President Donald Trump91裸聊视频檚 featured similar themes to his first: a sweeping indictment of the country he inherits and grand promises to fix its problems.
Eight years ago, Trump described 91裸聊视频淎merican carnage91裸聊视频� and promised to end it immediately. On Monday, he declared that the country91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频渄ecline91裸聊视频� will end immediately, ushering in 91裸聊视频渢he golden age of America.91裸聊视频�
Trump added a long list of policies that sounded more like a State of the Union speech than an Inauguration Day speech. But the broad themes were fundamentally Trumpian, setting himself up as a national savior.
Breaking tradition, the Republican president delivered his remarks from due to the bitter cold outside. He spoke to several hundred elected officials and pro-Trump VIPs, among them.
Here are some takeaways from the speech:
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From the start, Trump91裸聊视频檚 speech tracked his campaign rally approach: big promises of national success due to his leadership, with plenty of sweeping indictments of the status quo.
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91裸聊视频淥ur sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced,91裸聊视频� he continued. 91裸聊视频淥ur top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free.91裸聊视频�
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He vowed to fulfill campaign promises to send troops to , boost domestic oil production and impose tariffs to 91裸聊视频渆nrich our citizens.91裸聊视频�
Trump calls America91裸聊视频檚 past leadership corrupt
Trump described America91裸聊视频檚 leadership over the last four years as incompetent and corrupt, echoing some of the darker rhetoric he promoted on a daily basis as a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.
He did not call out his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, or any other Democrats by name, but there was no question about whom he was talking.
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He said the current government protects dangerous immigrants instead of law-abiding citizens, protects foreign borders at the expense of American borders and 91裸聊视频渃an no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency.91裸聊视频�
And, as he often does, Trump cast him self as uniquely positioned to fix it all.
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As of Monday, Republicans of the federal government.
Recasting his assassination attempt
Trump mentioned in Butler, Pennsylvania, using striking language to describe how he survived.
91裸聊视频淚 was saved by God to make America great again,91裸聊视频� Trump said to applause.
The shooter was an apparently disturbed 20-year-old local man. Trump baselessly implied the attack was part of a conspiracy to stop him from returning to office.
Lying about wildfires
Trump91裸聊视频檚 lament about the state of the nation included disbelief that were still burning 91裸聊视频渨ithout a token defense.91裸聊视频�
That91裸聊视频檚 false. Firefighters have been battling the blazes since they erupted and have made significant progress. The Eaton fire is 87% contained, and the Palisades fire 59% contained, according to CalFire.
A different scene indoors
Inaugural speeches are traditionally delivered on the National Mall in front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters, many of them average voters from across America, who traveled great distance to witness history in person.
Not this one
Trump delivered his speech in front of a crowd estimated at only around 600 , which was limited to members of Congress, Cabinet nominees, Trump91裸聊视频檚 family, business leaders and political VIPs. In fact, a collection of tech titans, led by Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, were positioned in front of Cabinet members in some cases. And while the business leaders were allowed to bring their spouses, members of Congress were not. Thousands of his supporters watched a broadcast of the swearing-in at Capitol One Arena instead.
It91裸聊视频檚 noteworthy that four years ago, violent Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol Rotunda as members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence feared for their lives. Pence attended Monday, though his wife, former second lady Karen Pence, did not.
Here91裸聊视频檚 a look at some of Trump91裸聊视频檚 plans
The incoming president has been promising a flurry of executive action on Day 1, and there are executive orders already prepared for his signature. Those orders will end diversity, equity and inclusion funding, crack down on border crossings and ease regulations on oil and natural gas production.
The Republican has promised dozens of actions, though it91裸聊视频檚 unclear whether he91裸聊视频檒l make good on his pledge to do them all on his first day.
America First
Trump will sign an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. And the highest mountain in North America, now known as Mount Denali, will revert back to Mount McKinley, its name until President Barack Obama changed it.
The renaming is to honor 91裸聊视频淎merican greatness,91裸聊视频� according to a preview of the orders posted online by Trump91裸聊视频檚 incoming press secretary.
Immigration
Much of the executive action on the border is ripped from Trump91裸聊视频檚 first-term playbook. He will declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents and restrict refugees and asylum. He91裸聊视频檚 also pledged to restart a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait over the border in Mexico, but officials didn91裸聊视频檛 say whether Mexico would accept migrants again. During the previous effort, squalid and fetid camps grew on the border and were marred by gang violence. Trump is also promising to end birthright citizenship, but it91裸聊视频檚 unclear how he91裸聊视频檇 do it 91裸聊视频� it91裸聊视频檚 enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
He ended the CBP One app, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants.
The economy
Trump is set to sign orders to ease regulatory burdens on oil and natural gas production, including an order tied to Alaska. And he91裸聊视频檒l sign a memorandum seeking a broad-based government approach to bring down inflation. But he appears to be holding off at the moment on his threat to issue tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada and other countries. He also appears to be holding off on higher taxes on imports, with an incoming official pointing reporters to a Wall Street Journal story saying he will only sign a memorandum telling federal agencies to study trade issues.
Diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender rights
Trump is rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government. Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump91裸聊视频檚 campaign trail promises. One order would declare that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. And they91裸聊视频檙e to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes. Under the order, federal prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims would be segregated by sex as defined by the order. And federal taxpayer money could not be used to fund 91裸聊视频渢ransition services.91裸聊视频�
A separate order halts DEI programs, directing the White House to identify and end them within the government.
