A body language expert has broken down the ‘silent statement’ made by Donald Trump as he arrived for a church service ahead of his presidential inauguration.
Trump arrived with his wife and incoming first lady, Melania Trump, to St John’s Church, known as the ‘Church of the Presidents’, as he prepares to take on the role of the 47th President of the United States today (January 20).
Donald Trump arrives for church service
Trump, who was last voted into the Oval Office in 2016, will reassume the position after taking the oath of office at the inauguration, which this year is being held inside the Capitol building.
The church service – a traditional event for president-elects ahead of the inauguration – marks the imminent end of Joe Biden’s time in office, but the outgoing president shared kind words for his successor when the two met later at the White House.
After witnessing Trump’s arrival at the church, body language expert Judi James shared her thoughts and noted that ‘Trump didn’t just show up; he arrived’.

Trump arrived at St. John’s church for a traditional service (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Speaking to Paddy Power, James said: “Gone was the peacocking and showboating of old – this was alpha mode at full throttle. The chest? Inflated and splayed like a cockerel in a power pose. The spine? Upright enough to make a Buckingham Palace guard jealous. The expression? A lip-clamp and raised jaw combo that screamed, ‘I’m in charge. Again.’
“It was a deliberate transformation. The man who has Rocky, Braveheart, and even the Village People on his inspirational playlist looked ready to outshine them all. This wasn’t just Trump the showman – this was Trump the heavyweight.”
James went on to express belief that Tump was trying to convey something very specific in his arrival, saying: “As he stepped out of the car, he stood to attention, shoulders squared, head rotating like he was scanning for doubters. Then, with a single, low-raised fist, he delivered a quiet yet commanding gesture of triumph – a silent statement that said, ‘Try stopping me now.’”

