Full speech: Donald Trump’s second inauguration address

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised a “golden age” for the United States, casting himself arsenic a uniter. But for a code that heralded a agleam future, it often echoed the past.

Much of Trump’s rhetoric mirrored his words 8 years ago, erstwhile helium was archetypal sworn successful arsenic president and spoke astir a state with a failing system and cities torn isolated by crime.

Trump said helium had the mandate to transportation retired his imaginativeness for the state aft winning the fashionable ballot successful an improbable governmental comeback that culminated successful his taking the oath of bureau successful the precise gathering his supporters stormed 4 years agone successful a failed effort to overturn his 2020 predetermination loss.

“From this infinitesimal on, America’s diminution is over,” Trump said, speaking successful the US Capitol Rotunda. “Our aureate property has conscionable begun.”

Read his afloat inauguration code below:

‘Stronger, greater, and acold much exceptional’

Thank you. Thank you precise much, everybody. Wow. Thank you very, precise much.

Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my chap citizens, the aureate property of America begins close now.

From this time forward, our state volition flourish and beryllium respected again each implicit the world. We volition beryllium the envy of each nation, and we volition not let ourselves to beryllium taken vantage of immoderate longer. During each azygous time of the Trump administration, I will, precise simply, enactment America first.

Our sovereignty volition beryllium reclaimed. Our information volition beryllium restored. The scales of justness volition beryllium rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponisation of the Justice Department and our authorities volition end.

And our apical precedence volition beryllium to make a federation that is proud, prosperous, and free.

America volition soon beryllium greater, stronger, and acold much exceptional than ever before.

Current authorities ‘refuses to support Americans’

I instrumentality to the presidency assured and optimistic that we are astatine the commencement of a thrilling caller epoch of nationalist success. A tide of alteration is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring implicit the full world, and America has the accidental to prehend this accidental similar ne'er before.

But first, we indispensable beryllium honorable astir the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they volition beryllium annihilated by this large momentum that the satellite is present witnessing successful the United States of America.

As we stitchery today, our authorities confronts a situation of trust. For galore years, a extremist and corrupt constitution has extracted powerfulness and wealthiness from our citizens portion the pillars of our nine laic breached and seemingly successful implicit disrepair.

We present person a authorities that cannot negociate adjacent a elemental situation astatine location while, astatine the aforesaid time, stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad.

It fails to support our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and extortion for unsafe criminals, galore from prisons and intelligence institutions, that person illegally entered our state from each implicit the world.

We person a authorities that has fixed unlimited backing to the defence of overseas borders but refuses to support American borders or, much importantly, its ain people.

Our state tin nary longer present basal services successful times of emergency, arsenic precocious shown by the fantastic radical of North Carolina — who person been treated truthful severely — and different states who are inactive suffering from a hurricane that took spot galore months agone or, much recently, Los Angeles, wherever we are watching fires inactive tragically pain from weeks agone without adjacent a token of defence.

They’re raging done the houses and communities, adjacent affecting immoderate of the wealthiest and astir almighty individuals successful our state — immoderate of whom are sitting present close now.

They don’t person a location immoderate longer. That’s interesting. But we can’t fto this happen. Everyone is incapable to bash thing astir it.

That’s going to change.

Trump prays with businessman Mike Stewart successful Asheville connected his sojourn to a tract damaged by Hurricane Helene successful North Carolina, October 21, 2024 [Brian Snyder/Reuters]

We person a nationalist wellness strategy that does not present successful times of disaster, yet much wealth is spent connected it than immoderate state anyplace successful the world.

And we person an acquisition strategy that teaches our children to beryllium ashamed of themselves — successful galore cases, to hatred our state contempt the emotion that we effort truthful desperately to supply to them. All of this volition alteration starting today, and it volition alteration precise quickly.

End of ‘America’s decline’

My caller predetermination is simply a mandate to wholly and wholly reverse a horrible betrayal and each of these galore betrayals that person taken spot and to springiness the radical backmost their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and, indeed, their freedom. From this infinitesimal on, America’s diminution is over.

Our liberties and our nation’s glorious destiny volition nary longer beryllium denied. And we volition instantly reconstruct the integrity, competency, and loyalty of America’s government.

Over the past 8 years, I person been tested and challenged much than immoderate president successful our 250-year history, and I’ve learned a batch on the way.

The travel to reclaim our republic has not been an casual 1 — that, I tin archer you. Those who privation to halt our origin person tried to instrumentality my state and, indeed, to instrumentality my life.

Just a fewer months ago, successful a beauteous Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s slug ripped done my ear. But I felt past and judge adjacent much truthful present that my beingness was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to marque America large again. (Applause.)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you precise much.

That is wherefore each time nether our medication of American patriots, we volition beryllium moving to conscionable each situation with dignity and powerfulness and strength. We volition determination with intent and velocity to bring backmost hope, prosperity, safety, and bid for citizens of each race, religion, colour, and creed.

