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Jan. 20, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Full Coverage of My Father’s Inauguration, America is Back. | TRIGGERED Ep.209
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Thank you.
Speaking about the two men in the car, Joe Biden's approval rating is as low as it's ever been in In fact, one of the lowest of a first-term president who was not re-elected.
So in that sense, he can feel like he has a mandate.
Obviously, he won decisively and won the popular vote.
But when you look at the polling, and this was a Fox News poll that came out recently, do you see that this president now has a mandate?
Only 42% of voters said yes, they believe he has a mandate.
Was Trump's success, or do you think his success was because people really liked Trump, or because it was a rejection of Biden and Harris?
A majority said it was a rejection of Biden and Harris.
So there are things that they do support.
They do believe that he's going to do a better job on immigration.
They want him to do that.
The country is divided on what that means.
And the way we ask that question, I think, is going to be really important about supporting deportations of people who are here illegally.
But what they really do want to see is inflation tackled.
And what the president is talking about right now, whether it's with tariffs or troops on the border, things like that, that is not necessarily going to help.
Immediately with the things that people are the most interested in and why so many people did support him in the first place.
And we should say the motorcade has just arrived at the U.S. Capitol.
I'm not entirely sure of the camera position there.
We may not see President-elect Trump and President Biden get out of the vehicle and make their way into the Capitol.
But Tiffany, we heard Amy Walter say that Donald Trump is far more popular than he was eight years ago.
He's also...
Way more prepared for the presidency.
Help us understand how he's better positioned to not just articulate but also enact his really ambitious agenda.
Well, I was at the inauguration in 2017, and it was an amazing day.
I'm honored to be able to experience that.
But you're right.
Donald Trump was coming in, and everything was new to him.
Now he has his cabinet picks.
He has his nominees.
He's in a strong position.
And he understands the mandate that was sent down, that the American people want him to get to work.
I believe in these next 100 days, we will start to see his approval ratings rise as he starts to deliver results.
He is the...
You know, creator of Art of the Deal.
He knows how to get work done.
And that's why the American people sent him there.
You know, I think as far as Biden, you know, Trump is coming in to a country with Bidenomics.
Perhaps that was a mistake for Biden to label his economic policy Bidenomics because the American people really felt the effects of that.
And it's an opportunity for Trump to come in and show what he can deliver.
How are his supporters seeing this vast array of executive orders?
I've heard anywhere between more than 50 to 100 executive orders that he intends to sign today.
Some will be serious and substantive and others will just be conversation starters.
What does the MAGA base really make of all that?
Yes, well, it's securing our border.
And that's another reason why Donald Trump won.
We have an open border.
Every state is a border state in this country.
And so, you know, obviously securing our border, protecting Americans first.
And not only that, you know, when you look at the economy, Trump also will deregulate.
So small businesses can run and flourish.
And as far as tackling inflation and in these executive orders, he will be unleashing American energy independence, which will kickstart, you know, getting a grip on inflation.
We're seeing President Biden and President-elect Trump make their way into the Capitol.
They are really shepherded by Amy Klobuchar, the senator there who leads the bipartisan group that organizes.
These inaugural events.
And this is a live look inside the US Capitol.
That is Elon Musk, of course, in conversation with another tech leader.
We'll continue with live picture inside this room as well.
This is, of course, where that swearing-in ceremony will unfold in just a matter of minutes.
In the meantime, I want to bring in two more guests.
Two former senators are also joining us.
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us.
Senator Corker, let's begin with you.
This is, however you look at it, quite a political comeback.
For President-elect Donald Trump, four years ago, a very different scene unfolding in that Capitol Rotunda when many of his supporters stormed it violently.
What are you thinking about this day?
How are you viewing today's proceedings?
Well, I'm thinking about the fact that every president wants to be the greatest president in modern history, or at least in their time.
It's incredible.
Because what makes a great presidency is the context.
Where is the world at that juncture?
And if you look at the opportunities that exist right now in the Middle East, because of what has happened with Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran and Syria, you look at the tremendous opportunity in Ukraine to come to a settlement, both entities, both Russia and Ukraine, Tired of fighting, and so there's an opportunity to do there that's something that hopefully is great for democracy.
You look at China and what's happening within their country.
There's just tremendous international opportunities.
And then domestically, with the immigration issue, hopefully it'll go beyond just dealing with the borders, but solving the entire issue, which would be...
Tremendous economically for our country and put a big issue behind us.
Dealing with the other inner issues that have been mentioned, I just think the context is set for the president-elect to be a great president, and the question is, will he rise to that occasion?
He has such opportunity for all the reasons you mentioned, the excitement, the fact that Democrats actually, instead of coming in with resentment right now...
They're actually realizing that they got it wrong, that they made mistakes, and they're wanting to move a little bit in the direction, more to the center.
So it's a great opportunity for our country.
It's a great opportunity for him, and hopefully that is what he'll set out to do.
We are watching as members of the president's cabinet, his cabinet nominees, and a few others make their way into the...
Senator Brown, you heard Senator Corker there say that this is a moment where Democrats are trying to take stock of what they got wrong.
Is that how you're viewing this moment?
Reflect on the day for us.
Yeah, Bob, nice to see you.
A great president was one who wants to bring people together.
And, you know, the executive orders are fine, and they will make progress on some issues, I assume.
But people are unhappy.
People voted for Trump in large part.
Because they've seen a rigged system against them.
They've seen corporate profits go up.
They've seen CEO pay go up.
Stock buybacks.
They've seen their own wages stagnant.
They've seen huge numbers of lost industrial jobs.
They've seen really since NAFTA. And that sickness has infected our society in terms of lost jobs and lost wages, while the rich get richer and everybody else struggles.
And to see a president surrounding himself with California billionaires, I'm hopeful it's an inaugural speech that he talks about substance and talks about workers.
He won his campaign in part by talking about workers, but I would suggest one, I would give one example of something he could do.
A judge in East Texas, on behalf of the Texas Chamber of Commerce, a Trump judge, one decision, one judge, about six weeks ago, made a ruling on overtime that took away overtime from four million workers across the country.
The president could fix that.
And if he really, I mean, politics isn't left to right.
I don't think it's a middle matter of Democrats moving to the center or whatever.
It's who's siding on.
And I want to see a president who just doesn't talk that game, but actually walks that walk and stands up for workers in making their lives better.
We're continuing with Live Picture Inside the Capitol here.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for staying with us.
Judy, this idea that...
President Biden, on his way out, was warning about this tech oligarchy.
Inside the room here, you see the CEO of Google.
You see Elon Musk, who has taken on a very prominent role for this incoming administration as well.
There's sort of a lot of ideas bumping up against each other in this moment.
No question.
And I think, as we've been hearing, the question will be not just what will President Trump say in his inaugural address today about that.
Will he address any of these contradictions?
Or will he...
We assume he's going to focus on the positive.
But, you know, as Tiffany was saying, these first hundred days are an opportunity for him to make a difference.
But squaring the circle when it comes to coming to a hard, solid agreement on government spending, that's a tough one.
Coming to the details of immigration, these are hard questions that he, that Republican leaders, Republican members are going to be dealing with.
We're about celebrating.
We're about appreciating.
But the hard work starts tomorrow.
Mike Pence in attendance.
Tiffany, help us understand the significance of that, because the two men, Pence and Trump, had not spoken directly, had not interacted since the funeral a few weeks ago for the late President Jimmy Carter.
