U.S. President Donald Trump raises his fist next to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance at the conclusion of the inauguration ceremony on the inauguration day of his second Presidential term in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025. SAUL LOEB/Pool via REUTERS
Donald Trump completed his stunning political comeback Monday when he was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president, during which he promised tariffs, deportations and a new approach to race and gender.Donald Trump completed his stunning political comeback Monday when he was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president, during which he promised tariffs, deportations and a new approach to race and gender.
Trump did not mention the northern border, as Canadian politicians prepare to respond to the president's threatened tariffs on imports. An incoming administration official said the new president will issue a broad trade memo later today; it's not expected to include new tariffs on Canada.Trump referred in passing to his plan to impose trade penalties but remained vague. "We will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens," he said.
Trump is only the second president in American history to serve non-consecutive terms and the first felon to hold the most powerful political office in the world. He took the oath during an unusually small ceremony in the rotunda away from the general public, after it was moved indoors due to cold weather.
Trump said he will be a peacemaker and "stop all wars," while also saying he intends for the U.S. to regain control of the Panama Canal. "We're taking it back," he said, without specifying how that would happen. Trump then said the U.S. will pursue putting astronauts on Mars — a longtime goal of billionaire Elon Musk, who has cozied up to Trump and will sit on the new Department of Government Efficiency.Musk, along with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai — a quartet whose combined GDP exceeds that of a broad swath of countries — had prime spots, seated closer than some members of Trump's incoming cabinet.
Trump gave a less measured improvised speech to supporters inside the Capitol following his inauguration, in which he promised to pardon convicts from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and blasted Biden's last-minute pardons, which included members of the congressional committee probing Jan. 6.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement congratulating Trump on his inauguration, saying Canada and the U.S. have the world's most successful economic partnership.
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