James believes Trump was making a ‘silent statement’ (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
After the church service, Trump and Melania made their way to the White House where they were greeted by Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, before making their way to the Capitol building for the most important event of the day – the swearing-in ceremony.
Former presidents including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are all present at the event, along with some of Trump’s government picks such as Elon Musk.
Everything Trump has pledged to do as 47th US President
Delaying the TikTok ban
After TikTok went dark yesterday (January 19), it was bought back after mere hours with a message reading: “Welcome back! Thank you for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the US!”
Trump will reportedly sign an executive order to delay the ban saying he wants to ‘make a deal to protect our national security.’
Immigration
In a statement during a rally at Madison Square Garden during his presidential race he said: “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.
“I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”
Planning over 100 executive orders
It’s been reported by AP that Trump plans on preparing over 100 executive orders on his first day in the White House. Trump’s allies have reportedly spent time preparing documents that Trump can sign quickly, on issues such as deportation, school gender policies and vaccine mandates, without input from congress.
“There will be a substantial number,” said Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D.
Making hidden government files public
Including the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., Trump promised at his recent rally in Washington D.C that, in a bid to increase government transparency, he will be making these disclosures in ‘the coming days’.
“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
‘Make Greenland Great Again Act’
In a bid that has not gone down well with Greenlanders, taking to his social media platform Truth Social Trump said: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.
“Greenland is an incredible place. The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
January 6 pardons
Trump’s loss in the 2020 election led to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in turn resulting in the arrests of a number of Trump supporters.
In an interview with TIME, Trump said that looking into the cases of the rioters’ will take place in ‘the first nine minutes’ of his time in office.
In a post shared on his social media channel, Trump said: “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”
Getting rid of birthright citizenship
Exactly as it sounds, Trump once declared he wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship, which immediately gives citizenship to anyone born in US. Noting that this may not be possible as it’s written into the constitution, he said he wants to achieve this by executive order – bypassing congress again – ‘if we can’.
Cut federal funding for schools educating on ‘inappropriate’ topics
Speaking early last year, Trump addressed a crowd in Iowa and made plans to ‘save [the] country from destruction’.
“On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity,” he said, per NPR.
Trump also said he would target schools pushing ‘any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children’.
Making the US the ‘crypto capital’
Back in 2021, Trump called crypto a ‘scam against the dollar.’ But four years on, he’s pulled a u-turn as he vowed to make the US the ‘crypto capital of the planet’.
On social media, Trump claimed crypto would be ‘mined, minted and made in the US’.
Both he and wife Melania released their own memecoins ahead of the inauguration, while experts previously predicted Bitcoin could reach up to $250,000 this year.
Be a ‘dictator’
In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last year, he referred to himself as a ‘dictator’ when asked if he was promising to ‘never abuse power as retribution against anybody’.
In response, Trump said: “Except for Day 1.
“I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling,” he continued.
“After that, I’m not a dictator.”
End Green Deals
Trump has spoken previously about his plan to ‘terminate the Green New Deal’, which he dubbed the ‘Green New Scam’.
The Green New Deal was pitched by Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, but it was never signed into law.
Addressing the policies in a speech in September, Trump said: “To further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam. Greatest scam in history, probably.
“We [will] rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”
“I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on Day 1.”
Arrange green cards for college graduates
Despite making his stance on migration clear, Trump has advocated for non-US citizens to receive green cards to stay in the country if they graduate from college.
During an episode of the ‘All In’ podcast recorded this year, Trump said: “Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate, or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country […]
“Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make a deal with the company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on Day 1.”
Scrap ‘electric vehicle mandates’
Trump plans to scrap Biden administration’s so-called electric vehicle mandate, referring to new pollution standards that incentivize auto manufacturers to increase production of electric and lower-emission vehicles.
Despite vowing to get rid of the policy on his first day, Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan the move could take ‘maybe two days, because it’s a little bit busy’.
Fire the man who indicted him
Trump faced two federal cases in relation to the 2020 election result from special counsel Jack Smith, and the future POTUS has no plans to work with him again.
Speaking on October 24, Trump told the Hugh Hewitt show he would fire Smith ‘within two seconds’.
“He’ll be one of the first things addressed,” he said.
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A Donald Trump ‘memecoin’ that turned hundreds of people into millionaires took a hit after the incoming First Lady Melania Trump launched a coin of her own.
Because even when you’re about to be put in charge of one of the most powerful countries in the world, there’s still time for a side hustle.
Melania announced the launch of her ‘Official Melania Meme’ in a post on Twitter last night (January 19), just hours after the ‘$Trump’ memecoin was presented to the world.
The coins come as Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office today (January 20), when he will be inaugurated as the 47th president taking over from Joe Biden.

Donald and Melania Trump’s memecoins arrived just before the presidential inauguration (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
What is $Trump?
Trump launched his very own cryptocurrency with a post on his Truth Social social media account, where he encouraged followers to join him in ‘winning’ to celebrate his presidency.
A disclaimer on Trump’s website points out that the coin is ‘not intended to be’ an investment opportunity, nor is it a ‘political’ crypto, but instead declared: “This Trump Meme celebrates a leader who doesn’t back down, no matter the odds.”
Trump fans quickly jumped on the bandwagon and bought the coin, and its value soon skyrocketed up to an incredible $14 billion.
Within just six hours, $Trump went from a few cents to $14 and just kept climbing, prompting more than 500 people to declare themselves $TRUMP millionaires less than 24 hours of investing in the coins.

Trump’s memecoin was not advertised as an investment opportunity (X/@realdonaldtrump)
What is $Melania?
Seemingly not wanting her husband to have all the fun, it wasn’t long before Melania announced her own memecoin.
$Melania has been launched on the Solana blockchain, the same as Trump’s, and quickly received interest of its own as its value pushed to more than $5, resulting in a fully diluted market cap of over $5 billion, Forbes reports.

