Trump Inauguration: Trump To Order Recognition Of Two Biological Sexes In America, Border Crackdown, Others
Prisca Iffy Iwuoha
Donald Trump was sworn in for a historic second term as the 47th president of the United States at the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, marking a political comeback .
Trump promised a series of executive actions on immigration and the US culture wars as he caps his extraordinary comeback.
Republican Trump, 78, was a political outsider at his first inauguration in 2017, but as he takes the oath as the US president he is surrounded by America’s wealthy and powerful.
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all had prime seats in the Capitol alongside Trump’s cabinet members.
While Trump refused to attend Biden’s 2021 inauguration after falsely claiming electoral fraud by the Democrat, this time Biden has been keen to restore a sense of tradition.
Biden was joining former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the Capitol. Former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush were there but ex-first lady Michelle Obama stayed away.
Behind the pomp and ceremony, the billionaire is kick starting his nationalist, right-wing agenda with a barrage of around 100 executive orders undoing Biden’s legacy.
Trump will declare a national emergency at the Mexico border, give the US military a key role on the frontier, and end birthright citizenship, as he seeks to clamp down on undocumented migrants, an official from his incoming administration said.
Trump has pledged to start immediate deportations of undocumented migrants.
He will also sign an order for the US government to recognize only two biological sexes and seek to eliminate federal government diversity programs as he takes office.
