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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S FULL INAUGURAL ADDRESS…
Here is the full transcript of Mr. Trump’s second inaugural
address, provided by the Associated Press.
The full text of Trump’s inauguration speech
Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief
Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme Court, President
Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President
Harris and my fellow citizens:
The golden age of America begins right now. From this day
forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.
We will be the envy of every nation. And we will not allow ourselves to be
taken advantage of any longer.
During every single day of the Trump administration, I will,
very simply, put America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety
will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious,
violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government
will end. And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud and
prosperous and free.
America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more
exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and
optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success.
A tide of change is sweeping the country. Sunlight is pouring over the entire
world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.
But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face.
While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that
the world is now witnessing and the United States of America. As we gather
today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, the radical
and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens.
While the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete
disrepair, 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 fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American
citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many
from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country
from all over the world. 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, who’ve
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. We have a public health system that
does not deliver in times of disaster, 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 hate our country despite
the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change
starting today and will change very quickly.
Our recent election is a mandate to completely and totally
reverse a horrible betrayal, and all of these many betrayals that have taken
place, and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy
and indeed their freedom. From this moment on, America’s decline is over.
Our liberties and our nation’s glorious destiny will no
longer be denied and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency and
loyalty of America’s government. Over the past eight years, I have been tested
and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history, and I’ve
learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our Republic has not been
an easy one, that I can tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried
to take my freedom and indeed to take my life. Just a few months ago, in a
beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear. But I
felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I
was saved by God to make America great again.
That is why each day under our administration of American
patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and
strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity,
safety and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed. For
American citizens, January 20, 2025, is Liberation Day.
It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be
remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of
our country. As our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying
behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every
element of our society. Young and old, men and women, African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban and rural. And, very
importantly, we had a powerful win in all seven swing states and the popular
vote. We won by millions of people.
To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you
for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with
your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it. I’ve 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 and his honor — this will be
a great honor — but in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a
reality. We will make his dream come true.
National unity is now returning to America and confidence
and pride is soaring like never before. In everything we do my administration
will be inspired 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.
Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.
With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the
revolution of common sense. It’s all about common sense. First, I will declare
a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately
be halted. And we will begin 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 practice of catch and release. And I
will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our
country. Under the orders I sign today we will also be designating the cartels
as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of
1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal
and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and
criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities
and inner cities.
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. Next, I
will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their
disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring 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
emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.
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. We
will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top,
and export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again.
And it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to 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 autoworkers. In other words, you’ll be
able to buy the car of your choice. We will build automobiles in America again
at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago. And
thank you to the auto workers of our nation for your inspiring vote of
confidence. We did tremendously with their vote.
I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to
protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich
other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our
citizens. For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to
collect 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 like never
before. To restore confidence and effectiveness to our federal government, my
administration will establish the brand new Department of Government
Efficiency.
After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional
federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive
order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech
to America. 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 Constitution and the rule
of law. And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.
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. As of today,
it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that
there are only two genders, male and female. This week I will reinstate any
service members who were unjustly expelled from the military for objecting to
the Covid vaccine mandate with full 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 immediately. Our armed forces will
be free to focus on their sole mission—defeating America’s enemies. Like in
2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.
We will measure our success not only by the battles we win
but also by the wars that we end. And, perhaps most importantly, the wars we
never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.
That’s what I want to be. A peacemaker and a unifier. I’m pleased to say that,
as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle
East are coming back home to their families.
America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest,
most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration
of the entire world. A short time from now, we are going to be changing the
name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And we will restore the name
of the great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be
and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through
tariffs and through talent.
He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the
money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which
has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States — the
United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a
project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We
have been treated very badly from this foolish 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 totally violated. American ships are being
severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that
includes 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.
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. Together, we will end
the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease
free. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one
that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our
expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will
pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to
plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.
And it’s 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. Our American ancestors turned 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 comes close. 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 millions 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 work
together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.
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
believe that something 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, D.C., our country
was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they
had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys
and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and
pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward and let no obstacle defeat their
spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the
skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and
communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that 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 an American promise and we will rebuild the nation that we love. And we
love 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 to dreams
for their future: I am with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you.
And we’re going to win like never before.
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 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.
America will be respected again and admired again, including
by people of religion, faith and goodwill. We will be prosperous. We will be
proud. We will be strong and we will win like never before. We will not be
conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken. And we will not
fail.
From this day on, 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 will stand in our way. Because we
are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun.
Thank you. God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you.
151st - Judge Erica Hughes
152nd - Judge-Elect TaKasha Francis
164th Juddge Cheryl Elliott Thornton
189th - Judge Tamika Craft
270th - Judge Dedra Davis
333rd - Judge Tracy D. Good
334th - Judge Dawn Rogers
176th - Jones Nikita V. Harmon
180th - Judge DaSean Jones
184th - Judge Katherine N. Thomas
208th - Judge Beverly Armstrong
262nd - Judge Lori Chambers Gray
263rd - Judge Melissa M. Morris
339th - Judge Te'iva J. Bell
482 - Judge Veronica M. Nelson
487th - Judge Stacy Allen Barrow
246th - Judge Angela Graves-Harrington
257th - Judge Sandra Peake
280th - Judge Damieane "Dianne" Curvey
309th - Linda Marie Dunson
311th - Judge Germaine "Ja'net" Tanner
507th - Judge Lillian Henny Alexander
No. 3 - Judge LaShawn A. Williams
No. 9 - Judge Toria J. Finch
No. 10 - Judge Juanita A. Jackson
No. 11 - Judge Sedrick T. Walker, II
No. 12 - Judge Genesis Draper
No. 15 - Judge Tonya Jones
3.2 - Judge Lucia Bates
7.1 - Judge Wanda Adams
7.2 - Judge Sharon Burney
