At 12:01 p.m. ET, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president, marking a historic political comeback. Surrounded by tech giants and supporters, he delivered a speech filled with optimism and ambitious promises, such as tackling inflation and immigration while reviving American manufacturing. Trump emphasized the belief that American greatness lies in achieving the impossible. His return sparked excitement in Washington and confidence across Wall Street, despite significant opposition to his policies and remarks. While many cherished his leadership, others voiced concerns over his approach to global issues, including Ukraine and environmental policies. Nonetheless, he projected strength and determination to lead.
Never mind whether he actually touched the Bible. At 12:01 p.m. ET, an invisible pulse of force surged from the battered volume into the five, frankly average-sized fingers of Donald John Trump’s right hand.
And it happened. Sitting a short distance away in the Capitol Rotunda, I witnessed the moment that Wokratties around the world tried so hard to prevent.
I saw the resurrection of the person they despised and reviled. A second inauguration that many believed was morally, politically, legally, and perhaps even biologically impossible.
By taking the oath with first lady Melania Trump aboard a blue boat, Donald Trump became not only the 45th president but also the 47th president, making one of the most spectacular political comebacks in history.
His speeches ranged from soaring optimism to the kind of pure bullishness seemingly calculated to make his opponents bite the carpet.
He began with a gentleness that was almost a nod. The Golden Age has begun, he declared, leaning over the podium and looking at us sideways.
“There’s sunshine all over the world,” he whispered. Just as we looked up at the huge cupola overhead, we saw how obediently the sun’s rays were streaming in through the windows.
Then he gradually started to raise the volume of his boasting.
Donald Trump takes the oath of office with his wife Melania Trump during the inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
With America’s tech giants behind him, some of them clearly more respectful than before, he declared that the next four years would be the biggest in American history. . Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook—all of them sitting directly behind Trump, as if to insist on a new symbiosis between the president and the American super-oligarchy. Ta. They all clapped.
In response to enthusiastic praise, he vowed to quell inflation, drive out illegal immigration, restore American manufacturing and plant the American flag on Mars.
He intended to somehow regain American control of the Panama Canal – an announcement that received a rather harsh reaction from the former presidents behind him.
He intended to break regulations on American oil and gas, and his message to the hydrocarbon industry was “Drill Baby, Drill.”
Again, this didn’t seem to drop much in the case of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
It sent his supporters into a fit of excitement.
From now on, he promised, the U.S. government would recognize only two genders: male and female. This also received a standing ovation.
In fact, almost everything got a standing ovation. And I began to follow the example of one of the well-groomed young Trump children in front of me. He seemed to stand up only on very special occasions.
Trump (78) kisses first lady Melania (53) for the second time
Nearing the climax of his speech, President Trump emphasized that America encourages its people to try to achieve the impossible. Unlike other countries, you can succeed in America.
“The impossible is what we do best,” he said, and naturally cited his own career – his remarkable political comeback – to prove the point. When you look at the facts, it’s hard to argue with this.
The 78-year-old has filed numerous lawsuits against him, most of them persistent and all of them purely aimed at keeping him from voting. He has been fighting every day for four years to regain the presidency.
He spoke at hundreds of meetings and public events, weaving monologues until his voice died from the effort. He has been tweeting endlessly in his own unique voice.
He reached out to distrustful groups and gradually won them over.
His incredible work ethic and never-give-up attitude made him only the second person in history to serve two nonconsecutive terms as president.
In November, he became the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote.
He especially showed his mettle when a high-velocity bullet hit his ear at a rally in Pennsylvania, narrowly escaping death by a millimeter.
At the inauguration, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez and Amazon’s fiance Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk send a furious email to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. There was a figure.
Will any of us have the courage to stand up like him and with a bloody face tell his supporters to fight, fight, fight?
President Trump told us he concluded that the Lord intervened. In what has to be one of the most alpha male statements of all time, he said he was personally saved by God to make America great again.
No one opposed this extraordinary proposal. On the contrary, they gave him yet another standing ovation.
Many in the audience literally believed it to be true that President Trump now stands alongside the greats whose names have been immortalized on canvases and statues throughout the room.
Washington, Lincoln, and now Trump are men sent to fulfill America’s manifest destiny.
It’s hard to overstate the excitement and confidence the real estate agent-turned-reality-TV star’s return has generated in Washington.
On Wall Street, President Trump’s bullishness and confidence are being transmitted to the market, and for the foreseeable future, US growth will outpace that of the UK and other European countries.
But it’s not just the wealthy who rely on Trump. And yesterday, in temperatures of minus 3 degrees Celsius, we got a glimpse of their heroism as they waved MAGA red flags in droves near the Houses of Parliament.
Mr Musk is President Trump’s most important adviser, writes Boris Johnson. He champions clean transportation and believes America’s electricity needs could be met with 100 square miles of solar panels.
For hundreds of millions of Americans, the billionaire in orange is someone who sees things the same way they do and shares their pains and anxieties. He’s also someone who can really get things done.
They believe he can defeat drug cartels and solve the problem of illegal immigration.
They believe him when he says he can make America respected around the world.
This weekend, they had another huge piece of evidence of Trump’s effectiveness: the Israeli-Hamas agreement and the release of the first hostages.
No one here believes that this would have happened without President Trump’s intervention.
And for millions of other people in the United States and around the world, that speech, of course, would have done nothing to allay their fears.
They will harshly criticize his loose language on retaking Panama. They will be enamored with his seemingly indifferent attitude towards global warming and his promotion of fossil fuels.
They will worry that by asserting an absolute right to free speech, America is somehow encouraging a new culture of barbaric verbal attacks. Most of all, they will be upset by the president’s complete silence on Ukraine, Europe’s biggest war in 80 years.
What does that mean? Will Trump abandon this completely innocent country and hand victory to Putin?
Well, I get that, but I’m still one of the optimists.
No matter what President Trump says about drilling, his most important advisor is Elon Musk. He champions clean transportation and believes the entire United States’ electricity needs could be met with 100 square miles of solar panels.
Trump talks a lot about tariffs, and he did it last time, too, ending up with a free trade agreement with China.
The UK government should get its act together and develop a similar free trade agreement.
The Trump administration wasn’t ready for Biden, but it is.
As for Ukraine, I do not believe for a moment that President Trump will allow America, and the West, to be humiliated by surrendering to President Vladimir Putin.
After the ceremony ended with cries of “America, America,” President Trump left with clenched fists to sign 200 executive orders signed by seismographs.
Every human organization needs a leader, and the world is no exception. For better or worse, America is the leader of the planet, and when that leadership is strong, things generally go well.
It is clear that strong leadership is what President Trump is determined to provide.