‘America first’: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th President

Monday 20 January 2025 6:14 pm

Donald Trump has been sworn into workplace because the forty seventh president of the US, with a declare that “America’s decline is over.”

The Republican politician took the oath of workplace within the rotunda of the US Capitol constructing in Washington D.C. on Monday after under freezing temperatures noticed the ceremony moved indoors.

President Trump was sworn in alongside his vice-president JD Vance, with each males flanked by their wives, Melania Trump and Usha Vance, alongside nominees for cupboard positions.

The ceremony was attended by former UK prime minister Boris Johnson, with social media and tech firm bosses Mark Zuckerberg, of Meta, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google, and key advisor and Tesla and X proprietor Elon Musk in outstanding positions.

Delivering his inaugural deal with, Trump stated: “The golden age of America begins proper now… we would be the envy of each nation.”

He pledged: “Throughout each single day of the Trump administration I’ll, very merely, put America first. Our sovereignty shall be restored.”

The brand new President additionally took goal at what he stated was the Biden administration’s coverage to carry race and gender into “each facet of private and non-private life,” and vowed to construct a society that’s “colour-blind and merit-based.” 

Immigration, power and manufacturing

Referring to the assassination makes an attempt he survived through the election marketing campaign, the President stated: “My life was saved by God to make America nice once more.

“That’s the reason every day below our administration of American patriots we shall be working to satisfy each disaster with dignity, energy and energy.”

On immigration coverage, Trump confirmed he would declare a nationwide “emergency at our southern border” and ship troops to the world, following stories he deliberate to signal 200 government orders on his first day in workplace.

He additionally vowed to designate drug cartels as overseas terrorist organisations, and work to carry down inflation and declare a nationwide power emergency, including: “We are going to drill, child, drill.”

America, he stated, shall be a “manufacturing nation as soon as once more”, highlighting the US’s pure oil and fuel reserves and promising to make use of them to “export power everywhere in the world”.

Tariffs, Mars and overseas coverage

Trump, who additionally promised to finish the Inexperienced New Deal and the electrical automobile mandate, added: “We shall be a wealthy nation as soon as once more and it’s the liquid gold below our ft that can assist us do it.”

The President additionally referenced his plans for tariffs, stating that his administration would “tariff and tax overseas nations to complement our residents” and arrange the Exterior Income Service. 

He additionally stated that below his presidency the US would “plant the Stars and Stripes on planet Mars”, in an obvious nod to Musk and Bezos’ area exploration efforts.

On overseas coverage, and referencing the Israel-Gaza ceasefire, Trump stated: “My proudest legacy is that I shall be remembered as a peacemaker and a unifier.”

He additionally advised that the US can be “taking again” the Panama Canal, which is managed by the Panamanian authorities, and claimed: “China is working it and we didn’t give it to China.” Trump additionally said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

UK response

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer stated: “On behalf of the UK, I ship my warmest congratulations to President Donald Trump on his inauguration because the forty seventh President of the US.

“The particular relationship between the UK and the US will proceed to flourish for years to come back.”

It comes as strategies arose that the Trump administration may reject Starmer’s decide of former Blair-era minister Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. 

Whereas King Charles III has written to President Trump to congratulate him on his inauguration and plans for a US state go to, or royal go to to the US, stay on the desk, it’s understood. 

International secretary David Lammy and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner congratulated Trump and Vance respectively, citing the “particular relationship” and “very important UK-US bond” in posts on X.