Well, I think it's significant that he is there and just showing support and solidarity as a country.
We are the United States of America.
We're the best country in the world because of our people.
And so he is showing that he is there in support of President Trump and moving forward.
I'm grateful for Vice President Pence's service and everything that he has given and served our country with dignity and honor.
But it's also time to move forward.
And President Trump is ready to do that.
He's made that very clear.
But it's significant, and I think it shows just the unity of the party.
And the opportunity going forward.
We see a live picture there seated in front of President-elect Trump's nominees for his cabinet.
There are Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk.
I understand Lisa Desjardins, who's reporting for us on Capitol Hill right now, has a little bit more to share in terms of the logistics of how this is all going to play out.
Lisa?
Yeah, how are you?
Hi, guys.
You know, I think I've just lost my connection with you, but I'll tell you just a couple of things going on here at the Capitol.
One thing, with the changed footprint here, with moving the ceremony indoors, there is actually an entirely separate viewing area that has been moved into the Capitol Visitor Center, which is an underground facility.
I went by there this morning, and we understand that President-elect Trump, after inauguration, plans to go by there.
Tickets for outdoors will be able to sit and watch the speech, and then he will give remarks, we understand, down there after his inaugural address.
Obviously, very coveted positioning there.
I also want to talk about Democrats.
You may notice, as you're looking up in the rotunda there, you may see some purple colors.
Democrats tell me that several of them are wearing those colors because it is the color that Hillary Clinton wore when she conceded, that Kamala Harris wore a kind of purple.
of purple shade when she conceded.
And to them, they say it's a color of both bipartisanship.
And one, frankly, told me it's the color of mourning.
Republicans were looking for those red colors.
The Trump red is very well known up there.
But one other note, you know, this is a working building.
We do expect some business today.
today, we do expect votes in committee on two Trump nominees, Pete Hegseth as Department of Defense and Marco Rubio for Secretary of State.
The Rubio vote may actually get through the entire Senate today.
That is the hope for Republicans, that there will be a Secretary of State confirmed today as well.
And one last note, that rotunda is such an incredible space.
It is hollowed ground for anyone that's ever been there.
And, you know, I looked this up.
It was finished in 1824, so just about the 200th anniversary for this occasion.
And you'll notice the presidents around President-elect Trump as he is sworn in.
Well, Lisa Desjardins.
Lisa, thanks so much.
David Brooks, one of the things I'm struck by watching all of this unfold in that beautiful space, as Lisa rightly notes, is Donald Trump's resilience.
I think most people, if you were to ask them at the end of the day on January 6th, 2021, would Donald Trump be re-elected?
I think most people would have said no.
Here are former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, making their way in.
The fact that Donald Trump...
Was not just re-elected, but survived two impeachments, two assassination attempts, four criminal trials, one conviction, and yet he's on his way to take the oath of office as the 47th president.
The sweep is just remarkable.
It's a life lesson.
You go back to Richard Nixon's career, the guy was counted out for dead a million times, and it's the same with Donald Trump.
He had some help from the Democrats.
I think the trials and the indictments helped him.
There were other things that helped him.
But he kept going.
And he's in control of the party.
The thing I'm looking for today is, is this an electoral monarchy or is it an ideological movement?
And what I mean by electoral monarchy, and this is what happens, say, in Turkey, in El Salvador, and other countries, you elect a person and they're all about themselves.
It's transactional.
They'll flip-flop policies if they feel it'll help them.
And we've seen Trump do that on H-1B visas, on TikTok, things like that.
And that's what all the tech bogals are hoping for.
An ideological movement.
It's more what Steve Miller wants, or Steve Bannon wants.
And it's all about the ideology, it's all about the populism, it's about the nationalism.
And I'm looking for indications, what kind of president are we going to get?
Well, let's talk about that with Laura Barone-Lopez, as we see a picture there, former President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush making their way in, members of the Trump family now, and here now is former President Barack Obama.
Walking into the Capitol as well.
Laura, as you watch all of this unfold as well, we think back to Mr. Trump's first inaugural address.
The phrase that stood out that stayed with everyone has been this idea of American carnage.
We've heard that this will be more of a message of unity.
What do we expect to hear?
That's right, Amna.
The president-elect is expected to give a much more unifying tone.
The incoming administration says that he views this moment very differently than he viewed his election.
in 2016 and ultimately when he was elected in 2016 and entered the White House after that election he was met with a much larger resistance and viewed and was also much more amenable to establishment Republicans many of whom He resisted him much more back then.
This time around, he very much has the Republican Party around him.
He feels as though he has much more control and support across that Republican Party.
You don't see as many of the Republicans in office anymore that were willing to stand up to him, whether it's Mitt Romney or the late John McCain.
And so this is a very different moment for the incoming President Trump, who really considers himself to have a mandate.
Despite the fact that there is some polling recently from AP that shows that voters don't necessarily support mass deportations.
They support the deportations of...
Immigrants who have committed violent crimes, who have committed crimes, but going beyond into wider deportations, which we expect the president-elect to do because they have forecasted that and so has his borders are Tom Homan, that may be something that the wider American public doesn't necessarily support according to polling.
That being said...
Given the calls this morning with White House officials, this administration is expected to launch what they call the biggest deportation effort in history.
And they are cracking down not just on illegal immigration, but also legal immigration.
And in those executive orders that we talked about a little bit earlier, another one that they are going to issue today is they are suspending refugee admissions for at least four months.
So that's a crackdown on legal immigration, Amna.
Kevin Madden, as folks have been instructed to take their seats there, we were seeing the tech billionaires, the head of Apple, the head of Google, Elon Musk there standing.
You see Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, standing amid Mr. Trump's cabinet nominees.
For people who voted for Donald Trump because they were concerned about the price of groceries, they were concerned about the affordability crisis.
How does this tableau strike the American people, do you think?
Well, I think there may be a little bit of a disconnect, but you have to remember that so many of the president's supporters are always happy to support anybody who has similar alliance with Donald Trump and his agenda than they do.
I think also, look, a lot of Trump supporters will point out to you that Joe Biden and the Democrats were perfectly happy and thrilled to have the support of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk when he was supporting Democrats.
So I think, you know, that hypocrisy, I think, will be something that fuels a lot of the president's supporters, as well as his allies on Capitol Hill.
And I think they're much more focused now on, again, the determination.
And what's even better?
While the ceremony and the swearing-in won't be outside for everyone to watch, you gotta remember, Donald Trump will be the president during the 250th anniversary of America.
And that's the guy who's gonna be in charge.
So I imagine while the weather may be like 40-year lows.
No one's gonna do it better than him.
So, my father's story and the story of the MAGA movement is a profound one of courage and perseverance.
We talked about it being so resilient.
It just goes on and on.
What was once thought to be unimaginable, guys, is now undeniable and unforgettable.
So, as you watch today, guys, as you watch the swearing-in ceremony, remember that you guys were just as much a part of it as any of us.
You guys are why we did it.
You guys are who helped create it.
You guys are going to be the beneficiaries of it.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
And you should be proud of that.
There was a swamp here in Washington, D.C. that no one ever thought could be drained, but if there's ever a chance, This is it.
This isn't about them, though.
This is about us.
And it's about what we can achieve if we stick to our core mission of making America great again.
So, thank you all.
