Washington: Donald Trump has vowed to usher in a new era of American greatness, minutes after being sworn in for a second term as president, amid accusations of two assassination attempts, a felony conviction and an attempt to reverse his 2020 election defeat. Later to complete an extraordinary political comeback. .
He said that America’s golden age is just beginning.
Trump took the oath of office to “preserve, protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution inside the U.S. Capitol under Chief Justice John Roberts. His Vice President JD Vance took the oath just before him.
Trump plans to sign a raft of executive actions in his first hours as president, incoming White House officials said Monday, including 10 focused on border security and immigration, his top priority.
The president will declare a national emergency on the southern border, send armed troops there and resume a policy of forcing asylum seekers to wait for their U.S. court dates in Mexico, officials told reporters.
He would also seek to end so-called birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents, a move some legal experts say would be unconstitutional.
The inauguration completes a triumphant return for a political disruptor who survived two impeachment trials, one felony conviction, two attempted murders and charges of trying to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election.
Four years after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building, a symbol of American democracy, in a failed attempt to prevent Trump’s loss to Joe Biden, the event was moved inside the Capitol due to extreme cold.
Biden and outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in November, joined former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton inside the Capitol’s rotunda. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, arrived with her husband Bill, but Obama’s wife Michelle chose not to attend.
A number of tech executives who have tried to cooperate with the incoming administration — including three of the world’s richest men, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg – next to the Cabinet nominees, had prominent seats on stage. and members of the Trump family.
Trump, the first U.S. president since the 19th century to win a second term after losing the White House, has said he will not be charged with many of the more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack. People will be forgiven “on the first day”. He skipped Biden’s inauguration and falsely claimed that the 2020 election, which he lost to Biden, was rigged.
Trump would restore the federal death penalty, which Biden suspended, and require that official U.S. documents such as passports reflect citizens’ gender as assigned at birth, officials of the incoming administration said. told reporters.
He said he will also sign an order ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the federal government on Monday, which is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
But Trump will not immediately impose new tariffs on Monday, instead directing federal agencies to review trade relations with Canada, China and Mexico, a Trump official confirmed, an unexpected move. The move triggered a massive slide in the US dollar and a rally in global stock markets. On a day when US financial markets are closed.
Even as he prepared to take office again, Trump continued to expand his business ventures, adding billions in market value by launching a “memecoin” crypto token over the weekend that raised ethical and regulatory questions. .
