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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump said a "tide of alteration is sweeping the country," telling Americans during his inaugural code Monday that helium is "optimistic" that the U.S. is opening a "new epoch of nationalist success," portion declaring that the country's "decline is over."
Trump addressed the federation connected Monday aft taking the oath of bureau for the 2nd clip and being sworn successful arsenic the 47th president of the United States.
"The aureate property of America begins close now," Trump said successful his inaugural address. "From this time forward, our state volition flourish and beryllium respected again each implicit the world. We volition beryllium the envy of each nation, and we volition not let ourselves to beryllium taken vantage of immoderate longer."
DONALD TRUMP SWORN IN AS 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
"During each azygous time of the Trump administration, I volition precise simply enactment America first," Trump said.
Trump vowed that U.S. "sovereignty volition beryllium reclaimed, our information volition beryllium restored. The scales of justness volition beryllium rebalanced. The vicious, convulsive and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our authorities volition end. And our apical precedence volition beryllium to make a federation that is proud, prosperous and free."
Trump promised that helium would not usage the authorities to spell aft governmental opponents, saying it was thing helium knew thing about, a notation to his claims of persecution by the Biden administration.
"But first, we indispensable beryllium honorable astir the challenges we face," Trump said. "While they are plentiful, they volition beryllium annihilated by this large momentum that the satellite is present witnessing successful the United States of America."
But, the president said successful his archetypal remarks to the federation arsenic the 47th president, "our authorities confronts a situation of trust."
"My caller predetermination is simply a mandate to wholly and wholly reverse a horrible betrayal and each of these galore betrayals that person taken place, and to springiness the radical backmost their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and so their state from this infinitesimal on, America's diminution is over," Trump said.
TRUMP TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON DAY ONE
The president delivered his remarks from the Capitol Rotunda Monday owed to an arctic blast that deed the nation’s capital, with frigid temperatures forcing the inaugural ceremonies to beryllium moved indoors for the archetypal clip successful 4 decades.
Trump, who won the Electoral College and fashionable vote, defeating now-former Vice President Kamala Harris successful a landslide, has vowed that his 2nd medication volition bring "the aureate property of America."
Trump was moving against then-President Biden, who was seeking re-election, until July 2024. But aft the 2 debated for the archetypal time, and aft a disastrous show by Biden, the incumbent was pressured by Democrat insiders to suspend his statesmanlike bid.
Biden made the announcement successful a societal media station and endorsed Harris to beryllium the Democratic statesmanlike nominee successful his place, moving his vice president to the apical of the ticket.
The determination for Biden to driblet retired of the contention came conscionable days aft the Republican National Convention (RNC) finished, and aft Trump and his moving mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, formally accepted the GOP nomination.
But Trump, conscionable days earlier accepting the Republican nomination, survived an assassination effort astatine a rally connected July 13 successful Butler, Pennsylvania. During the event, Trump was showing disconnected a illustration highlighting however amerciable migration skyrocketed nether the Biden-Harris administration. As helium turned toward the chart, helium was deed by a slug that pierced the precocious portion of his close receptor by the now-deceased would-be-assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Weeks later, successful September, different would-be-assassin hid himself successful the bushes astatine Trump International Golf Course successful West Palm Beach, Florida. The gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, had an AK-47-style firearm pointing done the obstruction toward Trump arsenic helium was golfing. Trump was rushed disconnected the play people by U.S. Secret Service agents, unharmed.
TRUMP TO DEPLOY MILITARY TO BORDER, END BIDEN PAROLE POLICIES IN FLURRY OF DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Trump reflected connected his near-death experience, and his unprecedented trials and ineligible battles passim the 2024 run cycle.
"Over the past 8 years, I person been tested and challenged much than immoderate president successful our 250-year history, and I've learned a batch on the way. The travel to reclaim our republic has not been an casual one, and that I tin archer you. Those who privation to halt our origin person tried to instrumentality my state and so to instrumentality my life," Trump said. "Just a fewer months ago, successful a beauteous Pennsylvania field, an assassin's slug ripped done my ear."
He added: "But I felt past and judge adjacent much truthful now, that my beingness was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to marque America large again."
Trump, connected his archetypal time successful office, is expected to instrumentality much than 200 enforcement actions – a massive, archetypal question of argumentation priorities focused connected borderline security, energy, reducing the outgo of surviving for American families, ending DEI programs crossed the national government, and more, Fox News Digital exclusively reported.
Trump volition besides present connected his run committedness to rotation backmost the policies of his predecessor connected his archetypal time successful office. Trump volition end "catch and release"; intermission each offshore upwind leases; terminate the electrical conveyance mandate; abolish the Green New Deal; retreat from the Paris clime accord; and instrumentality respective large steps to asseverate statesmanlike power implicit the national bureaucracy.
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