Thanks for tuning in for a historic day for the US.

We'll be starting a new blog over here which you can head to. 

Otherwise, here's a quick recap: 

• Donald Trump has now been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States of America.
• It is his second term as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
• His vice-president, JD Vance, was also sworn in as the 50th vice-president of the United States.
• Trump gave his inaugural address, declaring "America's decline is over".
• He vowed to immediately declare a national emergency at the US-Mexico border and outlined other priorities.
• Meanwhile, in the final moments of his presidency, Joe Biden pre-emptively pardoned members of his family.

Not long after being sworn in, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. 

The executive order only has the power to change how the US refers to the basin. 

That means the rest of the world can continue referring to the region as the Gulf of Mexico. 

If you'd like to read more about how naming disputes between countries works, my colleague Dannielle Maguire has taken a closer look in the article below. 

China's foreign ministry has just chimed in on Trump's plans for TikTok. 

ICYMI, Trump has signed an executive order to save the ongoing operation of the social media platform TikTok in the US. 

The foreign ministry says  it hopes the US "can listen carefully to the voice of reason and provide openness and fairness for market players in the United States". 

Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun also said the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) should only be strengthened, not weakened.

For those just tuning in, Donald Trump signed a lot of executive orders today. 

But that doesn't mean the president has to write each one up himself. 

Trump would have had transition team officials and other advisors working behind the scenes to draft up the documents. 

I touched on this in an article about Project 2025 in November — affiliates of that playbook were working on executive orders even before Trump's election victory. 

While there's nothing to say Project 2025 affiliates contributed to the orders enacted today, it goes to show how much forward planning and work goes into preparing them for a president's signature. 

If you'd like to know more about what happens after an executive order is signed, here's a breakdown by my colleague Jesmine Cheong. 

The Cuban president says President Donald Trump's decision to re-designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism is an act of "arrogance and contempt for the truth."

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on social media the move was "not surprising". 

"His goal is to continue strengthening the cruel economic war against Cuba for the purpose of domination," he said. 

Díaz-Canel said that being on the list, along with the US embargo, is one of the reasons behind the "shortages" in the island that are driving people to immigrate to the US territory.

Trump on Monday reversed an executive order issued by Biden that had lifted the designation.

During the Commander in Chief Ball honouring Trump's inauguration, the President was given a sword to pose with, creating some pretty interesting shots. 

Here's a closer look:

Former Australian ambassador to US Arthur Sinodinos has told 7.30 Donald Trump is going to do exactly as he pleases with the "unfettered power" at his disposal.

Mr Sinodinos says Trump's trade tariffs will also likely cause a shock for American consumers.

"It's like a sales tax, and it will have regressive effects for American consumers and potentially inflationary effects depending on how big they are," he said. 

Read the full story below: 

We reported below that the online lottery system which gave appointments to 1,450 people a day shut down in anticipation of Trump's incoming border plans.

Here are scenes of asylum seekers who lost their appointments waiting at a temporary shelter in Matamoros, Mexico earlier, in the hopes a new opportunity to enter the US would arise. 

Planet America host Chas Licciardello discusses the changes Donald Trump’s policies will bring to the US. 

He says it's potentially worrying following the orders from the President to send the military down to Mexico. 

Watch the full interview below: 

Among other false and misleading claims in Donald Trump's inauguration addresses, his declaration that Americans "split the atom" prompted irritated social media posts by New Zealanders.

"Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness," Trump said toward the end of his speech.  

"They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand."

A New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom while working at a university in England. 

The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford. 

It is not attributed to Americans.

Reporting with AP