Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US president, denouncing ‘American decline’

Donald Trump has been sworn in for a 2nd word arsenic president of the United States successful Washington, DC.

Trump utilized his inaugural code to reiterate his grievances against his governmental opponents, saying helium would “liberate” the state from a “radical and corrupt establishment”.

Declaring that authorities faces a “crisis of trust”, Trump pledged successful his inaugural code a brighter aboriginal nether his administration. “Our sovereignty volition beryllium reclaimed. Our information volition beryllium restored. The scales of justness volition beryllium rebalanced,” helium said.

Trump claimed “a mandate to wholly and wholly reverse a horrible betrayal”, promising to “give the radical backmost their faith, their wealth, their ideology and so their freedom”.

“From this infinitesimal on,” helium added, “America’s diminution is over.”

Trump besides unveiled a bid of enforcement actions helium plans to instrumentality successful speedy succession aft his inauguration. The enforcement orders are the archetypal measurement successful what Trump is calling “the implicit restoration of America and the gyration of communal sense”.

Frigid upwind rewrote the pageantry of the day. Trump’s swearing-in was moved indoors to the US Capitol Rotunda — the archetypal clip that has happened successful 40 years — and the inaugural parade was replaced by an lawsuit astatine a downtown arena.

Throngs of Trump supporters who descended connected the metropolis to ticker the inaugural ceremonial extracurricular the US Capitol were near to find different places to presumption the festivities.

At the US Capitol, Vice President JD Vance was sworn successful first, taking the oath connected a Bible fixed to him by his great-grandmother. Trump followed moments later, conscionable aft noon Eastern clip (17:00 GMT), utilizing some a household Bible and 1 utilized by the precocious President Abraham Lincoln successful 1861.

A cadre of billionaires and tech titans — including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai — were fixed salient positions successful the Capitol Rotunda, mingling with Trump’s incoming squad earlier the ceremonial began.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was besides successful attendance, arsenic helium is expected to pb an effort to slash spending and national employees arsenic Trump’s adviser.