Americans ‘unifying down our agenda’

For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day. It is my anticipation that our caller statesmanlike predetermination volition beryllium remembered arsenic the top and astir consequential predetermination successful the past of our country.

As our triumph showed, the full federation is rapidly unifying down our docket with melodramatic increases successful enactment from virtually each constituent of our society: young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural. And precise importantly, we had a almighty triumph successful each 7 plaything states — and the fashionable vote, we won by millions of people.

President Trump reacts aft being sworn successful connected the time of his inauguration astatine the Rotunda of the US Capitol successful Washington, DC [Kevin Lamarque/Pool via Reuters]

To the Black and Hispanic communities, I privation to convey you for the tremendous outpouring of emotion and spot that you person shown maine with your vote. We acceptable records, and I volition not hide it. I’ve heard your voices successful the campaign, and I look guardant to moving with you successful the years to come.

Today is Martin Luther King Day. And his honour — this volition beryllium a large honour. But successful his honour, we volition strive unneurotic to marque his imagination a reality. We volition marque his imagination travel true. (Applause.)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

National unity is present returning to America, and assurance and pridefulness is soaring similar ne'er before. In everything we do, my medication volition beryllium inspired by a beardown pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. We volition not hide our country, we volition not hide our Constitution, and we volition not hide our God. Can’t bash that.

‘Revolution of communal sense’

Today, I volition motion a bid of historical enforcement orders. With these actions, we volition statesman the implicit restoration of America and the gyration of communal sense. It’s each astir communal sense.

First, I volition state a nationalist exigency astatine our confederate border.

All amerciable introduction volition instantly beryllium halted, and we volition statesman the process of returning millions and millions of transgression aliens backmost to the places from which they came. We volition reinstate my Remain successful Mexico policy.

I volition extremity the signifier of catch and release.

And I volition nonstop troops to the confederate borderline to repel the disastrous penetration of our country.

Under the orders I motion today, we volition besides beryllium designating the cartels arsenic overseas violent organisations.

And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I volition nonstop our authorities to usage the afloat and immense powerfulness of national and authorities instrumentality enforcement to destruct the beingness of each overseas gangs and transgression networks bringing devastating transgression to US soil, including our cities and interior cities.

As commander-in-chief, I person nary higher work than to support our state from threats and invasions, and that is precisely what I americium going to do. We volition bash it astatine a level that cipher has ever seen before.

‘Drill, baby, drill’

Next, I volition nonstop each members of my furniture to marshal the immense powers astatine their disposal to decision what was grounds ostentation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.

The ostentation situation was caused by monolithic overspending and escalating vigor prices, and that is wherefore contiguous I volition besides state a nationalist vigor emergency. We volition drill, baby, drill.

America volition beryllium a manufacturing federation erstwhile again, and we person thing that nary different manufacturing federation volition ever person — the largest magnitude of lipid and state of immoderate state connected world — and we are going to usage it. We’ll usage it.

We volition bring prices down, capable our strategical reserves up again close to the top, and export American vigor each implicit the world.

End of the Green New Deal

We volition beryllium a affluent federation again, and it is that liquid golden nether our feet that volition assistance to bash it.

With my actions today, we volition extremity the Green New Deal, and we volition revoke the electric conveyance mandate, redeeming our car manufacture and keeping my ineffable pledge to our large American autoworkers.

In different words, you’ll beryllium capable to bargain the car of your choice.

We volition physique automobiles successful America again astatine a complaint that cipher could person dreamt imaginable conscionable a fewer years ago. And convey you to the autoworkers of our federation for your inspiring ballot of confidence. We did tremendously with their vote.

I volition instantly statesman the overhaul of our commercialized strategy to support American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich different countries, we volition tariff and taxation overseas countries to enrich our citizens.

For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to cod each tariffs, duties, and revenues. It volition beryllium monolithic amounts of wealth pouring into our Treasury, coming from overseas sources.

The American imagination volition soon beryllium backmost and thriving similar ne'er before.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy [AP Photo]

DOGE

To reconstruct competence and effectiveness to our national government, my medication volition found the marque caller Department of Government Efficiency.

After years and years of amerciable and unconstitutional national efforts to restrict escaped expression, I besides volition motion an enforcement bid to instantly halt each authorities censorship and bring backmost escaped code to America.

Never again volition the immense powerfulness of the authorities beryllium weaponised to persecute governmental opponents — thing I cognize thing about. We volition not let that to happen. It volition not hap again.

A ‘colour-blind and merit-based’ society

Under my leadership, we volition reconstruct fair, equal, and impartial justness nether the law regularisation of law.

And we are going to bring instrumentality and bid backmost to our cities.

This week, I volition besides extremity the authorities argumentation of trying to socially technologist contention and sex into each facet of nationalist and backstage life. We volition forge a nine that is colour-blind and merit-based.

As of today, it volition henceforth beryllium the authoritative argumentation of the United States authorities that determination are lone 2 genders: antheral and female.

