President Donald Trump the second inaugural speech was a politically focused message of “hope and unity”, experts said.
Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, called Trump’s address “essential” in laying out the president’s agenda for the next four years.
“Trump has been specific about politics from beginning to end,” Roberts said. “And I think that’s something that will be remembered as a distinctive feature of the speech, because people, Americans who wake up tomorrow watching the news, reading the news, will remember that Trump articulated the playbook.”
“America’s golden age is starting right now,” Trump said as he delivered his inaugural address on Capitol Hill on Monday.
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“From today, our country will flourish and will be respected all over the world again,” he continued. “We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of again. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will, quite simply, put America first.”
Trump specifically condemned “vicious, violent and unjust armaments Ministry of Justice” as well as the way the Biden-Harris administration is handling foreign and domestic issues as both the former president and vice president watched. Trump specifically highlighted the hurricane disasters in North Carolina and the recent wildfires ravaging Southern California.
President Trump delivers his inaugural address in the rotunda of the US Capitol on Monday, January 20, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS)
“We have a government that has provided unlimited funding to defend foreign borders, but refuses to defend America’s borders or, more importantly, its own people,” Trump said.
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Trump’s policy 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 only 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 articulated it.”
“President Trump has officially begun a new chapter for America,” Jessica Anderson, president of the conservative super 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 politically focused and a message of “hope and unity,” experts said.
Both Roberts and Anderson noted that Trump’s address was also a turning point in the final announcement that a new administration was taking over The white house.
“As President Trump has made clear, he will waste no time getting to work for the American people, and he has already prepared dozens of executive orders on everything from securing the border to properly defining gender,” Anderson said.
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“He was not gratuitous in criticizing his political opponents,” Roberts said. “But you didn’t have to read much between the lines to realize that the sheriff is back in town. He’s going to take this country back.”
Trump’s speech also emphasized his top priority of making America a “proud, progressive and free nation,” echoing the sentiments of the New Frontier theme.
Donald Trump’s policy-related inauguration speech 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 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 will win like never before.”
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Roberts said, “I think Trump has put his finger on something that’s going to be an underappreciated part of his legacy right now, which is a president of American innovation.”
“In other words, making America great again brings American manufacturing and economic vitality back to a level where the innovation is so huge that you can’t even imagine sitting here what’s going to happen.”
Roberts said such an invocation of the “true spirit of America” in Trump’s speech pointed to “a return to American manufacturing and economic vitality” during his second administration, a theme that Roberts said both Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy included in his inaugural address.
