Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump He was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, marking his return to the Oval Office vowing to return America to a “gilded age.”
Trump He addressed the nation after being sworn in for the second time and is expected to use his remarks in his inaugural address to call for a “common sense revolution.”
Trump will take more than 200 executive actions on day one
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters)
Trump said: “I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the beginning of an exciting new era of national success. The wave of change is sweeping the country.” “My message to Americans today is that it is time for us to act once again with the courage, strength, and vitality of the greatest civilization in history.”
The president will deliver his remarks from the Capitol Rotunda on Monday due to the arctic blast that struck the nation's capital, where frigid temperatures forced the inauguration to be moved indoors for the first time in four decades.
Trump, who won the Electoral College and the popular vote, defeating former Vice President Kamala Harris by a landslide, pledged that his second administration would bring a “gilded age to America.”
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden greet President-elect Trump and Melania Trump as they arrive at the White House on January 20, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump was running against President Biden, who was seeking re-election, until July 2024. But after the two debated for the first time, and after a disastrous performance by Biden, the incumbent president came under pressure from Democratic insiders to suspend his presidential bid.
Biden made the announcement in a social media post and endorsed Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee in his place, moving his running mate to the top of the ticket.
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Biden's decision to withdraw from the race came just days after the end of the Republican National Convention, and after Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, formally accepted the Republican nomination.
Barron Trump arrives for the inauguration of President-elect Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via Reuters)
But Trump, just days before accepting the Republican nomination, survived an assassination attempt during a July 13 rally 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 weeks later, in September, another would-be killer hid himself in the bushes at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The gunman, Ryan Wesley Roth, had an AK-47 rifle pointed through a fence at Trump as he played golf. Trump was taken off the golf course by US Secret Service agents unharmed.
On his first day in office, Trump is expected to take more than 200 executive actions — a massive first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, lowering the cost of living for American families, and ending DEI programs across the federal government. And more, Fox News Digital exclusively reported.
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden stand side by side with President-elect Trump and Melania Trump as they arrive at the White House. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump will also fulfill his campaign promise to reverse the policies of his predecessor's administration on his first day in office. Trump will end “catch-and-release” policy, halting all offshore wind leases; Ending the electric vehicle mandate; Repeal the Green New Deal; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement; and take several key steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy.
