First on Fox: President-elect Trump He says his second term represents a “new chapter” for America and promises the American people that “the country's best days are yet to come.”
Trump made this pledge in a video posted by his team on Monday morning, just hours before he took the presidential oath and was sworn in as the forty-seventh president of the United States.
The video, titled “All of It: Inauguration Day 2025,” depicts the president’s journey from leaving office in 2021, to the unprecedented FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home, to days in court, to the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was about to be assassinated, is a highlight of the campaign.
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“If I give you one message to keep in your hearts today, it's this: Never give up,” Trump said in the video.
Then, reporters' voices reported on “the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence… approved for use of lethal force.”
“Nothing worth doing has ever been easy,” Trump says, followed by clips from news of his indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Both Smith v. Trump cases were dismissed. Trump sat in an unprecedented six-week trial in Manhattan on the Bragg charges, and a jury found him guilty, but the judge sentenced him to unconditional release — meaning no punishment at all.
“Over the course of your life, you'll find that things aren't always fair,” Trump says. “You will find that things happen to you that you don't deserve.”
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The video cuts to Trump rallying with Butler, just moments before he is shot.
Aerial footage of police stationed outside Mar-a-Lago during the FBI raid. (workforce)
Just days before accepting the Republican nomination, Trump survived an assassination attempt during a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. During the event, Trump was showing a graph highlighting how illegal immigration has risen under the Biden-Harris administration. As he headed toward the chart, he was shot through the top of his right ear by the now deceased would-be killer, Thomas Matthew Crookes. Trump credits the chart with saving his life.
But you gotta keep your head down and fight, fight, fight,” Trump said. “Never, ever give up. The more people tell you that it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you have to be absolutely determined to prove them wrong.”
Former President Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents after being shot during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“The word 'impossible' should be treated as just an incentive,” Trump says.
“Enjoy the opportunity to be a stranger,” Trump says, “because it's strangers who change the world, and they're the ones who make a real, lasting difference.”
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Former President Trump stands on stage with former First Lady Melania Trump, as Lara Trump watches, at an Election Night watch party, November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
He also says: “The more a broken system tells you that you are wrong, the more certain you become that you must keep moving forward, you must keep moving forward.”
Trump continues his narration, saying: “Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.”
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Trump says: “America begins a new chapter.” “Our best days are yet to come, I can promise you that.”
