"This American
carnage stops right here and stops right now."
Posted January 20, 2017
Transcript
PRESIDENT DONALD
TRUMP: Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter,
President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama,
fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.
We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great
national effort to rebuild our country and restore its
promise for all of our people.
Together, we will determine the course of America and
the world for many, many years to come. We will face
challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get
the job done.
Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out
the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.
And we are grateful to President Obama and first lady
Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this
transition.
They have been magnificent.
Thank you.
Today's ceremony, however, has a very special meaning
because today we are not merely transferring power from
one administration to another or from one party to
another, but we are transferring power from Washington,
D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has
reaped the rewards of government while the people have
bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did
not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the
jobs left and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens
of our country. Their victories have not been your
victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.
And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there
was little to celebrate for struggling families all
across our land.
That all changes starting right here and right now,
because this moment is your moment.
It belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone
watching all across America.
This is your day.
This is your celebration.
And this, the United States of America, is your country.
What truly matters is not which party controls our
government, but whether our government is controlled by
the people.
January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the
people became the rulers of this nation again.
The forgotten men and women of our country will be
forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now.
You came by the tens of millions to become part of a
historic movement, the likes of which the world has
never seen before.
At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction
that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans
want great schools for their children, safe
neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for
themselves.
These are just and reasonable demands of righteous
people and a righteous public.
But for too many of our citizens, a different reality
exists.
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner
cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones
across the landscape of our nation.
An education system flush with cash but which leaves our
young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have
stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much
unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right
here and stops right now.
We are one nation, and their pain is our pain.
Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be
our success. We share one heart, one home and one
glorious destiny.
The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance
to all Americans.
For many decades we've enriched foreign industry at the
expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of
other countries while allowing for the very sad
depletion of our military.
We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to
defend our own. And we've spent trillions and trillions
of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has
fallen into disrepair and decay.
We've made other countries rich while the wealth,
strength and confidence of our country has dissipated
over the horizon.
One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores
with not even a thought about the millions and millions
of American workers that were left behind.
The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from
their homes and then redistributed all across the world.
But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the
future.
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