Here’s What You Missed During President Donald Trump’s Second Inauguration Ceremony
Then, due to the Arctic blast sweeping through Washington, Trump and his vice president, J.D. Vance, were sworn in not outside the United States Capitol, as is customary, but indoors, within the building’s rotunda. “I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather,” Trump posted to Truth Social on January 17.
After the ceremony, Trump attended a lunch hosted by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
Who performed at the inauguration?
After performances by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln combined chorus and the United States Marine Band, American Idol winner Carrie Underwood sang “America the Beautiful” a capella, due to an unspecified technical glitch.
Additionally, opera tenor Christopher Macchio performed “O, America!” and the National Anthem with the Armed Forces Chorus.
What did Trump say in his inauguration speech?
“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump promised before going on to decry the “vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government” and scapegoat “dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.”
Trump also touched upon the recent hurricane devastation in North Carolina and ongoing wildfire emergency in Los Angeles as examples of the outgoing administration’s perceived failures; called out “an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves in many cases” (presumably referring to his ongoing conflict with schools teaching children the history of slavery in America); announced his intent to reinstate his Remain in Mexico policy and “declare a national emergency at our southern border”; and state that it would “henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”
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