Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, and lays out a plan for a “Golden Age of America”

Donald Trump completed his stunning political comeback on Monday when he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, promising tariffs, deportations and a new approach to race and gender.

In his inauguration speech inside the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Trump began detailing his executive orders on the first day.

First was the declaration of a national emergency on the southern border. He said he would send troops to the border and begin deporting “illegal” immigrants. Trump promised to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel the cartels as quickly as possible.

Trump did not mention the northern border, while Canadian politicians are preparing to respond to the tariffs the president has threatened on imports. An official in the new administration said that the new president will issue a wide-ranging trade memorandum later today. It is not expected to include new tariffs on Canada.

Trump mentioned in passing his plan to impose trade sanctions, but it remained vague. “We will impose customs duties and taxes on foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he said.

He promised to roll back Biden’s green energy policies, including the electric vehicle mandate, and “drill baby, drill” more oil.

Trump said his administration’s view would be that there are “only two genders: male and female.” He also pledged to end efforts to “socially engineer race” in every aspect of public and private life and “establish a colorless, meritocratic society.”

Promises of world peace, astronauts on Mars

Trump overcame impeachment proceedings, criminal indictments and two assassination attempts to win his second term in the White House, during which his Republican Party will control Washington.

Trump is the second president in American history to serve non-consecutive terms and the first criminal to hold the most powerful political office in the world. He was sworn in during an unusually small ceremony in the rotunda, away from the general public, after being moved indoors due to the cold weather.

The 78-year-old’s speech was more optimistic than the one he gave during his inauguration in 2017. He began by saying: “America’s golden age begins now,” and later added: “From this moment on, America’s decline is over.”

He referred to the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania and said that God saved him to restore the country.

Trump said he would be a peacemaker and “stop all wars,” while also vowing to “restore” the Panama Canal.

He said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico to America’s Gulf, and said the United States would continue to send astronauts to Mars — a long-term goal of billionaire Elon Musk, who has courted Trump and will sit on the new government’s Ministry of Efficiency. .

Billionaires were prominently present inside the Capitol building.

Musk, along with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai — a quartet whose combined GDP exceeds the GDP of a wide range of countries — secured prime positions, sitting closer From some members of Trump’s incoming government.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was also present inside the rotunda, sitting in an area usually reserved for former presidents, their family members and other high-profile guests. The US banned the social media app over the weekend, but Trump reversed the ban hours later.

Trudeau congratulates Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement congratulating Trump on his inauguration, saying that Canada and the United States have the most successful economic partnership in the world.

“Canada is working to strengthen this mutually beneficial relationship. We are making huge investments to boost cross-border trade, strengthen our supply chains, and create jobs on both sides of the border,” he said.

“We are stronger when we work together, and I look forward to working with President Trump, his administration, members of the U.S. Congress, and officials at the state and local levels to deliver prosperity for our people – while protecting and defending the interests of Canadians.”