Trump’s Inaugural Speech: We Reach For The Stars Again
Donald Trump’s return to office is not just a referendum on Joe Biden. It is a referendum on Donald Trump.
An election is typically a referendum on one or the other candidate. But this election was possibly the only election in my lifetime which was a referendum on both, because Trump has been the candidate before.
The American people didn’t come up with somebody brand-new. The American people were not interested in something brand-new. They went back to Trump.
The election was a justification of President Trump’s first term. It was an understanding by the American people that Trump’s policies have been and will be the best for the country.
The philosopher George Hegel once famously suggested that in politics, in philosophy, in history, a thesis — a proposition — is often put forth, and then an antithesis, its opposite, is as well. Those two go to war and create a synthesis, an in-between.
That didn’t happen this time.
This time, Trump was the thesis, and Biden was the anti-Trump antithesis. And the American people said, we are going back to the thesis. It was an utter and complete repudiation of everything Biden touched and a justification of President Trump’s policies. It was an absolute endorsement of President Trump’s policies by the American people.
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Trump’s inaugural address was amazingly good. He started by suggesting the American people had spoken and the new Golden Age was here.
“I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best,” Trump declared.
That was the message Trump spread throughout his inaugural address. The speech was aspirational and uplifting. It included many pragmatic suggestions about what he’s going to do. It additionally maintained a positive American can-do attitude that’s been missing for my entire adult lifetime in American politics.
American politicians have not talked in totally aspirational terms about what America is capable of doing for a very, very long time. I was a child when Ronald Reagan left office, and that was probably the last time this sort of optimism has been present in the United States.
Trump spoke of the assassination attempt in which his head was almost blown to pieces, saying, “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Absolutely correct. That is his job.
He spoke of America’s manifest destiny, saying, “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.”
He talked about the possibility of taking back control of the Panama Canal, saying we did not build that canal so the Chinese could control it.
He said he would be a peacemaker and a unifier, which would involve peace through strength — the credible threat of force that establishes peace in the world — along with diplomacy that is the softer side, the velvet glove in which lies the iron fist.
He spoke at length about bringing back free speech. It is astonishing that the President of the United States must talk about a return of free speech, but that was made necessary by the Left and by Joe Biden.
“I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,” he declared. “We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based as of today. It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”
That line was probably the line that received the longest applause of the entire inaugural speech, which demonstrates how far the Left has gone completely off the rails.
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He talked about the border, stating he would “declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”
Even people who did not vote for Trump understand that what we just went through over the past four years was a historically terrible presidency.
As President Trump escorted former President Joe Biden to the helicopter, the minute that Biden walked up the Marine One stairs for the final time, you could feel the burden being lifted from American hearts.
Later, when President Trump walked into the Oval Office, the press asked him, “How do you feel today?”
He responded, “It’s one of the better feelings I’ve ever had.”
All of us who are rooting for him experienced that same feeling.