President Donald Trump ended his return by delivering his moment in the inaugural discourse in the Rotunda of the American Capitol. Before finishing with the commitment to link the country and unify the Americans, it took lines from their crusade speeches and promised wonderful adjustments in the US government, to protect itself to an invasion on the southern border and change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Here’s Trump’s inaugural moment with context and multiple fact checks via CNN’s fact-checking team.
Thank you. Thank you very much to everyone. Well, very, very,
Vice President Vance, President Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris and my constituents:
America’s golden age begins now. From that day on, our country will prosper and be in the world again. We will be the envy of all nations and we will no longer allow ourselves to be exploited.
During each and every day of the Trump administration, I will put the United States first.
Trump has a moment’s chance of fulfilling his promise to “make America great again. ” He maintains that the undeniable fact of taking it is a step in the right direction.
Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced.
This is a clear reference to the US-Mexico border. Trump has promised to quickly address immigration with executive orders now that he is in office.
The vicious, violent and unfair weapon of the Department of Justice and our government will end. And our most sensible precedence will be to create a proud, dirty and loose nation. The United States will soon be bigger, more powerful and more exceptional than ever.
The speech begins with nods to the past Biden administration, which Trump accused of the Justice Department opposed to him. Democrats claim that it was independent prosecutors and wonderful jurors who brought the opposing accusations against Trump; These instances have since been classified.
I return to the presidency safe and sure that we are at the beginning of a new and exciting was of national success. A replacement wave is sweeping the country. Sunlight spills throughout the world. And the United States has the possibility to take this opportunity as never before.
But first, we will have to be fair about the demanding situations we face. Although they are numerous, they will be destroyed through this wonderful momentum whose global momentum is recently witnessed by the United States of America.
As we find ourselves today, our government faces a crisis of confidence. For many years, a radical and corrupt status quo extracted strength and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society were damaged and likely in ruins.
The decrease in acceptance in the establishment of the US government is undeniable and evident in surveys. This discontent extends to both games, but is especially true among Republicans.
Trump has promised to completely reform and remake elements of the federal government, with his plan for a Department of Government Efficiency. This message echoes what he said in his first inaugural address. These words sound similar to things Trump might say at a campaign rally, but in the Rotunda, they are being delivered in a strict monotone.
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.
It cannot protect our beautiful law-abiding American citizens, but it provides refuge and shield for harmful criminals, many of whom are released from prisons and intellectual institutions, who have entered our country illegally from around the world.
Congress recently passed a law that would allow the detention of immigrants accused of robbery or theft. This may be only the first law passed this session.
Trump delivered a softer edition of his claim that foreign governments intentionally empty prisons and psychiatric institutions to send other people to the United States as migrants.
We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people.
Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina—been treated so badly. And other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago.
Or more recently, Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense. They’re raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don’t have a home any longer. That’s interesting. But we can’t let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anything about it. That’s going to change.
Flooding in North Carolina, hurricanes in Florida and wildfires in Los Angeles have prompted a bipartisan complaint from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA.
Scientists say climate replacement has been contracted with more common herbal disasters, yet Trump, who is not on the climate crisis, doesn’t communicate about it here.
We have a public formula of physical aptitude that depends on the task of disasters, and yet it is spent more effective in it than in any other country in the world.
And we have a school formula that teaches our young people to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases to hate our country despite the love we are desperately seeking to provide them.
Frustration with public education and diversity efforts in the public education system have been a motivating factor for Republicans. The federal government does not generally dictate local education curricula, though it does, through the Department of Education, provide funds to schools and districts. Trump has proposed axing the department.
All that will do it from today, and very fast.
My recent choice is a mandate of absolute and completely opposite to a terrible betrayal, and all those many betrayals, who have taken their position and repair the other people of their faith, their wealth, their democracy and, in fact, their freedom.
From this moment, the complete United States decline.
Our freedoms and our country’s excellent destiny will no longer be rejected, and we will repair the integrity, competence, and loyalty of the American government.
