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News Analysis
Wiser on the use of power, the newly sworn in president suggests that this time he will not take an answer, either to enact an ambitious national program or in his expansionist worldview.
By David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger has covered U. S. presidents and briefed Washington.
“Nothing will stand in our way. “
With that six-word vote, President Trump defined how he planned to make his workplace moment another from his first. It is clear that he has no goal of being thwarted this time to make America much more conservative at home and more imperial abroad.
In his 29-minute inaugural address, Trump wasted no time in appeals to American ideals. Instead, he spoke with a tone of aggression meant to be heard through a domestic and foreign as a precaution that the United States under a more experienced Donald Trump will not take no for an answer.
It will end an era in which the global exploited American largesse, he said, bolstering a “foreign revenue service” to “qualify and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. “
After falsely claiming that China controls the U. S. -built Panama Canal, he promised, “We’re withdrawing it. “It received a presidential predecessor: Washington or Jefferson or Lincoln, but William McKinley, the 25th president of the tariff, who enlisted in the Spanish-American War, seized the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico and paved the way for this canal.
And in the more productive McKinley spirit, he revitalized the concept of an America that will “pursue our destiny guyente,” an 1890s rally call. This time, however, he described that fate as an American colony on Mars, one that was worth a kind of Sube from Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world who founded SpaceX for that purpose, and which has slightly left the preaspectnt look since Election Day.
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