Following President Donald Trump’s inauguration today, the official White House website has been updated to reflect the new administration.

The revamped site prominently features a video montage from Trump’s first term, accompanied by imagery of a bald eagle soaring,

Wall Street Journal reported:

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President Trump made history again on Monday, delivering the greatest speech of his career and reestablishing America as the home of greatness and freedom!

Trump announced his plans to eliminate Joe Biden’s reckless and damaging policies that have destroyed and embarrassed the country for four dark years.

This will go down in the history books.  America is back. Greatness is back. Donald Trump is back.

TRANSCRIPT:

President Trump: Thank you very much, everybody. Well, thank you very, very much. Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens.

The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.

We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.

During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced.

The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the justice department and our government will end. And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free.

America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success.

A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.

But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America.

As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.

We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.

It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.

We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people.

Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina who’ve been treated so badly, and other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago, or more recently Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense.

They’re raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don’t have a home any longer.

That’s interesting, but we can’t let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anything about it that’s going to change.

We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world.

And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly.

My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed, their freedom.

From this moment on, America’s decline is over. Our liberties and our nation’s glorious destiny will no longer be denied, and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty of America’s government.

Over the past 8 years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history, and I’ve learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you.

Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and, indeed, to take my life. Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.

I was saved by God to make America great again. Thank you. Thank you very much.

That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.

For American citizens, January 20, 2025, is Liberation Day. It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.

As our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of our society, young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural, and very importantly, we had a powerful win in all 7 swing states, and the popular vote we won by 1,000,000 of people.

To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it.

I’ve heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come. Today is Martin Luther King Day, and his honor this will be a great honor. But in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality.

We will make his dream come true. Thank you. Thank you. National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride are soaring like never before. In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success.

We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God. Can’t do that. Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.

It’s all about common sense.

First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release, and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to US soil, including our cities and inner cities.

As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody’s ever seen before.

Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.

The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.

America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have. The largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. Let me use it.

We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top, and export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.

With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American auto workers.

In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your choice. We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago, and thank you to the auto workers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence.

We did tremendously with their vote. I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.

For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties, and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury coming from foreign sources.

The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before.

To restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government, my administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.

After years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents, something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen.

It will not happen again. Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.

This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.

We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.

As of today, the United States government will officially declare that there are only two genders: male and female.

This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pay. And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty.

It’s going to end immediately. Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission, defeating America’s enemies.

Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.

We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.

My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.

I’m pleased to say that as of yesterday, 1 day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

Thank you. America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.

A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.

He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States.

United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.

We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken.

The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.

American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape, or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China.

We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.

Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization.

So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred.

Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease-free.

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.

Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed 1,000 miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness.

They cross deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the wild West, ended slavery, rescued 1,000,000 from tyranny, lifted 1,000,000,000 from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback, But as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do.

In America, the impossible is what we do best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, DC, our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.

They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride.

Together, they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won 2 world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced.

After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history.

With your help, we will restore America’s promise, and we will rebuild the nation that we love, and we love it so much. We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.

So to every parent who dreams for their child and every child who dreams for their future, I am with you. I will fight for you, and I will win for you. We’re going to win like never before.

In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before.

We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.

Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.

America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will be prosperous. We will be proud.

We will be strong, and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken, and we will not fail. From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.

We will stand bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.

The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun. Thank you.

God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you very much.

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Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

And today, once again, a provision of our Constitution that we use every four years comes to the forefront again, as we inaugurate a President.

Yet the event, especially this year, is more than a Constitutional transfer of power from one President to another. It is a moment of transition for every American.

We have been through a trauma in America these last four years. Constitutional boundaries have been violated just like our border has; censorship and mandates have been imposed upon us; inflation and insecurity have haunted us; transgender ideology and abortion have been shoved down our throats; and insanity has often taken the place of commonsense.

But since November 5th, we have experienced a huge sigh of relief that this is all about to turn around.

Today it happens.

It reminds me of these words of Jesus:

“Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy” (Jn. 16:20)

While not on the level of the joy of salvation, the joy of today is nonetheless real, and is certainly a gift from the Lord. Our grief of the last four years has precisely flowed from the rejection of God’s law on the part of many in power.

We can see the turning of the corner today for America in the light of another passage, from St. Paul:

“Brothers, I for my part do not consider myself to have taken possession. Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:13-14).

The new Trump Administration, with the new Congress, is an opportunity, not a guarantee. The gift from God has to be met with the striving of which Paul speaks, and with the mental discipline. He talks about always looking forward, not behind.

And he speaks later in Philippians about how we need to think:

”Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (Phil. 4:8).

This discipline of positive thinking is a key to President Trump’s success. During all the lawfare, indictments, and convictions he had to endure, I recall his response to an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” in which Kristen Welker asked if he was worried about possible imprisonment. His response was, “I don’t even think about it.”

And in numerous rally speeches, he pointed out that in America, “we don’t talk about greatness anymore.” He lamented that so much of our conversation centered on our weaknesses, our failures, and our problems as a nation.

Now of course, we have to talk about problems to solve them, and he does. But making America great requires talking about greatness, and that demands thinking about greatness.

Today, the deeper significance of the Inauguration, of the new beginning, is what takes place in our own minds, hearts, and conversations. It’s time to think bigger for America, to think and talk about greatness.
And the reason we can do that ties into one more element of the Trump phenomenon.

It is expressed in what he has also said many times in his rallies: This MAGA movement, this America-First movement, isn’t about him as an individual; it’s about us. He said often during the campaign, “We, together, are running for President. We will be the 47th President of the United States.”

So today is our inauguration, — we the People are the Sovereign in America – not a king, not a Court, not a Congress and not the President.

Only God has dominion over us, and that is precisely the foundation of our freedom.

