1.Dignitaries from across Washington and around the world gathered in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 20 to watch power transfer peacefully from Democratic former President Joe Biden to his Republican successor, Donald Trump.
2.Cold weather changed the plans for the day as the inauguration was moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda — the first time that has happened in 40 years — and a parade was replaced by an event with marching bands at the Capital One Arena in Washington.
3.”The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump said after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, declaring the beginning of “the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.”
4.Trump said the government faces “a crisis of trust.” He claimed to have “a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal,” promising to “give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy and indeed their freedom.”
5.”From this moment on,” he added as Biden watched from the front row, “America’s decline is over.” Trump said that walking back into the Oval Office after his inauguration was “one of the better feelings I’ve ever had.”
6.He began erasing Biden’s legacy almost immediately after taking office. Unlike during his first term, when new staff members had to figure out what exactly their president was trying to achieve, Trump moved rapidly and methodically to advance his agenda.
7.His first action after arriving at the White House was pardoning about 1,500 people charged in connection with the riots at the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021. He signed orders for increasing border security, freezing new regulations and establishing a task force for reducing the size of the national government.
8.He also rescinded dozens of directives issued by Biden, including those relating to climate change and diversity. He signed an order to withdraw the US, one of the world’s top emitters of greenhouse gases, from the Paris climate agreement for the second time.
