Trump claims start of American ‘golden age’ as he goes scorched earth in first speech as president
Trump claims start of American ‘golden age’ as he goes scorched earth in first speech as president
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The 47th president denounced the government he now leads as having been captured by ‘a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens’. President Donald Trump declared that a new “golden age of America” has started that would make the country he now leads “greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before” before delivering a dark and brooding denunciation of his own government in an inaugural address delivered moments after he became the first former president to win a non-consecutive second term since Grover Cleveland accomplished the same feat more than a century earlier.
Standing behind a lectern adorned by the presidential seal for the first time since he addressed a small crowd of staff and supporters before leaving Washington after having skipped the January 2021 inauguration of President Joe Biden, Trump said his return to the White House would ensure that America would “not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.”.
“Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end and our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free,” said Trump, who said the nation is in the midst of a “crisis of trust” because “a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.”.