In his first Inaugural address four years ago, President Trump declared:

“Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another – but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.”

That is true again today.

Our sorrow has been turned into joy; we are looking ahead and not behind. We are thinking and speaking of greatness again. And we are determined to exercise our power, under God, and as American citizens with a truly transformative, unique President, to make that greatness a reality.

Happy Inauguration Day to each and every one of you!

Prolife Leader Frank Pavone is National Director of Priests for Life and President of Prolife Vote.

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Trump Senior Advisor Jason Miller spoke to The Gateway Pundit on Sunday at Trump’s pre-inaugural Victory Rally in Washington DC. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump is poised to sign over 200 Executive Orders after he is sworn in today.

Change is Coming: Trump to Sign Over 200 Executive Orders Today

Additionally, the administration intends to pardon individuals prosecuted in connection with the January 6 Capitol events, promoting national healing and unity.

Miller said that “we're going to see literally, not in days, but in a matter of minutes and hours, President Trump start signing EO’s.” We also discussed Trump’s top Cabinet Nominees, including Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi, and their confirmation hearings.

Watch the full interview below:

Conradson: What can we expect Trump to do on his first day in office?

Miller: Great to be with you. In fact, I love Gateway Pundit so much. I put on a tux for you just so I could look good for the team. But on day one, we're going to see literally, not in days, but in a matter of minutes and hours, President Trump start signing EO’s to finally secure our border, get those policies back in place: remain in Mexico, ending catch and release ,disastrous policies that Joe Biden's had in place. Also energy, we're going to get energy deregulation going. Obviously, that was the thing that initially sparked a lot of the inflation, when Joe Biden flipped the switch and cut off a whole bunch of the energy production. We're also going to see ending a lot of the wokeism and DEI the other nonsense that’s infected our government. Those will be some of the early points of focus. Obviously, we've got things such as a tax bill that will take a little bit longer, certain aspects of the trade deal will take a little bit longer. But the other thing too, we've already seen the President hasn't even been sworn in yet; we already have a peace deal in the Middle East. So, he is moving quick, and guess what? We're not going to stop there.

Conradson: I know there's a number. I know maybe you guys have spoken about it. How many executive orders are you guys planning to sign on day one?

Miller: Somewhere between many and very many. But keep in mind, in addition to the executive orders are also executive actions, and so it'd be a combination of those. Some can be simple rule changes, things that you don't necessarily need a full executive order. But I don't have the exact number, but I know over the first couple of days, it's a lot.

Conradson: Another thing, you know, Trump's nominees, they've been faring very well in their Senate confirmation hearings. I know that I saw you with Pam Bondi in the Senate on Wednesday. What did you guys talk about? What are your takeaways from her confirmation hearing?

Miller: Pam Bondi is going to be a rock star, and I think, once we get Kash Patel confirmed in a couple of weeks, that he's going to be a rock star as well to run the FBI. But President Trump picked the right people, and going in front of that Senate hearing, it's a little bit of a media circus from the Democrat side. But the thing, if you noticed, and particularly with Scott Bessent, in his hearing, when he went around the room, our people have met with so many of these senators, even the Democrats, that they realize— even the Democrats realize that President Trump's picks are very impressive. So, once we get the people to the hearings, they do very, very well. It's just a matter of getting there, cutting through the media noise. But I'm looking forward to Pam Bondi getting in quick. And by the way we need to get her confirmed really quick.

Conradson: Do you expect the Republican side to be unified around everyone, including Pete Hegseth? I know we've had some holdouts among Republican senators. Do you expect Republicans to vote unanimously for Trump's agenda?

Miller: I think we're going to have great unity. Obviously, I’d never go and say what the exact vote count or something like that will be, but Pete Hegseth really did well in his hearing, and I think it's gonna be really tough for any senator to look at that hearing, see his command of the issues, the way he's able to fire back and attack the false Democrat narratives that have been pushed against him, the anonymous smear attacks, things of that nature. You cannot have watched that hearing and vote against Pete Hegseth. If you're a Republican, you can't. He's just too good. And by the way, Trump needs a Secretary of Defense in place. This isn't something that we can mess around with. The world is way too dangerous. Let's get him in there.

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Soon-to-be former “President” Joe Biden stood smiling as President-Elect Trump, the man tasked with cleaning up the mess of his shadow government, walked up the steps to the White House with the stunning Melania by his side.

Americans watched with great anticipation to see how President Trump would respond to Joe Biden, the man who was the face of an unimaginable dirty administration who worked hand-in-hand with a crooked justice department, whose sole objection for 4 years was to destroy him and his family.

As President Trump began his ascent up the White House stairs, Joe Biden called out two words, “Welcome home!” to President Trump. As President Trump reached the top of the stairs, he turned away from Joe Biden’s attempt to shake his hand. Melania Trump, who skipped her visit to the White House with Jill Biden, stood stoically beside her husband. As the two couples turned to enter the White House Jill Biden could be seen speaking with the soon-to-be First Lady as Melania smiled.

Biden says “Welcome Home” as President Trump and First Lady Melania arrived at the White House

Yeah, he voted for Trump.
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 20, 2025

At noon ET today, President Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of Presidentd States, and the majority of American citizens will breathe a sigh of relief as Joe Biden’s reckless shadow government headed by the anti-American Barack Obama will come to an abrupt end.

Daily Mail reports- Ahead of the president-elect’s arrival, Biden told reporters he was feeling ‘good. It’s a beautiful day.’ He said his message for the day was ‘joy’ and ‘hope.’

He also confirmed he wrote a letter for Trump that will be awaiting the new president whePresidentrs the Oval Office. When Biden was asked what was in it, he replied: ‘That’s between Trump and me.’

He and wife Jill Biden took one last selfie outside of the Oval Office before departing the building, posting it to the White House social media accounts.

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