A speech that resembles a political meeting. A few minutes after taking the oath of office on the American Constitution this Monday, January 20, Donald Trump delivered his particularly virulent inauguration speech in the grounds of the American Capitol, summarizing the road map that he intends to apply for his return to the House -White. And this, as much by the decrees that the 47th American president intends to sign this Monday, as by the policy he wants to pursue for the next four years. A look back at Donald Trump’s first statements.
Attacking a “corrupt and radical elite”
“America’s golden age begins right now. From this day on, our country will flourish and be respected again in the world,” Donald Trump insisted at the start of his speech. “From now on, the decline of America is over,” he also assured, promising to attack a “corrupt and radical elite who have monopolized power and wealth for many years.”
“State of emergency” on the border with Mexico
Donald Trump has confirmed that he wants to launch a vast anti-immigration offensive: his administration will declare a state of emergency at the border with Mexico, use the American army to ensure surveillance, and attack the right to asylum and right on the ground.
Now in power, the Republican billionaire will sign on the first day of his mandate a slew of decrees which promise to be hotly contested in court, and some of which appear to violate the American constitution. “I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entries will be stopped immediately and we will begin sending millions and millions of criminal aliens back to where they came from,” insisted the new American president.
“I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country,” added the Republican billionaire, also assuring that he wanted to “name the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.” The septuagenarian plans to sign a series of decrees on Monday, to mark his intention to act as quickly as possible.
“Tax foreign countries” to “enrich American citizens”
The President of the United States has promised to tax foreign countries to “enrich American citizens”. “I will immediately begin reviewing our trade system to protect American families and workers,” declared the 47th American president. “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will impose tariffs and taxes on foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he continued.
“President Trump will announce a trade policy that puts America first,” the White House also announced in a statement, adding that the country “would no longer be dependent on foreign organizations for its national tax policy, which punishes American companies.”
“There are only two sexes: male and female”
“Starting today, the official policy of the United States government will be to say that there are only two sexes, male and female,” Donald Trump said on Monday, whose team promised several decrees to stop federal aid for transgender people.
The new American president will notably sign a decree ordering his administration to “recognize” the existence of only “two sexes” defined at birth. He also plans to eliminate federal aid aimed at promoting diversity within the government, future White House officials said on Monday, shortly before the Republican’s inauguration.
A state of “energy emergency” to boost hydrocarbon production
Donald Trump announced that he would declare a national state of “energy emergency” aimed at boosting hydrocarbon production in the United States, already the world’s largest producer, thus endangering global efforts to curb global warming. “We are going to drill, drill, drill,” said the American president, thus reiterating his campaign promise. He also assured that he would return to a number of climate measures taken by his predecessor Joe Biden to promote the energy transition and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the country, the second largest polluter in the world after China.
At the same time, “President Trump will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement,” the White House said in a statement. The United States had already briefly left the agreement during the Republican’s first term, before Joe Biden made their return.
“God saved me so that I could make America great again”
Donald Trump said God “saved” him from an assassination attempt on July 13 in Pennsylvania “so I could make America great again.” “An assassin’s bullet pierced my ear, but I felt […] that my life had been saved for a reason. God saved me so that I could make America great again,” declared the 47th American president.
“We will take back” the Panama Canal
Donald Trump promised to “take back” control of the Panama Canal, stressing that “the objective of our agreement and the spirit of our treaty have been totally violated”. “We have been very mistreated by this senseless gift that should never have been given. The promise that Panama made to us was not kept,” declared the new American president.
“The purpose of our agreement and the spirit of our treaty have been totally violated. American ships are severely overtaxed and are not treated fairly in any way, including the United States Navy,” Trump said. . “And above all, China operates the Panama Canal, and we did not give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we are going to take it back,” he said.
Shortly before taking office, Donald Trump had repeatedly stated that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, built by the United States and inaugurated in 1914. He castigated the agreement signed in 1977 by the then president, Jimmy Carter , which resulted in a transfer of control of the canal to Panama in 1999.
“Plant” the American flag “on the planet Mars”
The President of the United States said that the Americans would “plant” the American flag “on the planet Mars”.
Under his mandate, he declared, “the United States will once again consider itself a nation of progress, which increases its wealth, expands its territory […] and carries our flag into new and magnificent horizons. And we will pursue our destiny to the stars, by sending American astronauts to plant the star-spangled banner on the planet Mars.” All this, under the eyes of the future member of his administration Elon Musk, all smiles, who has been repeating for several years that he wants to colonize March.