By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-20 23:16:42 | Updated at 2025-01-21 02:24:47
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To quote a legendary political ad: It's morning again in America.
President Donald Trump's America, that is.
That patriotic 1984 slogan won Ronald Reagan a second term, and Trump's inaugural speech — so much of his campaign, really — mirrored Reagan, intentionally and coincidentally.
Trump spoke calmly as he excoriated the Biden administration, saber-rattled our enemies, and reminded us all of American power, supremacy, and exceptionalism.
'The golden age of America begins right now!'
Bam. What an absolute banger of an opening line.
It's exactly what a weary populace, beaten down for years by a Democratic Party that has nothing but contempt for this country, so badly needed to hear.
The Donald Trump we saw on Monday is markedly different from the one inaugurated eight years ago. Even his critics would have to agree: Trump has matured, and 47 will be a very different president than 45.
The Donald Trump we saw on Monday is markedly different from the one inaugurated eight years ago. Even his critics would have to agree: Trump has matured, and 47 will be a very different president than 45.
To quote a legendary political ad: It's morning again in America. President Donald Trump's America, that is. (Pictured: Melania Trump).
Just look at his necktie, of interwoven blue and red that, from a distance, read as purple.
In case we didn't get the message: 'My proudest legacy,' Trump said, 'will be as a peacemaker and a unifier. That is what I want to be.'
Take that, Barack Obama. Take that, Joe Biden — who sat humiliated as Trump brazenly, but softly, told us that he was here to fix everything Biden and the Dems have broken.
Trump spoke of 'a thrilling new era of American success' and the return of 'sunlight'.
Indeed, the parallels with Reagan astonish. Much like the so-called 'Great Communicator', Trump defeated a one-term Democrat incumbent who led the nation into global retreat and recession.
Like Reagan, whose election guaranteed that Iran would return the American hostages it held for 444 days while his predecessor did little, Trump's win guaranteed that Hamas would agree to a ceasefire and begin releasing hostages — three on Sunday, one day before Trump's inauguration, showing Biden for the spineless, senile wreck he is.
Yes, Joe Biden is Jimmy Carter: Weak, feckless, and responsible for America's decline. The only difference is that Carter had real morals and ethics. Biden, fifteen minutes before leaving office, pardoned his entire family.
Not that they're criminals, of course!
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
'Let's make America great again' — that was Ronald Reagan in 1980. Who would have thought Donald J. Trump would be his political, philosophical and spiritual successor?
Not many presidents have been shot in an assassination attempt, survived, and won re-election, as Reagan and Trump did. Only Reagan and Trump have been inaugurated, for their second terms, indoors.
Trump has clearly modeled this new version of himself on Reagan. That augurs well.
The 'American carnage' and dark vision that animated Trump's first inaugural address is long gone.
In its place: Optimism, patriotism, freedom of choice and freedom of speech, pride in hard work and no apologies for well-earned wealth. A restoration of core values and common sense.
Imagine that.
How satisfying, how deserved, to watch Joe and Jill, Kamala and Doug, Bill and Hillary listen stone-faced as Trump calmly, quickly savaged them and their ruinous, reckless policies.
He mentioned the hostages Biden almost never spoke of, offering 'prayers' for them and for peace in the Middle East.
He declared two genders, male and female, and promised to end the engineering of 'race and gender into every aspect of public life'. To bring 'law and order back to our cities'. To secure the border and designate cartels and gangs as terrorist organizations.
And, in a nod to JFK's own inaugural promise to put a man on the moon, Trump aims to plant the American flag on Mars.
In case we didn't get the message: 'My proudest legacy,' Trump said, 'will be as a peacemaker and a unifier. That is what I want to be.'
Take that, Barack Obama. Take that, Joe Biden, who sat humiliated as Trump brazenly, but softly, told us that he was here to fix everything Biden and the Dems have broken.
Sure, it's wild, but so what? No one thought JFK's dream would ever come to pass, either.
Speaking of: How incredible to see the relative youth and brain power literally sitting behind Trump.
Apple's Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and his vulgar girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, with her breasts popping out — a true rebuke to the liberal gerontocracy seated, fittingly, on Trump's left.
Our 47th president is prioritizing futurism, a new space age, and our greatest exports: tech, of course, but also innovation and creativity.
He will ensure that businesses, big and small, have the ability to thrive.
Shame in being American no longer has a place here.
Make no mistake: The white-out snowstorm one the eve of Trump's inauguration, that deep freeze on the East Coast, was the last of America's wintry slumber.
His swearing-in marks a thawing out — and if you don't believe me, see the footage of Jill Biden hugging Kamala Harris! Is there no peace that Trump can't facilitate?
What a comeback for a president beset by lawfare and impeachments, by a liberal media hellbent on keeping him out of office, and a Republican party that wanted him gone.
'I am proof,' Trump said, 'that something is never impossible to do in America. The impossible is what we do best.'
Here's to the next four years.
