
President Donald J. Trump delivers his inauguration speech at the Capitol Rotunda, January 20, 2025. Photo courtesy of the White House via X.com.
At The Spectator, Roger Kimball calls Donald Trump’s inauguration speech “one of the most rousing and substantive in American history.” He writes:
The mood in Washington, at least in the quarters I frequented, has been almost giddy these past few days. I watched Donald Trump’s second inauguration ceremony from the snug fastness of a secure, undisclosed location close to the White House. Joining me were about 300 politically mature citizens. Some were young, some old; some male, some female; many walks of life were represented. There were periodic cheers during the address, beginning with Trump’s declaration of “a national emergency at our southern border.
“All illegal entry will immediately be halted,” he said, “and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”
My comrades liked that. They also like it when Trump said that, henceforth, the US government would recognize only two sexes, male and female. That got a big cheer, as did his promise to “drill, baby, drill” for natural gas and oil. People erupted with glee when he promised to “take back” the Panama Canal and affirmed that what had been called the “Gulf of Mexico” would henceforth be called “the Gulf of America.” He promised to end the weaponization of the Department of Justice and other governmental agencies, restore faith in our national institutions and return to a policy of “common sense.” The “golden age” of America, Trump said, had begun.
I think Trump’s speech is one of the most rousing and substantive in American history. The NeverTrump fraternity disagreed, of course, but they are now a sad, broken and irrelevant lot.
Trump moved quickly to show that his administration would not be a colloquy of words only. It would be a locomotive of deeds. Within hours of taking office, he had issued some 200 executive orders and proclamations, affecting everything from immigration and the border to taxes and the cost of living. And he did so while chatting and fielding questions from reporters. He ordered that the US withdraw from the Paris climate accords and the World Health Organization and directed that federal workers return to full-time, in-person work. He also issued pardons or commutations for some 1,500 people who had been caught up the the DoJ’s politicized dragnet following the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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