“The golden age of America begins right now,” he said in his inaugural speech, adding that the country would “flourish and be respected” under his leadership.

Trump also hit out at the Biden administration and its handling of the migrant crisis, saying the country had a crisis of “trust” in its government.

Tech billionaires, cabinet nominees and former presidents were all at the ceremony in the rotunda of the US Capitol.

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Minutes before Trump took the oath, Joe Biden issued pardons for members of his family.

Trump is set to declare a “national emergency” at the US-Mexico border, declare drug cartels as terrorists, and scrap government diversity programmes as part of a blitz of executive orders in the coming hours

But he won’t announce tariffs on trade partners today, officials say.

Source: BBC

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