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I'm Philippa Thomas here with the BBC special programme as Donald | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. He has now taken | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
part in the official parade after taking the oath of office. He is now | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
beginning his journey from Capitol Hill to the White House which has | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
been vacating by the Obama family. It will be Donald Trump and his new | :00:41. | :00:53. | |
first Lady Melania Trump taking residence. Cheering crowds there | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
along Pennsylvania Avenue. They might even go past the new Trump | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Hotel. You can see the Capitol Building behind that picture. It was | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
on the steps of that building that Donald Trump took the oath and | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
delivered his speech. We will bring you his speech later in the hour but | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
he was speaking about transferring power from Washington, DC to bring | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
it back to the people. We can join Laura Trevelyan among the crowd. | :01:32. | :01:52. | |
Can you give is an idea of what it is like out there. I am joined by a | :01:53. | :02:07. | |
loyal Donald Trump supporter from Alabama. It's the best day of my | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
life. I campaigned for him in Alabama. I did not think this day | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
was going to come. We were so surprised. Why were you so | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
surprised. We thought that the Democrats... We were doubtful. What | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
is your hope for the presidency? We want to get America back. We felt | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
like it was going in the wrong direction under Obama. What did you | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
think specifically was going wrong that you think Donald Trump can | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
stop? He is a businessman and he is going to do what he has campaigned | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
to do. The speech today was very hopeful. In Alabama, what are you | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
seeing? A state suffering from not having too many jobs? Yes, we are. | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
We are seeing people not having jobs. Our neighbours not having | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
jobs. He really campaigned a lot in Alabama. The right behind us, we can | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
see the parade is making its way towards us. What does it mean to you | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
to witness this? To see it here is overwhelming. The crowd here are so | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
happy. It's almost like a religious experience. The people here are | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
overjoyed. There's really not that many people who are against him. I | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
know there was going to be a lot of people here against him but there's | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
not really been that many people here who have been doing bad things | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
that I've been able to see. There are some protesters here. How'd you | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
hope that Donald Trump can unite the country after a bruising election | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
campaign? He seems like he really has the attitude of being able to do | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
what he says he's going to do. That is the spirit. I think the speech he | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
gave today was so uplifting. I know the crowd there was just really | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
excited. That's what I feel. The spirit was overwhelming. Everybody | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
around kept talking about how excited they were. He did paint | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
quite a bleak vision of America. He spoke about stopping the carnage. | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
It's been a bleak picture. Everybody has been really sad about our | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
country and the flag and the soldiers. A lot of soldiers have | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
been sad about it. I heard some soldiers that were around us. They | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
were very excited to have a president that supported them. They | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
did not feel like Obama supported them. | :05:09. | :05:20. | |
What about the people who are fearful about what will happen? Do | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
you feel for them? I think so. We want to support both sides. You | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
know. We definitely want to support both sides. I want to support both | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
parties but I don't want anybody to be hurt. So... We want everybody to | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
unite. And how will you personally judge whether Donald Trump has | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
succeeded? I think the biggest thing is bringing the jobs back. And the | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
economy. Phyllis, thank you so much for joining us on BBC News. That is | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
the view from a loyal Donald Trump supporter. Just as we see the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
inaugural parade begins to come here down Pennsylvania Avenue, as | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
President Trump processes from Capitol Building to his new home, | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
the White House. We will of course keep watching, especially for that | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
moment when the crowds hope the car will stop and Donald and Melania | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
Trump will get out and walk a little down Pennsylvania Avenue which is | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
really part of the big tradition. It absolutely is. We'll Donald Trump | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
get out and walk past his hotel which is just behind me? The big | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
building with the clock tower. Will the showman in him be able to | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
resist. Or will he wait as presidents normally do. They | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
normally just walk that final block or two which is passed me, heading | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
towards the White House. It's fascinating to see the change of | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
tone with this parade. There's much more of an emphasis with links to | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
the military. Donald Trump has spoken about rebuilding the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
