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President Donald J. Trump's 2017 Inaugural Speech
January 17, 2017 | President Donald J. Trump

Posted on 12/04/2019 9:55:34 PM PST by ransomnote

"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 Obamafor their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent. Thank you.

Today's ceremony, however, has 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 born 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 an 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 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. We assembled here today, are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never, ever let you down.

America will start winning again. Winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules: buy American and hire American. We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow. We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America and, through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

The bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when god's people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no fear. We are protected and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and most importantly, we will be protected by God.

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium ready to unlock the histories of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies, industries, and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will lift our sights and heal our divisions. It's time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.

And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky. They fill their heart with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator. So, to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

Together we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And, yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you and god bless America. Thank you. God bless America."


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With the Dems new (recycled) strategy of portraying President Trump as insane, Hillary is being quoted as saying George W. Bush remarked (profanely) that President Trump's address was weird.

His speech made perfect sense to me; he described what he would do, and has been doing successfully, since he took office. He promised to never give up. He started the heavy work of restoring hope. Clear as day.

President Trump was telling them that they failed and America would no longer be forced to tolerate them. What part don't they get?

1 posted on 12/04/2019 9:55:34 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
I suspect they don't get much of it.

And that they long ago decided that they didn't need to tolerate us.

We should be teaching our children better.


2 posted on 12/04/2019 10:17:19 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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RedState says this Tweet between Strzok and Page has not been released to public before.

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Lisa Page Text to Peter Strzok: ‘You get all our oconus lures approved? ;)’

12/4/2019, 10:20:05 PM · by ransomnote
redstate.com ^ | 12/4/19 | Elizabeth Vaughn

3 posted on 12/04/2019 10:22:47 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Thanks for posting this. See what Hillary and supposedly GWB had to say about Inauguration Day.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/hillary-clinton-talks-with-howard-stern-about-what-it-was-like-at-trumps-inauguration-his-speech-was-bizarre/

Our President has always declared we need love of country and each other. We are all created by Almighty God no matter our skin color, ethnicity or background. We are all Americans and we all bleed red.

God bless our President and his family for taking these dreadful hits for all of us who voted for him and will do so again in 2020.


4 posted on 12/05/2019 6:02:14 AM PST by victim soul (victim soul)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%; 1217Chic; 1Old Pro; 1_Rain_Drop; 20yearsofinternet; 2rightsleftcoast; 38special; ..
Together we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And, yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you and God bless America."

One of the best moments of my long life was standing on the Capitol lawn at the Inauguration hearing that speech live. And when he said that last part, the crowd roared with him, "make America great again!" That speech was astounding and the feeling of hope and joy in the crowd was beyond description, especially after eight years of fake hope and desecration.


MAGA BIGLY ping!


Look at that crowd, lying CNN — all the way back to the Washington Monument!



(Detail of above photo.) From lower left, row in front of military men: Liz Cheney (red coat), Dick Cheney (cowboy hat), Lynn Cheney; in front of them Laura and George Bush, Hillary and Bill; in front of them, Supreme Court justices; to their right the Bidens and Obamas, Michelle in red coat. On the platform: Chief Justice Roberts, Tiffany, Eric, Ivanka, Barron, Don Jr, Melania and Donald J. Trump as he takes the Oath of Office.



5 posted on 12/05/2019 7:37:33 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Albion Wilde

That is fantastic!


6 posted on 12/05/2019 7:46:56 AM PST by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: Albion Wilde; All

Thanks for the ping! Are you sure that crowd side is correct? The Enemy Media told me (and showed me!) how hardly anyone showed up and that 0bama’s crowds were MUCH bigger!

*SNORT!

Everyone? Continue to PRAY for our President! He’s taking all of the arrows for US!


7 posted on 12/05/2019 8:02:21 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Albion Wilde

A memorable, joyful day. Long live our President Trump!


8 posted on 12/05/2019 8:03:01 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank God for President Trump!


9 posted on 12/05/2019 8:11:30 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of intelligence: having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: ransomnote
"we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people."

My guess is, some don't like this and re trying to stop him.

God Bless President Trump!!!!

10 posted on 12/05/2019 8:41:34 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Albion Wilde; BTerclinger

One of the best moments of my long life was standing on the Capitol lawn at the Inauguration hearing that speech live. And when he said that last part, the crowd roared with him, "make America great again!" That speech was astounding and the feeling of hope and joy in the crowd was beyond description, especially after eight years of fake hope and desecration.

Great post and images!

This is no mere blip in history. Amazing what's been put out in the open in broad daylight for all to see.

Hosea 1:10-11 (2:1-2)

And the number of the people of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor counted; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God:
Then shall the people of Judah and the people of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel ["God sows"]:

Look at that crowd, lying CNN — all the way back to the Washington Monument!

Buy American flags before the rush. Production won't be able to keep up. (Understatement of the Cosmos.)

What's coming is going to make Purim look like a kids' parade.

"In God We Trust"

11 posted on 12/05/2019 9:23:41 AM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Albion Wilde

He renewed the Hope of Patriots.


12 posted on 12/05/2019 9:39:34 AM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: ransomnote

Good post!


13 posted on 12/05/2019 9:43:31 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Ezekiel
Then shall the people of Judah and the people of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel

Yes, it was like the time Nehemiah had Ezra read the law to the people, who stood out in the sun for hours listening to it (Neh 8).

In his Inaugural speech, Donald Trump laid out everything that was wrong with the New Word Order, and what he intended to do to fix it. And the left went crazy. He freed the spirits of the liberals' wage- and tax-slaves.

14 posted on 12/05/2019 10:09:00 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Albion Wilde
Look at that crowd, lying CNN — all the way back to the Washington Monument!

Awesome!

Three things we need this next election:

1) Everyone vote period, even if you live in NY or California. The Popular Vote will be important this election.

2) An absolute wipe out on inauguration day. Either multiple venues across the US or just inundate DC for miles. I think a cross country multiple venue inaugural would be the most plausible.

3) An organic symbol that is non-Trump but speaks to our voice in American culture. Something like a yellow vest, but definitely not identified with a political candidate but rather our movement.

15 posted on 12/05/2019 10:45:02 AM PST by Religion and Politics (It is time for more than one denomination of "Political Correctness".)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank you for that reminder. It is so encouraging!


16 posted on 12/05/2019 11:02:05 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: ransomnote

17 posted on 12/05/2019 11:59:31 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: EasySt

18 posted on 12/05/2019 11:59:53 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: victim soul

19 posted on 12/05/2019 12:00:14 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: Albion Wilde

20 posted on 12/05/2019 12:02:03 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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