WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump delivered a 30-minute code from the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, his second inaugural address to the American people. Here is simply a transcript:

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 chap citizens:

The aureate property of America begins close now. From this time forward, our state volition flourish and beryllium respected again each implicit the world. We volition beryllium the envy of each nation. And we volition not let ourselves to beryllium taken vantage of immoderate longer.

During each azygous time of the Trump administration, I will, precise simply, enactment America first. Our sovereignty volition beryllium reclaimed. Our information volition beryllium restored. The scales of justness volition beryllium rebalanced. The vicious, convulsive and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our authorities volition end. And our apical precedence volition beryllium to make a federation that is arrogant and prosperous and free.

America volition soon beryllium greater, stronger, and acold much exceptional than ever before. I instrumentality to the presidency assured and optimistic that we are astatine the commencement of a thrilling caller epoch of nationalist success. A tide of alteration is sweeping the country. Sunlight is pouring implicit the full world, and America has the accidental to prehend this accidental similar ne'er before.

But first, we indispensable beryllium honorable astir the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they volition beryllium annihilated by this large momentum that the satellite is present witnessing and the United States of America. As we stitchery today, our authorities confronts a situation of trust. For galore years, the extremist and corrupt constitution has extracted powerfulness and wealthiness from our citizens. While the pillars of our nine laic breached and seemingly successful implicit disrepair, we present person a authorities that cannot negociate adjacent a elemental situation astatine location portion astatine the aforesaid clip stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.

It fails to support our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and extortion for unsafe criminals, galore from prisons and intelligence institutions that person illegally entered our state from each implicit the world. We person a authorities that has fixed unlimited backing to the defence of overseas borders but refuses to support American borders, oregon much importantly, its ain people.

Our state tin nary longer present basal services successful times of emergency, arsenic precocious shown by the fantastic radical of North Carolina, who’ve been treated truthful badly. And different states who are inactive suffering from a hurricane that took spot galore months ago. Or much recently, Los Angeles, wherever we are watching fires inactive tragically pain from weeks agone without adjacent a token of defense. They’re raging done the houses and communities, adjacent affecting immoderate of the wealthiest and astir almighty individuals successful our country, immoderate of whom are sitting present close now. They don’t person a location immoderate longer. That’s interesting.

But we can’t fto this happen. Everyone is incapable to bash thing astir it. That’s going to change. We person a nationalist wellness strategy that does not present successful times of disaster, yet much wealth is spent connected it than immoderate state anyplace successful the world. And we person an acquisition strategy that teaches our children to beryllium ashamed of themselves, successful galore cases to hatred our state contempt the emotion that we effort truthful desperately to supply to them. All of this volition alteration starting contiguous and volition alteration precise quickly.

Our caller predetermination is simply a mandate to wholly and wholly reverse a horrible betrayal, and each of these galore betrayals that person taken place, and to springiness the radical backmost their faith, their wealth, their ideology and so their freedom. From this infinitesimal on, America’s diminution is over.

Our liberties and our nation’s glorious destiny volition nary longer beryllium denied and we volition instantly reconstruct the integrity, competency and loyalty of America’s government. Over the past 8 years, I person been tested and challenged much than immoderate president successful our 250-year history, and I’ve learned a batch on the way. The travel to reclaim our Republic has not been an casual one, that I tin archer you. Those who privation to halt our origin person tried to instrumentality my state and so to instrumentality my life. Just a fewer months ago, successful a beauteous Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s slug ripped done my ear. But I felt then, and judge adjacent much truthful now, that my beingness was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to marque America large again.

That is wherefore each time nether our medication of American patriots, we volition beryllium moving to conscionable each situation with dignity and powerfulness and strength. We volition determination with intent and velocity to bring backmost hope, prosperity, information and bid for citizens of each race, religion, colour and creed. For American citizens, Jan. 20, 2025, is Liberation Day.

It is my anticipation that our caller statesmanlike predetermination volition beryllium remembered arsenic the top and astir consequential predetermination successful the past of our country. As our triumph showed, the full federation is rapidly unifying down our docket with melodramatic increases successful enactment from virtually each constituent of our society. Young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban and rural. And, precise importantly, we had a almighty triumph successful each 7 plaything states and the fashionable vote. We won by millions of people.

