Donald Trump was sworn in as America’s forty seventh president on a cold Monday in Washington, D.C. President Trump took the oath of workplace a bit after Midday/ET contained in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.

“From at the present time ahead, our nation will flourish and be revered once more all around the world,” Trump mentioned in his 30-minute inaugural deal with. “We would be the envy of each nation. And we won’t permit ourselves to be taken benefit of any longer.”  

Trump is the primary president since Grover Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive phrases within the Oval Workplace. Outgoing President Joe Biden was in attendance for the swearing-in ceremony, and departed for California shortly after a peaceable switch of energy.

All of the major news networks have been in attendance for Inauguration Day, offering dawn-to-dusk protection, the tenor of which sometimes diversified relying on the community. Teeing up MSNBC’s protection, for instance, Rachel Maddow—who is returning to the anchor’s chair five nights a week for Trump’s first 100 days—drew stark comparisons to how Biden approached his function on this American custom versus Trump’s method 4 years in the past.

“You could recall that Donald Trump participated in none of those occasions with Joe Biden 4 years in the past when it was Biden coming in as the brand new president to succeed Trump,” Maddow famous. “That was the primary time because the 1860s that the sitting American president didn’t attend the inauguration of his successor.”

On Fox Information, in the meantime, the observations have been extra laudatory, whereas nonetheless laced with delicate critique in some circumstances. The 5 co-host Harold Ford Jr. referred to as Trump’s speech “sweepingly bold,” whereas additionally including: “He ought to perceive now and all of his supporters ought to perceive, he’s now the president and looking out again doesn’t serve him nicely. He’s acquired to look ahead and start to sort out the large agenda he’s put ahead.”

“It felt as we have been watching it, extra State of the Union than inauguration,” famous Ford’s fellow co-host on The 5, Jessica Tarlov. “Some was muted, some was extra rally like.”