When Donald Trump was sworn in for his first term eight years ago, he offered a famously pessimistic characterization of the country. He painted a picture of “American carnage”: a crime- and poverty-plagued, post-industrial wasteland that is home to “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.” Former President George W. Bush reportedly reacted by saying to Hillary Clinton, “That was some weird shit.”
Ahead of his inauguration this time, Trump promised he would focus on “bringing our country together.”
But Trump’s remarks in his official inauguration speech ended up being dour, divisive and self-aggrandizing.
“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,” he declared. “From this moment on, America’s decline is over.”
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