In his inaugural address, Trump vowed a “new era of national success” and said America’s “decline is over”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump said “a wave of change is sweeping the nation,” telling Americans in his inaugural address Monday that he was “optimistic” that the United States was beginning a “new era of national success” while declaring that the country The “recession is over.”

Trump addressed the nation on Monday after being sworn in for the second time and sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.

“America’s golden age begins now,” Trump said in his inaugural address. “From today on, our country will once again prosper and be respected around the world. We will be the envy of nations and we will never allow ourselves to be taken advantage of again.”

Donald Trump sworn in as 47th President of the United States

“Every day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put America first,” Trump said.

Trump vowed that America’s “sovereignty will be taken back and our security will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The weaponization of evil, violence and injustice by the Department of Justice and our government will end. Our first priority will be to establish A proud, prosperous and free nation.

Trump promised he would not use the government to go after political opponents, saying it was something he was aware of, referring to his claims he was being persecuted by the Biden administration.

“But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face,” Trump said. “While they are numerous, they will be wiped out by the tremendous momentum the world is seeing right now in the United States of America.”

But in his first address to the nation as the 47th president, the president said, “Our government faces a crisis of confidence.”

“My recent election is a mission to reverse the horrific betrayal and all the betrayals that have occurred, and to restore from this moment to the people their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and even their freedom, America’s The decline is over,” Trump said.

Trump will take more than 200 executive actions on day one

The president spoke in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday as arctic blasts rocked the nation’s capital and frigid temperatures forced the inauguration to be moved indoors for the first time in four decades.

Trump, who won the Electoral College and popular vote in a landslide victory over now-former Vice President Kamala Harris, vowed that his second administration would usher in a “golden age for America.”

Trump was running until July 2024 against then-President Biden, who was seeking re-election. campaign.

Biden announced the news in a social media post and endorsed Harris to succeed him as the Democratic presidential nominee, putting his vice president over the top.

Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race came just days after the Republican National Convention (RNC) and after Trump and his running mate, Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance, formally accepted the Republican nomination.

But just days before accepting the Republican nomination, Trump suffered an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. During the event, Trump showed a chart highlighting how illegal immigration has surged under the Biden-Harris administration. As he turned to the diagram, a bullet from the late would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks struck him in the upper right ear.

Weeks later in September, another would-be assassin hid in the bushes at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The shooter, Ryan Wesley Routh, pointed an AK-47-style rifle through a fence at Trump while he was golfing. Trump was rushed off a golf course by U.S. Secret Service agents and escaped unharmed.

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Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool, Reuters)

Trump reflected on his near-death experience and his unprecedented trials and legal battles in the 2024 campaign cycle.

“Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history, and I have learned a lot along the way. The journey to take back our republic will not be easy, and I can Let me tell you, those who want to stop our cause are trying to take away my freedom and even my life,” Trump said. “Just a few months ago, in a beautiful field in Pennsylvania, an assassin’s bullet nicked my ear.”

He added: “But I felt then, and I believe even more now, that my life was saved for a reason. God saved me and made America great again.”

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Trump is expected to take more than 200 executive actions on his first day in office. The first wave of large-scale policy priorities will focus on border security, energy, lowering the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, etc., Fox News Digital Exclusive Report.

Trump will also fulfill his campaign promise to undo the policies of his predecessor on his first day in office. Trump will end catch-and-release; suspend all offshore wind leasing; end electric vehicle mandates; repeal the Green New Deal; withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement; and take several major steps to maintain presidential control of the federal bureaucracy.

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