We do have a long way to go, but there's never been a better team.
There's never been more movement.
There's never been a stronger push to make these things happen.
As we start to expose everything, as people start to see it, as they stop being lied to...
We can make that all happen.
So the fun is just getting started.
I hope you're as excited for the future as I am.
We needed this last four years of help.
We needed to understand just how far we've fallen, just how broken our system is, just how corrupt our politics is, to understand just why it's so important to save it.
And again, it's because of you.
That we are here.
So thank you guys.
Enjoy the rest of this.
I'll be back at the end.
Challenges and opportunities to do great things for our country and to do great things for our world.
But in order to do that, you do need Congress.
You need people in our country.
And I hope this is about a big vision, solving those problems, not casting blame.
But let's move ahead.
Great opportunities in front of us, and I hope that is what we hear.
I have a feeling I haven't obviously talked to the president in six years, but I have a feeling this could be very different than last time.
I'm hoping so.
Our nation and our world has tremendous issues for us to deal with, and he can make that happen if he approaches this job.
Let me say one other thing.
I hope the people around him and himself will focus on those things, those big things that our country needs to focus on, and not be diverted into some of the petty disruption for disruption's sake, going after people.
I hope it'll be about moving ahead, and if so...
What an opportunity he has.
A number of opportunities await.
A number of crises, too.
I want to draw on your experience, Senator Corker, as the former chairman of Senate Foreign Relations.
I mean, crises from Sudan to the Middle East to Ukraine as we watch members of the Trump family make their way into the Capitol.
Is President Trump's traditionally isolationist worldview, is it prepared to meet the moment, do you think?
Well, certainly it's prepared to meet the moment in Israel, right?
And in the Middle East.
I think it is prepared to meet at the moment.
Let's face it.
Look, we had our differences.
I will say the Abraham Accord set the context for very good things to happen.
And the Arabs and Israel are in a different place.
Hezbollah, as I mentioned before, and Hamas are in a different place.
I think in Ukraine and Russia, as mentioned earlier, they're both tired of fighting.
And if he...
Can bring himself to create an arrangement there that's good for Ukraine and democracy, good for Europe and the U.S. Gosh, what an incredible undertaking that will be.
And I think that through the relationship that he's attempting to have with Xi...
Maybe some good things can happen there.
So those are going to be dealt with regardless of his isolationist view, right?
They are going to be dealt with.
And so look, I'm hopeful.
Look, I'm not electable, I'm sure, but I'd love to be coming in.
I'd love to be coming into the world today as President of the United States with the opportunities.
That we have before us.
What a great opportunity for him to take advantage of.
Senator Brown, can I get you to weigh in here as you've heard what Senator Corker has to say in terms of what we could be hearing from President-elect Trump, whether or not he takes advantage of this opportunity to address all Americans and set a maybe different tone than he did back in 2017. What are your thoughts?
I'm hopeful.
I'm always hopeful.
And I also am a realist.
You know, I saw a president who, clearly a wing of the Republican Party, now captured by President Trump, clearly almost not even debatable, sided with Putin.
I mean, clearly it was pretty stunning to see a major political party support the Russian leader and essentially betray Ukraine.
I saw Ukrainian Americans in Ohio who historically voted Republican that were pretty stunned by Trump's In France's view on Ukraine.
And so I'm hopeful that Trump is willing to stand up to Putin.
But if it's a deal that betrays Ukraine, then it's a troublesome thing.
And when you look at some of Trump's nominees on foreign policy issues, but I go back, Bob's specialty was foreign affairs.
In the Senate, I think that's fair to say.
Mine, I was scared of the Banking Housing Committee.
Mine is more domestic.
Both of us, of course, did both things.
But I'm really concerned about the billionaires around this president as he pursues more tax cuts for the rich, as he pursues an agenda that really deregulates consumer protections and worker safety rules and the overtime rule and all that.
So while I'm hopeful, I need to be convinced.
As I think the majority of Americans do, think about the last 30 years.
Presidents of both parties sold American workers out on trade.
It's Dr. King's birthday today that we honor.
Dr. King, I talk about the dignity of work frequently.
That term really came from Dr. King, where he wove together worker rights, civil rights, human rights.
I'm hopeful the president will honor that today in words in his speech.
And more importantly, in his deeds, whether it's the overtime rule, whether it's a tax cut like the child tax credit that works for, in my state, 90% of kids' families benefited from that.
We got huge tax cuts that expired.
We weren't able to renew it.
I hope the president takes some leadership on those kinds of issues.
Senator Brown, thank you for mentioning the fact that today is King Day.
It's this rare coincidence in the calendar where January 20th is also the third Monday in January where we always celebrate King Day.
The very last thing that Dr. King did in life was to fight for economic justice.
He was fighting for the workplace safety for sanitation workers.
There are many people who view the civil rights fight of the 21st century being one of economic justice.
As we...
Await the entry there of...
Former Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife now making their way in.
I think we saw former Vice President Mike Pence think he was going to be next to him.
He's networking in.
Yeah, but picking up on that theme there, Senator Brown, where can Democrats work with Republicans on that issue, on the issue of economic justice?
Well, I mean, it's up to the president to set the tone, but if the focus...
I mean, there's some irony in the people that are now at this inauguration.
All the billionaires, all the California billionaires that supported Trump, they're all there crowded around.
It's the thousands of MAGA devotees who were for Trump from the beginning.
It's the evangelicals and their leaders who have been excluded from this.
And I understand they had to shrink the number of attendees, but I don't think any billionaires got left out, pardon my term, but left out in the cold on this.
But I hope that...
The pursuit of his agenda was less about rewarding his billionaires with tax cuts and weaker rules about their workers and about consumer protections.
I hope it's more of a focus on workers.
That was his campaign, but let's see.
We see former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, making their way in now.
And we understand because all the proceedings have been moved indoors, there are several screens available to people to watch these proceedings.
That includes over at the Capital One Arena, where our Stephanie Sy has been speaking with Trump supporters who were lucky to gather there.
Stephanie, how are people there reacting to this scene as it unfolds inside the Capitol?
Well, you caught me just after a big round of boos.
Every time the Clintons or President Obama show up on screen, you just hear this whole crowd erupt in boos.
It's interesting because they're watching the same live feed that our viewers are getting, but on a jumbotron.
And, of course, you hear Sweet Caroline and Neil Diamond, so now it's become an impromptu karaoke session.
I did want to talk a little bit on about just the contrast between, you know, what we hear your guests talking about as far as specifics and policy and what we hear when we speak to Trump attendees at events like this.
We spent the morning speaking to folks that were lucky enough to get into this crowd.
And here's what they say.
You know, they bring up things like the economy.
You know, we interviewed one man whose son just had a baby and he said he's struggling.
And they believe that the last four years have been all doom and gloom and that Trump will deliver them and bring them more economic security.
I spoke to a couple here from Piperton, Tennessee.
They really wanted me to name their hometown, who said they're, quote, tired of the pronouns.
They're tired of the ideological debates over transgenderism.
Oh, there's another boo that was also for President Obama.
And then a few people, including former veterans, who like...
President Trump's strongman persona.
One man who kind of twisted Theodore Roosevelt's phrase about speaking softly with a big stick and said what he loves about Trump is he speaks loudly with a big stick.
And finally, just a general sense.
That he can solve all of their problems.
