"I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success," Trump said.
The presence of business titans like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos amid a complaint about a 'radical and corrupt establishment' added an irony to Trump's speech.
This was the first time since Grover Cleveland's second inauguration in 1885 that a president was sworn in for a nonconsecutive second term, evoking America’s first Gilded Age.
The speech was saturated with 19th-century imperialism, underlining how Trump's ideas reflect a nostalgia for an earlier period rather than contemporary challenges.
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