Advertisement
Trump promised a vision of “America first” his first mandate, and made a similar promise his first inaugural speech. This concept was one of the animators of its political movement.
— Michael Gold
2
Trump has accused his political rivals of “turning the government that opposes him, but has also promised reprisals against his enemies. In one of his last acts in the White House, former president Joseph R. Biden Jr. , pardoned government officials, members of the Congress and members of his own family circle due to considerations that a justice department brought through Trump to investigate them and punish them.
-Michael Gold
3
It may simply seem like a different ritual than the one that took place 8 years ago. The angry tone of the new president and the crowd is palpable. But Trump’s calm expression, when he talks about demanding situations and criticizing the Biden administration, is not greatly different in content.
-Katie Rogers
4
Trump repeated his claim, made countless times during the 2024 campaign, that “many from prisons and mental institutions” had illegally entered the country through the southern border. He has offered no evidence for this.
—Linda qiu
Trump’s aides had billed this as an optimistic and hopeful address. But it’s really a redux of his 2017 “American Carnage” address: He describes the current America as a catastrophic mess of crime and chaos.
– Jonathan Swan
6
Though he later detailed actions he planned to take as president, Trump’s language on this issue was less specific than his campaign trail promises to shutter the Department of Education, end the teaching of critical race theory and keep schools from recognizing transgender identities.
– Michael Gold
7
Trump, who has joined devotee conservatives, has advised for months that divine intervention was his attempt to murder a manifestation in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
– Michael Gold
On the Crusade, Trump has used this word by discussing the end of what he described in violent terms as an invasion of unbridled migrants from the United States.
9
Trump and his allies talked about their victory, since it seems like a landslide that provides them with the mandate of governing, but prevailed with one of the smallest margins of the victory of the popular vote for a president for decades.
– Michael Gold
10
President Trump won 2020 Hispanic and black men.
– Erica L. Green
This policy forced migrants to wait in Mexico until the date of their immigration case in court. The United States, however, would need Mexico’s cooperation to bring back the policy. And the details of deploying military assets to the border remain unclear.
– Zolan Kanno-Youngs
12
This centuries-old law allows for the quick deportation of people from countries with which the United States is at war, that have invaded the United States or that have engaged in “predatory incursions.” It is unclear whether it can be used to encompass drug cartels.
– Michael Gold
13
Energy analysts have said that gas prices are difficult for a president to affect. Trump doesn’t directly control oil companies, and oil production in the United States reached record highs under the Biden administration.
– Michael Gold
14
This ignores that the United States is already the richest country in the global through almost all measures.
— David E. Sanger
15
There is no federal electric vehicle mandate. But the Biden administration issued environmental regulations on emissions meant to push car companies to speed up electric vehicle production, which Trump has called an electric vehicle mandate.
– Michael Gold
Trump in recent days has talked repeatedly about creating an “External Revenue Service” to collect on new tariffs. It’s a promise that makes a number of congressional Republicans uncomfortable, but that others are pushing.
— Catie Edmondson
17
Led through billionaire Elon Musk, this branch, which is not a branch of the company but an ambiguous structural organization, intends to target what Trump sees as government spending and heavy regulations.
— Michael Gold
18
Trump has filed a number of lawsuits against news outlets recently. This action would also likely include social media companies; he has complained that companies such as Facebook and YouTube censored him and his allies over health misinformation and the election results of 2020.
– Maggie Haberman
19
The speech felt like a State of the Union in its laundry list of policy prescriptions. Inaugural Addresses traditionally aspire to lofty and unifying themes and shy away from details on policies, leaving those for a later day.
– Peter Baker
Here, Trump has taken credits for the publication of Israeli hostages, made jointly with the Biden administration.
— David E. Sanger
21
Trump could press for these changes as these geographical names are used in the United States, but whether other countries might honor them is up to them.
— Michael Gold
22
Although Trump has discussed the costs and widely during his campaign, he only discussed them twice in his inaugural speech. In your opinion, costs will revitalize the US economy and inform a significant source of income for the federal government.
– Michael Gold
23
The claim that China exploits the Panama Canal is false: Panama operates the Panama Canal, port owners in every aspect of the canal through a Hong Kong-founded corporation have raised security concerns.
– David E. Sanger
24
Trump pledges to “end the chronic disease epidemic” while also assailing the nation’s public health system as one that “does not deliver in times of disaster,” while failing to mention that many of its stumbles during the coronavirus pandemic occurred while he was president.
– Sheryl Stolberg
Elon Musk’s dream has long been attending humans by colonizing Mars; He radiated when Trump promised to plant the US flag. And one of Trump’s greatest proud achievements, his first mandate was the creation of the strength of the area, a reminder of how much he and Musk are safely aligned.
—Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
26
Trump’s evocation of fate and overt U. S. expansion is highlighted given his recent refusal to rule out the military’s use of force or the economic strain of taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland.
– Michael Gold
27
This component of his speech sounds like Trump in one of his manifestations: American directory achievements, himself at the top.
– Katie Rogers
A remarkably absent topic of Trump’s address: Crook defendants on January 6. Trump promised to forgive a lot, maybe even to the fullest of them today. The fuss and their families look at the occasions today, some at surveillance parties, and expect the way Trump intends to proceed.
– Alan Feuer
Advertisement