President Donald Trump declared he was “saved by God to make America great again” in his Inauguration Day speech on Monday, promising a bring the United States right into a “golden age.”
At the Inauguration Day ceremony held on the United States Capitol Rotunda on Monday, a newly sworn-in Trump briefly talked concerning the attack on his life on July 13, 2024, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump, hitting the presidential candidate’s right ear. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper several minutes later.
“The journey to reclaim our republic has not been a straightforward one,” Trump said. “Those who want to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom, and indeed, to take my life.
“An assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then and imagine much more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I used to be saved by God to make America great again.”
Trump called his inauguration “liberation day” and guaranteed Americans “we won’t forget our country, we won’t forget our Constitution, and we won’t forget our God.”
The forty fifth and forty seventh president also declared that “the golden age of America begins immediately,” adding that “from this present day forward, our country will flourish, and be respected again all around the world.”
“We might be the envy of each nation and we won’t allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer,” Trump continued. “I’ll, very simply, put America first.”
Trump said he was signing a series of executive orders on various issues, including ones to tackle the illegal immigration crisis on the US southern border, counter inflation, and use the nation’s extensive natural gas reserves to fight energy issues.
He also touted the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, eliminating the “Green New Deal,” and promising the tip of the “weaponizing” of the federal government against “political opponents.”
Trump also promised to remove DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programming, declaring that “we are going to forge a society that’s colour-blind and merit-based,” and said the federal government will only recognize “two genders, female and male.”
The president also prolonged his appreciation to black and Hispanic communities and said in honour of Martin Luther King Jr, “we are going to strive to make his dream a reality.”
The swearing-in ceremony was held contained in the US Capitol as a result of the extremely cold temperatures outdoors, the primary time an inauguration event was held indoors since 1985.
After Trump was sworn in because the forty seventh president, a choir and orchestral performance of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe was performed on the Capitol.
On the day before he was sworn in, Trump held a rally at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, vowing to “act with historic speed and strength to repair each crisis facing our country.”
“By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders can have come to a halt, and all of the illegal border trespassers will, in some form or one other, be on their way back home,” he said.
“Together, we’ll cut your taxes, end inflation, slash your prices, getting them back down, raise your wages and convey 1000’s of factories back to the USA right where they belong.”
Trump assured attendees that, under his administration, schools “will teach our youngsters to like our country, to honour our history and to all the time respect our great American flag, and we are going to get critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools.”
