(Adnkronos) – “You will see something special. You will see executive orders that will make you happy. You will see many of them.” Donald Trump, a few hours before his inauguration as the 47th president, addressed the crowd at the Capital One Arena in Washington. “When I place my hand on the Bible to swear, we will all swear together: I will represent all of you as the 47th President of the United States,” he said.
“We will give the American people the best first day, the greatest first week, and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history,” Trump said, outlining the priorities of his “historic agenda”: fighting illegal immigration and clearing the way for offshore drilling. Trump, the Washington Post wrote, will begin his term by declaring a national emergency on the border with Mexico. When the sun sets “on January 20,” the invasion of our borders will stop,” Trump said at the rally, again referring to “the biggest deportation operation, it’s going to start very soon. We will defend our borders, we will protect our citizens: we will not be invaded, occupied, conquered.”
“We won. At noon the curtain closes on 4 years of American decline. A new period of prosperity and pride begins. We will stop the invasion,” he added, referring to the protection of the southern border. “We’re going to take back our wealth. We will bring law and order back to our cities, we will bring patriotism back to our schools and we will kick out the transgender madness. No more men in women’s sports, it’s over,” he said.
“We will cut federal bureaucracy, we will create the new Department for Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk. He’s here somewhere,” he said, welcoming the tycoon to the huge stage. Musk appeared at the microphone with his son and said, “Winning the election is the beginning, we are going to make huge changes and we are going to lay the foundation for America to be strong for centuries, strong forever.” The president-elect then referred to a “transparent and accountable” state. With this in mind, “we will make public documents relating to the murders of John Fitzerald Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.”
On January 20 “you will see something special. You will see executive orders that will make you happy. You’ll see a lot of them,” Trump reiterated, foreshadowing his first actions. “They told me I shouldn’t sign them all at once, I should wait weeks: no, I’ll do it right away…”. “I’ll be in Los Angeles on Friday,” he added -. After the terrible fires, we’ll rebuild it more beautiful than ever. The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be one of the greatest patriotic celebrations.”
Trump then rattled off the goals already outlined during the election campaign, reiterating familiar proclamations, including “I will end the war in Ukraine, I will cut taxes, we will beat inflation.” “We’ve been through a lot these past four years, I will fight for you every day,” he said, igniting the audience and recalling the landslide success of the November 2024 election and alluding to vague attempts to subvert the vote: “They tried, but it was” an election “too big to be rigged.”
There is room to talk about TikTok again. Trump sides with the ‘made in China’ app banned in the US starting today. “TikTok is back,” he says, referring to the partial reinstatement of the app. The president-elect insists that “TikTok must be saved,” foreshadowing immediate action. “I like TikTok,” he said, recalling that through the app, during the election campaign, he won the youth vote. “And we have to save jobs,” he concluded, envisioning the hypothesis of a joint venture that would also involve a U.S. entity in the ownership of the app.
