.com/4652964/donald-trump-first-week-refugees-reaction/) on a Delta Airlines computer outage and [criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer](http://time.com/4653374/donald-trump-chuck-schumer-airport-tears/) for crying at a press conference over the travel ban. The acting attorney general, a holdover from President Obama, [refused to defend the order in court](http://time.com/4654665/president-trump-sally-yates-immigration-order/), leading Trump to fire her while his spokesman [warned dissenting diplomats](http://time.com/4653958/white-house-dissent-state-department-response/) to “get with the program.” His Administration, meantime, [couldn’t decide whether the travel ban was a “ban”](http://time.com/4656807/travel-ban-white-house-wording/) or not, and [defended omitting any reference to Jews](http://time.com/4652863/white-house-statement-holocaust-remembrance-day/) from its official Holocaust Remembrance Day statement. Trump held more phone calls with foreign leaders, including one with [Russian President Vladimir Putin](http://time.com/4652641/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-phone-call/), a [testy one with Australia’s prime minister](http://time.com/4657759/malcolm-turnbull-donald-trump/) that ended abruptly and one with Mexico’s President in which he said, [reportedly lightheartedly](http://time.com/4657794/donald-trump-bad-hombres-pena-nieto-phone-call/), that he might send U.S. troops to deal with “bad hombres.” On Tuesday, Trump announced his pick for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Antonin Scalia and held open by Senate Republicans: [Colorado federal judge Neil Gorsuch](http://time.com/4653790/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court/). The liberal grassroots urged Democrats to [mount a rare filibuster](http://time.com/4656072/supreme-court-neil-gorsuch-democrats/), while Trump told Republican Senators to [throw out the rulebook](http://time.com/4656705/supreme-court-filibuster-donald-trump-neil-gorsuch/) if they need to. Trump also spoke at his first National Prayer Breakfast, suggesting that [they should pray](http://time.com/4657913/donald-trump-apprentice-prayer-breakfast-schwarzenegger/) for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ratings on _The Apprentice_.  President Donald Trump speaks following the ceremonial swearing-in of James Mattis as secretary of defense at the Pentagon in Washington, on Jan. 27, 2017. Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images  Members of the media line up to attend a news conference between British Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, on Jan. 27, 2017. Carlos Barria—Reuters  British Prime Minister Theresa May with President Donald Trump in The Oval Office at The White House, on Jan. 27, 2017. Christopher Furlong—Getty Images  President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House, on Jan. 28, 2017. Drew Angerer—Getty Images  People gather for a protest at Terminal 4 of the John F. Kennedy International Airport after people arriving from Muslim countries were held at the border control as a result of the new immigration policies enacted by US President Donald Trump in New York, on Jan. 28, 2017. Justin Lane—EPA  Blair Imani, an activist living in New York, at John F. Kennedy International Airport during the protests against the President's new imigration policies in New York, on Jan. 28, 2017. Amr Alfiqy for TIME LightBox  Neil Gorsuch delivers remarks after US President Donald Trump announced him as his nominee for the Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House, on Jan. 31, 2017. Michael Reynolds—EPA  President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka walk to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, on Feb. 1, 2017. Nicholas Kamm—AFP/Getty Images  President Donald Trump is seen on a screen as he delivers remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, on Feb. 2, 2017. Carlos Barria—Reuters  President Donald Trump walks around the Resolute desk during a ceremony for the swearing in of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State in the Oval Office of the White House, on Feb. 1, 2017. 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