Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Donald_Trump’s_Inaugural_Address_(2025)
Excerpts:
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 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, 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 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 in the United States of America.
As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a corrupt and radical establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken, and seemingly incomplete and in disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage a simple crisis, even 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 have 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 were 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, and in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this change, starting today, and it will change very quickly.
My recent election has 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 have learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you. Those that 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.
………January 20th, 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, 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 on the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.
……….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 cities and inner cities. As Commander-in-Chief, I have no higher responsibility 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’s ever seen before.
………..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 have, and that is 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 auto workers. 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 ever 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 services. The American Dream will soon be back and thriving like never before, to restore competence 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 managed 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 constitutional 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 be henceforth 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 our 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. How our armed forces will be freed 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 a unifier, that’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.
……..America will reclaim its rightful place as the 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 a great president, William McKinley to Mount McKinley, 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. The United States, 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 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, while China is operating the Panama Canal. 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 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, American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars. Ambition is 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 the most mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through our rugged land, of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions 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 that we cannot do, and no dream that 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.
……….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.
He let the Dems in attendance have it with both barrels and they had to sit and listen.
His agenda from Day One.
What he should do:
Secure the border (build the wall)
Increase the number of border patrol agents
Implement tariffs
Pardon all of Biden’s J6 political prisoners. Go after the DOJ henchman Matthew Graves for malicious prosecution.
Go after the corrupt J6 committee, Anthony Fauci and Mark Milley, for their crimes and sedition.
Drill, baby, drill
Scrutinize the mosques and radical muzzie terrorist facilitators in America, and deport them.
Take measures to ensure that the Islamofascist nation states understand that any and all threats and terrorist acts will be considered an act of war and dealt with accordingly.
Suspend “refugee” admissions into the US, and carefully vet those who are allowed in.
Send a clear message to China that America will no longer tolerate their aggression. Kick all ChiCom-owned businesses out of the US. Forbid them to buy farmland and shut down their social media, and their espionage operations. Deport all ChiCom foreign nationals.
Purge CRT, DEI, trannies, Woke ideology, and perversion, from the military.
Invite all the military personnel who were forcibly discharged for refusing to take a toxic vax, back into the service with back pay and promotions.
Crack down on Antifa. Prosecute them and send their asses to jail.
Clean out the VA of administrators and doctors who funded and approved medical care for illegals over veterans. Enforce high standards of medical care and qualifications for the medical personnel entrusted with the care of veterans. Fire the ones who fail to meet those standards.
Revoke the security clearances of the 51 lying former intelligence officials who signed a statement before the 2020 election that the Hunter Biden laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
So far it looks promising. It’s going to be a great four years.