I mean, you hear that over and over again with people you speak to in his base, that whatever their problem might be, fears of public safety, concerns about their own family and drug addiction, concerns about their financial security and inflation, that they believe and they have so much faith that President Trump can cure all these ills.
And that extends as far as veterans that believe he can bring So that's kind of the vibe here.
They don't speak about specific policies.
They don't have the details about tariffs.
They speak in terms of vibes and the way they feel.
This is a sporting arena, and it feels like a sporting event with all the boos and cheers and just, again, the fervent Trump fan that you feel here, some of whom have followed him since he was on The Apprentice and just view him as...
A glorious celebrity that can do no wrong.
Stephanie Sy at Capital One Arena.
Stephanie, thanks so much.
As she mentions the boos and cheers, we heard boos and cheers for certain members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jonathan Capehart, this moment, you know...
Eight years ago, the election of Donald Trump was greeted by resistance among Democrats.
There were the million people, the women who turned out on the National Mall with the knit pink hats.
This time around, it seems like there's less resistance and more resignation.
How are Democrats viewing this moment?
Or maybe a mix of both.
I think maybe people are...
Taking the day off.
It is a holiday.
And they're going to pick and choose their battles.
But what I loved about Stephanie's report is that she showed us that there is literally a split-screen moment in Washington.
At the U.S. Capitol, we have been watching polite applause and greetings between former presidents.
Members of the cabinet, the Supreme Court justices, very cordial, very in the spirit of upholding the traditions and customs of the peaceful transfer of power.
Meanwhile, Stephanie is sitting there and listening to people react.
The incoming president's supporters react in real time with cheers and boos for the people they like or don't like.
And it made me think of something that Susan Page told me yesterday when I interviewed her on my show.
She said, Donald Trump hasn't changed.
Washington has changed.
And we've been talking around that in terms of, well, there's a Republican House, a Republican Senate.
But really, this town, Washington, has changed.
And, you know, to Senator Corker's point, it does give the president-elect...
An opportunity to make good on the promises that he made.
It's just a matter of, will he grab that opportunity?
And one more thing.
I remember back at the convention in Milwaukee, when it was right after Trump's, the first assassination attempt, and everyone, members of Congress, coming on and saying, he's a changed man.
We're going to see, he's transformed.
We're going to see a different, more unifying Donald Trump.
And that was the case the first 20 minutes, and then it went off the rails.
He's also, for this inaugural speech, he is saying this speech will be one of unity.
I'll believe it when I see it.
I am not convinced.
Look, like every American, I am hopeful.
But I think, as Senator Brown said, I'm also a realist.
Yeah, and I actually...
Literally wrote that down before you started speaking about the exact same thing, that Washington has changed but has Trump.
And we know that personality-wise, he is still going to be the same person.
The reaction to him is going to be fascinating to watch of official Washington.
As well as unofficial Washington, i.e.
regular people in their regular lives.
And it also, listening to former Senator Corker reminded of the conversations that probably a lot of us had on these panels, Republicans saying, just stick to the economy.
Don't talk about, just talk about the economy.
Don't talk about retribution.
Don't talk about going after your enemies.
Just focus on the things people care about.
And he would do that, and then he would move off of.
That topic.
So I think we're going to see, maybe we may see a very different Donald Trump at this inaugural speech versus what he shows at the convention center slash parade later this afternoon.
David, what do you make of that dissonance?
Yeah, well, first I want to say I'm disappointed there are more tech billionaires.
Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos.
I actually think the tech billionaires have a positive influence on him because on tariffs, on H-1B visas, I like the influence they're going to have.
Nonetheless, as Jeff mentioned, it's not okay that they're up there.
They should be in the audience.
They should not be intermingled with the cabinet.
That's a blurring of lines between public service and private interest.
Better seats than the cabinet.
Better seats.
So it's like William McKinley inaugurated and there was J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie.
We would blink at that.
And so the blurring of those lines, to me, is a problem.
Is there a benefit, though, that it's so transparent?
Is there a benefit in the transparency of the transaction?
Maybe.
And if he does, as I said, this electoral monarchy part, that he is a transactional president, I want Elon Musk to like me.
So I'll do what Elon Musk likes.
And that's why they all went to Mar-a-Lago.
That's why they're all there, because they think he's transactional.
Tiffany, what do you make of that?
Well, I think it's the picture, right, that this is the doers and the disruptors versus the establishment, right?
So D.C. is different.
It's going to have to change.
Trump is bringing in people from the outside, and it's not business as usual.
It's not politics as usual with the establishment that we've seen, even in the Republican Party, you know, for many years.
That's why you were hearing people boo.
Some of the Republicans walking in.
Times have changed, and I think it just shows the vision that Trump has going forward.
I mean, Kevin, to that point, as Stephanie told us earlier, they were booing Mike Pence in the arena when he walked into the Capitol.
And he's establishment.
Jonathan Capehart's analysis of this is exactly right, and I agree with it 100%.
And I think the Pence isolation.
Where Pence is there on his own sort of represents where the Pence people are inside the party.
This is Donald Trump's party.
He has all the support.
He has the infrastructure.
He has the momentum.
He has control.
I also think that what Jonathan pointed out about the sort of split screen, which is the polite applause, the focus on bipartisanship, the focus on substance, the focus on comedy inside the Capitol.
Comedy C-O-M-I-T-Y. Versus the way politics is going to be litigated over the next four years and probably in the future, which is at the Capital One Center, which is, you know, it's part UFC WWF event and part political rally.
Donald Trump is going to have a very unifying message today.
He is.
I mean, just by the sartorial communications of his tie, which is purple, we're going to see a unifying message.
But the next day, or even later today, 24 hours from now, a single-minded pursuit that, if he's going to achieve what he wants to do, is going to be fueled by a lot of partisanship and a lot of the passions of his activist base.
So, you know, let's enjoy the sort of pageantry of today, but I think that's where we go in the next 48 hours.
We've been talking a lot about Donald Trump.
Let's talk about J.D. Vance as we await his arrival and the arrival of his wife, Usha Vance, because he is really...
He will be likely the inheritor of this movement.
He is all of 40 years old, the first millennial vice president.
There's a lot at stake.
There's a lot riding on all of this for him, is there not, Kevin?
Yeah, I think, you know, he's in many ways, you mentioned this earlier, Jeff, with the fact that Donald Trump is a lame duck president.
There is an inheritance that comes with J.D. Vance's ascension to the vice presidency today.
He will essentially be curating the MAGA agenda and the MAGA approach.
For policymaking, potentially after this White House as a party leader going forward.
So I think this is essentially the sort of starter's pistol for J.D. Vance's role in growing the party, not just over the last campaign, but also the many years that are ahead.
And it goes to Tiffany's point about disruptors, which is really important to appreciate and understand how important this is to our politics.
And that, who knows, four years from now, J.D. Vance is the establishment.
And that there is a disruptor that says, we don't want to do things the way that these guys did it.
I'm the one that can actually deliver on the things that J.D. Vance and Trump were unable to do.
So I do think we are entering this time we've had on our last...
We've had nine change elections.
This is the first time since the last time we had a second consecutive first-term president, so a non-consecutively elected president, that we've had three occupants of the White House in three consecutive elections lose.
And so we are in a time of incredible disruption and that I don't think that what is happening here is about What I think makes America so great is that there is continuity.
There is the, it's more than just pageantry.