Melania’s memecoin had a negative impact on Trump’s (X/@MELANIATRUMP)
How has $Melania impacted $Trump?
Though cryptocurrency seems to have become a family business in the Trump household, unfortunately, the launch of Melania’s coin initially had some adverse impacts on the incoming president’s crypto as Trump’s memecoin crashed by around 40 percent.
Experts at The Kobeissi Letter, which provides commentary on the global capital markets, described the rapidly changing landscape as ‘insane’.
In a post on Twitter, it wrote: “The coin just erased over $5 billion in market cap in a matter of seconds. $MELANIA coin is being viewed as a competitor against $TRUMP coin. This has resulted in a sharp drop in demand for $TRUMP.”
In spite of the initial impact, Trump didn’t seem to see Melania as a competitor as her social media posts announcing the coin were shared to Trump’s own platforms.
His confidence appears to have paid off as $Trump has since made a recovery, rising up up more than 110 percent from the low it hit after the $Melania launch.
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People have become millionaires after investing in US President-elect Donald Trump’s memecoin.
If you’ve not been keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency market lately, you’ll have completely missed the fact that Trump released his $Trump memecoin as he prepares to take office and become inaugurated tomorrow (January 20).
The soon-to-be 47th president of the US sent out a tweet from his official Truth Social, his social media platform account, telling his followers to join him in ‘winning’ to celebrate his presidency.
The website said: “This Trump Meme celebrates a leader who doesn’t back down, no matter the odds.”
However, it came with a disclaimer to confirm that the coin is ‘not intended to be, or the subject of’ an investment opportunity and it’s also ‘not political and has nothing to do with’ any campaigns, persons or offices.

Donald Trump’s memecoin has reached new heights of success (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It states that it is not intended to be an ‘expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol $TRUMP’ and it’s also not ‘intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type’.
Co-ordinated by CIC Digital LLC, which is an affiliate of the Trump Organization, the meme coin did something that many could not have anticipated- it skyrocketed into the billions overnight.
Within just six hours, it went from a few cents to $14, and it just kept climbing from there.
Hours after its launch, the market capitalisation was nearly $5.5bn, as per CoinMarketCap.com, making 500 traders millionaires thanks to their investments.
While only some 200 million coins have been issued, the website stated that 800 million will be released in the next three years for traders to snatch up.
But while many have become super rich thanks to their investments, others have accused Trump of benefiting from the coin.
Nick Tomaino, a crypto venture capitalist, said on social media: “Trump owning 80 percent and timing launch hours before inauguration is predatory and many will likely get hurt by it.”

The $Trump coin made 525 people millionaires (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
According to SolanaFloor, a news site which reports on digital finance, wrote on X: “A trader is up $29.8M on $TRUMP, Donald Trump’s official memecoin on Solana. He spent $1.09M to buy 5,971,750 TRUMP coins, now worth $30.8M in under 2 hours—a 2,634% gain. The trader has not sold any coins yet.”
At the time of writing, the memecoin has become the second largest on the market, with a 272 per cent increase in investment.
According to onchain data, it had over $3 billion in trading volumes within hours of it going live, it boasted a $2 billion market capitalization and it even brought in early buyers over $70 million in paper gains, and around $1 million for the smaller traders.
As this is the first time a president has given their likeness to a memecoin, it’s a pretty big deal in the crypto world.
According to a screenshot of traders, over 525 people became $TRUMP millionaires in less than 24 hours of investing in the coins.
UNILAD contacted Donald Trump’s representatives for comment.
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Melania took to social media to share her thoughts on the assassination attempt that took place while Trump was speaking at an open-air campaign rally.
The Republican candidate was on a stage near Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman, later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired shots in his direction, striking his ear and causing it to bleed.
Melania Trump addresses Donald’s assassination attempt
Trump was rushed from the stage by Secret Service agents, who later shot Crooks dead at the scene.
After the shooting, Trump took to social media to say ‘much bleeding took place’.
He also thanked the Secret Service for their ‘rapid response’.
“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” Trump wrote on his platform, Truth Social.
“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.
“It is incredible that such an act can take place in our country.”

Trump was rushed from the stage after the shooting (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Now, Melania has made a bold claim about the shooting in her video shared online, alleging there is ‘more to the story’ of her husband being targeted.
Speaking directly into the camera, Melania said: “The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience.
“Now the silence around it feels heavy. I can’t help but wonder why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest shooter before the speech. There is definitely more to this story. And we need to uncover the truth.”
The video comes to an end with an image promoting her upcoming memoir, Melania, which is set to be released in October.

