Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US President

Chief Justice John Roberts administered Trump's presidential oath on Monday (20 January).

After Trump was sworn in his supporters inside the Capital One Arena, nearly all on their feet, roared and applauded, many waving their MAGA hats in the air, some clearly emotional. Chants of "USA" filled the arena.

In his inaugural address, Trump said, �The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.�

Echoing a promise he made on the 2024 election campaign trail, Trump added that he will �put America first�.


�Tide of change sweeping the country�: Trump

The US president has quickly slammed the outgoing Biden administration, saying that the US government has failed to defend Americans and American interests.

�We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster,� he said. �And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves; in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them.

�All of this will change starting today and it will change very quickly,� he continued to applause.

Trump added: �From this moment on, America�s decline is over.�

Trump repeats his evidence-free claim that migrants are coming from prisons, mental institutions

In his inauguration speech, Trump repeated the campaign claim that the Biden administration provided �sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.�

The claim is Pants on Fire! There is no evidence that countries are emptying their prisons, or that mental institutions are sending people to illegally migrate to the US.

Immigration officials arrested about 108,000 non-citizens with criminal convictions (whether in the US or abroad) from fiscal years 2021 to 2024, federal data shows. That accounts for people stopped at and between ports of entry. Not everyone was let in.

Trump says opponents tried to take his freedom, his life

Referring to the assassination attempt against him in July of last year, the US president has said he believes he was saved by God �to Make America Great Again�.

Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The Republican leader also faced four criminal indictments linked to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election that he lost to Biden.

In May, Trump became the first former president ever convicted of a crime for falsifying business documents related to hush-money payments, but he has avoided any penalties for that conviction.

Trump outlines executive action he plans to take

The US president says he will:
1. Declare a national emergency at the US-Mexico border and send troops there
2. Reinstate �Remain in Mexico� policy that forced migrants and asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their US immigration hearings
3. Designate Mexican drug cartels as �foreign terrorist organizations� and �eliminate presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks� in the US
4. Direct all cabinet members to �defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices�
5. Declare a �national energy emergency�; �We will drill, baby, drill,� he says.
6.. Revoke programme promoting electric vehicles

�Never again will the immense power of the state be used to persecute political opponents � something I know something about,� the US president says.

Trump � who, as we�ve been reporting, had faced four criminal cases against him before he won November�s election � has long accused Biden and the Democrats of seeking to derail his re-election campaign.

He has alleged � without providing any evidence � that he was the victim of a politically motivated witch hunt.

�Under my leadership we will restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law,� Trump says.

Trump moves to fulfill campaign promises on immigration

Trump has said he will implement a series of immigration-related policies, a cornerstone of his 2024 campaign that leaned into dehumanizing rhetoric and blamed migrants for a long list of problems faced by the US.

�First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border,� Trump said. �All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.�

The incoming president also said he would reinstate Remain in Mexico, which forced people who had submitted asylum claims to wait in Mexico for their hearings, and send US troops to the southern border.

During his presidential campaign, Trump capitalised on anxieties around record irregular immigration and vowed to carry out the largest mass deportation campaign in US history.

Trump says he wants to be �a peacemaker�, hails Gaza ceasefire deal

He has noted that as of yesterday, Israeli captives held in Gaza began to be released as part of a ceasefire deal to end Israel�s bombardment of the Palestinian enclave.

�My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier; that�s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier,� Trump said during his inaugural address.