Donald Trump, who has overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts will this morning be sworn in as the 47th US president.
Donald Trump, who has overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts will this morning be sworn in as the 47th US president.
If you’re just waking up, the United States officially has a new president after Donald Trump was sworn in at a ceremony in Washington earlier this morning.
There are plenty more inauguration events to come – here’s everything you need to know:
- Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance were sworn in before a small crowd including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
- In his first remarks as the 47th president, Trump said the next four years would be the “golden age” of the US.
- Trump used the speech to take multiple swipes at the Biden administration, blaming the government for what he said were economic and immigration failures.
- He outlined multiple executive orders that he would sign in his first moments in office, including declaring an emergency on the southern border and pledging to expel illegal immigrants.
- He received standing ovations from the small crowd in the Capitol Rotunda. Biden and the Democrats mostly remained seated, other than when Trump mentioned the hostages released by Hamas.
- The celebrations will continue with a presidential parade and inaugural balls.
Six months after he was almost assassinated, Donald Trump embarked on one of the most expansive demonstrations of presidential power in years, using his inauguration speech to unveil a blizzard of executive actions that he said would usher in a new “golden age” and a “revolution of common sense”.
“America’s decline is over,” he said.
Trump’s speech was slightly less dark than the “American carnage” address he gave at his first inauguration eight years ago, which depicted the US as a crime and drug-infested hellscape with “rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones”; “mothers and children trapped in poverty”; and “forgotten men and women”.
But it nonetheless cast the US as a country that had lost its way under his predecessor – and one that only he could revive.
“We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer,” he said.
Donald Trump’s team has moved the traditional parade down Pennsylvania Avenue to Washington’s Capitol One Arena.
The event is expected to feature remarks from the freshly-sworn-in president and marching bands.
It wasn’t just politicians and former presidents in the Capitol Rotunda as Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew thanked Trump last week for committing to work with the tech company, which is the subject of a ban in the US.
On Tuesday he joined the throng celebrating Trump’s inauguration along with fellow tech leaders Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
We’ve seen UFC chief executive Dana White at Trump events before, but today star fighter Conor McGregor was spotted in the crowd at Emancipation Hall, where Trump gave a long, impromptu speech.
Jake Paul – the YouTuber turned boxer – was also in the crowd with his brother Logan and popular podcaster Theo Von.
A Biden administration initiative to provide advice on abortion and birth control appears to have been pulled.
The US Government website reproductiverights.gov was launched after the US Supreme Court overturned national abortion rights.
The website was no longer working just moments after Trump took office, Associated Press reported.
Associated Press
The luncheon at the Capitol for Trump and Vance has now wrapped up and the president is now heading to Emancipation Hall for an honour’s ceremony involving members of the US military.
He is then expected to head to Capital One Arena where 20,000 of his supporters, who were unable to watch this morning’s proceedings live after it was shifted indoors, have been viewing the events on big screens while also being addressed by high-profile supporters of Trump including Elon Musk.
Trump is expected to address the crowd where he is expected to announce further details of the executive orders he will sign off on, now that he is back in the White House.
His day will conclude with three separate inauguration balls.
Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the incoming US president’s pledges nearly a decade after calling him “not Christian” for wanting to build a wall along the US-Mexican border.
History’s first Latin American pope was asked on Sunday night about the Trump administration pledges of deportations during an appearance on a popular Italian talk show.
“If true, this will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing pay the bill,” for the problem, Francis said. “This won’t do! This is not the way to solve things. That’s not how things are resolved.”
Trump outlined multiple executive orders that he apparently signed in his first moments in office, including declaring an emergency on the southern border and pledging to expel illegal immigrants.
In a separate congratulatory telegram to Trump, Pope Francis said: “It is my hope that under your leadership the American people will prosper and always strive to build a more just society, where there is no room for hatred, discrimination or exclusion.”
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong got to sit in the Rotunda. She was seated next to Trump’s older sister, Elizabeth.
Her meeting with Marco Rubio will be tomorrow, by which stage he should be confirmed as secretary of state and, therefore, her US counterpart.
Kevin Rudd, meanwhile, was with the diplomatic corps in the Emancipation Hall, also known as the overflow room.
Elon Musk has addressed the Trump gathering to rapturous applause at the Capitol One Arena before ending his remarks with what CNN has described it as an “odd-looking salute”.
As he closed out his speech, Musk put his right hand flat on his chest before extending it out straight towards the crowd.
“It’s not something you would typically see at American political rallies,” CNN host Kasie Hunt said as the broadcaster replayed the vision.
Musk had bounced onto the stage and began dancing before telling the crowd: “This is what victory feels like.”
“This was no ordinary victory, this was a fork in the road of human civilisation … it is thanks to you that the future of civilisation is assured,” he told the arena.
“We’re going to have safe cities, finally, secure borders, sensible spending, basic stuff and we are going to take DOGE to Mars.”
Seconds after he was sworn in, Trump sent out a fundraising email asking for $25 donations.
And he reminded his followers “I AM THE PRESIDENT NOW!”
The email reads:
Trump’s memo
Friend,
I wanted you to be the first person to read my PRESIDENTIAL MEMO:
Sorry to keep you waiting folks, complicated business, and it was also very cold, but…
I AM THE PRESIDENT NOW!
You’re the only reason I was elected President, AGAIN, and because of you, we will be saving America once and for all.
Remember we are ONE movement, ONE people, ONE family, and ONE GLORIOUS NATION UNDER GOD!
We will make America powerful again.We will make America healthy again.
We will make America wealthy again.
We will make America proud again.
We will make America strong again.
AND WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Right here, right now, I’m announcing the 24 HOUR PRESIDENTIAL FUNDRAISING BLITZ!
Donald Trump’s second inauguration as US president was every bit as colourful as you’d have expected – not to mention a photographer’s dream.
Amid the 47th president’s grandiose rhetoric on his ambitions for a second term in the Oval Office, and his evisceration of past presidents – particularly Joe Biden, there were a number of key moments caught on camera.
Check out our full gallery of the inauguration here.
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