Donald Trump is inaugurated

President Trump Hails Start Of "Golden Age Of America" In Inaugural Speech

Update (1325 ET):

Welcome back, Mr. President.

President Trump declared, "America's decline is over," during his second inaugural address delivered in the US Capitol Rotunda. He described the election as a mandate to end "a horrible betrayal" and pledged to prioritize an "America First" agenda. The president also vowed to "rebalance" the scales of justice.

"Our sovereignty will be reclaimed, our safety will be restored, the scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end," Trump said.

He said climate, education, and public health policies will change "starting today and very quickly."

Trump promised to sign an executive order to "immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America."

He stated, "From this moment on, America's decline is over."

The president then spoke about unity and criticized the Biden administration: "In the United States of America, as we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair ... We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad."

Trump continued on the subject of unity: "National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before in everything we do. My administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution. And we will not forget our God."

Trump shifted his speech to the migrant invasion crisis. He said that "criminal aliens" would be deported, catch and release would end, and US troops would secure the border, adding that drug cartels would soon be deemed terrorist organizations.

"As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before," Trump spoke about the migrant crisis that Democrats and their globalist buddies unleashed across the Heartland.

Trump addressed the inflation monster, saying, "I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices."

"We will drill baby drill," Trump said, adding that a national energy emergency would be declared. We discussed this earlier...

Trump's policy rollout has been as expected and is consistent with his campaign pledges.

He said he would sign a "series of historic executive orders" and "with these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense."

Regarding gender, Trump said: "As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government, that there are only two genders: male and female."

The president noted that all efforts to "​socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life" will be halted dead in its tracks. Instead, he said, he will "forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based."

Trump then declared that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the "Gulf of America."

He praised President McKinley for the Panama Canal and his efforts during the Spanish-American war. He stated, "China is operating the Panama Canal," indicating, "We're taking it back."

Trump then spoke about space and wanted to "plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars."

He pledged to "end the chronic disease epidemic"...

During Trump's speech, the White House released a summary of Trump's America First Priorities:

Make America Safe Again

• President Trump will take bold action to secure our border and protect American communities. This includes ending Biden's catch-and-release policies, reinstating Remain in Mexico, building the wall, ending asylum for illegal border crossers, cracking down on criminal sanctuaries, and enhancing vetting and screening of aliens.

• President Trump's deportation operation will address the record border crossings of criminal aliens under the prior administration.

• The president is suspending refugee resettlement, after communities were forced to house large and unsustainable populations of migrants, straining community safety and resources.

• The Armed Forces, including the National Guard, will engage in border security, which is national security, and will be deployed to the border to assist existing law enforcement personnel.

• President Trump will begin the process of designating cartels, including the dangerous Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations and use the Alien Enemies Act to remove them.

• The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty as the appropriate punishment for heinous crimes against humanity, including those who kill law enforcement officers and illegal migrants who maim and murder Americans.

Make America Affordable And Energy Dominant Again

• The president will unleash American energy by ending Biden's policies of climate extremism, streamlining permitting, and reviewing for rescission all regulations that impose undue burdens on energy production and use, including mining and processing of non-fuel minerals.

• President Trump's energy actions empower consumer choice in vehicles, showerheads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers.

• President Trump will declare an energy emergency and use all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure.

• President Trump's energy policies will end leasing to massive wind farms that degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers.

• President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.

• All agencies will take emergency measures to reduce the cost of living.

• President Trump will announce the America First Trade Policy.

• America will no longer be beholden to foreign organizations for our national tax policy, which punishes American businesses.

Drain The Swamp

• The president will usher a Golden Age for America by reforming and improving the government bureaucracy to work for the American people. He will freeze bureaucrat hiring except in essential areas to end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists buried into the federal workforce. He will pause burdensome and radical regulations not yet in effect that Biden announced.

• President Trump is announcing an unprecedented slate of executive orders for rescission.

• President Trump is planning for improved accountability of government bureaucrats. The American people deserve the highest-quality service from people who love our country.

• The president will also return federal workers to work, as only 6% of employees currently work in person.

• President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law. President Trump is also ending the unconstitutional censorship by the federal government. No longer will government employees pick and require the erasure of entirely true speech.

• On the president's direction, the State Department will have an America-First foreign policy.

Bring Back American Values

• The president will establish male and female as biological reality and protect women from radical gender ideology.

• American landmarks will be named to appropriately honor our Nation's history.

White House website: "America Is Back"...

Listen to Trump's speech here:

Now, it's time for a barrage of executive orders.

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President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance are set to take the oath of office in the US Capitol Rotunda in just a few short hours, officially ushering in the era of Trump 2.0 ('America First'). The ceremony marks the peaceful power transfer from the Biden-Harris regime to Trump-Vance-MAGA.

Trump and Vance will be sworn in at 11:40 AM ET inside the US Capitol Rotunda, a decision attributed to dangerously cold temperatures outside (though speculation about security concerns, such as potential drone threats...).

Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to Trump on the Lincoln Bible and a Bible gifted to him by his mother in 1955. Then, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will administer the oath of office to Vance.

President Joe Biden's and Vice President Kamala Harris' terms will officially end at noon, as directed by the 20th Amendment in the Constitution.

Trump, as president, will then deliver his inaugural address, where he is expected to lay out the America First vision for his second term.

According to CBS News, the inaugural ceremonies were planned by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota.

