President Trump declared Monday “liberation day” for the country, vowing in a rousing inaugural speech that “the golden age of America begins right now.”
The 47th president — roundly repudiating the Biden administration’s lefty legacy and “many years” of a “radical and corrupt establishment’’ — promised to bring about a “revolution of common sense.
“From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” Trump, 78, told the packed crowd gathered inside the Capitol Rotunda for a pared-down event because of the dangerously cold weather outside.
“There’s no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,’’ Trump told the 600-person audience filled with a who’s who of the nation’s top political and business leaders.
“Our American ancestors … won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand,’’ he said in the eloquent address.
“If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.”
Trump used the event to tout his plans for a 180-degree course correction from retiring President Biden’s term.
He pledged to finally address the country’s border crisis, tamp down inflation, end costly green energy initiatives and restore national unity.
He also looked to the future, promising to right everything from discriminatory hiring practices to political prosecutions— and even vowed to put the first American astronauts on Mars.
“Our sovereignty will be reclaimed,’’ Trump said.
“Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.
“We are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success,’’ he said.
“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars,’’ Trump added — prompting billionaire buddy and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who was in the audience, to raise his arms in the air.
