Donald Trump's second inauguration was marked by a flurry of executive orders aimed at undoing his predecessor's policies. Trump delivered two contrasting speeches, one at the Capitol Rotunda focused on a 'golden age' for America and another at Emancipation Hall where he attacked Biden's pardons and continued to contest the 2020 election results.
Donald Trump cemented his return to power on Monday as the 45th and 47th commander in chief of the nation, swiftly unleashing several executive orders after his swearing-in ceremony. The event was attended by tens of thousands of supporters who gathered for a public broadcast at the Capital One Arena in downtown Washington. The inauguration ceremony, originally planned as an outdoor event, was moved to the Capitol Rotunda after Trump cited frigid temperatures on Friday.
Trump largely focused on Monday on reorienting the White House away from President Joe Biden's record during his inauguration speech, before addressing his supporters at the Capital One Arena where the inaugural parade was hosted. “Now, the work begins,” Trump declared to his supporters just before he signed executive orders establishing his takeover of Washington. Trump’s transition team had hinted he would start his second administration with a goal of signing several executive orders on the first day. The president confirmed that ambitious plan while addressing the crowd at the arena. “I’ll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history,” Trump said, taking another jab at Biden. The order Trump eventually signed rescinded 78 of Biden’s orders. “And next to gain immediate control of the vast federal out-of-control bureaucracy, I will implement an immediate regulation freeze which will stop Biden bureaucrats from continuing to regulate most of those bureaucrats are being fired,” Trump added. “They’re gone.”Other orders Trump signed in front of the crowd included the return of federal workers to the office full-time immediately, the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, an end to the weaponization of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration, a directive to federal government agencies to address the rising cost of living, the restoration of freedom of speech, and a freeze on all federal hiring, except the military and select excluded categories. With Trump declaring a national emergency at the border, designating criminal cartels and others as specifically designated global terrorists, and ending birthright citizenship, a policy that will likely invite legal challenges, Trump also withdrew from the World Health Organization, gave TikTok a 75-day extension to avoid an immediate ban, and eliminated diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Emancipation Hall after the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP) “Greatness” to the nation now that he is the 47th president during his inaugural speech at the Capitol Rotunda. “The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump declared. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation.” But that sunny disposition of a new era of the United States quickly fell apart when Trump gave a second speech to supporters gathered at Emancipation Hall afterward. “I was going to talk about the J6 hostages, but you’ll be happy because it’s action, not words, that count. And you’re going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages,” Trump told the crowd as he fumed against Biden’s last-minute pardons. “I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political thugs, where they literally, I mean, what they did is they destroyed and deleted all of the information, all of the hearings, practically not a thing left,” Trump continued. The president railed against the 2020 election results, falsely claiming it was “rigged” against him. The two competing speeches could foreshadow how Trump intends to lead the nation over the next four years. Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, arrived before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool) After moving the inauguration from an outside event to inside the Rotunda, congressional members were barred from inviting their spouses to the ceremony. Yet the nation’s tech leaders, however, were not only given prime seating spots, but they were also allowed to bring their partners. Trump has a White House email address. His co-chair, Vivek Ramaswamy, is stepping down from DOGE to run in the Ohio gubernatorial race. It’s an abrupt change from Trump’s first administration when Silicon Valley largely eschewed the president
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