This is making a statement about how important it is to have the peaceful.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President-elect of the United States, the Honorable J.D. Vance.
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Ladies and gentlemen, escorting the President-elect, the Staff Director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Elizabeth Farah, House Sergeant-at-Arms, the Honorable William P. McFarland, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, the Honorable Jennifer A. Hemingway, Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable John Thune, and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, House Majority Leader.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honorable Mike Johnson.
Senate Democratic Leader, the Honorable Charles E. Schumer.
Ranking Member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Deb Fischer.
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Please welcome the Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Klobuchar.
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Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to the 60th presidential inauguration.
Today, President-elect Trump...
and Vice President-elect Vance will take their oath of office, and we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy.
For the past year, I've chaired the inaugural ceremony committee, which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties.
We thank the committee and capital staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over the last year and especially the last three days.
You've done a beautiful job and you have shown grace under pressure.
Our theme this year is our Enduring Democracy.
The presence of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance.
We welcome President Biden and Dr. Biden.
We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emhoff, President Obama, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton, President Bush and Laura Bush, Vice President Pence, Vice President Quayle and Marilyn Quayle.
The justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us.
All nine of them, I counted.
And, of course, the Trump and Vance families.
This ceremony marks what will soon be 250 years of our democracy.
It is the moment when leaders, elevated by the will of the people, promise to be faithful to our Constitution, to cherish and defend it.
It is the moment...
When they become, as we all should be, the guardians of our country.
Through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity, we hold this inauguration every four years.
And today it falls on Martin Luther King Day.
A further reminder that we must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our Constitution.
The freedoms.
The liberties.
and, as is inscribed on the entrance of the United States Supreme Court, equal justice under law.
But what makes this moment more than a passing ceremony is all who are watching it across the country.
The people of this nation.
The ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
President Kennedy, who at one point worked as a senator in this building and would often walk through this very rotunda, once said, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of interest in politics, holds office.
Every one of us is in a position of responsibility.
With that responsibility of citizenship comes an obligation not to seek out malice, as President Lincoln once reminded us, but to view others with a generosity of spirit despite our differences.
With that responsibility of leadership comes an obligation to stand our ground when we must and find common ground when we can.
With everything swirling around us, the hot mess of division, it is on all of us to quote an incredible songwriter who just happened to be born in my state to ensure that our nation's democracy is our shelter from the storm.
There's a reason this ceremony takes place at the Capitol.
In other countries, it might be in a presidential palace or a gilded executive office building.
Here, it is traditionally held at the Capitol, the People's House.
It is a fitting reminder of the system of checks and balances that is the very foundation of our government, three equal branches of government.
That is how, for nearly 250 years, our great American experiment Grounded in the rule of law has endured.
So, as we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us remember that the power of those in this room comes from the people.
The construction workers who build our country.
The teachers and healthcare workers who nurture us.
The troops defending our freedoms.
and yes, the firefighters in Los Angeles putting themselves on the line for us.
Our democracy's strength and grit must match theirs.
May God bless our nation.
Thank you.
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Endurance through the years is the ultimate test.
To persevere through time is the truest measure of an idea, an institution, and a nation.
Our founders wrote the Constitution so that America could withstand all the twists and turns of time.
They wrote it to guide us.
And to preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But as much as the truths and principles enshrined in our Constitution remain the same, our democracy promises the American people the power to change, to chart their own destiny.
That's the beauty.
That is the importance.
of democracy.
It allows the endurance, the permanence of a nation through change.
It allows nations like our United States both to avoid the obstacles and to seize the opportunities God has placed before us, all while staying true to our founding principles.
Today is our country's 60th inauguration ceremony.
Like all the others before it, it is a celebration of our right to set our uniquely American course.
The past several years have been trying at times for many, many Americans, and also for the nations of the free world that we humbly strive to lead.
Americans chose again to steer this nation towards greatness, the secure, safe, and prosperous future that our founders envisioned for all of us.
And today, we celebrate not only their decision to do so, but also the simple right and wisdom of a free people to make their own choice.
So that their nation might endure.
And now, allow me to welcome Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Reverend Franklin Graham who will deliver our invocation.
Please rise.
Be still.
And know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme on the earth.
Let us pray.
Remembering General George Washington on his knees at Valley Forge, recalling Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.
Remembering General George Patton's instructions to his soldiers as they began the Battle of the Bulge eight decades ago, pray, pray when fighting, pray alone, pray with others, pray by night, pray by day.
Observing the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King who warned, without God our efforts turn to ashes.
We, blessed citizens of this one nation under God, Humbled by our claim that in God we trust, gather indeed this Inauguration Day to pray for our President Donald J. Trump, his family,
his advisors, his cabinet, his aspirations, his vice president, for the Lord's blessings upon Joseph Biden, for our men and women in uniform, for each other whose hopes are stoked this new year, this Inauguration Day.
We cannot err in relying upon that prayer from the Bible, upon which our president will soon place his hand in oath.
As we make our own the supplications of King Solomon for wisdom, as he began his governance, God of our fathers, in your wisdom you set man to govern your creatures, to govern in holiness and justice, to render justice with integrity.
Give our leader wisdom.
For he is your servant, aware of his own weakness and brevity of life.
If wisdom which comes not from you be not with him, he shall be held in no esteem.
Send wisdom from heavens that she may be with him, that he may know your designs.
Please, God bless America.
Please mend her every flaw.
You are the God in whom we trust, who lives and reigns forever and ever.
Amen.
Mr. President, the last four years, there are times I'm sure you thought it was pretty dark.
But look what God has done.
We praise him and give him glory.
Let us pray.
Thank you.
Our Father and our God, thou hast said, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
As the prophet Daniel prayed, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his.
He changes the times and the seasons.
He removes kings.
He raises up kings.
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.
Our Father, today, as President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office once again, we come to say thank you, O Lord our God.
Father, when Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out, you and you alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by your mighty hand.
We pray for President Trump.
That you'll watch over, protect, guide, direct him.
Give him your wisdom from your throne on high.
We ask that you would bless him and that our nation would be blessed through him.
We also ask that you would bless and protect Melania as First Lady.
We thank you for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this nation, but to the whole world.
We thank you for Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha, and their young family.
May he be a strength to President Trump to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like Aaron held up the arms of Moses in the midst of battle.
The prophet Samuel reminded the people, it was you that brought them up from the land of Egypt.
And he said, now stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord.
So, Father, we take this moment to stand still, to remember the great things that you have done for this nation.
Thank you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy.
We remember to keep our eyes fixed on you, and may our hearts be inclined to your voice.
We know that America can never be great again if we turn our backs on you.
We ask for your help.
And we pray all of this in the name of the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, your Son, my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Associate Justice Kavanaugh to administer the Vice Presidential Oath of Office.
Thank you.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear...
I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear...
...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
...that I will bear true faith...
That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
So help me God.
So help me God.
Congratulations Mr. Vice President.
Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Chief Justice Roberts to administer the Presidential Oath of Office.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
I, Donald John Trump.
You solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
So help me God.
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Thank you.
The Lord of his truth is watching now.
I have seen him in the watchbars of a hundred circuit camps.
They have built a given altar in the evening dews and depths.
I can read his righteous sentence in the dim, uncaring lamps.
His day is marching on.
The Lord of his truth is watching.
Hallelujah!
The Lord of his truth is watching.
