60th Inaugural Proves Trump Is Right: America’s Back, and the World Is Better for It

The 47th president echoes FDR on a ‘day of national consecration.’

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President Trump speaks in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall after his inauguration, January 20, 2025. Al Drago/pool via AP

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously began his first inaugural address in 1933 with the words: “This is a day of national consecration and I know that on this day my fellow Americans expect that I will address them with a candor and with a decision which the current condition of our people impels.” He did, and it must be said that in his way, unique among American presidents, President Trump did the same on Monday. 

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