Over the past eight years, I’ve been tested and challenged more than any other president in our 250-year history, and I’ve learned a lot along the way. The adventure towards our Republic has not been easy, I can tell you that.
Trump did indeed face challenges. But wartime presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln or assassinated presidents might disagree with him.
Those who want to impede our cause have tried to take my freedom, and even my life. Just a few months ago, in a magnificent field in Pennsylvania, an assassin’s bullet crossed my ear. But then I had the feeling, and I have it even more now , that my life had been stored for a reason: it had been stored by God to restore its greatness to America.
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks a lot.
Trump is equating the American justice system with an attempted assassin, who died at the scene of the attempt and whose motives may never be known.
Trump has never been the most devout president, yet he and his supporters see divine intervention in the fact that he survived an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania last summer.
That is why every day and every day under our management of US patriots, paintings to meet each crisis with dignity, power and strength. We will move with objective and speed to bring hope, prosperity, security and peace to the citizens of each of the careers, religion, color and creed.
For American citizens, January 20, 2025, is liberation day.
It is a language of war. Trump suggests that Americans have been under siege until today.
I hope our recent presidential election will be remembered as the largest, consecutive election in our country’s history.
As our victory showed, the entire country is temporarily uniting our time table with dramatic construction in aid of virtually every detail of our society: young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Urban, suburban, rural, And most importantly, we won a hard-fought victory in all seven swing states. And the popular vote we won through millions.
In a CNN survey, a majority of 55% said they approved how the transition is handling. This is a much more powerful position than in 2017, but it is also its moment of maximum power. The story suggests that these approval rates will decrease at least a little. It is also worth remembering that, although Trump won the national vote and made progress in many of the teams he mentioned, he did not get 50% of the votes in November.
To the Black and Hispanic communities, I need to thank you for the tremendous love and trust you showed me with your vote. We outlined recordings and I won’t. I heard your voices in the field and I can’t wait to paint with you in the years to come.
Today, it’s Martin Luther King Day and your honor, it will be a wonderful honor, but in your honor, we’ll look at it in combination to make your dream come true. We will realize your dream.
Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s “I Have a Dream” speech imagined equality. Trump also to end government systems to advertise diversity and inclusion.
Thank you. Thank you.
National unity is now returning to America and confidence and pride are rising like never before. In everything we do, my management will be driven by the pursuit of excellence and relentless success.
We will not our country. We will not our constitution. And we would possibly not our God. We can not do that.
Trump puts the constitution, which mentions the word “God,” in the same breath as religion in a higher power.
Related article: How Trump will modify the Constitution
Today I will point out a series of historic decrees. With those actions, we will begin the entire recovery of the United States and the not unusual revolution of the senses. This is a matter of common sense.
First, I will claim a national emergency at our southern border. Any illegal access will be stopped. And we’ll begin the procedure of returning millions and millions of extraterrestrial beings from the twist to the whores they got here.
This is a move most likely to unload a giant bipartisan deal.
We are going to repair my policy in Mexico. I will end the practice of capture and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.
“Catch and Release” is the policy through which migrants can be released into the country while awaiting an immigration hearing. It is unclear where and how the United States detains detained migrants. Some Trump aides have spoken of the need for mass detention camps.
Do you mean sending troops to active duty or to the National Guard?These are distinctions.
Under the orders I sign today, we will also designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will order our government to use the full force of federal and state law enforcement to combat the presence of all alien criminal gangs and networks driving devastating crimes on American soil, adding in our cities and city centers.
Trump considered this action during his first term. It could add additional strain to the US relationship with Mexico and create difficulties for American companies doing business in Mexico.
Obtain more information about the Law on Extraterrestrial Enemies of 1798, which aims at the invasion through a foreign country or government. Probably Trump’s effort faces a legal battle.
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.
Then, I will lead all the members of my workplace to gather the vast powers at your disposal to defeat which inflation record and temporarily reduce prices and prices. The inflation crisis has been caused through large expenses and a construction in energy prices, and that is why today I will claim a national energy emergency. We will drill, Bathrough, Forest.
