Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration

Donald Trump made an astonishing instrumentality to the White House connected Monday erstwhile helium was sworn successful arsenic the 47th president of the United States.

The inauguration, which took spot astatine the US Capitol Rotunda gathering owed -3C temperatures, follows 4 tumultuous years retired of bureau which saw the 78-year-old Republican businessman and ex-reality prima past assassination attempts and look a bid of ineligible cases.

We asked Mike Rogers, main information analyst, west, astatine US-based International SOS, astir heightened information arrangements astir the ceremony.

In portion two. University College London’s Dr Thomas Gift, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre connected US Politics, discusses Big Tech’s power and absorption of policy for Trump’s White House 2.0.

Monday’s ceremony attendees included by Trump’s family, including his wife, Melania, on with incumbent Joe Biden and erstwhile president Barack Obama.

Trump’s White House tally saw alliances with much billionaires and Big Tech moguls, notably Elon Musk, who was joined by Apple brag Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos astatine the inauguration.

Among Trump’s argumentation priorities see a committedness to motion astir 100 enforcement orders connected his archetypal time successful office, including those connected lipid drilling, the US-Mexico borderline and sex individuality policies, positive the merchandise of classified documents connected the John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations.

In London, anti-nuclear campaigners and clime activists protested against the presidency.

A justice antecedently sentenced Trump to an “unconditional discharge” successful a hush-money outgo case, which volition inactive mean helium is the archetypal US president with a felony conviction.