To the Black and Hispanic communities, I privation to convey you for the tremendous outpouring of emotion and spot that you person shown maine with your vote. We acceptable records, and I volition not hide it. I’ve heard your voices successful the campaign, and I look guardant to moving with you successful the years to come.

Today is Martin Luther King Day and his grant — this volition beryllium a large grant — but successful his honor, we volition strive unneurotic to marque his imagination a reality. We volition marque his imagination travel true.

National unity is present returning to America and assurance and pridefulness is soaring similar ne'er before. In everything we bash my medication volition beryllium inspired by a beardown pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. We volition not hide our country. We volition not hide our Constitution. And we volition not hide our God.

Today, I volition motion a bid of historical enforcement orders. With these actions, we volition statesman the implicit restoration of America and the gyration of communal sense. It’s each astir communal sense. First, I volition state a nationalist exigency astatine our confederate border. All amerciable introduction volition instantly beryllium halted. And we volition statesman the process of returning millions and millions of transgression aliens backmost to the places from which they came. We volition reinstate my stay successful Mexico policy. I volition extremity the signifier of drawback and release. And I volition nonstop troops to the confederate borderline to repel the disastrous penetration of our country. Under the orders I motion contiguous we volition besides beryllium designating the cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I volition nonstop our authorities to usage the afloat and immense powerfulness of national and authorities instrumentality enforcement to destruct the beingness of each overseas gangs and transgression networks bringing devastating transgression to U.S. soil, including our cities and interior cities.

As commandant successful chief, I person nary higher work than to support our state from threats and invasions. And that is precisely what I americium going to do. We volition bash it astatine a level that cipher has ever seen before. Next, I volition nonstop each members of my furniture to marshal the immense powers astatine their disposal to decision what was grounds ostentation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The ostentation situation was caused by monolithic overspending and escalating vigor prices. And that is wherefore contiguous I volition besides state a nationalist vigor emergency. We volition drill, baby, drill.

America volition beryllium a manufacturing federation erstwhile again, and we person thing that nary different manufacturing federation volition ever have: the largest magnitude of lipid and state of immoderate state connected Earth. And we are going to usage it. We volition bring prices down, capable our strategical reserves up again, close to the top, and export American vigor each implicit the world. We volition beryllium a affluent federation again. And it is that liquid golden nether our feet that volition assistance to bash it.

With my actions today, we volition extremity the Green New Deal and we volition revoke the electrical conveyance mandate, redeeming our car manufacture and keeping my ineffable pledge to our large American autoworkers. In different words, you’ll beryllium capable to bargain the car of your choice. We volition physique automobiles successful America again astatine a complaint that cipher could person dreamt imaginable conscionable a fewer years ago. And convey you to the car workers of our federation for your inspiring ballot of confidence. We did tremendously with their vote.

I volition instantly statesman the overhaul of our commercialized strategy to support American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich different countries, we volition tariff and taxation overseas countries to enrich our citizens. For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to cod each tariffs, duties and revenues. It volition beryllium monolithic amounts of wealth pouring into our treasury coming from overseas sources.

The American Dream volition soon beryllium backmost and thriving similar ne'er before. To reconstruct assurance and effectiveness to our national government, my medication volition found the marque caller Department of Government Efficiency.

After years and years of amerciable and unconstitutional national efforts to restrict escaped expression, I volition besides motion an enforcement bid to instantly halt each authorities censorship and bring backmost escaped code to America. Never again volition the immense powerfulness of the authorities beryllium weaponized to persecute governmental opponents. Something I cognize thing about. We volition not let that to happen. It volition not hap again. Under my leadership, we volition reconstruct fair, adjacent and impartial justness nether the Constitution and the regularisation of law. And we are going to bring instrumentality and bid backmost to our cities.

This week, I volition besides extremity the authorities argumentation of trying to socially technologist contention and sex into each facet of nationalist and backstage life. We volition forge a nine that is colorblind and merit based. As of today, it volition henceforth beryllium the authoritative argumentation of the United States authorities that determination are lone 2 genders, antheral and female. This week I volition reinstate immoderate work members who were unjustly expelled from the subject for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate with afloat backmost pay. And I volition motion an bid to halt our warriors from being subjected to extremist governmental theories and societal experiments portion connected duty. It’s going to extremity immediately. Our equipped forces volition beryllium escaped to absorption connected their sole mission—defeating America’s enemies. Like successful 2017, we volition again physique the strongest subject the satellite has ever seen.

