By The American Conservative (World News) | Created at 2025-01-20 17:55:08 | Updated at 2025-01-20 21:52:03
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Politics
State of the Union: The president’s second inaugural address laid out an ambitious set of policies to restore a “suffering” America’s greatness.
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President Donald Trump delivered a second inaugural address studded with invocations of the American frontier and space travel, laying out a vast agenda to restore American prosperity and unity.
“The golden age of America begins right now,” he declared.
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He laid out plans to secure the southern border and tame Mexican drug cartels, to restore American manufacturing, and to cultivate peace through military strength.
“My greatest legacy will be as a peacemaker and a unifier—that’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier,” he said.
Among other specific policies, Trump promised to end the Green New Deal and the electric vehicle mandate “keeping my sacred pledge to our great American auto workers”; to declare a national energy emergency and “drill, baby, drill”; and to direct government agencies to roll back limits on Americans’ speech.
