Six Donald Trump inauguration bombshells from Elon Musk's 'Nazi salute' to US boots on Mars
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Donald Trump is back in the White House after a bizarre inauguration day packed with controversies, executive orders and surprise celebrity appearances. The 78-year-old was sworn in yesterday behind the doors of the US Capitol Rotunda Hall after freezing -6C temperatures forced the ceremony inside for the first time in 40 years. His supporters watched on from venues across the country and inside a nearby arena in Washington, where Trump himself later held a rally. A host of former presidents and political foes surrounded the new president as he returned to power, including his former Vice President Mike Pence, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. At 12pm (5pm UK time), Trump swore the oath of office - though did not touch the bible held in front of him - and officially became president of the United States replacing Joe Biden, the very same man who had defeated him four years earlier.
Trump marked his first day in office by signing a flurry of executive orders, making sweeping changes to the economy, immigration and reversing climate change policies. He announced several of these in his rambling inaugural speech, in which he promised a "new golden age of America". Here are some of the biggest moments of the day:.
One of the loudest cheers of the inauguration ceremony came when Trump said he would "declare a national emergency at our southern border". He added: "All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came.".