Klobuchar's committee oversees eight events on Inauguration Day:

• the procession to the Capitol;

• the vice president's swearing-in ceremony;

• the president's swearing-in ceremony;

• the inaugural address;

• the honorary departure of the outgoing president and vice president;

• the signing ceremony, during which the new president signs nominations, memorandums, proclamations or executive orders;

• the inaugural luncheon;

• the pass in review, during which the president and vice president review military troops;

• and the presidential parade, which will take place at Capital One arena in downtown Washington due to the cold.

Exact Timing of Today's Inauguration Ceremony:

After the inaugural ceremony, the Trump-Vance administration will be hard at work - expected to issue "close to 100" executive orders, if not more...

CNN cited sources that Stephen Miller, Trump's incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, reviewed some of the planned executive orders with senior congressional Republicans on Sunday.

One of the executive orders Trump is expected to issue is "declaring a national energy emergency..."

We expect a barrage of lawsuits from DC swamp law firms to hit the Trump administration in the hours and days after taking power to slow the 'America First' progress that will upend many swamp creatures.

As for the state of the economy as Trump enters the White House, Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, told clients earlier:

On Inauguration Day 2025, the US economy is in the sweet spot of healthy growth and gradual disinflation. We estimate that real GDP grew 2.6% in Q4 and expect a similar pace in 2025. Our forecast is ½pp above the latest Bloomberg consensus, in part because we are still more confident than others that real disposable personal income will grow solidly in 2025 and in part because of a sturdy forecast for business investment. That said, we are not as far above consensus as for most of the last two years because other forecasters have become more optimistic given ongoing strength in the data and, in some cases, high expectations for the growth-positive aspects of the Trump agenda.

Maybe Hatzius forgot to mention that the economy's "sweet spot" is being produced by debt rising $1 trillion every 100 days.

We suspect BlueSky users suffering from 'TDS' will rage this afternoon.

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BREAKING NEWS: Trump Announces He Is Sending Troops To Southern Border To Stop Illegal Immigration

Freedom of speech

This might be my response, but I have broader concerns than George.

RT’s view

Only two genders, flag on Mars and no more war: Key takeaways from Trump’s inaugural address

The newly sworn-in US president has outlined the priorities for his new term

US President Donald Trump gives his inaugural address after being sworn in at the US Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. © Getty Images / Pool / Pool

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. He is only the second president ever to be elected to non-consecutive terms. In his inaugural address, Trump outlined how he intends to create an American “golden age,” touching on issues from energy independence and immigration reform, to ending wars around the world and colonizing Mars.

Here are the key takeaways from his speech.

‘Golden age of America’

“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump announced, adding that the US “will soon be greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before.”

He described the past four years as a series of “betrayals” of the American people by “a radical and corrupt establishment” and declared the date of his inauguration as “Liberation Day.”

“From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” Trump said, describing his upcoming executive actions as beginning “the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.”

Immigration emergency

Trump has announced an immediate halt to “all illegal entry” into the US across the southern border, the reinstatement of his policy of making asylum seekers wait in Mexico, ending the practice of releasing illegal entrants into the US, and starting the deportation of “millions and millions of criminal aliens” back to their countries of origin.

READ MORE: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US president

Mexican drug cartels will be designated as foreign terrorist organizations, while the foreign criminal gangs that have taken hold in some US cities will be pursued under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the newly sworn-in president has said.

‘Drill, baby, drill’

The US is sitting on vast natural resources that can ensure its energy independence and global power, Trump argued. He said he would declare a national energy emergency, allowing new drilling for oil and gas, while abolishing the “green new deal” the Democrats tried to implement.

“We will export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it,” he said.

Tariffs and taxes

Trump announced his intention to make the US “a manufacturing nation once again.” He also vowed to overhaul trade policy to protect American workers, establishing the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and duties on imports.

“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he said.

The big gender question

The US is about to end the policy of “trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,” Trump said, announcing that as of Monday, the US government policy is that “there are only two genders – male and female.”

“We will forge a society that is color blind and merit-based,” the new president said, rejecting the “radical political theories and social experiments” inflicted upon Americans, including their military.

Wars not fought

Vowing to once again “build the strongest military the world has ever seen,” so the US can “reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth,” Trump said he intends to be a unifier and a peacemaker.

“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into,” he said.

READ MORE: Panama Canal chief responds to Trump’s demands

Gulf of Mexico and Panama Canal

The US will seek to regain control of the Panama Canal from Panama, which “totally violated” the 1977 treaty that handed it back by working with China, Trump announced during the inaugural speech.

He also said the Gulf of Mexico will be officially renamed the Gulf of America, and that the highest peak in North America will once again be known as Mount McKinley, after the 25th president. The official name was changed to Denali in 2015.

Trump did not make any mention of Greenland in the inaugural speech, even though he claimed in recent weeks that control over the autonomous Danish island was a matter of US national security.

US flag on Mars

It is time for Americans “once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization,” Trump said towards the end of his address, arguing the US needs to behave as a “growing nation,” that expands territory as well as wealth.

“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars,” he announced, referring to the doctrine of continental expansion from the early days of the US – and his backer Elon Musk’s ambition to settle another planet.

Vladimir Putin congratulates US President Trump on his inauguration and says Russia is ready for peaceful relations with the United States.

About going to Mars… Look at two responses.

That’s Barron Trump on the right

HIGH ALERT! THIS IS A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE UNITED STATES

We just got multiple data points that show some very scary economic news that will hit American banks and consumers very hard in the next few months. Biden isn’t just leaving office—he’s handing Trump a financial time bomb, and the timer is already ticking. This isn’t hyperbole; it’s reality, and we are just months away from seeing it explode

Will he?