Full text of Trump's inaugural address: America's golden age begins now

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Thank you, thank you all, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, and the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens, America's golden age begins now.

Starting today, our country will once again prosper and regain respect around the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be bullied in any way again.

Every day in the Trump Administration, I will put America first.

Our sovereignty will be taken back. Our security will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The weaponization of viciousness, violence, and injustice against the Department of Justice and our government will end.

Our first priority is to build a proud, prosperous and free nation. America will soon be greater, stronger, and more distinguished than ever before.

I return to the presidency with confidence and optimism, believing that we are at the beginning of an exciting new era of national success. A wave of change is sweeping the country, the sun is shining across the world, and America has an opportunity to seize it like never before.

But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. While these challenges are many, they will be destroyed by this great momentum that America is currently witnessing.

As we gather today, our government is facing a crisis of confidence. For years, an aggressive and corrupt system has wrested power and wealth from our citizens, while the backbone of our society lies in tatters and appears to be in complete disrepair.

We now have a government that is unable to respond to even simple crises at home, while also engaging in a succession of catastrophic events overseas.

It fails to protect our great, law-abiding American citizens while providing shelter and protection to dangerous criminals, many of whom come from prisons and mental institutions and illegally enter our country from around the world. Our government provides unlimited funding to protect foreign borders but refuses to protect America’s borders or, more importantly, its own people.

Our state is already unable to provide basic services during emergencies, as recently demonstrated by the wonderful people of North Carolina. They were treated so badly. And several other states are still suffering after hurricanes a few months ago.

Or closer to home in Los Angeles, where we are witnessing fires that are still burning relentlessly. Starting weeks ago, they swept unsuspectingly through homes and communities, affecting even some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They have become homeless. This is very interesting.

But we can't let this happen. There is nothing anyone can do about it. This will change. We have a public health system that doesn’t work in times of disaster, yet spend more on the system than any country in the world.

And we have an education system that in many cases teaches our children to feel shame and hate our country even as we desperately try to give them love. Starting today, all of that changes, and it changes fast.

My recent election is a mission to reverse a horrific betrayal, and all that has happened, to give people their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and their freedom.

From this moment on, America's decline ended.

Our freedom and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer be denied. We will immediately restore the integrity, competence, and loyalty of the United States Government.

Over the past eight years, I have endured more trials and challenges than any president in our 250-year history. In this process, I learned a lot. I can tell you that the path to reinvigorating our republic will not be easy.

Those who want to stop our cause are trying to take away my freedom and even my life.

Just a few months ago, in that beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet passed through my ear. But I felt then, and I feel even more convinced now, that my life had somehow been saved. I was saved by God to make America great again.

Thank you, thank you very much.

That’s why, under our American Patriot Administration, we will respond to every crisis with dignity, strength, and strength, every day.

We will bring back hope, prosperity, security and peace to citizens of every race, religion, color and creed with purposeful action and swift pace. For American citizens, January 20, 2025 is Emancipation Day.

It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most influential election in our nation's history.

As our victory shows, the country is quickly uniting behind our agenda, with support rising dramatically across nearly every segment of society: young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanics people, Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural, and more importantly, we had strong victories in all seven swing states, and we won the popular vote by millions of votes.

To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous love and trust you have shown me with your votes. We set a record and I won't forget it.

I heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come. Today is Martin Luther King Day, which is a great honor. In honor of his memory, we will work together to make his dream a reality. We will fulfill his dream.

National unity is returning to America, and confidence and pride are higher than ever. My administration will be driven by a fierce pursuit of excellence and a relentless drive for success in everything we do.

We will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, we will not forget our God. You can't do this.

Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders. Through these actions, we will begin to fully restore America and create a revolution in common sense. It's all about common sense.

First, I will declare a national emergency on our southern border. All illegal immigration will cease immediately and we will begin deporting millions of criminal aliens back to their places of origin.

We will restore my "Remain in Mexico" policy. I will end the practice of "catch and release." At the same time, I will send troops to the southern border to stop a catastrophic invasion of our country.

Under the order I signed today, we will also designate these drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

By invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full force of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all networks of foreign criminal gangs that bring devastating crime to American soil, including Our cities and city centres.

As Commander in Chief, my highest responsibility is to defend our country from threats and invasion, and that's exactly what I will do. We will do this at an unprecedented level.

Next, I will instruct all members of the Cabinet to mobilize the immense power at their disposal to defeat record inflation and rapidly reduce costs and prices. The inflationary crisis was caused by massive overspending and rising energy prices.

That's why today I'm also declaring a national energy emergency. We will "drill, baby, drill" (drill, baby, drill).

America is going to be a manufacturing nation again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation has: the largest reserves of oil and natural gas on the planet, and we're going to tap into it. We will take advantage of it.

We will lower prices, refill strategic reserves to capacity, and export American energy around the world.

