The 47th president skipped out on ‘carnage’ but still painted a dark image of the America he’s inheriting and swearing he’ll save.
by Olivier Knox
USNews.com
After an election in which anger over inflation helped sweep him back to the White House, President Donald Trump devoted relatively little time to the cost of living in his inaugural address on Monday, while promising a whole-of-government war on illegal immigration.
– “From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” Trump declared in the Capitol Rotunda, surrounded by a sea of VIPs, lawmakers and Cabinet picks. “We will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.”
He made no mention of the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters to whom he repeatedly promised clemency on the campaign trail. Or of his plans to repudiate birthright citizenship, setting up a legal battle that almost certainly will reach the Supreme Court. Ukraine? He did not utter the name.