Trump Reverts to Spite, Undoing Hopeful Tone at Inauguration (1)

Jan. 20, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

President Donald Trump spent his first day in office attacking his enemies and unleashing a torrent of executive orders to advance his agenda, undermining calls for unity in his inaugural address earlier in the day.

Within minutes of a somewhat optimistic inaugural address in the Capitol rotunda—in which he declared “impossible is what we do best” in America—Trump gave a second speech to supporters two floors below excoriating political rivals, signaling it was the message he wanted to give all along.

“This was a better speech than the one I made upstairs,” Trump said near the end.

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