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A tide of change is sweeping the country. My message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization,
the WSJ quotes from the president-elect's speech notes I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country,
Trump is expected to say, ... according to excerpts of his prepared speech shared with the Wall Street Journal We’re going to have a message,
he told NBC on December 8. Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country,
Trump told the nation eight years ago This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
With a starkly dystopian tone, the 45th president painted a grim portrait of a nation in decay, infamously declaring The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world.”
The older generation, who remembered the near past in which America effectively ruled the world, nodded along as the 45th president added We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones – and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth,
We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared,
I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country,
Trump told a huge inauguration eve rally where he also danced with the Village People band Well, it's got to happen, and if it doesn't happen, we're not going to have a country any longer,
Trump told NBC before heading to Washington We're going to give them the best first day, the biggest first week and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history,
said Trump, who also promised to roll back executive actions by his predecessor, outgoing President Joe Biden, 'within hours You're going to see executive orders that are going to make you extremely happy
The day I take office, I will cancel Crooked Joe’s electric vehicle mandate,
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem
Trump could quote Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address The sense you get from the campaign rhetoric is everything is bad, it’s corrupt, it’s rotten,
We can talk about unity, but you know, those that are against him just aren’t going to do it,
said Sally Kizer, an organizer of a tea party group in Arizona’s Yuma County 24 hours later [Chuck] Schumer’s going to have his stiletto out and try to cut his guts open.”
Even if he did deliver such an address, Khachigian said It’s hard to call that positive. It’s like, yeah, let’s go punch these fuckers.”
While Trump will likely convey to Republicans “some optimism about the mandate and the opportunity” of a second Trump term, Roe said Do I think it will on net be negative? Yeah,
said Jason Roe, a Republican strategist in Michigan and former executive director of the state’s Republican Party, who was critical of Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 election following his defeat that year Because you have to be treating people fairly. You can’t just say, ‘Oh, everything’s going to be wonderful.’ You know, we went through hell for four years with these people. And so, you know, something has to be done about it.”
