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| President Trump Making his inaugural address. Photo credit |
WASHINGTON — Donald John Trump was
inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, ushering in a
new and more unpredictable era in which he vowed to shatter the established
order and restore American greatness.
From the West Front of the Capitol,
overlooking a crowd of hundreds of thousands as rain began to fall, Mr. Trump
presented a dark vision of a nation afflicted by division and dislocation,
exploited and forgotten by a group of Washington elites and diminished around
the world. His arrival, he promised, would finally turn it around.
“This American carnage stops right
here and stops right now,” he declared in a forceful 16-minute Inaugural
Address.
“The time for empty talk is over,”
he added later. “Now arrives tMr. Trump’s view of the United States was
strikingly grim for an Inaugural Address — a country where mothers and children
are “trapped in poverty in our inner cities,” where “rusted-out factories” are
“scattered like tombstones across the landscape” and where drugs and crime
“have stolen too many lives.” “This American carnage,” he declared, “stops
right here and stops right now.”
He got started right away with
rolling back the policies of his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, by
issuing orders freezing new regulations from recent weeks and ordering agencies
to “ease the burden” of the Affordable Care Act during the transition from
repealing to replacing the law. More orders are planned for next week.he hour
for action. Do not allow anyone to tell you it cannot be done.”Mr. Trump’s view
of the United States was strikingly grim for an Inaugural Address — a country
where mothers and children are “trapped in poverty in our inner cities,” where
“rusted-out factories” are “scattered like tombstones across the landscape” and
where drugs and crime “have stolen too many lives.”
“This American carnage,” he
declared, “stops right here and stops right now.”
He got started right away with
rolling back the policies of his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, by
issuing orders freezing new regulations from recent weeks and ordering agencies
to “ease the burden” of the Affordable Care Act during the transition from
repealing to replacing the law. More orders are planned for next week.
Read more in The New York Times
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