President Trump delivers a 30-minute inaugural address highlighting his vision for a renewed 'golden age' and emphasizing 'Manifest Destiny' themes, including reclaiming the Panama Canal and asserting American dominance in the Gulf of Mexico. The speech, met with positive reactions inside the Capitol building, suggests a bold and potentially controversial agenda for his second term.
Hundreds of guests gathered in the Capitol building's Rotunda to witness the inauguration of President Trump and hear his inaugural presidential address.US President Donald Trump made a 30 minute inaugural speech, covering a wide range of issues – so what are the key points and the reactions?
“Republicans will be very happy with that but Democrats, I think, will be secretly quite pleased, because there's not a hope in hell on the domestic agenda, with the very narrow margin he has in Congress and the very narrow mandate he has that he gets things like energy costs down by half, so he's running into a very big difficulty in a couple of year’s time.
“This is a reset for the world, the likes of which I don't think we've seen in living memory,” he said. “I would just say I thought it was interesting how he wasn't afraid to kind of directly mention the things that he knows are polarising,” one man said.
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