President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday.
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For updates, context and analysis of Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, visit NPR’s live blog throughout the day Monday.
President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address gave hints about what topics he will focus on and how he sees the country.
“America’s golden age begins now,” Trump said. “From this day on, our country will prosper.”
He said the country would be “the envy of the world” and “no one would take advantage of it.”
Trump promised during the campaign to push for tariffs on foreign goods, expand drilling and deport immigrants without legal status in the country.
In his inaugural speech, he said he would sign a “series of executive orders” focused on immigration and the economy. Trump said he would declare a “national emergency at our southern border,” ending immigration and deporting “criminal immigrants.”
“We will do it at a level that no one has ever seen before,” Trump promised.
Trump also said he would declare a “national energy emergency,” roll back the Green New Deal and electric vehicle mandate, and create a “Foreign Revenue Service” to level tariffs on goods. other countries.
Trump says the measures would help build American “prosperity,” even though he said after the election that it would be “difficult” to lower prices. Prices and inflation have consistently been shown to be the top concerns of many Americans.
Cultural issues and immigration have always been the driving force behind Trump’s political rise. Immigration has been a key priority of his base. In the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, 4 in 10 Republicans favored mass deportations and more than half said they strongly supported them.
Trump said he would make it American policy that there be only two genders: “man and woman.” LGBTQ+ rights have been a flashpoint in the 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump has also promised political retaliation, although it is unclear to what extent or whether he will follow through.
“The scales of justice will be rebalanced,” Trump promised in his speech, saying “militarization” would end.
Trump has been charged in four different criminal cases, two federally and two in the states of New York and Georgia. Only one of them was tried before the elections. Trump was convicted in New York of business fraud, stemming from secret payments made to cover up an alleged affair with an adult film actress.
Two other cases were linked to Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen: his inspiration for the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol, his phone call to Georgia election officials asking them to “find” votes to overturn the results of the election. . The other federal case involved classified documents that Trump took from the White House. All three have faced prosecutorial delays and setbacks.
He also promised to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America and Mount Denali in Alaska to Mount McKinley and that the country would take control of the Panama Canal.
“My legacy will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier,” Trump said. “That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier.”
Of course, many of the measures Trump has called for are not supported by all Americans. The latest NPR poll, for example, finds that Americans are evenly split on deportations and think tariffs will hurt the economy more than help it.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