military. There are many more groups from rural America in this parade. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Under Barack Obama, there were many more marching bands from the cities, | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
less of an emphasis on the military. You can see one of the marching | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
bands there. That is the United States Army band. So, the crowd here | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
just loving this. This is the kind of symbolic patriotism that they | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
associate with Donald Trump. They are thrilled to see it. They can't | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
wait to see the president himself. I know we were both in Washington for | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
the Obama inauguration is. It was absolutely packed, especially on | :08:07. | :08:07. | |
them more. -- the Mall. The crowd is not so | :08:08. | :08:24. | |
densely packed today. No, the crowds not anything like that Obama | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
inauguration in 2009. Being an the Mall for the inauguration in 2013, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
the crowds seem to be a bit thinner than they were. Certainly, one of | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the parade stands next to as wasn't full early on and we were told it | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
would be opened up to mems of the public. It wasn't a ticketed event. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
This was such a brutal and divisive campaign and the opinion polls | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
suggesting that Donald Trump comes in with a very low approval rating. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
There are a number of protesters here. Nevertheless, for those loyal | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
fans that it is a very special moment indeed. Laura, stay with us. | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
I know you can't go anywhere. Tell as if Mr Trump publicises his hotel | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
on Pennsylvania Avenue. You're a professor of Politics | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
at Birkbeck University, and just this summer you published | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
a book - it's called After Obama. From the inaugural speech that you | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
heard, what time does it set for you for American leadership? Really, | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
really worrying. It's very difficult to think in living memory that we've | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
seen such a stridently nationalist, parochial, insular and threatening, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
frankly, speech, as far as the rest of the world is concerned. He's | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
really double down on his campaign rhetoric and anybody who thought he | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
wasn't serious, I think, this is a message, he was serious and the rest | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
of the world better brace themselves. We heard a young woman | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
from Alabama talking of it like a religious experience. He's going to | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
bring jobs back. Absolutely. It was striking, the poses he struck, it | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
was like a rugby captain at Twickenham rather than a solemn | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
moment of an American president taking power. He has doubled down. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
He even spoke saying protection brings prosperity. That is not what | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the historical record suggests at all. For his supposed to as -- | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
supporters this is a huge moment, religious or not, for the rest of as | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
this is deeply, deeply troubling. Let's bring in Laura again. We are | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
looking at pictures of crowds, with banners saying make America to gain | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
-- make America great again. We should say that there have been | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
protests. Lots of people anguished and angry at what has taken place. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Absolutely. There is a divided America here. There are protesters | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
who feel that this election was stolen from them that Hillary | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Clinton won the popular vote and that somehow the Russians have | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
intervened in this election and that had an incalculable effect. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Tomorrow, there will be a big protest here in Washington, a | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
women's march and marches in major cities across America. For many who | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
have come here, this is a special moment. Elisabeth, welcome to the | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
BBC. What does it mean to you to be here today? It's the most exciting | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
event I've been to in my whole life. It's a turning point for this | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
country and it was really important for me to come today. I did | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
everything in my power to help him get elected. I did everything in my | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
power. Where did you campaign for Donald Trump? I did a lot of | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
blogging for him, phone calling, cold calling. What are you hoping | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
that America can be changed by Donald Trump? It's important to | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
unite right now. With a very tough election, we need a healing process | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
and he's trying to unite this country. He didn't sound very | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
unifying note in his inaugural address. What did you think he did? | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
I believe he did. I think he did a really good job. You felt his | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
showing. You felt his love. I think that is going to do a whole lot of | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
good. When you talk about the need for him to unite the country, we can | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
see there are protesters here behind us. What do you want Donald Trump to | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
attribute to unite the country? Reach out to the Democrats and to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
the people that are protesting. I think it might take time but they'll | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
see his compassion for this country. He has a big compassion. It's Compal | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
into the point he won. Donald Trump has got out of his car so he is | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
walking down Pennsylvania Avenue behind us. What kind of moment is | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
