Trump promises end of ‘four years of American decline’ at MAGA rally

President-elect promises crackdown connected US-Mexico border, much lipid drilling, reining successful national workforce and eradicating diverseness programmes.

The United States president-elect, Donald Trump, has pledged to extremity “four agelong years of American decline” astatine a raucous pre-inauguration rally successful the capital, Washington, DC.

“We’re going to springiness them the champion archetypal day, the biggest archetypal week and the astir bonzer archetypal 100 days of immoderate presidency successful American history,” Trump told a packed 20,000-seat stadium of supporters astatine a “Make America Great Again (MAGA) Victory Rally” astatine the Capital One Arena connected Sunday.

“Tomorrow, astatine noon, the curtain closes connected 4 agelong years of American decline, and we statesman a marque caller time of American spot and prosperity, dignity and pride,” Trump said, adding, “Once and for all, we are going to extremity the reign of a failed and corrupt governmental constitution successful Washington.”

Trump speaks astatine the MAGA rally, January 19, 2025 [Jim Watson/AFP]

Trump, 78, is due to beryllium sworn successful arsenic the 47th US president astatine 17:00 GMT connected Monday. He volition instrumentality the statesmanlike oath of bureau wrong the rotunda of the Capitol gathering aft cold weather prompted organisers to determination the ceremonial indoors.

At the MAGA rally, Trump pledged a “brand-new day of American spot and prosperity” by cracking down connected everything from “illegal” migration crossed the US-Mexico borderline to promoting lipid drilling, reining successful the national workforce and eradicating diverseness programmes.

“By the clip the prima sets tomorrow, the penetration of our state volition person travel to a halt,” helium said.

The lawsuit marked his archetypal large code successful Washington, DC since his code connected January 6, 2021, that preceded the storming of the US Capitol by an aggravated mob of his supporters. Trump has said he volition pardon galore of the much than 1,500 radical convicted oregon charged successful transportation with the attack.

Sticking to the populist imagery and messaging of his statesmanlike campaign, Trump entered the stadium from a nationalist entrance, allowing him to locomotion done the crowds of supporters earlier reaching the stage.

He pledged to repeal “every extremist and foolish enforcement bid of the Biden administration” wrong hours of assuming the presidency. Local media reports accidental helium volition instrumentality much than 200 enforcement actions connected Monday.

“You’re going to spot enforcement orders that are going to marque you highly happy. Lots of them,” Trump told his supporters astatine the rally.

He besides said helium would merchandise humanities files pertaining to the assassination of salient figures of the 1960s, including President John F Kennedy, his member Bobby Kennedy, who was changeable portion moving for president, and Martin Luther King Jr, 1 of the astir revered civilian rights leaders successful the US.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Space X, Tesla and the proprietor of X, erstwhile again got apical billing astatine the MAGA rally.

Musk was 1 of Trump’s astir vocal supporters during the caller US predetermination and is owed to caput the recently created Department of Government Efficiency – amended known by its acronym, DOGE – to slash the national workforce and spending.

The lawsuit besides featured a show by Kid Rock and vocalist Lee Greenwood, whose God Bless the USA is simply a Trump favourite.

Jon Voight, an histrion named by Trump arsenic a peculiar ambassador to Hollywood, declared the president-elect “our hero”.

“A antheral who ne'er gave up connected the American people, and we the radical ne'er gave up connected him,” said Voight.

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