In the beauty of the Middle East, Christ was born across the sea.
The Lord of his truth is watching.
Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Jesus is watching.
Amen, amen.
Amen, amen. amen.
Ladies and gentlemen, it
is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th and the president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.
Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you very, very much.
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 the 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 at 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 radical and corrupt establishment.
has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.
We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad.
It fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding American citizens.
But provide 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're 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 in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them.
All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly.
My recent election is 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've learned a lot along the way.
The journey to reclaim our republic.
Has not been an easy one, that I can tell you.
Those who 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.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity
We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed.
For American citizens, 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 in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.
Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor.
This will be a great honor.
But in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality.
we will make his dream come true.
Thank you.
National unity is now returning to America, And confidence and pride is soaring like never before.
In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success.
We will not forget our country.
We will not forget our Constitution.
And we will not forget our God.
Can't do that.
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.
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The border will 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 signed 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 our cities and inner cities.
As Commander-in-Chief, I have no higher responsibility than 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.
Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today 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 ever have, 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 autoworkers.
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 dreamt possible just a few years ago.
And thank you to the autoworkers 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 revenue.
It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury, coming from foreign sources.
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 immense 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.
APPLAUSE As of today, it will henceforth be 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 pain.
Thank you.
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.
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 we will again build the strongest military in 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 unifier That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.
I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.
Thank you.
America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, 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 should be and 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 after the United States.
The United States, I mean, 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 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.
And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.
And we didn't give it to China.
We gave it to Panama.
and we're taking it back.
Above all, my message to Americans 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 will 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, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.
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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 a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth.
No one comes close.
Americans pushed thousands of miles through a 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 we cannot do and no dream 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.
I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do.
In America, the impossible is what we do best.
From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C., our from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.
They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride.
Together they laid down the railroads.
Raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced.
After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history.
With your help, we will restore America's promise.
And we will rebuild the nation that we love, and we love it so much.
We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.
We are going to win like never before.
Thank you.
In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before.
We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.
Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.
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.
The President: Thank you very much.
The President: Thank you.
The President: Ladies and gentlemen, performing "America the Beautiful," please welcome the Armed Forces Chorus and Carrie Underwood.
The President: Thank you.
The President: Thank you.
Thank you.
You know the words.
Help me out here.
Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, I
I now call on Rabbi Ari Berman, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, and Reverend Frank Mund to provide prayers of benediction.
Let us pray.
*music* Almighty God, your prophet Jeremiah walked the streets of Jerusalem and blessed its inhabitants with the Hebrew words, Baruch HaGever, Eshe Yivtach BaHashem.
Blessed is the one who trusts in God.
Thousands of years later, this great nation, which adopted these words as its motto, In God We Trust, stands at a moment of historic opportunity.
Americans are searching for meaning.
Our merciful Father, help us rise to meet this moment.
Bless President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.
With the strength and courage to choose the right and the good, unite us around our foundational biblical values of life and liberty, of service and sacrifice, and especially of faith and morality, which George Washington called the indispensable supports of American prosperity.
Guide our schools and college campuses.
which have been experiencing such unrest to inspire the next generation to pair progress with purpose, knowledge with wisdom, and truth with virtue.
Hear the cry of the hostages, both American and Israeli, whose pain our president so acutely feels.
We are so thankful For the three young women who yesterday returned home.
And pray that the next four years brings peace to Israel and throughout the Middle East.
Almighty God, grant all Americans the opportunity to realize our shared dream of a life filled with peace and plenty, health and happiness, compassion and contribution.
The confidence to rise to this moment.
For while we trust in God, God's trust is in us, the American people.
America is called to greatness, to be a beacon of light, and a mover of history.
May our nation merit the fulfillment of Jeremiah's blessing.
That like a tree planted by water, we shall not cease to bear fruit.
May all of humanity experience your love and your blessing.
May it be thy will.
And let us say, Amen.
Let us pray for our 47th president.
Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that you gave our 45th and now our 47th president a millimeter miracle.
We are grateful that you are the one That have called him for such a time as this, that America would begin to dream again.
We pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of our creed, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
We pray that you use our president, that we would live in a nation Well, we will not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character.
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we are so grateful today that you will use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning, my country, tis of thee.
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride from every mountainside.
Let freedom ring, and because America is called to be a great nation, we believe that you will make this come true.
So let freedom ring from the perditious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghetes of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous hilltops of California.
But God, we're asking you not only that.
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill in Mississippi, from every state, every city, every village, and every hamlet.
And when we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day.
All of your children, black men and white men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, will be able to sing in the meaning of that old Negro spiritual, free at last.
Thank you, God Almighty.
We are free at last.
If you believe what the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Come on, put your hands together and give your great God great glory!
Almighty and eternal God, we gather here today in reverence, joined in our shared hopes and dreams for our beloved nation.
In this sacred moment of the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, we turn our hearts to you, seeking your divine assistance and abundant blessings upon this pivotal moment in history.
We come before you with profound gratitude for the many gifts you have bestowed upon our land.
Thank you for the freedoms we cherish, for the strength of our communities, and for the resilience of our spirit.
As our President and Vice President embrace their newly appointed roles, we humbly implore that your everlasting love and wisdom will envelop them.
Grant them the clarity of mind to navigate the challenges that lie ahead and the compassion to serve all citizens with fairness and integrity.
May their hearts be filled with a giving spirit and sincere understanding for those whom they represent.
May they be beacons of hope in times of uncertainty.
And prophetic voices in defending the dignity of all created life.
We pray for a spirit of collaboration to flourish in our government and across our nation, fostering an environment where dialogue and heartfelt listening will prevail over division or discord.
May each decision made by our President and Vice President reflect the values of justice and peace.
As we embark on this new chapter, we also seek your comfort, O God, for those who feel lost or disheartened.
In this time of transition, may your light shine upon them, reaffirming their belief in a brighter tomorrow.
May we all strive to lift one another, supporting our fellow citizens with kindness and empathy, recognizing that together we can overcome any adversity.
Grant us the strength to endure, the courage to face our fears, and the clarity to see the light that remains even when clouds of uncertainty may gather.
Inspire our new leaders to be champions for the vulnerable and advocates for those whose voices are often silenced.
May they pursue policies that promote the well-being of all, seeking to build bridges that will foster unity and belonging.
As we stand witness to this inauguration, we hold fast to the faith, to our faith.
In the goodness of each of us and the possibility of change.
We trust that with your guidance, O God, our nation can move forward to a future filled with promise, prosperity, and understanding.
And finally, we lift our hearts in gratitude for the beloved parents of President Trump.
Without Mary and Fred Trump, this day would never be the miracle that has just begun.
From their place in heaven, may they shield their son from all harm by their loving protection and give him the strength to guide our nation along the path that will make America great again.
Let us go forth now with these words of President Trump's Emblazoned on our hearts.
As long as we have pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith in our God, then we will not fail.
We stand tall.
We stand proud because we are Americans and Americans kneel to God and to God alone.
Amen.
Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for our national anthem.
Thank you.
Thank you.
to the peace and the hope of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.
Ladies and gentlemen, please remain at your seats while the president and official party depart the platform.
Thank you.
It's been over five stars.
It's been over five stars.
It's been over five stars.
It's been over five stars.
It's been over five stars.
It's been over five stars.
Thank you.
Well guys, we are finally here.
