At the time of this writing, Donald Trump has been the President of the United States for 7 days. Suffice to say, much has happened, and a lot of it is scary. So what do we need to know moving forward over the next seven days? What about the week after that? Here's what's been happening over this first tumultuous week. Keep in mind that this isn't an exhaustive list; a lot of controversy has happened this week, and this just barely scratches the surface.

1. Trump tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo claiming to depict the crowd at his inauguration, and which will hang in the White House press room. The photo is dated January 21st, 2017, the day after the inauguration, and actually depicts the Women’s March, the largest protest in United States history.

2. Trump ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen, ordered a hiring freeze on some government agencies, and ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after retweeting factual side-by-side photos comparing the inauguration crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations. It is later revealed that Trump personally pressured the National Parks Department to back up his claims of a larger inauguration crowd size.

3. On the same thread, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press briefing in which he attacked the mainstream media for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying (falsely) that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.” Kellyanne Conway then defended Sean Spicer’s false claims as “alternative facts” on national television news, which prompted memes and a spike in sales for George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Trump continued to dismiss news organizations which reported critically on him as "fake news," while touting the reputability of Fox News and its affiliates.

4. Trump signed an executive order to begin immediate construction on the border wall between the United States and Mexico which will span 2,000 miles and cost billions of dollars. Paul Ryan conceded that the wall will be paid for by "taxpayers" who will eventually be compensated, ending the Trump campaign's previous dialogue asserting that Mexico exclusively would pay for the wall. In order to pay for the wall, plans were proposed for a 20% tax on Mexican imports. Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto then cancelled a scheduled meeting with Trump in response to building tensions over the wall.

5. Trump called for a voter fraud "probe" and continued to repeat an unfounded claim that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally, costing him the popular vote. He then went on to assert that registering to vote in two states constitutes voter fraud (note: chief White House strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's own daughter Tiffany are both registered to vote in two states), though registering in two states in itself is not illegal provided the voter does not actually cast a vote in both states. He also insisted that the number of "dead" voters was disproportionately high during this election cycle - another false claim.

6. Trump signed executive order to advance with plans to continue construction on the Keystone Pipeline and and the Dakota Access Pipeline, despite moves from President Obama to block both. The North Dakota state congress additionally began consideration for a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.

7. Trump drafted an executive order halting the immigration of refugees into the United States. The executive order also halts immigration for at least 30 days from a number of predominantly Muslim countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Trump is additionally expected (as of the time of this writing) to sign an executive order approving "extreme vetting" for citizens of certain countries entering the United States.

8. Trump reinstated the "global gag order," which prohibits any involvement with abortion for an NGO (non-governmental organization). Organizations (even organizations which use their own funding) which promote or support abortion risk losing funding from the United States government for any type of family planning. This move comes despite the fact that such global gag rules have no evidence of reducing rates of abortion.

9. Notoriously anti-LGBTQIA+ Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd," setting a precedent for future clashes with the LGBTQIA+ community.

10. At the time of this writing, British Prime Minister Theresa May (who spent the week leading up to this meeting praising Trump's first initiatives as President) is scheduled to meet with Trump to discuss the future of trade between the United States and Britain, despite Britain facing legal barriers against entering a trade agreement with any country until their exit from the European Union becomes official, a move that is likely two years away. This comes after Trump's promise to renegotiate NAFTA and his abrupt withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as well as an ominous "America First" inaugural sentiment, all of which increased fears that the United States, which moved increasingly toward globalism in the past 8 years, will grow more nationalistically centered with a closed-door trade policy.

11. White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told the New York Times that the media needs to "keep its mouth shut," sparking fear over the free rights of the press and cementing Trump's role in silencing media outlets he does not agree with.

12. In the days leading up to the inauguration, Trump also named several government departments, initiatives, and agencies which would either be eliminated fully, have its government funding cut, or be privatized. Here is an abridged list:

- The Department of Justice's Violence Against Women programs as well as the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice

- National Endowment for the Arts (including NPR & PBS) & National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

- The Minority Business Development Agency, the Economic Development Administration, and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership

- The Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services and the Legal Services Corporation

- The Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the Office of Fossil Energy.

For a full list of government departments, initiatives, and agencies which will be either privatized or eliminated entirely, visit this link.