Trump Inauguration Highlights BBC News Special

This is BBC News special looking back at the highlights of Donald

Trump's presidential inauguration. I was joined by two commentators.

Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill where hundreds of thousands of

people had gathered to witness the ceremony. The Republican and

Democratic leadership coming in before the President-elect. This is

not just a new president, it is a change of power here in Washington.

Very firmly switching from Democrats to Republicans. This is going to be

a different America with a different political bent. This is a

conservative, hard right turn that America is about to take. Donald

Trump, about to come out onto the platform, the last person to arrive.

Announcer: Leaders and gentlemen, the President-elect of the United

States, Donald John Trump. Ladies and gentlemen, the chairman

of the joint inaugural commission for ceremonious. Ladies and

gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president

of the United States of America. Today, the legislated, the

executive, the judicial branches of our constitutional government come

together for the 58 inauguration of the president of the United States.

Millions of people all over the world will watch and will listen to

this event. So we come to this place again, a commonplace and miraculous,

a national moment of celebration but muddy celebration of victory, a

celebration of democracy. Mr Vice President-elect will you raise your

right hand and repeat after me. I come Michael Richard p do solemnly

swear. I, Michael Richard p do solemnly swear. But I will support

and defend the Constitution of the United States that I will support

and defend the Constitution of the United States. Against all enemies

foreign and domestic. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But I

will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I will bear true

faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely.

But I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or

purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation or purpose of

evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge. And that I

will well and faithfully discharge. The burdens of the offers on which I

am about to enter. The duties of the office on which I am about to enter.

So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr vice president.

Mike Pence has just been sworn in as the next vice president of the

United States. The transfer of power is partially complete now. Next,

Donald Trump will take the oath of office. You can see President Obama

there smiling in the background. Mike Pence, the former Governor of

Indiana waiting to the crowd. And here is, the moment that many

thought would never happen. Donald John Trump is about to become

president of the United States. He will take the oath of office and

once he has done so here's America's 45th president.

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Donald John

Trump do solemnly swear. I, Donald John Trump do solemnly swear. That I

will faithfully execute. That I will faithfully execute. The office of

president of the United States. The office of president of the United

States. And we'll come to the best of my ability. And we'll come to the

best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend. Reserve, protect

and defend. The Constitution of the United States. Constitution of the

United States. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr

president. Chief Justice Roberts, President

Carter, President Clinton, President Bush

President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people

We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national

effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise

Together, we will determine the course of America and the world

Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly

And we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

for their gracious aid throughout this transition.

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

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

That all changes starting right here, and right now,

It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching

The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance

For many decades we've enriched foreign industry at the expense

of American industry, subsidised the armies of other

countries while allowing for the very sad depletion

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

We've made other countries rich while the wealth,

strength and confidence of our country has dissipated

One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even

a thought about the millions and millions of American workers

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

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

Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration,

on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers

We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries

making our product, stealing our companies

Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.

I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never

America will start winning again - winning like never before.

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 labour.

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

We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let

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 from the face of the Earth.

When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

We are protected and we will always be protected.

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military

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

We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action,

constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it.

Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done.

No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.

Our country will thrive and prosper again.

So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large,

from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean,

Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our

And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us

Together, we will make America strong again.

And yes, together we will make America great again.

Donald Trump, delivering an inaugural address. 20 minutes long.

Directed clearly at his supporters and followers. The people who got

him into the White House. He talked about a transfer of power to the

people. This was also a strongly nationalist speech. He talked about

making America great again. He said there would be a new decree, a new

vision, that will govern our land. From this day forward it will be

only a America first. He talked about total allegiance to the United

States of America, about having hearts full of patriotism. This was

an address to the people who support him. The people he calls forgotten

Americans. He talked about a strong nationalist call for a America's

role in the world. Mr President, in the Bible, rain is a sign of God's

blessing. It started to rain when you came to the podium. It is my

prayer that God will bless you, your family, your administration, and man

He bless America. . The passage of Scripture comes from Timoty, Chapter

two. I urge them, first of all, that petitions, prayers, and

Thanksgiving, be made for all people, for Kings, for all those in

authority, that we may live peacefully quiet lives in godliness.

This is good. It pleases God, our Savior, who wants everyone to come

to the Truth. There is one mediator between God and mankind, Jesus, who

gave himself as a ransom for all people. Now to the King eternal,

immortal, invisible, the only God, living forever and ever, in Jesus'

name, Amen. # Who's broad striped

and bright stars There we have yet. The official

inauguration ceremony is now over. Donald Trump, the 45th President of

the United States, leaving the inauguration stand. He goes first.

And now his wife, Melania Trump, will follow. President Obama, now

former president, Obama, will follow behind. There he is. Donald Trump.

Property billionaire. He just gave his inaugural speech promising to

change America. Promising to bring back jobs to a America. Promising

that in everything it will be a America, and American workers,

first. Jon Sopel, quite a speech. Quite a speech. I think we have

heard so often an inaugural address is very carefully modulated and a

kind of conciliatory speech. I do not know why we thought he would do

a standard political speech. He delivered a more polished version of

the way he has campaigned throughout the country these past 18 months.

And he has sought to say, do you know what, the way use on the

campaigning is the way I am going to govern. A Republican strategist. I

listened to that speech and I imagine many people around the

world, and in the UK, in Europe, in Asia, millions of them, watching the

speech, they would have heard the message from Donald Trump that every

single decision they make will now be about America first. You and I

both acknowledged that Donald Trump managed to cut the employment rate

in half. There are 9 million people who are dropping out of the

workforce not being counted. There is a meaningful job problem. There

is a wage issue as well. There will be opportunities. Will he be

challenged I questions of technology and trade, immigration, even a trade

war, no doubt about it. The world says goodbye to President Barack

Obama. In office for eight years. Immensely popular around the world

of Barack Obama. He turns around and waves goodbye. And that is it. The

last we see of Barack Obama in Washington. He will now fly to the

Air Force Base. The new man is coming back into the Capitol

building. That is it. He is alone now. He does not have Barack Obama

on his side now. He is the 45th President of the United States. All

the decisions and cares of these offers are now on his shoulders.

This really has been an extraordinary transition of power.

Many people thought it would not happen. Donald Trump is now the 45th

President of the United States. You have been watching this BBC News of

special on the inauguration of the next president of America.

I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

The office of President of the United States.

From this day forward it's going to be only America first.

Many of us have enjoyed a settled spell of weather over

That doesn't mean we are all enjoying the same conditions.

Cold and frosty starts in the south of Britain.