Two brothers convicted in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack became the first of the rioters to be freed late Monday after President Trump issued Day 1 pardons to hundreds of the participants.

Andrew and Matthew Valentin, from Stroudsburg, Pa., were released from the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, just before midnight, Trump administration officials announced outside the jail — adding that Elon Musk was “the mastermind” behind their sudden freedom.

“The first two January 6 defendants have been released. This is a few hours after President Trump signed his historic pardon,” the White House liaison to the Justice Department, Paul Ingrassia, told reporters, calling the pardon a “monumental moment in our history.”

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President Trump vowed to "turn this country around" during his brief remarks at the Liberty Ball while crowing about the strength of his supporters.

'We're going to turn this country around and fast. We have, we have assets like nobody else," Trump declared.

“We needed three because there’s such support,” he later remarked of the number of inaugural balls.

"YMCA" was performed by the Village People after Trump finished up his brief speech.

Trump will speak at one final ball before returning to the White House.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived at the Liberty Ball, their second inaugural ball of the night. Music by Elvis Presley played in the background as they entered.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, walked in shortly thereafter.

The first and second couples danced at the Commander-in-Chief Ball just before this one.

Trump's grown children also began dancing with their spouses.

President Trump used a sword to cut a giant cake for the Commander-in-Chief ball. The cake featured his preferred design for Air Force One.

"Does anyone want some cake," Trump asked gleefully.

"YMCA" played after he finished making his cuts and Trump danced to it with the sword.

The Commander-in-Chief ball featured a video call with US service members stationed in South Korea.

"How's Kim Jong Un doing," President Trump immediately asked once the feed got on the screen.

The service members largely sidestepped the question about the North Korean tyrant.

"I developed a pretty good relationship with him, but he's a tough cookie," Trump later added.

After a brief dance at the Commander-in-Chief ball, President Trump extolled the military service members in attendance.

"There's nowhere else I'd rather be tonight than with some of the greatest American patriots of all the men and women of the United States military," Trump proclaimed.

The ball featured members of every branch of the US armed forces, including the Space Force, which he created under his first term.

Trump also crowed about his plans to attack so-called woke military policies.

"There's only one focus, defeating America's enemies. We're not going to be defeated. We're not going to be humiliated," Trump declared.

"We will replenish the pride of our armed forces and the recruitment crisis."

President Trump entered the Commander-in-Chief ball with first lady Melania Trump.

The two promptly began dancing.

This is the first of three inaugural balls that he will attend this evening. Trump was delayed in attending due to events he had slated in the day running over.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha also entered the ball.

President Trump yanked any security clearances that his ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton may have.

Citing Bolton's book penned in the wake of his White House departure, Trump accused him of being reckless with sensitive information.

Trump and Bolton, a famously hawkish foreign policy luminary, have exchanged broadsides repeatedly since the first administration.

Friends and family of imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters waited and cheered outside Washington's DC Central Detention Facility on Monday.

President Trump announced a sweeping pardon for over a thousand participants, just hours after being sworn back into office.

President Trump made an appearance during the halftime segment of Monday's College Football Playoff championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame.

"This has been an historic and exciting day for our country," Trump said in a pre-taped statement.

"In recent years our people have suffered greatly, but starting now we're going to bring America and make it safer, richer and prouder than ever before."

Trump was sworn in as the United States' 47th president on Monday in the Capital Rotunda.

Trump added during the address that the United States "will stop wars and lead the world to peace."

"We will be admired again, admired like we haven't been in many, many years."

Soon after becoming commander in chief, he signed a swarm of executive orders — including an effort to salvage TikTok, curb inflation and remove the US from the Paris Accords.

"The golden age of America has just begun," Trump said to finish off his statement. "To all of the players, fans watching tonight I know it's been a long and difficult journey...

"Let the better team win, and I'm going to enjoy watching it."

The Buckeyes led the Fighting Irish going into halftime 21-7.

Trumponomics has roared back into the White House as President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at ushering in a "golden age of America" by taking a sledgehammer to the regulatory state and ramping up energy production.

Much of Trump's Day One economic agenda centered around energy policy, where Trump dusted off the playbook to and reversed a spate of Biden-era policies restricting oil leasing, setting goals for electric vehicle output and more.

"The biggest factor for inflation is energy. They screwed up my energy policy," Trump said during a gaggle with reporters while signing executive orders. "We're going to make a lot of money from energy."

Trump also signed an executive order that was specific to inflation and directed federal agencies to mobilize for an all-of-government approach to tackle the cost of living crisis.

But his advisers believe that scrapping Biden's old energy policy is paramount to giving the economy a boost.

"The President is taking these actions as soon as possible here on day one, so that we can lower prices as soon as possible for the American people," a White House official explained to reporters.