The day we've been waiting for, for a very, very long time.
So welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
I gotta ask, has anyone ever been this excited about Monday rolling around?
I'm gonna have to say no.
I feel like for me, it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, my birthday, Hanukkah.
Kwanzaa, all of our holidays rolled into one special day where we can finally take America back.
As you can see, I'm slightly dressed up more than I'd normally be.
We're about to go into the candlelight ball.
This show, we're going to be featuring highlights from the weekend, some behind-the-scenes stuff.
We'll be capturing the inauguration as well, so you're going to get to see all of it.
Check it out here.
Stay along.
Pass it along to your friends.
It's going to be awesome.
It's here.
We've been waiting forever, guys.
January 20th could not have come fast enough.
And my father's inauguration, obviously, a big deal.
Obviously, it's been quite a journey.
My father will now join Grover Cleveland as the only other commander-in-chief to serve a second non-consecutive term.
There's so much happening, so much going on.
I'm literally between events, you know, between the actual formal events, I gotta go like this and put on my monkey suit and, you know, dance like a monkey too, just going around to like 15 events a day and thanking so many of you, all of these small groups, whether it was a Hunter Nation or the Hispanic Caucus, you know, MAGA for Trump, Turning Point.
I'm going, like, I'm actually surprised I even have a voice left.
But the energy is awesome.
The excitement is real.
From the small business guys that come up to me on a daily basis saying, hey, we're going to take a chance.
We're going to expand now.
We're going to do something different.
We're going to take some risks again.
Things that they would never do under the stifling...
Biden-Harris economy.
They're doing it now.
I'm hearing from big business people.
I've met with a lot of them over the last couple of days.
You know, they're seeing big stuff in the big corporate world.
M&A transactions starting to roll again.
We are back, folks.
We're here in Washington, D.C. at the National Building Museum, which is fitting considering we are a family of builders.
We've built businesses.
We've created media empires, social empires.
We've created Maybe.
A political empire.
I can't think of anyone who could rival what my father has created in terms of a political movement.
And we are ready to build this country back into something incredible.
So, I'll play some of the best clips from the events so far.
We'll also break down the latest news as I was getting up there to speak at the rally on Sunday.
Even my daughter, Kai, who spoke at the RNC, was like, hey, can I jump in?
I'm like, wow, we don't even have prepared notes.
She just...
It's just an awesome feeling.
I'm so excited about it.
And honestly, guys, we could not have done it without you.
You are the reason we're doing this, and you are the cause of this whole movement and the reason we're so excited.
So I just want to thank you all for that.
Just make sure...
You guys are liking, sharing, subscribing.
Pass it on to your friends.
Again, we're going to tune into the Inauguration Live.
We're going to cover all of that stuff.
We'll give you the highlights and kind of go right into that so you can see the entire weekend's coverage in one special place right here on Triggered, on Rumble, and it's going to be awesome.
So make sure you know that you can get it.
For those of you, if you miss it here, you can at least get it on Spotify, iTunes, Podcasts later.
Don't forget that.
Big deal, especially if your friends get their podcasts this way.
This is all, again, happening because of your support, because of your tenacity, because of your resolve.
My father may have opened the door.
He may have started that movement.
But again, one guy by himself, it ain't going to happen.
You hear the music in the background starting.
Maybe the ball is rolling around and getting going.
But I'm going to be here with you, but I'm going to make sure the team is filming this stuff so you can see it.
And again, the top clips from the rally.
We're going to combine it and condense it all for you guys.
You can see it live on Monday, including the inauguration.
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For that consultation, make sure to visit tnusa.com slash Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, tnusa.com slash Don Jr. And with that, guys, let's get into a little bit of a monologue.
I'm sort of reading the notes of the things I've got to check off, so I'm going to go back and forth because this is a little impromptu.
But I wanted to make sure we deliver some of this to you from these events live.
The energy I'm seeing around D.C. I'm sure this will revert back in a couple days.
Make no mistake, okay?
It's still D.C. But it's just been epic.
Just hours from now, my father will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
Make him 45 and 47. Like I've told you before, it's all of you guys who made that possible.
And now we officially take power.
And we get to literally, on minute one, deliver on the key promises that we made.
You're going to see a bunch of executive orders.
You're going to see a bunch of executive action.
You're going to see things start to roll immediately.
Then we've got to focus on the cabinet confirmations and get those guys working because now we've got loyalists.
You probably saw me tweet about it the other day or truth about it.
Pete Hexeth, people were saying he was dead in the water.
We got involved.
You got involved.
We supported him.
And now we've got 50 votes at least.
That's what we need so we can get to work on delivering the promises that we've always made.
We're already seeing the results, guys.
The Red Cross delivered the first batch of hostages out of Gaza and into Israeli custody on Sunday after my father and Steve Witkoff brokered a ceasefire agreement.
That's the one, you know, Biden tried taking credit for, but...
The Qataris, the Israelis, Hamas, everyone goes, it was Trump, thanks a lot.
You know what it was from?
When he said, if you don't do this by the time of inauguration and get it rolling, all hell is going to break loose.
Remember that one?
Remember the day after the election when they said, hey, you know what?
We should probably start talking about peace.
Daddy's home, folks.
It's time to get back to work.
The world is on notice that American leadership is back.
Because for the last four years, we've been...
A ship without a rudder.
We've been going in all sorts of direction.
We had a president who didn't even know what he was signing.
And actually, we need to get to the bottom of some of those details, because some of these complex things that are coming out of the White House at the last minute, you and I both understand that Joe Biden has no idea what's in them.
So let's get to the bottom of that and make sure we reverse the insanity that the radical Democrats are trying to put in last minute.
But if you don't believe me, if you think I'm exaggerating, listen to this.
From Speaker Mike Johnson.
Real quickly, Mr. President, can I ask you a question?
I cannot answer this from my constituents in Louisiana.
Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe?
Like, I don't understand, you know, liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies.
Why would you do that?
Because you understand, we just talked about Ukraine.
You understand you're fueling Vladimir Putin's war machine because they've got to get their gas from him, you know.
And he looks at me stunned, and he said, I didn't do that.
And I said, Mr. President, yes, you did.
It was an executive order, like, you know, three weeks ago.
And he goes, no, I didn't do that.
And he's arguing with me.
I said, Mr. President, respectfully, could I go out here and ask your secretary to print it out?
We'll read it together.
You definitely did that.
And he goes, oh, you talk about natural gas.
Yes, sir.
He said, no, no, you misunderstand.
He said, what I did is I signed this thing to, we're going to conduct a study on the effects of LNG. I said, no, you're not, sir.
You paused it.
I know.
I have the terminal, the export terminals in my state.
I talked to those people this morning.
This is doing massive damage to our economy, national security.
It occurred to me, Barry, he was not lying to me.
He genuinely did not know what he had signed.
And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, we're in serious trouble.
Who is running the country?
Like, I don't know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn't know.
Not bad.
What you're going to see this week is going to give you the confidence that everything we've been working towards is going to happen.
Things are going to be okay.
America is going to be great again.
For example, guys, mass deportations are starting immediately.
Here is incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who's been on the show many times, laying it all out.
He's talking about deportations, talking about what we are going to be doing.
Well, you are certainly going to see a much more aggressive action.
From Border Patrol to lock down our border, number one.
Number two, we are working rapidly back towards a Remain in Mexico policy.
