Trump’s second inaugural address was a triumph for him and his supporters

Second inaugural speech President Donald Trump45th and 47th President of the United States, he was excellent. It should be remembered as the “Golden Age of America” ​​speech, but it will likely be remembered only as Trump’s second inaugural address.

It was Abraham Lincoln who borrowed from the Book of Proverbs when he described America’s commitment to individual liberty as an “apple of gold” protected by the “silver frame” of the Constitution.

In 1861, Lincoln declared that “there is a vital promise in the Union of ‘Liberty for all'” and noted that it is “a principle which clarifies time for all — gives hope to everyone — and, consequently, enterprise, and industry everyone.”

“The expression of that principle,” asserted Lincoln, “in our Declaration of Independence, was the happiest and happiest.” Our greatest President continued: “Beige this, as well as with that, we could declare our independence from Great Britain; but beige that, I think we could not secure our free government and consequent prosperity. No oppressed people will fight and withstandas our fathers did, without the promise of anything better than a mere change of master.”

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“The claim of that principle,” Lincoln continued, “in that timehe was the the word, ‘spoke appropriately‘ which turned out to be a ‘golden apple’. The Unionand Constitutionare picture of silversubsequently framed around it. The picture is made, not yes concealor destroy apple; but yes adornand preserve it. The picture it’s made for apple—not an apple for a picture.”

“So let’s act,” Lincoln admonished all American citizens living then and in the future, “yes nor pictureor apple it will always be blurred, or bruised, or broken. To be able to act like that, we have to study and understand the danger points.”

TRUMP SAYS IN INAUGURAL ADDRESS THAT AMERICA’S ‘FALL IS OVER’

President Trump Second inaugural speech at its core was a key promise: “We will forge a color-blind, merit-based politics.”

This is what the Constitution has required since the 14th Amendment was ratified and has been honored in its violation all too often in recent years.

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” was how Chief Justice Roberts phrased it more than a decade ago in a landmark Supreme Court decision, and that is the belief and essence of the Declaration. of Independence and the Constitution as amended: All men are created equal, and of course that means all men and women everywhere.

Fittingly, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath of office to President Trump. The Chief Justice has long championed this “bearing wall” of our Republic and that President Trump has championed this cause should please every American.

There will be many critics of the speech because it was necessarily divisive. It had to be. It was a rejection of almost everything in the past four years and even eight years of President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House. Trump is committed to the “great success” of restoring the promise of the Declaration as made real by the Constitution as amended by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments: equality before the law – for all.

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Lincoln’s second inauguration was also divisive. How about any other? The nation was ravaged by far worse than deep political division, but by a necessary but bloody civil war. Lincoln declared in 1865, “Nevertheless, if God wills it may continue until all the wealth accumulated by the slave’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited labor shall be sunk, and every drop of blood drawn by the whip shall be paid for by another drawn sword as said three thousand years ago ,” declared the Great Emancipator, “yet it must be said ‘the Lord of judgments is true and just in all things.'”

It’s not more divisive than that, but President Trump’s statements about weaponizing our justice system, the crisis at our southern border and more will strike many on the left in America as harsh.

But these statements are not “harsh”, but, to borrow from popular culture, they are “tough but fair”. The mess that the chaos of Joe Biden’s presidency has left in so many places is undeniable, but supporters will deny it.

“So it still has to be said,” and President Trump said it. America will regain its sovereignty on the border and enforce the agreements it has made. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must have heard President Trump’s remarks and immediately understood what the Panama Canal passage was about: Them.

The opening, and especially the end of Trump’s second inauguration, was energetic and optimistic. America’s “Golden Age” is a huge goal to set. Many, including myself, are unsure about the President William McKinley era tariffs. However, I am not in the least unsure that the American military must be expanded and its strength greatly strengthened. If you believe in the renaissance of American manufacturing, then you have to hope that the returning president can deliver on that promise.

The hallmark of the address was unrelenting pride in America, and patriots applaud such pride. It is hardly debatable that millions of deportations of criminal aliens are necessary. It is undeniable that crime threatens millions of Americans. President Trump’s promise to adopt bold policies to deal with both was the essence of the Trump-Vance campaign, and the new administration has a mandate to move forward with both programs.

And much more. Honest observers will award Trump’s speech the highest number of stars in whatever system they use for his directness. We should applaud his determination.

And those who wish the Republic well will also applaud the relentlessly proud tone of Trump’s second inauguration. American patriotism has come to the fore again. Bravo.

Hugh Hewitt is the host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” which is heard weekday mornings from 6 to 9 a.m. ET on the Salem Radio Network and is simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh Wakes America on more than 400 affiliates nationwide and on all streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel’s News Roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6:00 PM ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a professor of law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996, where he teaches constitutional law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has appeared frequently on all major national television networks, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American newspaper, written a dozen books and hosted a number of Republican talk shows. candidate debates, the last Republican presidential debate in November 2023 in Miami, and the four Republican presidential debates in 2015-16. cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump during his 40 years on the air, and this column is the main story that will lead his radio/TV show today.

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