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president Donald Trump’s The second inaugural address was a policy-oriented message of “hope and unity,” experts said.
Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, called Trump’s speech “substantive” in outlining the president’s agenda for the next four years.
“Trump was policy specific from start to finish,” Roberts said. “And I think that’s something that will be remembered as a hallmark of the speech, because people, Americans who are going to wake up tomorrow watching the news, reading the news, are going to remember that Trump articulated a playbook.”
“America’s golden age begins right now,” Trump said as he handed out his opening speech Monday on Capitol Hill.
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“From this day on, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world,” he continued. “We will be the envy of all nations and we will not let them take advantage of us any longer. Throughout the days of the Trump administration, I will simply put America first.”
Trump notably criticized “the vicious, violent and unjust weaponization of the Department of Justice” as well as the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of foreign and domestic issues as both the former president and vice president looked on. Trump specifically pointed to the hurricane disasters in North Carolina and the recent wildfires that Southern California.
President Trump delivers his inaugural address in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, January 20, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS)
“We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of our foreign borders, but refuses to defend America’s borders or, more importantly, its own people,” Trump said.
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Trump’s policy-specific speech was “very important right now because of all the policy failures of the Biden-Harris regime,” Roberts told Fox News Digital on Monday. “And I know from the kind of work that Heritage does, not just in DC but in states across the country, that Trump’s base and many of the independent voters who voted for him this time (were) looking for a political plan, and he articulate”.
“President Trump has officially started a new chapter for America,” Jessica Anderson, president of the super-conservative PAC Sentinel Action Fund, told Fox News Digital on Monday. “His speech was one of hope and unity as he set the tone for the next four years of prosperity, security and strength.”
President Trump’s second inaugural address was policy-oriented and a message of “hope and unity,” experts said.
Both Roberts and Anderson noted that Trump’s speech was also a turning point in definitively announcing that a new administration was taking over. the white house.
“As President Trump has made clear, he will waste no time working for the American people, and has already drafted dozens of executive orders on everything from border security to proper gender definition,” Anderson said.
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“He was not gratuitous in his criticism of his political opponents,” Roberts said. “But you didn’t have to do much reading between the lines to understand that the sheriff is back in town. He’s going to take this country back.”
Trump’s speech also emphasized his top priority to make America “a proud, prosperous and free nation,” echoing the sentiments of the New Frontier issue.
Donald Trump’s specific inaugural address was “very important right now because of all the policy failures of the Biden-Harris regime,” one think tank expert said. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“We are one people, one family and one glorious nation under God,” Trump said. “So to every parent who dreams of their child and every child who dreams of their future, I am with you. I will fight for you and I will win for you. We will win like never before.”
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Roberts said, “I think Trump put his finger on something that, right now, is going to be an underappreciated part of his legacy, and that’s a president of American innovation.”
“In other words, making America great again is about bringing American manufacturing and economic vitality back to a level where the innovation is so tremendous that you can’t even fathom when you’re sitting here what it’s going to be.”
Roberts said this invocation of the “real spirit of America” in Trump’s speech pointed to “recovering American manufacturing and economic vitality” during his second administration, which was a theme Roberts said which both Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy incorporated into their own theme. inaugural speeches