Trump falsely claimed the US experienced “record inflation” during the Biden administration. Trump could fairly say the US inflation rate hit a 40-year high in June 2022, when it was 9.1%, but that was not close to the all-time record of 23.7%, set in 1920. (And the rate has since plummeted. The most recent available inflation rate at the time Trump spoke here was 2.9% in December.)
Objectively speaking, the inflation crisis was also caused through the Covid-19 pandemic, which began Trump’s first term.
There’s little difference between Trump’s second inaugural address and the stump speech he often delivered on the campaign trail.
America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth. And we are going to use it.
The United States is already producing more oil than any country in history.
We will reduce prices, fill our strategic reserves, directly to the most sensible American power and exported around the world. We are going to be a rich country again, and it is this liquid gold under our feet that will do it.
With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American auto workers.
The New Deal never promulgated, but the Democrats promoted the law to fight the climate replacing as a component of the inflation reduction law. According to the EV mandate, Trump refers to the regulations of exhaust pipes destined to season electric vehicles, but does not require them.
In other words, you will need to purchase the car of your choice. We will build cars in America at a speed that no one could have dreamed of just a few years ago. And thank you to our nation’s autoworkers for your inspiring vote of confidence. We have done a lot with your vote.
I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich countries, we will tax and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
Tariffs imposed by the U. S. government are paid through U. S. importers, not foreign countries, and it’s easy to find clear examples of corporations that have passed on the charge of price lists to U. S. consumers. Study after study, adding one from the federal government’s bipartisan U. S. International Trade Commission, has found that Americans shouldered nearly the entire burden of Trump’s price lists on Chinese goods during his first term. – From CNN Alicia Wallace and Daniel Dale
To this end, we are creating the external revenue service to bring together all fees, tasks, and revenue. The cash sums of foreign resources in our Treasury.
…As opposed to the Internal Revenue Service, which collects income taxes from American citizens.
The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before. To restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government. My administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
It is an official government agency, created through law, but an advisory committee led through Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Ohio tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to limit free speech, I will also enact an executive order to prevent all government censorship and bring free speech to America.
Free speech is a main issue for Republicans at the moment. Trump could be referring to social media companies. He could be referring to TikTok, which needs to find a US owner in order to continue operation in this country. It could also be a reference to efforts and perhaps overreach by the Biden administration to control the spread of misinformation online during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents — something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen. It will not happen again. Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.
During the campaign, Trump had promised to go after his political enemies, naming several Democrats. Many were issued last-minute preemptive pardons by Biden, as were members of his family.
This week I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit based.
Starting today, the official policy of the U. S. government will be that there are two sexes, men and women.
Opposing trans rights, in women’s sports, is a primary promise of Republicans.
This week I will reinstate the entire corps of military workers who were unfairly kicked out of our military for opposing the Covid vaccine mandate, with all back pay.
This commitment may be just over 8,000 veterans, but Biden has already presented those service members with a reinstatement within the framework of a defense authorization bill in 2024.
And I will point to an order to save our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments in the service. It’s going to end immediately. Our armed forces will be liberated in their sole mission: to defeat American enemies.
Just like in 2017, we will once again build the most powerful military the world has ever seen. We will measure our good fortune not only through the battles we win, but also through the wars we end and, most importantly, the wars we will never enter. .
My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I’m meant to be: a peacemaker and unifier.
Trump has promised to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, however, that would likely require Ukraine to give up some of its claimed territory through Russia’s invasion.
I will say that since yesterday, the day before I took office, the hostages in the Middle East have returned to their families.
Both the Biden and incoming Trump administrations worked to secure the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
Thank you.
The United States will claim its legitimate position as the largest, maximum powerful and maximum country of the Earth, inspiring concern and admiration throughout the world.
Before long, we will replace the calling of the Gulf of Mexico with the Gulf of America, and we will repair the calling of a wonderful President, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it is and where it belongs.