that for you? To know that the 45th president of the United States is | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
right here now. This is such a huge deal. It is the first elected | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
president of the United States that has won an election and he has not | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
held office. He is a citizen like me, like you. He was just weary of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
whatever do direction this country... He decided to run and he | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
was elected. It just amazes me. It is an extraordinary story. Elizabeth | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
who campaign for Donald Trump. Thank you for joining us. One of many | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
loyal Donald Trump supporters who are thrilled to learn that he is an | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Pennsylvania Avenue behind us and has got out of his car and is | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
welcoming the crowds. As we look at this picture of Donald and Melania | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Trump greeting the crowds walking down the avenue. He looks like he | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
owns the world. He said, he's a citizen like me and you. She was | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
pleased he hadn't held elected office and could appear to her like | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
one of the people. Completely thrilled, Philippa. That's | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
absolutely something I heard over and over again across this campaign | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
and across this nation. Because Congress has been so deadlocked for | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
the last eight years Obama was in the White House. Initially, the | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
Democrats had control and then they didn't and the two sides were | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
against each other. Donald Trump's successful appeal is that he is a | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
successful businessman, someone who hasn't had a political career, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
someone who gets things done, as he likes to say, on time and under | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
budget. That's his mantra. His critics would say that he has gone | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
bankrupt, writing off big debts, in a sense, that has been so powerful | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
that people have responded to him and when he says I will bring back | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
jobs, people in the rust belt where manufacturing jobs have gone feel | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
like this is someone who knows what he is talking about. He's a | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
businessman, an employer, he knows how to create jobs. He's talking | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
about cutting regulation. Even those who had reservations about his and | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
his experience, it was that simple economic message of, I will bring | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
back your job and I will protect your job from those countries that | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
want to undermine it, that was so powerful. That's what people | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
responded to, Philippa. Laura, thank you. As Donald Trump gets back into | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
the car, after their short walk. It was Donald and Melania Trump and | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
their young son Barron Trump. Very difficult for a young boy to know | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
what to do in the middle of the crowd. I saw Melania Trump put her | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
arms around him to usher him back into the car. I want to ask Robert | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Singh from Birkbeck University, we heard from another support of their | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
talking about this is going to be a healing president, he can unite is, | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
because he is one of us. Whatever you think of that, he certainly | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
played that part really well. That's why he was swept into office? Let's | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
be careful. He was swept into office. He wasn't swept into office. | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million. The I meant to say | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
that was the essence of his appeal. He adopted a populist pose of being | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
a man of the people despite being a sub -- celebrity millionaire. The | :17:32. | :17:46. | |
speech was clearly targeted at his base. The rhetoric and symbolism is | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
all about the people. Ordinary folks, I am your voice. Against this | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
establishment. This is just carrying on. In which case, it is in his | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
interest to say and his supporters believe it to be true that factories | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
are scattered like tombstones across America, families trapped in | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
poverty, crime, American carnage. His vocabulary, trapped, bleeding, | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
desperate, there's chaos with Obama sitting behind him. Yes. It was | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
really embarrassing. Far more embarrassing than eight years ago | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
when Obama was talking about no conflict between our values and | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
security when George W Bush was sitting behind him. This was a | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
condemnation of 30 or 40 years of the United States, including other | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Republican presidents. The two bushes, Ronald Reagan. It's very | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
difficult to think of such an inaugural speech that has painted | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
such a dystopian speech that paints America as in crisis and decline and | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
only he can save it. We've never seen anything as demagogic as this | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
from an incoming president before. We'll talk about the facts behind | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
that. The real economy in America. I just want to remind people that, of | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
course, this is a historic day, there have been many historic | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
moments, we want to show you one of those. The moment that Donald Trump | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
took the oath of office. I Donald John Tromp solemnly swear that I | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
Constitution of the United States. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
