Ben Shapiro reacts to the historic inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States. From the oath of office to the iconic inaugural moments, Ben breaks down this monumental day in American history.
What did Trump say in his inauguration speech?
So it's a pretty impressive speech from the former and current president of the United States. President Trump gave a 29 minute address, very short for him. It began with him suggesting that this was the beginning of a new golden era for the United States. That obviously is his ambition. And then he recapped the last four years, which he characterized as dark, depressing.
I think obviously he was right in all of that. And then he began to lay out an incredibly pragmatic
course of action that he's going to pursue immediately and that includes everything from designating drug cartels terrorist organizations to putting back in place remain in mexico from declaring a national energy emergency to drill baby drill those are his words to a foreign policy that's led with strength he mentioned the release of three hostages by hamas over the weekend president of the united states
Also dropped some pretty charged language about what he sees as the future of American territory. He used the phrase manifest destiny to describe the possibility of expanding America's territorial holdings, including regaining some level of control over, for example, the Panama Canal, which he said we did not build for the use of China or ownership by China, which of course is exactly correct.
The bottom line is this. President Trump said in the speech that he is going to be a common sense president. And that is what you heard. This is a president who is much more focused than he was during his first term. This is a president who actually has an agenda. This is a president who is ready to make that agenda happen in real time.
I don't think that it was the most soaring rhetoric I've ever heard from President Trump, but it was some of the most pragmatic rhetoric that I've ever heard from President Trump. Again, it was a shorter address than he usually gives in these sorts of situations, and I think that played to his benefit because, again, and allowed the American public to focus on what he was saying.
He suggested that maybe the most important wars we fight are the ones that we never fight, which is a strategy of deterrence that he has suggested in the past and that he pursued with alacrity during his first term. He suggested that when it came to foreign trade, that we were not going to impoverish American workers in order to make people rich elsewhere.
We'll see how that manifests in terms of his actual trade and tariff policy. But the bottom line for President Trump is, was, and will be utilitarian. It's going to be about winning. It's going to be about pragmatic winning for the American people. That's the theme that he kept coming back to. And he also, in the more inspirational moments of the speech, I think,
talked about what he sees as the future of the country and the past of the country, the sort of pioneer spirit that it takes to cross mountains and settle along rivers, the kind of pioneer spirit that it takes to, for example, go to the moon and plant an American flag on the moon.
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