Jill Wagner
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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All right. At 12 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, Donald Trump officially became the nation's 47th president. On Monday in the Capitol Rotunda, Trump recited the 35 word presidential oath of office administered by Chief Justice John Roberts. He hit the ground running, signing a number of executive orders within minutes of taking the oath of office.
But not before he took the stage for a nearly 30 minute inaugural speech where he began by painting a picture of an America that needs saving. He took aim at the Biden administration, saying our nation has suffered greatly in recent years, and he vowed to bring about an America that is respected, admired, prosperous and strong.
Similar to his speech in 2017, he spent time focused on calling out what he believes were the flaws of the previous administration. As he stood several feet from outgoing President Biden and Vice President Harris, Trump talked about ushering in a golden age of America, promising a new chapter of his America First agenda.
In fact, the two most popular words in the speech, America and American, he said them 41 times combined. So let's hear some of it.
Moshe, I was one of the millions of people watching from home.
But as Trump was just going off on what horrible shape the country is in, and without naming Biden and Harris, really taking aim at them, I felt awkward for like everybody in there. Is this a normal thing that incoming presidents do while the outgoing president is sitting five feet from them?
He did spend most of the speech giving very specific details about executive orders he signed on his first day in office, laying out the priorities of his administration, a list of many initiatives he ran on he is already engaged in. He called these executive orders the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.
He vowed to declare a national emergency at the border and send troops down to stop illegal immigration. He immediately shut down the CBP One app that allowed asylum seekers to begin the process of entering America. He also declared a national energy emergency and said the government would end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
We're going to get into those specifics later, along with some of the executive orders that he signed on his first day. It is also worth noting who else was on screen during Trump's speech to the nation. Sitting behind him on stage were members of his family, some of his cabinet picks. and the former presidents and vice presidents.
Prominent seats on stage also went to tech CEO billionaires, who in some cases were sitting in front of his cabinet members. Mind you, Trump had to move his inauguration indoors because of record cold temperatures in Washington. So seats were limited to several hundred people as opposed to thousands that could have watched had it been held outside. There was an overflow room in the Capitol.
Crowds were invited to watch in D.C. 's Capital One Arena. So these were hot tickets amongst the many Trump allies and donors. And only some very special people were given the look. Moshe, who stuck out to you?
So Mosh, you and I have made predictions about how long certain Trump relationships were going to last. You're saying Vivek Ramaswamy didn't make it through day one.
meaning that he was given the choice and chose to do it inside because he was nervous that the crowd size wouldn't be big enough.
Notably, Trump did not highlight tech that much in his speech, although he did give a shout out to Elon Musk in a sense when he mentioned his ambitions to plant a U.S. flag on Mars. After Trump's speech, Carrie Underwood sang America the Beautiful acapella after a technical difficulty so you could briefly hear the music. Then it cut out.
She waited more than a minute for the music to come back, during which time the camera was cutting to various people kind of like smirking, you
being awkward it was a very strange thing like like just suddenly there was a huge tech issue until uh she was like you know what we know the words let's just do this like let's not wait any longer but i felt like it was one of those like tech ceos they're just like us because they were all like awkward and like i felt like i was doing that myself watching kind of like oh my god what's gonna happen now elon musk was giggling um yes i maybe were immature but
In fact, based on the one or two seconds of the music that played, it sounded like what she did acapella was more powerful than it would have been had she sang over the band. As we mentioned before earlier in the day, the Bidens revived the tradition of the outgoing first couple hosting the incoming first couple for tea in 2021. Trump did not attend Biden's inauguration.
Also, they took part in the tradition of Biden and Trump riding to the Capitol together in the presidential limo. It came as you saw Obama, Bush, Clinton all in attendance, none of whom feel very warmly about Trump.
As soon as he walked onto the podium, he gave somebody like a very aggressive wink. It was just great. It was classic.
Like, get it together. Like your former secretary of state, former first lady, former senator.
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