GUWAHATI, Jan 21: Donald Trump on Monday took oath as the 47th President of the United States, making a resounding and historic comeback to the White House after his painful defeat in 2020.
Vice President JD Vance was also sworn in at the function held inside the Rotunda of the US Capitol, moved indoors following a frigid weather forecast.
Here are the top 10 developments from and after Trump’s oath taking.
- US President Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance took oath at the US Capitol in Washington DC, marking Trump’s return to the Obal Office for his second term as President of the United States of America.
- President Trump said after taking oath that the Golden Age of America has begun right now and added that from this moment on, America’s decline globally is over.
- “January 20, 2025 will forever be remember by all Americans as Liberation Day,” Trump said after taking oath as President.
- President Trump also said that his first task as the 47th President of USA will be to declare a national emergency at our southern border (with Mexico).
- America, the US President said, will return to being a great economy again and will focus on expanding its territories. “We will take back the Panama Canal which was foolishly given away and is now being run by China,” Trump said to a thunderous ovation from his supporters.
- After taking oath, Donald Trump met families of Americans taken hostages by Hamas in Gaza after attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
- “We will sign executive orders first to revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration,” he stated, as he pardoned his supporters arrested in the January 6, 2021 rioting at Capitol Hill.
- Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw US from what he said was an “unfair one-sided” Paris Climate Accord. “I am immediately withdrawing from the unfair one-sided Paris Climate Accord. The US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes,” he stated.
- President Trump, speaking on his first day back in the White House, said he expects to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Mexico and Canada on February 1.
- Usha Vance became the first Indian-American and Hindu Second Lady after her husband JD Vance took oath as Vice President of the US.
(With inputs from agencies)
