Pardons and Populism: Trump’s First Day Back in the White House
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So it is around 9.30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, and we are headed to the Capitol. And as you can perhaps hear through the microphone... Hopefully not if I do my job well. It is really, really windy and very cold, so we are layered to the hilt. like five layers.
Wool socks.
Double socked, thermal underweared, two hats, because we're going to spend a lot of this day outside. There it is. Yeah, oh, that's a beautiful view. We're standing about a football field and a half away from the US Capitol. I am staring at the dome. And because it is so bone-chillingly cold, the inauguration, which is normally held outside, facing the National Mall, This has been moved inside the Capitol, in the rotunda, which we're looking at. And at this very moment, President-elect Trump and President Biden are at the White House. They're having tea. They're going to come in a motorcade together to the Capitol. And we're looking at what we think is the exact spot they're going to arrive. And it's very, very heavily fortified.
We're surrounded by these tall metal gates. There are dozens of police officers.
Wait, hold on. There's something happening.
This is the motorcade. It's the longest motorcade I've ever seen. Dozens and dozens of vehicles. And it is working its way to the eastern gate of the Capitol to deposit the two presidents inside the building for the inauguration. And Donald Trump is going to be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. On Monday, in the culmination of an extraordinary political comeback.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. Donald Trump was officially sworn in as President of the United States for a second time. Just four years after being voted out of office and being impeached and later criminally charged for trying to overturn that result.
Today.
My colleague, Peter Baker, on the message Trump sent in his inaugural address. And Jonathan Swan on the actions Trump took during his first hours in office. It's Tuesday, January 21st. Peter, thank you for coming in the studio. It's nice to be here with you in person. I don't think I've ever done this in person with you. I don't think I've ever done this in person with you either. Aren't you glad you're here? Yes. You're here for a day of history. It is.
However way you look back on it, this is a day of history.
Exactly. Because I got to talk to you in person. Peter, set the scene for us inside the Capitol Rotunda as Donald Trump prepares to deliver this inaugural speech.
Well, we see in the Capitol, inside the Rotunda, this new power map of Washington. You see the outgoing president of the United States, Joe Biden, the outgoing vice president, Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in November, seated just a few feet away from the victors, from the new power. It felt like inches from the camera. Very close, probably uncomfortably so for both sides, right? And behind the new president, behind Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are family members, as you would expect, members of their incoming cabinet, as you would expect, congressional leaders, and these billionaires. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And suddenly we see the new dynamics of power in Washington. It's a new crowd, and they're all deferring to him. Thank you very much, everybody.
Well, thank you very, very much.
So describe the speech itself once Trump begins to deliver it.
The golden age of America begins right now. Well, the speech itself is obviously American Carnage 2.0 on some level, right? And we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.
Just explain that for those who may not remember the reference to the first inaugural.
Who could forget that? But in 2017, of course, at his first inauguration, Donald Trump delivers this speech that becomes... you know, iconic, infamous, whatever word you want to use, describing an America that was very dystopian at the time, very grim, very dark, and unlike what most presidents do in their inaugural addresses, so much so that George W. Bush, who was sitting there, turns to Hillary Clinton and says, well, that was some weird shit.
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