We will become a wealthy nation again, and liquid gold beneath our feet will help make that happen.

With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, we will reverse the electric vehicle mandate, save our auto industry, and fulfill my sacred promise to the great American autoworkers.

In other words, you will be able to buy the car of your choice. We will build cars again in America at a rate that no one could have imagined just a few years ago. Thank you to our nation’s autoworkers for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did really well with their votes.

I will begin immediately to overhaul our trading system to protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to benefit other countries, we will impose tariffs and taxes on foreign countries to benefit our citizens.

To this end, we are establishing an External Revenue Service to collect all duties, taxes and revenues. This will bring huge amounts of money from foreign sources into our coffers.

The American Dream will soon return and flourish like never before. To restore the capacity and efficiency of the federal government, my administration will create a new Department of Government Efficiency.

I will also sign an executive order to immediately halt all government censorship and return free speech to America, after years of illegal and unconstitutional restrictions on free speech by the federal government.

The vast power of the state will never again be used as a weapon to persecute political opponents, and I know this very well. We won't allow this to happen. This won't happen again.

Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal and impartial administration of justice under the constitutional rule of law. We will bring law and order back to our cities.

This week, I will also end government policies that seek to integrate race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will create a society where admissions are based on merit, regardless of color.

Starting today, official U.S. government policy will state that there are only two genders: male and female.

This week, I will reassign and give full backpay to all service members who were unjustly discharged for opposing mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

I will sign an order that will stop our warfighters from being forced to undergo radical political theory and social experiments in the line of duty. This will end immediately. Our armed forces will focus on their sole mission: defeating America's enemies.

Just like in 2017, we will once again build the most powerful military in the world. Our success will be measured not just by how many wars we win, but also by which wars we end and, perhaps most importantly, which wars we do not get involved in.

My proudest legacy will be as a peacemaker and uniter. This is who I want to be, a peacemaker and uniter. I'm pleased to announce that as of yesterday, the day before I took office, hostages in the Middle East were returning to their families. Thanks.

America will regain its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, and most respected nation on earth, inspiring awe and admiration around the world. Soon we will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

We will put the name of our great President William McKinley back on Mount McKinley, where it belongs and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very wealthy through tariffs and talent. He was a born businessman who financed many of the great things Teddy Roosevelt did, including the Panama Canal, which was then foolishly given to the country of Panama.

I mean, think about it, the United States spent an unprecedented amount of money building the Panama Canal and sacrificed 38,000 lives. We have been treated very unfairly for this stupid gift that we should not have made.

Panama's promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our agreement and the spirit of the treaty have been completely violated. American ships are grossly overcharged and not treated fairly at all. That includes the U.S. Navy... We're going to take it back.

Most importantly, what I say to Americans today is that now is the time for us to once again act with the courage, vigor, and energy of the greatest civilization in history. So when we liberate our country, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be intimidated.

Together we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease-free.

America will once again see itself as a growing nation, a nation that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag to new and brighter prospects.

We will pursue our Manifest Destiny and reach for the stars, sending American astronauts to Mars and planting the Star-Spangled Banner on Mars.

Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation. And now, our country is more ambitious than any other. No country can compare with ours. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The pioneering spirit has been integrated into our hearts.

The call to the next great adventure echoes from the depths of our souls. Our American ancestors transformed a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth. No one can match it.

Americans traveled through thousands of miles of rugged land of pristine wilderness. They crossed deserts, climbed mountains, braved dangers, conquered the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions out of poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, and sent humanity to the Heaven, holding the universe of human knowledge in human hands.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and there is no dream we cannot achieve.

Many people thought there was no way I could stage such a historic political comeback. But as you can see today, I did it. The American people have spoken.

I stand before you now to prove that you should never believe that something is impossible. 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 here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and founded by generations of patriots who sacrificed their lives for our rights and freedoms. of everything.

They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steelworkers and coal miners, policemen and pioneers, who kept moving forward, never letting any obstacle defeat their spirit or pride.

Together they laid railroads, built skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism...and conquered every challenge they faced.

After all we have been through together, we are about to embark on four of the greatest years in American history. With your help, we will restore America's promise, and we will rebuild the country we love so much.

We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under the protection of God. So, to every parent dreaming for their children, and to every child dreaming of their future, I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. We will win like never before.

Thank you, thank you.

Our country has suffered greatly in recent years. But we will restore it and make it great again, more glorious than ever. We will be a nation unrivaled in compassion, courage, and excellence.

Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world filled with anger, violence and total unpredictability.

America will once again be respected and admired, including by people of religious faith and good will. We will prosper, we will be proud, we will be powerful, and we will win like never before.

We will not be conquered, we will not be threatened, we will not be defeated, we will not fail. From this day forward, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.

We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing can stop us because we are Americans. The future belongs to us. Our golden age has just begun. Thank you, God bless America, thank you all.