Trump’s first week has been as eventful, and controversial, as expected. Immediately after his inauguration, reports comparing the staggering difference in crowd size between Trump’s inauguration and Obama’s ’08 election surfaced, suggesting that Trump has failed to unified Americans post-election. Members of the Trump administration, including Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, suggested that the crowd size was the largest ever, ignoring blatant evidence to the contrary. Kellyanne justified this position, suggesting that they were presenting “alternative facts” to what actually happened.

The day after his inauguration, protesters marched in Washington DC and nearly 800 other locations around the world as part of the Women’s March aimed at challenging Donald Trump’s misogynistic views. The Women’s March drew staggeringly large crowds, with nearly 3.3 million participating in the U.S. and another 1.7 million in countries around the world. Donald Trump responded to the protests in two separate tweets, criticizing them but acknowledging their first amendment right to protest.

Once he was settled in to the Oval Office, Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of executive actions, including rolling back Obamacare, withdrawing from TPP, and construction on the border wall. Environmentalists in particular have been terrified of Trump’s first executive actions, which have included placing a gag order on climate change-based social media accounts, preventing agencies from releasing scientific data to the public, and pushing through the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. In response to Trump’s gag order over 50 “Alternative” twitter accounts have been created by employees in these agencies in protest, the largest of which has garnered 1.2 million followers in less than a week.

Trump’s most controversial executive order by far has been his ban on immigrants from 7 Muslim-majority countries, including Syria. Critics are calling the move a violation of Constitutional law, and an affront to the first amendment rights of Muslim immigrants. This law has created numerous unintended consequences, including trapping people from these countries in the United States. If they have family outside of the US, they cannot visit them unless they do not wish to return to the United States. Numerous individuals have also been trapped in airports, because at the time of the executive order’s signing, they were on a plane to the US.

Beneath all of this turmoil, an investigation into Russia’s role in the election has begun. Some officials in the Trump administration, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, were in contact with Russian nationals during the campaign. Intelligence officials are concerned that this may have compromised the security of the election.

Students at Wayne Hills are on edge about Trump’s first week. “I really am nervous about the future of our country,” said WHHS senior Jack Rosky. “I expected things like this to happen, its just surreal actually witnessing them happening.” Trump shows no sign of slowing down for the rest of his first 100 days, and tensions will likely grow further as Trump passes more and more executive orders.