WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1.” According to his own statements, he’s got a lot to do on that first day in the White House.

His list includes starting up the mass deportation of migrants, reshaping the federal government by firing potentially thousands of federal employees he believes are secretly working against him, and pardoning people arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

When he took office in 2017, he had a long list, too, including immediately renegotiating trade deals, deporting migrants and rooting out government corruption. Those didn’t happen at once.

How many executive orders in the first week? “There will be tens of them. I can assure you of that,” Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told Fox News on Sunday.

Late Saturday, The Associated Press called Trump the winner in Arizona after vote updates put the state out of reach for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump has now swept all seven of the presidential battlegrounds, winning 312 electoral votes, with 226 for Harris. The number to clinch the presidency is 270.

In his second term, here’s a look at what Trump has said he will do and whether he can do it the moment he steps into the White House.

Make most of his criminal cases go away

Trump has said that “within two seconds” of taking office that he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who has been prosecuting two federal cases against him. Smith is evaluating how to wind down the cases because of long-standing Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted.

Smith charged Trump last year with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Trump can’t pardon himself in his state conviction in New York in a hush money case, but he could seek to leverage his status as president-elect to try to set aside or expunge his felony conviction and stave off a potential prison sentence.

A case in Georgia, where Trump was charged with election interference, will likely be the only criminal case left standing. It would probably be put on hold until at least 2029, at the end of his presidential term. The Georgia prosecutor on the case just won reelection.

Pardon supporters who attacked the Capitol

More than 1,500 people have been charged since a mob of Trump supporters spun up by the outgoing president attacked the Capitol nearly four years ago.

Trump launched his general election campaign in March by not merely trying to rewrite the history of that riot, but positioning the violent siege and failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. As part of that, he called the rioters “unbelievable patriots” and promised to help them “the first day we get into office.”

As president, Trump can pardon anyone convicted in federal court, District of Columbia Superior Court or in a military court-martial. He can stop the prosecution of rioters by telling his attorney general to stand down.

Fire government workers

Trump could begin the process of stripping tens of thousands of career employees of their civil service protections, so they could be more easily fired.

He wants to do two things: drastically reduce the federal workforce, which he has long said is an unnecessary drain, and to “totally obliterate the deep state” — perceived enemies who, he believes, are hiding in government jobs.

Within the government, there are hundreds of politically appointed professionals who come and go with administrations. There also are tens of thousands of career officials, who work under Democratic and Republican presidents. They are considered apolitical workers whose expertise and experience help keep the government functioning.

Congress failed to pass a bill protecting federal employees. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s chief human resources agency, finalized a rule last spring against reclassifying workers, so Trump might have to spend months — or even years — unwinding it.

Begin mass deportations

Last month at his Madison Square Garden rally in New York, Trump said: “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.”

Trump can direct his administration to begin the effort the minute he arrives in office, but it’s much more complicated to actually deport the nearly 11 million people who are believed to be in the United States illegally. That would require a huge, trained law enforcement force, massive detention facilities, airplanes to move people and nations willing to accept them.

Trump has said he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act. That rarely used 1798 law allows the president to deport anyone who is not a citizen and is from a country with which there is a “declared war” or a threatened or attempted “invasion or predatory incursion.”

He has spoken about deploying the National Guard, which can be activated on orders from a governor. Trump adviser Stephen Miller said sympathetic GOP governors could send troops to nearby states that refuse to participate.

Asked about the cost of the plan, Trump told NBC News: “It’s not a question of a price tag.”