Number three, you're going to see some of our key partners step up in terms of deportation and taking some of these people back.
I don't want to get too far ahead of who they are or how that's going to occur.
And then number four, Tom Holman.
Actually, absolutely is going to take much more aggressive ICE action.
Our inner city mayors are begging for it.
The president campaigned on it.
We are going to start with the worst of the worst of the criminals to get them out of our cities and out of our communities.
Is this large-scale raids we're talking about?
Well, I don't know how you would define large-scale, but when we have criminals raping, assaulting, and conducting the mayhem that they are.
You know, one of the things you're absolutely going to see is aggressive action to get them out of our communities.
This coming week.
The president's ready to go day, minute one, on getting these people out of the United States.
This is a comeback story of the ages, guys.
America is no longer simply going to get pushed around.
I say Donald Trump, it's the greatest comeback story ever.
He's the most resilient man in the history of politics.
How many times was he counted out?
Starting in 15, he doesn't have a chance.
He's never going to do it.
To 20, he's going to be impeached twice.
They're going to do this.
Then they try to take his businesses.
Then they try to throw him in jail.
Then he's never going to make it back.
And there's going to be other contenders that are going to take the America First movement in action.
That didn't work out so well.
And now he's back to be sworn in as President of the United States once again.
And that's exactly what our country needs.
And most important, my father...
is committed to actually improving the quality of life of everyday Americans.
I mean, I know that's a novel concept in American politics today.
I mean, it's sort of shocking that it is a novel concept, but that's the reality.
And that's what politics should be about, putting America first.
So I look forward to seeing those play out on day one.
It's not about DEI or playing political games.
With our most important institutions, checking boxes rather than competency, it's about making sure we do what's right for everyone, for everyday Americans, for common sense people, and bringing back something that is not so common, sense.
And if you look at your screen, look at this photo of my father's cabinet.
These are the patriots who are going to get confirmed as quickly as possible.
And these are the people who are committed.
To getting the job done.
If you want to see the opposite photo, look at Biden's cabinet coming in and everyone's in their mask and everyone looks like an idiot and everyone was clearly incompetent.
You know, it's just different now.
The vibe shift is just totally different.
It's amazing to see.
I mean, I went to the crypto ball the other night and Snoop Dogg is performing, okay?
In 2017, he was doing drive-by videos of Trump and now we're all in.
The shift is there, it's real, and everyone sees it for themselves.
Remember, good government is about doing the basics, protecting life, liberty, and property, and upholding the values that make this nation so great.
That's fundamental.
Sadly, we're seeing the devastating consequences of what happens when governments forget that.
We're seeing that before our very eyes in California.
And now, Speaker Mike Johnson says that there will have to be conditions on California to get more federal aid.
They're not just going to get AA'd and go back to the stupid woke crap that they've been doing that failed them so badly so many times.
That's got to stop.
So that we can ensure that the money is going to actually help fire victims.
Not like some DEI program or some ESG program or God knows whatever the hell else they would waste it on.
It's going to actually help the victims of the fire and prevent these tragedies from ever happening again in the future.
California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote recently, he said, quote, there must be no conditions, no strings attached to disaster aid.
And yet we know that there's a big conversation happening right now on Capitol Hill about linking disaster aid for California to an increase in the debt limit, which has been a traditionally really thorny issue.
Are you and can you commit the California disaster relief?
Won't have strings attached.
No, I won't commit that because we have a serious problem in California.
Listen, there are natural disasters.
I'm from Louisiana.
We're prone to that.
We understand how these things work.
But then there's also human error.
And when the state and local officials make foolish policy decisions that make the disaster exponentially worse, we need to factor that in.
And I think that's a common-sense notion.
And guys, more broadly, my father is committed to restoring faith in America's resolve and strengthening America's national character and sense of pride.
Here he is speaking at the victory rally here in Washington.
He's ready to put America first once again.
Perhaps most beautiful of all, this week we achieved an epic ceasefire agreement as a first step toward lasting peace in the Middle East.
And this agreement could only have happened as a result of our historic victory in November.
That was some victory.
Was that the greatest?
I don't even know which was greater, 2016 or this one?
I think this one.
Look, Honest Abe Lincoln.
We have Honest Abe.
We have Uncle Sam.
You know, Uncle Sam shook my hand about two months ago.
He's got the strongest grip I've ever...
You are a strong...
You're a strong man.
I said, what the hell was that?
But I'm glad to report that the first hostages have just been released.
And who knows what's going to happen.
Thank you.
I know that Biden is saying that they made the deal well, you know.
I mean, first of all, it would have never happened if I were president.
It would have never happened.
There was not even a thought of it.
Iran was broke.
They had no money for Hezbollah.
They had no money for Hamas.
They had no money.
They were broke, totally broke, and they would have never done anything.
But they did it, you know?
I like to think back to the past.
I said, if only the election weren't rigged, all the things that would have happened that would have been so good, but it was.
We're not going to let that happen again.
I want to thank my friend Steve Witkoff, who I think is here.
I know he made a beautiful speech.
I heard he made a great speech.
But he's an amazing guy.
I said, I got to get myself a negotiator.
We have to get a good negotiator.
A lot of guys are knowledgeable, but they can't negotiate.
They don't have the personality or whatever.
And Steve does.
And Steve's a great negotiator, a very successful guy.
But he's our new special envoy to the Middle East for helping reach this great breakthrough and really couldn't have been done without Steve.
Where is Steve Whitcoff?
Is he around here someplace?
Because he was so great.
There he is.
Hello, Steve.
Thank you, Steve.
Thank you, Steve.
Guys, there's so many reasons to be optimistic about the future.
And that symbolism was on display this weekend.
As my father watched fireworks from Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.
If you didn't get a chance to see it, it's truly epic.
Here's a really cool clip from that.
I got to see it firsthand with my kids.
It was just spectacular.
Just an amazing display.
And what's even better?
Thank you.
While the ceremony and the swearing-in won't be outside for everyone to watch, you gotta remember, Donald Trump will be the president during the 250th anniversary of America.
And that's the guy who's gonna be in charge.
So I imagine, while the weather may be like 40-year lows, no one's gonna do it better than him.
So, my father's story, and the story of the MAGA movement.
is a profound one of courage and perseverance.
We talked about it being so resilient.
It just goes on and on.
What was once thought to be unimaginable, guys, is now undeniable and unforgettable.
So, as you watch today, guys, as you watch the swearing-in ceremony, remember that you guys were just as much a part of it as any of us.
You guys are why we did it.
You guys are who helped create it.
You guys are going to be the beneficiaries of it.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
And you should be proud of that.
There was a swamp here in Washington, D.C. that no one ever thought could be drained.
But if there's ever a chance, this is it.
This isn't about them, though.
This is about us.
And it's about what we can achieve if we stick to our core mission of making America great again.
So thank you all.
We do have a long way to go.
But there's never been a better team.
There's never been more movement.
There's never been a stronger push to make these things happen.
As we start to expose everything, as people start to see it, as they stop being lied to, we can make that all happen.
So the fun is just getting started.
I hope you're as excited for the future as I am.
We needed this last four years of help.
We need it.
To understand just how far we've fallen, just how broken our system is, just how corrupt our politics is.
To understand just why it's so important to save it.
And again, it's because of you that we are here.
So thank you guys.
Enjoy the rest of this.
I'll be back at the end.
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