Same thing under Biden. Flurry of activity the first week.
Trump asked a lot of favors for a lot of people for a lot of votes.
Each targeted group needs their promise kept and they’re mostly easy ones. Release this person, release these people, issue a study to see if it’s feasible to do this other promise, etc.
The importance of fulfilling (easy ones) or seeming to fulfill (harder/impossible ones) VERY QUICKLY is for this:
He’ll be able to say later,
“What are you complaining about? I gave you what you asked for!”
It’s not an uncommon technique in certain kinds of relationships, both in politics and in dating/marriages and other difference-of-power relationships.