By HOMELAND MEDIA TEAM/AGENCIES
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th US president, promising that the “golden age of America begins right now.”
“From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected,” he said. “I will very simply put America first.”
Laying out his vision for America, Mr Trump said the American sovereignty will be reclaimed, safety will be restored, the scales of justice will be rebalanced, adding that “the vicious violent and unfair weaponisation” of the US Justice Department will end.
“Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free,” he says.
Mr Trump also hit out at the Joe Biden administration and its handling of the migrant crisis, saying the country has a crisis of “trust” in its government.
He said he has been given a mandate to “completely and totally reverse” what he calls “a horrible betrayal” by those in power against the American people adding that he will give people “their faith, their wealth, their democracy and their freedom.”
“From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” he says.
Tech billionaires, cabinet nominees and former presidents are all at the ceremony in the rotunda of the US Capitol.
Minutes before Trump took the oath, Joe Biden issued pardons for members of his family.
Trump is set to declare a “national emergency” at the US-Mexico border, declare drug cartels as terrorists, and scrap government diversity programmes as part of a blitz of executive orders in the coming hours.
But he won’t announce tariffs on trade partners today, officials say.
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