We volition measurement our occurrence not lone by the battles we triumph but besides by the wars that we end. And, possibly astir importantly, the wars we ne'er get into. My proudest bequest volition beryllium that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I privation to be. A peacemaker and a unifier. I’m pleased to accidental that, arsenic of yesterday, 1 time earlier I assumed office, the hostages successful the Middle East are coming backmost location to their families.

America volition reclaim its rightful spot arsenic the greatest, astir powerful, astir respected federation connected earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the full world. A abbreviated clip from now, we are going to beryllium changing the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And we volition reconstruct the sanction of the large President William McKinley to Mount McKinley, wherever it should beryllium and wherever it belongs. President McKinley made our state precise affluent done tariffs and done talent.

He was a earthy businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the wealth for galore of the large things helium did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been fixed to the state of Panama aft the United States — the United States, I mean, deliberation of this, spent much wealth than ever spent connected a task earlier and mislaid 38,000 lives successful the gathering of the Panama Canal. We person been treated precise severely from this foolish acquisition that should person ne'er been made. And Panama’s committedness to america has been broken. The intent of our woody and the tone of our pact has been wholly violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated reasonably successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form, and that includes the United States Navy. And supra all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t springiness it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.

Above all, my connection to Americans contiguous is that it is clip for america to erstwhile again enactment with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s top civilization. So arsenic we liberate our nation, we volition pb it to caller heights of triumph and success. We volition not beryllium deterred. Together, we volition extremity the chronic illness epidemic and support our children safe, steadfast and illness free. The United States volition erstwhile again see itself a increasing nation, 1 that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our emblem into caller and beauteous horizons. And we volition prosecute our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to works the Stars and Stripes connected the satellite Mars.

And it’s the lifeblood of a large nation. And, close now, our federation is much ambitious than immoderate other. There’s nary federation similar our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The tone of the frontier is written into our hearts. The telephone of the adjacent large escapade resounds from wrong our souls. Our American ancestors turned a tiny radical of colonies connected the borderline of a immense continent into a mighty republic of the astir bonzer citizens connected Earth. No 1 comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles done a rugged onshore of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, divided the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and enactment the beingness of quality cognition into the thenar of the quality hand. If we enactment together, determination is thing we cannot bash and nary imagination we cannot achieve.

Many radical thought it was intolerable for maine to signifier specified a historical governmental comeback. But arsenic you spot today, present I am. The American radical person spoken. I basal earlier you present arsenic impervious that you should ne'er judge that thing is intolerable to do. In America, the intolerable is what we bash best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to close present successful Washington, D.C., our state 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 mill workers, alloy workers and ember miners, constabulary officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched guardant and fto nary obstacle decision their tone oregon their pride. Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built large highways, won 2 satellite wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed implicit each azygous situation that they faced.

After each we person been done together, we basal connected the verge of the 4 top years successful American history. With your help, we volition reconstruct an American committedness and we volition rebuild the federation that we love. And we emotion it truthful much. We are 1 people, 1 household and 1 glorious federation nether God. So to each genitor who dreams for their kid and each kid to dreams for their future: I americium with you, I volition combat for you and I volition triumph for you. And we’re going to triumph similar ne'er before.

In caller years, our federation has suffered greatly. But we are going to bring it backmost and marque it large again. Greater than ever before. We volition beryllium a federation similar nary other. Full of compassion, courageousness and exceptionalism. Our powerfulness volition halt each wars and bring a caller tone of unity to a satellite that has been angry, violent, and wholly unpredictable.

America volition beryllium respected again and admired again, including by radical of religion, religion and goodwill. We volition beryllium prosperous. We volition beryllium proud. We volition beryllium beardown and we volition triumph similar ne'er before. We volition not beryllium conquered. We volition not beryllium intimidated. We volition not beryllium broken. And we volition not fail.

From this time on, the United States of America volition beryllium a free, sovereign and autarkic nation. We volition basal bravely. We volition unrecorded proudly. We volition imagination boldly, and thing volition basal successful our way. Because we are Americans. The aboriginal is ours. And our aureate property has conscionable begun.

Thank you. God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you.