Trump’s second inaugural speech carries his rhetoric

Donald Trump’s second inaugural on Monday was impressive. More important was President Trump’s second inaugural speech. He declared that America’s Golden Age has begun with the inaugural. He also said that America’s decline will end on the day.

He had indirectly castigated the Biden administration for its many failures on the home and foreign fronts. And he announced the many executive orders that he would be signing. He thanked all the Americans, including Asian-Americans, Hispanics, Blacks, and he said that he will make real the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.

Then he went on to say that he will deploy American troops at the Mexican border and send back the “criminal aliens” who have illegally entered the country. He has gone on to say that freedom of speech would be restored, and there would be no restrictions. He declared that the freedom of speech is restored and no state restriction can be placed on it.

He said that the state will be pushed back, and that Americans will enjoy the freedom fully. He also said gender and race would not be allowed to enter discussions. He also said that there are only two genders, male and female. He said he was reversing the green deal, and that America would drill for oil, ‘the liquid gold’ to make America powerful and rich.

He said the American autoworkers would get back to work and Americans can buy any car they want to. His speech showed that Trump plans to carry the Trump programme at full throttle, and nothing can stop Americans from doing what they want to. He meandered through the speech, repeated himself, and reiterated the basics of his agenda. He declared Gulf of Mexico to be Gulf of America, and he said that America will take over the Panama Canal from Panama. He accused Panama for handing over the running of the Panama Canal to China.

It sounded unrealistic on many issues, but that has been the strength of the Trump campaign that brought him back to the White House. He said he will set right the economy, bring the prices down, and end inflation. He made it appear that it can happen in a jiffy.

Despite the slender Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, he will not be able to push his programmes and make them into law. And as to the economy, there are too many obstacles in the way. He wants to make America the manufacturing hub it was nearly half-a-century ago.

The Japanese auto industry had revolutionised the global auto sector from the 1960s and the 1970s. Right now, electric vehicles (EVs) are leading the next phase of the auto revolution. While emphasising that America will be the leader, he also talked of global cooperation and of ending war in the world.

As he settles down to the daily business of administering America through the US Congress and through the Supreme Court and through the states, he will find that there are many rules to be negotiated and many compromises made at many levels to make things work. President Trump would himself be aware of the complexity of American government whatever his radical personal views might be.

He may want to simplify things, and do away with many of the rules he might consider as trivial. But he will understand that rules cannot be done away with. He will also understand that America can be a leader in the world only if it respects other countries and their respective sovereignties. And also America cannot be great or prosperous unless it trades with the rest of the world, and the domineering rhetoric would not be of much help in doing business.