President. Let's talk about how Donald Trump might affect the rest | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
of the world because America first foreign policy is the new heading on | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
the White House website as of a few hours ago with pledges to rebuild | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
the American military and destroy Islamic terror groups. The German | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
vice Chancellor said in a television interview... | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
The president of Taiwan, Richard at Mr Trump. | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
Couple of different reactions. To discuss foreign policy and the | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
impact across the world, we can talk to our correspondent in Mexico City | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
will grant and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. He promised to build a wall | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
and make Mexico pay for it. Do people think this will happen? | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
People here are furious that the suggestion that they would have to | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
pay for a wall that they don't want that is designed to keep them out | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
and stop their families living together, people being able to work | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
in the United States, this whole foreign policy, that you mention, | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
America first. If it's going to affect anywhere it will be Mexico | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
first and foremost. The lines," from here on in, it will be higher | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
American and buy American". That's going to affect Mexicans. If you | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
export to the United States, it's going to affect you if you are | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
working in a car plant for a US car firm based here in Mexico. A lot of | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
people are very frightened about what this will mean to individual | :22:00. | :22:00. | |
families. I went to San Luis Potosi which has | :22:01. | :22:15. | |
been affected by Ford pulling out of a ?1.3 billion investment in a car | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
assembly plant. People are genuinely frightened about what will be | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
coming. President Trump made it clearer that he will be focusing on | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
American jobs at the cost, if need be with his relationship with | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
Mexico. The inaugural speech was largely domestic. We know that | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
Donald Trump as a more positive outlook towards Russia. Is this | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
where we get the Russian reset? I think it's possible. There's been a | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
very positive reaction here in Russia to Donald Trump's speech. Two | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
senior Russian senators, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
upper house, he said that the speech was impressive, not a bad start, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
room for discussion. And we heard from another senator who said it was | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
powerful, a speech of a new age. I think it is a positive reaction | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
because there was a lot in that speech that would have been music to | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
Moscow's is. For example, Donald Trump's pledge that the US wouldn't | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
impose its lifestyle on anyone else. A pledge to defend its own borders | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
not anywhere else. In other words, his message was that America should | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
focus now on America. That is what Russia has been saying for a long | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
time. The Russians have been criticising US administrations for | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
interfering, or meddling as they put it, in other parts of the world, | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
including in Russia's backyard, an area that Moscow considers to be its | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
sphere of influence, countries like Georgia and Ukraine. I think it's | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
highly likely that if Donald Trump is determined to focus on America, | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
the Russians will see it as an opportunity to increase their | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
influence in this post-Soviet space. Thank you. I want to come back to | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
you to talk about immigration. Donald Trump Mayfield a need to live | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
up to his pledges to his base because there is a lot of anger at | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
what is perceived to be for example Mexicans taking jobs. That's right. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
What will be happening today is that other countries are looking at | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
what's happening with Mexico and using that as a litmus test for | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
themselves. The discussion of the war affects all of the countries in | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Central America, particularly Honduras and El Salvador. The vast | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
majority of Central American migrants from those countries. We | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
wonder what will happen with the thaw with Cuba that was a key part | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
of President Obama's legacy. We'll Donald Trump try to unpick that and | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
change further the rules of engagement with Cuba? Questions of | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
engagement with Colombia which is an important regional ally. Plenty to | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
be picked in terms of trade but, as you say, particularly in terms of | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
immigration. So many Latin Americans have family existing already in the | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
United States and they see, particularly in Mexico, a seasonal | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
movement of working in the United States but coming back to Mexico to | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
use those dollars to prop up their families back here. Thank you very | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
much. Much more in just a minute's time. Do stay with us. | :25:50. | :26:05. | |
Good evening. Temperatures are already falling but it has been a | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
smashing day for many. This was sent in by Alan from a little town in the | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
foothills of | :26:20. | :26:20. |