President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second, nonconsecutive term in the White House on Jan. 20, becoming the nation’s 47th president four years after he left office as its 45th.
In his inaugural address, Trump pledged to reverse what he called “America’s decline.”
“My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place, and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy. And, indeed, their freedom,” Trump said.
Trump took a sharply critical tone of his predecessor, without naming him, but also pledged “unity” moving forward.
“We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad,” he said. “It fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding American citizens, but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.”
Trump also addressed his own assassination attempt while campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July, arguing, “I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason — I was saved by God to make America great again.”
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