--:-- Nick Miles: This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles.
--:-- Nick Miles: In this special edition recorded at 18 Hours GMT on Monday the 20th of January, Donald J. Trump has been inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States.
--:-- Nick Miles: It is my honour and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.
--:-- Nick Miles: He's only the second person in history to be elected to two non-consecutive terms.
--:-- Nick Miles: We have Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony and his inauguration speech with analysis from our North America correspondent.
--:-- Nick Miles: The United States has a new commander-in-chief. Donald Trump was sworn in a short time ago as the country's 47th president in the ornate surroundings of the Rotunda in Washington's Capitol building.
--:-- Nick Miles: At the age of 78, he overtakes his predecessor, Joe Biden, as the oldest US president to take office.
--:-- Nick Miles: It was just after midday local time that Mr Trump took the oath on the Bible.
--:-- Donald Trump: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
--:-- Donald Trump: I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, and will to the best of my ability...
--:-- Donald Trump: Preserve, protect and defend.
--:-- Donald Trump: The Constitution of the United States.
--:-- Donald Trump: The Constitution of the United States.
--:-- Donald Trump: So help me God.
--:-- Donald Trump: So help me God.
--:-- Nick Miles: Congratulations, Mr President.
--:-- Nick Miles: Earlier, J.D. Vance was sworn in as vice president. At 40, he's the third youngest vice president in US history.
--:-- Nick Miles: The ceremony was held indoors as the US Capitol shivers in sub-zero temperatures.
--:-- Nick Miles: Nonetheless, thousands of spectators took their seats in an outdoor arena where they watched a live stream of the inauguration and President Trump's inaugural address.
--:-- Donald Trump: In it, he set out his goals for the next four years and called for a revolution of common sense.
--:-- Donald Trump: The golden age of America begins right now.
--:-- Donald Trump: From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.
--:-- Donald Trump: During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.
--:-- Donald Trump: Our sovereignty will be reclaimed.
--:-- Donald Trump: Our safety will be restored.
--:-- Donald Trump: The scales of justice will be rebalanced.
--:-- Donald Trump: The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.
--:-- Donald Trump: And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free.
--:-- Donald Trump: America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.
--:-- Donald Trump: But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face.
--:-- Donald Trump: While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America.
--:-- Donald Trump: As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: All of this will change starting today.
--:-- Donald Trump: From this moment on, America's decline is over.
--:-- Donald Trump: Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history.
--:-- Donald Trump: And I've learned a lot along the way.
--:-- Donald Trump: Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life.
--:-- Donald Trump: Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.
--:-- Donald Trump: But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.
--:-- Donald Trump: I was saved by God to make America great again.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.
--:-- Donald Trump: With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.
--:-- Donald Trump: It's all about common sense.
--:-- Donald Trump: First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
--:-- Donald Trump: All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: That is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will drill, baby, drill.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: Fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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 auto workers.
--:-- Donald Trump: I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.
--:-- Donald Trump: Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
--:-- Donald Trump: For this purpose, we are establishing the external revenue service to collect all tariffs, duties, and revenues.
--:-- Donald Trump: It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury.
--:-- Donald Trump: To restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government, my administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.
--:-- Donald Trump: I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.
--:-- Donald Trump: It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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 pay.
--:-- Donald Trump: And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty.
--:-- Donald Trump: It's going to end immediately.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.
--:-- Donald Trump: That's what I want to be.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: I mean, think of this. We spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.
--:-- Donald Trump: The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.
--:-- Donald Trump: American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form.
--:-- Donald Trump: And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.
--:-- Donald Trump: And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.
--:-- Donald Trump: Above all, 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will not be deterred.
--:-- Donald Trump: Together we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease-free.
--:-- Donald Trump: 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.
--:-- Donald Trump: I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do in America.
--:-- Donald Trump: The impossible is what we do best, after all, we have been through together.
--:-- Donald Trump: We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history with your help.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will restore America's promise and we will rebuild the nation that we love and we love it so much.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will stand bravely.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will live proudly.
--:-- Donald Trump: We will dream boldly.
--:-- Donald Trump: And nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.
--:-- Donald Trump: The future is ours.
--:-- Donald Trump: And our golden age has just begun.
--:-- Donald Trump: Thank you.
--:-- Donald Trump: God bless America.
--:-- Nick Miles: So how is the new president's speech likely to go down?
--:-- Neda Torfik: Yeah, well, look, you're already seeing people react that this sounded more like a State of the Union speech that was very policy-heavy and repeated a lot of his campaign rhetoric rather than a kind of visionary outline of his goals and attempts to unify the country.
--:-- Neda Torfik: But what we saw in the room was Democrats, a kind of stone-faced, some visibly reacting to some of his lines, such as Hillary Clinton bursting out loud when he talked about changing the Gulf of Mexico's name to the Gulf of America, while others who are in line with Donald Trump's agenda stood up and applauded numerous times.
--:-- Neda Torfik: But this was, for Donald Trump, again, a chance for him to declare that he has started a movement and that this will lead to a long-lasting movement and a new direction for the country.
--:-- Neda Torfik: There were a few things that we've kind of never heard before in a state of the union.
--:-- Neda Torfik: Again, those kind of policies when it comes to, for example, transgender rights, him saying there are only two genders in America.
--:-- Neda Torfik: Big cheer here, actually. Maybe more than any of the other elements.
--:-- Neda Torfik: And I think it's Donald Trump's willingness to go where other politicians are unwilling to on those very touchy, difficult subjects that makes his base so excited.
--:-- Neda Torfik: They view political correctness as censorship.
--:-- Neda Torfik: They view traditional American values as under attack.
--:-- Neda Torfik: And so it does not surprise me at all that some of those kind of red meat issues in his speech would have made his base extremely happy.
--:-- Neda Torfik: And they would have felt that he was speaking directly to them because those in the rotunda, of course, represent a cross-section of American politicians, corporate leaders, some who have recently now come over to Donald Trump's side.
--:-- Neda Torfik: But they are in no way the kind of core base MAGA supporters that would have been outside listening to this speech in person there in that arena.
--:-- Neda Torfik: And so I suspect tonight when he does eventually get there, when the presidential parade is held at the Capital One Arena, when he does address the crowd there, and we hear he may even sign some executive orders in front of the crowd, I expect that to be an incredibly ruckus event.
--:-- Neda Torfik: Speaking of ruckus, you probably heard the crowd behind me here.
--:-- Neda Torfik: America's tenor, as he sometimes calls Christopher Macho, had just finished singing.
--:-- Neda Torfik: He went over and gave a bear hug to President Trump.
--:-- Neda Torfik: President Trump now holding hands with First Lady Melania Trump is beginning to make his way out of the room, kind of shaking hands, giving a wave.
--:-- Neda Torfik: Of course, he's got a very busy schedule ahead of him in the coming hours.
--:-- Neda Torfik: There's no less than three bowls, I believe, to attend in the coming hours.
--:-- Nick Miles: And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
--:-- Nick Miles: If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email.
--:-- Nick Miles: The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
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--:-- Nick Miles: This edition was produced by Nicky Varrico.
--:-- Nick Miles: The editor is Karen Martin.
--:-- Nick Miles: I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
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