Donald Trump launches radical agenda including plan to build nuclear missile defence system against North Korea and Iran, by Nick Allen.

President Donald Trump wasted no time launching the most radical agenda of any president in living memory, vowing to build a nuclear missile defence system to counter attacks from North Korea and Iran, and announcing a plan to eviscerate his predecessor’s actions on climate change.

Within minutes of his inauguration Mr Trump’s team posted a statement on the White House website announcing the “state-of-the-art” nuclear defence plan although no further details of cost, or whether it differed from technology already in development, were given. …

Only an hour after after finishing his inaugural address he signed his first three official orders.

They were a proclamation for a “National Day of Patriotism,” a formal document that will allow General James Mattis to serve as Defence Secretary, and a paper bearing formal nominations to the Senate.

Mr Trump’s team moved in to offices in the White House the moment he was sworn in, with one of them suggesting he could “erase the Obama presidency in several hours”.

hat-tip Stephen Neil