The mass of water from the southern United States has been called Gulf of Mexico for many years. When Trump said this, he could see the former Secretary of State and political opponent Hillary Clinton laughing at astonishment.
It was President Barack Obama, candidate with the Republicans in Alaska, who replaced the call of the mountain. Alaska’s Republican senators pleaded with Trump not to replace the mountain call in 2017.
President McKinley made our country very rich through price lists and talent. He was a herbal businessman and gave cash to Teddy Roosevelt for many of the wonderful things he did, including the Panama Canal, which he foolishly gave to the country of Panama after the United States (the United States (I mean, think about this) they spent more money than they had ever worked on a mission before and lost 38,000 lives building the Panama Canal.
The McKinley tariffs were imposed when McKinley was a lawmaker in Congress. McKinley later turned against tariffs as a popular president before he was assassinated.
We were treated very badly by this meaningless gift that has never been given to us. And the promise that Panama made to us has been broken. The purpose of our agreement and the spirit of our treaty have been completely violated.
US ships are severely overloaded and left untreated, the US Navy adds. And above all, China operates the Panama Canal. And we didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we got it back.
Trump’s focus on reclaiming the Panama Canal in recent weeks has come as something of a surprise. He once owned property in Panama. The canal was given to Panama during the Carter administration, decades after the United States completed construction on it.
And above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization. So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred.
It revives the concept of American exceptionalism! Trump already touts his administration as a “golden age” in U. S. history.
Together, we will end the epidemic of chronic disease and keep our young people safe, healthy, and disease-free.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the vaccine and healthier-eating skeptic whom Trump chose to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has made the fight the “chronic disease epidemic” a primary purpose of his presidential crusade before abandoning and supporting Trump.
Once the United States will once again see itself as a developing nation; The one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and takes our flag to new horizons.
And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO who helped bankroll Trump’s 2024 campaign, could be seen cheering these words and giving a thumbs up near Trump.
Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers.
The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.
This type of edifying prose is no more unusual in an inaugural direction.
Our US ancestors remodeled a small organization of colonies on the edge of a vast continent in the maximum ordinary citizens of the Republic of the Earth. Not one approaches.
Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the wild west, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand.
If we paint together, there is nothing we can’t do and no dream we can’t achieve.
Many people thought it was for me to make an old political comeback. But as you can see today, I am here: the other Americans have spoken.
I stand before you now as evidence that you deserve to never be more unlikely to do. In America, the most improbable is what we do best.
The return of Trump, a former president twice and disgraced on January 6, 2021, for the murder of the survivor and winner of the popular vote in 2024, is simply miraculous.
From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to here in Washington, D. C. , our country was forged and built through generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and our freedom. .
They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, coal workers and minors, police and pioneers who drove and walked and left no impediment to triumph over their spirit or their pride. Together, they laid down the railroads, raised the skyscrapers, built giant highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed because of the challenge they faced.
After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history. With your help, we will restore America’s promise. And we will rebuild the nation that we love, and we love it so much.
Let’s hope so! Although Trump will claim they are the greatest years no matter what happens.
We are one people, one family, and one fine country under God. So, to each and every parent who dreams of their child and every child who dreams of their future: I am with you, I will fight you for you, and I will win for you. We are going to win like never before.
This is the message of unity.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make it great again—greater than ever before. We will be a nation like no other: full of compassion, courage and compassion, courage and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.
This is an attractive argument about the component of a president who promised a nationalist foreign policy and America First and foreign organizations of the WHO.
The United States will have the reputation of retreating and admiring, adding through other people of religion, faith and good will.
We will be prosperous. We will be proud. We will be strong and we will win like never before.
We will be conquered. We will feel intimidated. We will be devastated. And we will fail.
From that day on, the United States of America will be free, sovereign, and national.
We will remain bravely. We will live with pride. We will dream of courage. And nothing will be in our way because we are Americans. The long race is ours and our Golden Age has just begun.
Thank you. God bless America.