President Donald Trump is returning to office after overcoming significant challenges, including impeachments, criminal indictments and assassination attempts, which he nodded to in both subtle and overt ways throughout his inaugural address Monday.
Trump made sweeping promises to fix the country’s problems, while criticizing the Biden administration and the policies of former President Joe Biden.
In many ways, Trump’s second inaugural speech sounded a lot like his first in 2017.
The landscape he sketched in his remarks Monday was similar to his first inauguration — that the country has been decimated by “elites” who are not looking out for the best interests of everyday Americans.
Trump delivered his address in a very different Washington than it was eight years ago and with near unanimous backing from a Republican Party that has assumed control of every branch of government.
Three of the six conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices are people Trump nominated. In the Senate, Republicans have a 53-47 majority. But in the House, they have effectively a two-seat majority and a lot has to fall into place for them to get through big pieces of legislation and substantive items like the debt ceiling, a tax bill and an immigration bill. For Trump to get what he wants, he needs help from allies on the Hill, like every other president.
