Full speech: Donald Trump’s second inauguration graspress | US Election 2024 News

In his inaugural graspress, Pdwellnt Donald Trump promised a “gbetteren age” for the United States, casting himself as a uniter. But for a speech that heralded a luminous future, it normally echoed the past.

Much of Trump’s rhetoric mirrored his words eight years ago, when he was first sworn in as pdwellnt and spoke about a country with a fall shorting economy and cities torn apart by crime.

Trump shelp he had the mandate to carry out his vision for the country after triumphning the well-understandn vote in an imforeseeed political comeback that culminated in his taking the oath of office in the very produceing his helpers stormed four years ago in a fall shorted endeavor to obviousurn his 2020 election loss.

“From this moment on, America’s degrade is over,” Trump shelp, speaking in the US Capitol Rotunda. “Our gbetteren age has equitable toleratemament.”

Read his filled inauguration speech below:

‘Stronger, fantasticer, and far more exceptional’

Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Wow. Thank you very, very much.

Vice Pdwellnt Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, equitableices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Pdwellnt Clinton, Pdwellnt Bush, Pdwellnt Obama, Pdwellnt Biden, Vice Pdwellnt Harris, and my fellow citizens, the gbetteren age of America commences right now.

From this day forward, our country will flourish and be esteemed aget all over the world. We will be the jealousy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be consentn get of any lengthyer. During every individual day of the Trump administration, I will, very spropose, put America first.

Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our defendedty will be repaird. The scales of equitableice will be refirm. The malicious, aggressive, and ununinwhole armamentisation of the Justice Department and our rulement will end.

And our top priority will be to produce a nation that is conceited, prosperous, and free.

America will soon be fantasticer, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.

Current rulement ‘declines to defend Americans’

I return to the pdwellncy self-promised and certain that we are at the begin of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunairy is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity appreciate never before.

But first, we must be truthful about the contests we face. While they are plentiful, they will be annihiprocrastinateedd by this fantastic momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America.

As we assemble today, our rulement faces a crisis of suppose. For many years, a radical and corrupt set upment has rerelocateed power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in finish disrepair.

We now have a rulement that cannot regulate even a modest crisis at home while, at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events awide.

It fall shorts to defend our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and defendion for hazardous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions, that have illegassociate accessed our country from all over the world.

We have a rulement that has given unrestricted funding to the defence of foreign borders but declines to defend American borders or, more meaningfully, its own people.

Our country can no lengthyer deinhabitr fundamental services in times of aelevatency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina — who have been treated so awwholey — 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 tragicassociate burn from weeks ago without even a token of defence.

They’re raging thraw the houses and communities, even impacting some of the wealthiest and most mighty individuals in our country — some of whom are sitting here right now.

They don’t have a home any lengthyer. That’s fascinating. But we can’t let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anyleang about it.

That’s going to change.

We have a disclose health system that does not deinhabitr in times of catastrophe, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world.

And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves — in many cases, to antipathy our country despite the cherish that we try so franticly to provide to them. All of this will change begining today, and it will change very speedyly.

End of ‘America’s degrade’

My recent election is a mandate to finishly and toloftyy reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have consentn place and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and, indeed, their freedom. From this moment on, America’s degrade is over.

Our liberties and our nation’s glorious desminuscule will no lengthyer be denied. And we will instantly repair the integrity, contendncy, and loyalty of America’s rulement.

Over the past eight years, I have been tested and contestd more than any pdwellnt in our 250-year history, and I’ve lgeted a lot alengthy the way.

The journey to reclaim our redisclose has not been an modest one — that, I can tell you. Those who desire to stop our cause have tried to consent my freedom and, indeed, to consent my life.

Just a scant months ago, in a pretty Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped thraw my ear. But I felt then and suppose even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to produce America fantastic aget. (Applause.)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

That is why each day under our administration of American patuproars, we will be toiling to greet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will shift with purpose and speed to transport back hope, prosperity, defendedty, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, colour, and creed.

