Trump inaugural address: President heralds a 'golden age of America' in promise-filled speech
President Donald Trump declared that the "golden age of America begins right now" and vowed that the nation's challenges would be "annihilated" by his MAGA movement in a bare-knuckled inaugural address Monday, which echoed the themes and grievances of his trademark rally speeches.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Monday that the "golden age of America begins right now" and vowed that the nation's challenges would be "annihilated" by his MAGA movement in a bare-knuckled inaugural address that echoed the themes and grievances of his trademark rally speeches.
Trump, in a relatively sedate and focused style, spoke for nearly 40 minutes in the Capitol rotunda after he was sworn in as the United States' 47th president. In a second set of freestyle remarks in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall, Trump attacked political adversaries, called the 2020 election "totally rigged" and blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for his supporters' attacking the building on Jan. 6, 2021, in a futile effort to overturn the 2020 election. In the evening, at a rally in Washington's Capital One Arena, Trump went further in assailing Democrats and praising Jan. 6 "hostages" who were convicted at trial.
Trump joined Grover Cleveland as the only men to lose the presidency and then reclaim it. He took the oath of office and delivered his inaugural address indoors because of subfreezing temperatures in Washington.
Trump spoke from the perspective of a man on a mission of destiny after surviving a would-be assassin's bullet this summer at a Pennsylvania rally.
“I was saved by God to make America great again,” Trump said, adding that he wants to be a “peacemaker and unifier.”
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