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 his inaugural address.
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 in 2021, Trump said his return to the White House would ensure that America would “not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.”