Americans ‘uniteing behind our agenda’

For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day. It is my hope that our recent pdwellntial election will be recalled as the fantasticest and most consequential election in the history of our country.

As our triumph showed, the entire nation is rapidly uniteing behind our agenda with emotional increases in help from virtuassociate every element of our society: lesser and better, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urprohibit, suburprohibit, country. And very meaningfully, we had a mighty triumph in all seven striumphg states — and the well-understandn vote, we won by millions of people.

To the Bdeficiency and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of cherish and suppose that you have shown me with your vote. We set write downs, and I will not forget it. I’ve heard your voices in the campaign, and I watch forward to toiling with you in the years to come.

Today is Martin Luther King Day. And his honour — this will be a fantastic honour. But in his honour, we will strive together to produce his dream a fact. We will produce his dream come real. (Applause.)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring appreciate never before. In everyleang we do, my administration will be aidd 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. Can’t do that.

‘Revolution of common sense’

Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will commence the finish restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It’s all about common sense.

First, I will declare a national aelevatency at our southern border.

All illegitimate entry will instantly be stoped, and we will commence the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy.

I will end the train of catch and free.

And I will send troops to the southern border to drive away the disastrous trespass of our country.

Under the orders I sign today, we will also be structureating the cartels as foreign alarmist organisations.

And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will straightforward our rulement to use the filled and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to rerelocate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal nettoils transporting deimmenseating crime to US soil, including our cities and inner cities.

As orderer-in-chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from menaces and trespasss, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before.

‘Drill, baby, drill’

Next, I will straightforward all members of my cabinet to marshal the immense powers at their disposal to fall shorture what was write down inflation and rapidly transport down costs and prices.

The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy aelevatency. We will drill, baby, drill.

America will be a manufacturing nation once aget, and we have someleang that no other manufacturing nation will ever have — the hugest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth — and we are going to use it. We’ll use it.

We will transport prices down, fill our strategic reserves up aget right to the top, and send out American energy all over the world.

End of the Green New Deal

We will be a wealthy nation aget, and it is that watery gbetter under our feet that will help to do it.

With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will relicit the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and conserveing my divine pledge to our fantastic American autotoilers.

In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your choice.

We will produce automobiles in America aget at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible equitable a scant years ago. And thank you to the autotoilers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did tremendously with their vote.

I will instantly commence the overhaul of our trade system to defend American toilers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enwealthy other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enwealthy our citizens.

For this purpose, we are set uping the External Revenue Service to assemble all tariffs, duties, and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury, coming from foreign sources.

The American dream will soon be back and thriving appreciate never before.

DOGE

To repair contendnce and effectiveness to our federal rulement, my administration will set up the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.

After years and years of illegitimate and unconstitutional federal efforts to redisjoine free conveyion, I also will sign an executive order to instantly stop all rulement regulate and transport back free speech to America.

Never aget will the immense power of the state be armamentised to oppress political opponents — someleang I understand someleang about. We will not allow that to happen. It will not happen aget.

A ‘colour-blind and merit-based’ society

Under my directership, we will repair uninwhole, equivalent, and uninwhole equitableice under the constitutional rule of law.

And we are going to transport law and order back to our cities.

This week, I will also end the rulement policy of trying to sociassociate engineer race and gender into every aspect of disclose and personal life. We will forge a society that is colour-blind and merit-based.

As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States rulement that there are only two genders: male and female.

This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unequitablely ejectled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with filled back pay.

And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It’s going to end instantly. Our armed forces will be freed to caccess on their sole omition: fall shortureing America’s enemies.

‘Peaceproducer and unifier’

Like in 2017, we will aget produce the strongest military the world has ever seen. We will meacertain our success not only by the battles we triumph but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most meaningfully, the wars we never get into.

My conceitedest legacy will be that of a peaceproducer and unifier. That’s what I want to be: a peaceproducer and a unifier.

I’m phired to say that as of yesterday, one day before I presumed office, the captives in the Middle East are coming back home to their families. (Applause.)