This week, I volition reinstate immoderate work members who were unjustly expelled from our subject for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with afloat backmost pay.

And I volition motion an bid to halt our warriors from being subjected to extremist governmental theories and societal experiments portion connected duty. It’s going to extremity immediately. Our equipped forces volition beryllium freed to absorption connected their sole mission: defeating America’s enemies.

‘Peacemaker and unifier’

Like successful 2017, we volition again physique the strongest subject the satellite has ever seen. We volition measurement our occurrence not lone by the battles we triumph but besides by the wars that we extremity — and possibly astir importantly, the wars we ne'er get into.

My proudest bequest volition beryllium that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I privation to be: a peacemaker and a unifier.

I’m pleased to accidental that arsenic of yesterday, 1 time earlier I assumed office, the hostages successful the Middle East are coming backmost home to their families. (Applause.)

Thank you.

‘Gulf of America’ and taking backmost the ‘Panama Canal’

America volition reclaim its rightful spot arsenic the greatest, astir powerful, astir respected federation connected earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the full world.

A abbreviated clip from now, we are going to beryllium changing the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America — and we volition reconstruct the sanction of a large president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, wherever it should beryllium and wherever it belongs.

President McKinley made our state precise affluent done tariffs and done endowment — helium was a earthy businessman — and gave Teddy Roosevelt the wealth for galore of the large things helium did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been fixed to the state of Panama aft the United Spates — the United States — I mean, deliberation of this — spent much wealth than ever spent connected a task earlier and mislaid 38,000 lives successful the gathering of the Panama Canal.

We person been treated precise severely from this foolish acquisition that should person ne'er been made, and Panama’s committedness to america has been broken.

The intent of our woody and the tone of our pact has been wholly violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated reasonably successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form. And that includes the United States Navy.

And supra all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t springiness it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.

‘Manifest destiny’

Above all, my connection to Americans contiguous is that it is clip for america to erstwhile again enactment with courage, vigour, and the vitality of history’s top civilisation.

So, arsenic we liberate our nation, we volition pb it to caller heights of triumph and success. We volition not beryllium deterred. Together, we volition extremity the chronic illness epidemic and support our children safe, healthy, and disease-free.

The United States volition erstwhile again see itself a increasing federation — 1 that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our emblem into caller and beauteous horizons.

And we volition prosecute our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to works the Stars and Stripes connected the satellite Mars.

Ambition is the lifeblood of a large nation, and, close now, our federation is much ambitious than immoderate other. There’s nary federation similar our nation.

Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The tone of the frontier is written into our hearts. The telephone of the adjacent large escapade resounds from wrong our souls.

Our American ancestors turned a tiny radical of colonies connected the borderline of a immense continent into a mighty republic of the astir bonzer citizens connected Earth. No 1 comes close.

Americans pushed thousands of miles done a rugged onshore 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, divided the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and enactment the beingness of quality cognition into the thenar of the quality hand.

If we enactment together, determination is thing we cannot bash and nary imagination we cannot achieve.

‘Impossible is what we bash best’

Many radical thought it was intolerable for maine to signifier specified a historical governmental comeback. But arsenic you spot today, present I am. The American radical person spoken.

I basal earlier you present arsenic impervious that you should ne'er judge that thing is intolerable to do. In America, the intolerable is what we bash best.

From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to close present successful Washington, DC, our state 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 mill workers, steelworkers and ember miners, constabulary officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and fto nary obstacle decision their tone oregon their pride.

Together, they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built large highways, won 2 satellite wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed implicit each azygous situation that they faced.

After each we person been done together, we basal connected the verge of the 4 top years successful American history. With your help, we volition reconstruct America committedness and we volition rebuild the federation that we emotion — and we emotion it truthful much.

We are 1 people, 1 family, and 1 glorious federation nether God. So, to each genitor who dreams for their kid and each kid who dreams for their future, I americium with you, I volition combat for you, and I volition triumph for you. We’re going to triumph similar ne'er before. (Applause.)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

‘We volition triumph similar ne'er before’

In caller years, our federation has suffered greatly. But we are going to bring it backmost and marque it large again, greater than ever before.

We volition beryllium a federation similar nary other, afloat of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our powerfulness volition halt each wars and bring a caller tone of unity to a satellite that has been angry, violent, and wholly unpredictable.

America volition beryllium respected again and admired again, including by radical of religion, faith, and goodwill. We volition beryllium prosperous, we volition beryllium proud, we volition beryllium strong, and we volition triumph similar ne'er before.

We volition not beryllium conquered, we volition not beryllium intimidated, we volition not beryllium broken, and we volition not fail. From this time on, the United States of America volition beryllium a free, sovereign, and autarkic nation.

We volition basal bravely, we volition unrecorded proudly, we volition imagination boldly, and thing volition basal successful our mode due to the fact that we are Americans. The aboriginal is ours, and our aureate property has conscionable begun.

Thank you. God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you.