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Donald Trump has promised a “golden age of America”, as he used his inaugural address to unveil tough measures to undo Joe Biden’s policies and reverse what he says is a “crisis of trust”. cover the government.
The new president has announced tough new measures to boost energy production and curb immigration as he vows to quickly deliver on the populist and nationalist platform that won him the White House race last year. ago.
Trump has also touted his return to the White House as both a vindication, after two assassination attempts, and a mission for a radical overhaul of domestic and foreign policy.
“I was saved by God to make America great again,” he said, in a speech that included references to his “dystopian” description of the “killing of America” in his first inaugural address in 2017.
“For years, a powerful and corrupt establishment has taken power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society are broken and appear to be completely destroyed,” he said.
He said: “Now we have a government that is unable to deal with a simple crisis at home, while at the same time we fall into an ongoing list of crises that abroad.”
Trump vowed to “rebuild the strongest military the world has ever seen”. But he also talked about a new era of American expansion, when he said that the US would take back control of the Panama Canal.
He repeated his campaign promises to end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, saying he would be a “peacemaker”.
“We will measure our success not only by the wars we win but also by the wars we end and, perhaps even more, the wars we don’t enter,” Trump said. “My greatest legacy will be to create peace and unification.”
Former presidents including George W Bush and Barack Obama attended the ceremony, while tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who recently flocked to Trump’s side had large seats in the audience. .
Trump is re-entering the White House with wider support from the public and businesses than he left in 2021, just weeks after his supporters stormed the US Capitol to try to reverse Biden’s election.
Trump now faces an uphill task in making good on his promise to lower the cost of living for middle-class families, a pledge that was a powerful political weapon in his campaign victory against Kamala. Harris.
The new president said he would declare a national emergency on issues including immigration and energy, giving the president the power to quickly take new measures. As he spoke, the White House said it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord.
But Trump stopped short of announcing new tariffs immediately, instead planning to release a memorandum ordering federal agencies to reevaluate America’s trade relations with trading partners such as China, Mexico and Canada .
The reluctance suggests that his top aides are grappling with an aggressive approach to slapping tariffs on America’s top trading partners. But Trump said tariffs are still coming.
“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will also tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he said.
Before he spoke, the dollar fell 1 percent against a basket of other currencies in US morning trade, marking its worst daily decline in more than five months.
Trump’s return to the White House worries some of America’s closest allies who fear a security crackdown and a new shift in isolation in Washington.
But conservative world leaders are delighted with his election victory. Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, and Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, were among the leaders present at his inauguration.