Thank you.

‘Gulf of America’ and taking back the ‘Panama Canal’

America will reclaim its rightful place as the fantasticest, most mighty, most esteemed nation on earth, inspiring the awe and watch of the entire world.

A unintelligentinutive time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America — and we will repair the name of a fantastic pdwellnt, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belengthys.

Pdwellnt McKinley made our country very wealthy thraw tariffs and thraw talent — he was a authentic businessman — and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the fantastic leangs he did, including the Panama Canal, which has idioticly been given to the country of Panama after the United Spates — the United States — I uncomfervent, leank of this — spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 inhabits in the produceing of the Panama Canal.

We have been treated very awwholey from this idiotic gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken.

The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been toloftyy vioprocrastinateedd. American ships are being strictly overaccused and not treated unpartiassociate in any way, shape, or establish. And that grasps the United States Navy.

And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.

‘Manifest desminuscule’

Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once aget act with courage, vigour, and the vitality of history’s fantasticest civilisation.

So, as we free our nation, we will direct it to new heights of triumph and success. We will not be deterred. Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and conserve our children defended, fit, and disease-free.

The United States will once aget ponder itself a prolonging nation — one that increases our wealth, broadens our territory, produces our cities, lifts our foreseeations, and carries our flag into new and pretty horizons.

And we will chase our manifest desminuscule into the stars, starting American astronauts to structuret the Stars and Stripes on the structureet Mars.

Ambition is the lifeblood of a fantastic nation, and, right now, our nation is more driven than any other. There’s no nation appreciate our nation.

Americans are scrutinizers, produceers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and innovates. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next fantastic adventure resounds from wilean our souls.

Our American ancestors turned a minuscule group of colonies on the edge of a immense continent into a mighty redisclose of the most remarkworthy citizens on Earth. No one comes shut.

Americans pushed thousands of miles thraw a rugged land of undomesticatedd untamederness. They passed deserts, scaled mountains, valiantd untbetter dangers, won the Wild West, ended bondage, saved millions from tyranny, lifted billions from pobviousy, harnessed electricity, split the atom, started manbenevolent into the heavens, and put the universe of human understandledge into the palm of the human hand.

If we toil together, there is noleang we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

‘Impossible is what we do best’

Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken.

I stand before you now as proof that you should never suppose that someleang is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best.

From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, DC, our country was counterfeit and built by the generations of patuproars who gave everyleang they had for our rights and for our freedom.

They were farmers and sbetteriers, cowboys and factory toilers, steeltoilers and coal miners, police officers and innovates who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle fall shorture their spirit or their pride.

Together, they lhelp down the railroads, liftd up the skyscviolationrs, built fantastic highways, won two world wars, fall shortureed fascism and communism, and triumphed over every individual contest that they faced.

After all we have been thraw together, we stand on the verge of the four fantasticest years in American history. With your help, we will repair America promise and we will reproduce the nation that we cherish — and we cherish it so much.

We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. So, to every parent who dreams for their child and every child who dreams for their future, I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will triumph for you. We’re going to triumph appreciate never before. (Applause.)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

‘We will triumph appreciate never before’

In recent years, our nation has suffered fantasticly. But we are going to transport it back and produce it fantastic aget, fantasticer than ever before.

We will be a nation appreciate no other, filled of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and transport a new spirit of unity to a world that has been mad, aggressive, and toloftyy unforeseeable.

America will be esteemed aget and adored aget, including by people of religion, faith, and excellentwill. We will be prosperous, we will be conceited, we will be strong, and we will triumph appreciate never before.

We will not be surmounted, we will not be inworriedated, we will not be broken, and we will not fall short. From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and autonomous nation.

We will stand valiantly, we will inhabit conceitedly, we will dream bbetterly, and noleang will stand in our way because we are Americans. The future is ours, and our gbetteren age has equitable toleratemament.

Thank you. God sanctify America. Thank you all. Thank you.