U.S. President Donald Trump reacts after being sworn in on the day of his Presidential Inauguration on the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025.
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Donald J. Trump — a local of Queens now residing in Florida — formally grew to become the forty seventh President of america at midday Monday in a ceremony within the Capitol rotunda.
Trump is barely the second president in U.S. historical past to be elected to 2 non-consecutive phrases to the White Home, the primary being Grover Cleveland, the twenty second and twenty fourth presidents.
Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice John Roberts, as he had performed eight years earlier, administered the presidential oath of workplace to Trump at noon on Jan. 20, with Trump’s spouse, First Woman Melania Trump, holding the Bible. As a result of chilly climate, the ceremony was moved contained in the Capitol somewhat than on the conventional inauguration location on the skin steps.
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of workplace from U.S. Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice John Roberts throughout inauguration ceremonies within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes workplace for his second time period because the forty seventh president of america. Chip Somodevilla/Pool through REUTERS
President Trump’s inauguration comes after 4 tumultuous years through which he was criminally indicted 4 occasions — together with for his alleged position in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 revolt on the U.S. Capitol — and a conviction in a Manhattan court docket on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information, to which he acquired no sentence.
Defeating former Vice President Kamala Harris final November, Trump was elected on a marketing campaign of instituting tariffs on imported items, chopping prices, cracking down on unlawful immigration and, in some methods, looking for retribution. Forward of his inauguration, he sought to eradicate birthright citizenship for People born to undocumented dad and mom through government order — a transfer that may possible face court docket challenges.
Although he handily misplaced New York state, the place he had spent a lot of his life, Trump appeared to win over extra metropolis voters within the 2024 presidential election — as extra New Yorkers appeared motivated by financial and public security considerations.
Regardless of inheriting the strongest peacetime economic system on Earth, Trump alleged that America was in decline — however that he would flip issues round by placing “America first.”
In his inaugural tackle, Trump claimed that he would make America “greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before,” and outlined quite a few government orders he would signal Monday to shut the southern border, invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 “to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil,” declare a nationwide vitality emergency and broaden oil drilling.
Trump additionally mentioned would additionally “forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based,” and declared that the U.S. authorities’s coverage was to acknowledge solely two genders, a transfer that successfully disenfranchised transgender and binary People.
The brand new president additionally doubled down on earlier statements that he would search to rename the Gulf of Mexico because the Gulf of America; restore the identify of Mount McKinley to the very best peak in America in Alaska (which native People have known as Denali for hundreds of years); take again the Panama Canal, which the U.S. ceded to Panama in a 1999 settlement; create an “External Revenue Service” to gather tariffs on imported items; and plant the American flag on Mars.
In the meantime, earlier on Monday, J.D. Vance of Ohio was sworn in as vp, succeeding Harris.
