Donald Trump inaugurated as US president again
Republican Donald Trump was inaugurated again Monday as the 47th U.S. president, calling for a “revolution of common sense” and vowing to quickly order sweeping policy changes, including the deportation of millions of undocumented migrants living in the United States back to their home countries.
“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump declared in his half-hour inaugural address. “From this moment on, America’s decline is over. We will lead it to new heights of victory and success. There is no dream we cannot achieve. We will not be broken. We will not fail.
“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,” Trump told a crowd of about 600 people in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol and millions watching on TV throughout the country.
“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,” he said.
Trump, 78, was the country’s 45th president, and only the second after Grover Cleveland in the 1890s to serve a second nonconsecutive term. With Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden leaves office after a single four-year term in the White House.
In his address, Trump vowed to quickly carry out a litany of 2024 campaign promises, citing the fact that he swept all seven political battleground states in defeating his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump said he will "declare a national emergency,” close the southwestern U.S. border with Mexico to stem the flow of thousands of migrants seeking to enter the U.S., with many of them looking to escape poverty, crime and unemployment in Central American countries and elsewhere.
Trump said he would enforce a “stay in Mexico” policy for migrants looking for asylum in the U.S. and end the policy of catching other migrants at the U.S. border and then releasing to them to live in the United States while they await adjudication of their asylum requests, a process that can take months, even years.
Source: VOA news