Melania is set to release a memoir next month (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Her claim comes after more details emerged about the assassination attempt in the days and weeks after it took place, with US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle describing the event as ‘unacceptable’.
Speaking to ABC News, she said it was ‘something that shouldn’t happen again’.
“The buck stops with me,” she said. “I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary.”
Melania’s video comes just hours before Trump is set to debate his competitor, Kamala Harris, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The debate is set to begin at 9pm ET, 8pm CT and 6pm PT.
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Donald Trump will make history in more ways than one if he beats Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in November’s presidential elections.
Now facing a staggering 91 criminal charges, if found guilty of a single one he could become the first convicted criminal to be appointed President of the United States.
He would also be the first person to be re-elected to a non-consecutive term in more than 130 years; the last person to do this was Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1892.

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Civil suits cost Trump
Outside of the criminal cases, Trump is facing multiple civil suits, having been ordered to pay journalist E. Jean Carroll a total of $83.3 million in damages after he was found liable for defaming her when he called her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
Carroll was initially awarded $5 million, but Trump continued to defame her publicly during a CNN Townhall and on his social media platform. The total amount was subsequently raised to $83.3 million in a second ruling.
Then there was the New York fraud case, in which Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump of inflating his net worth to obtain more favorable loan rates. Justice Arthur F. Engoron found Trump liable for $450 million.
Trump’s vast wealth more than covers the costs of the civil cases for which he was found liable. However, the payouts have no doubt made a sizeable dent in the cash needed to run a presidential campaign – and he has been turning to supporters for small donations to help cover his legal fees.

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Federal Cases
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is overseeing two separate cases featuring Trump. The first examines his handling of classified documents at his home in Mar-a-Lago, a property he owns in Palm Beach, Florida.
The former president allegedly took classified documents packed in boxes from the White House and stored them in various parts of his home, including the ballroom, bathrooms, and his shower. Smith points out that Mar-a-Lago is also an ‘active social club’ with thousands of people passing through its doors each year.
Trump allegedly had an aide delete security camera footage showing the documents in question being moved.
According to the indictment, the documents contain top secret details of America’s nuclear programs, vulnerabilities of the United States to a foreign attack, and how they may respond to such an attack.
The court case will eventually take place in Florida, but the Trump-appointed judge in charge, Aileen Cannon, has indicated that Jack Smith’s preference for a July hearing pre-election is ‘unrealistic’.

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January 6
In what many legal minds view as his most serious charges, Trump is accused of conspiring to defraud the United States government, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiring against rights, and obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s case claims that Trump knowingly spread falsehoods of a stolen election after Joe Biden was declared the winner, then tried to pressure his Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election and exploited the violence that took place afterward.
Over 1,200 people have been arrested for their involvement in the attack at the Capitol building on January 6 2021, with 450 or so facing jail time.
Trump claims that, as he was president at the time, he should be immune from prosecution.
The Supreme Court, which contains three Trump appointees and a third of all Justices, has agreed to hear Trump’s case and opposing arguments on April 22 before ruling.
The delay from the Supreme Court decision to hear arguments is a big win for the 45th President, who doesn’t want to stand trial before the November election.

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No pardon
The New York criminal case against Donald Trump will likely be the first to take place. It involves accusations he used business expenses to cover up infidelity; he is alleged to have paid former adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money via his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who was repaid by Trump. The payment was allegedly written off as a legal expense.
Cohen has already served over a year in federal prison for campaign finance wrongdoing and lying to Congress; jury selection will begin on March 25.
The case in New York has overlapped with the criminal racketeering case in Georgia.
Trump is accused of violating The Georgia RICO act which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. There are 18 co-defendants, including Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Trump was recorded speaking with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, making a slew of disproven allegations of voter fraud and asking him to ‘find 11,780 votes’.
Both Georgia and New York are state cases, which means that even if Trump wins in November, he could not pardon himself if found guilty.