{"id":2393000,"date":"2025-01-20T21:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberation-day-trump-tells-washington-what-he-really-thinks-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:00:36","slug":"liberation-day-trump-tells-washington-what-he-really-thinks-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberation-day-trump-tells-washington-what-he-really-thinks-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation day: Trump tells Washington what he really thinks &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberation-day-trump-tells-washington-what-he-really-thinks-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2393000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article details President Donald Trump&#8217;s second inaugural address,\u200b where \u200dhe criticized former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George\u200b W. Bush,and Bill Clinton for their failures and perceived betrayals of the American\u2064 public. Trump claimed that the government prioritizes foreign borders over\u2062 domestic issues, highlighting the inadequate responses to national disasters \u200clike hurricanes and fires.He \u2064vowed to reverse \u2063Biden administration policies, including abolishing the Green New \u2064Deal and undoing the electric vehicle mandate to support American auto workers. Trump labeled January \u206320, 2025, as &#8220;Liberation Day,&#8221; asserting that his \u2063re-election was\u2064 a mandate to restore\u200c faith and democracy to American citizens. His speech echoed themes from his\u200c first inaugural address, emphasizing that the\u2062 political establishment had failed to serve the needs of the American people. The atmosphere of the inauguration was marked by a direct challenge to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bannon-sentencing-proves-lawfare-goes-far-beyond-trump\/\" title=\"Bannon Sentencing Proves Lawfare Goes Far Beyond Trump\">political opponents present<\/a> at the event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Liberation day: Trump tells Washington what he really thinks in triumphant return<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1940315\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Presidents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" title=\"\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-w-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">George W. Bush<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Bill Clinton <\/a>sat politely as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> excoriated their failures and what he described as the &ldquo;betrayals&rdquo; of the political class in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3293557\/donald-trump-inauguration-speech-full-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">second inaugural address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina being treated so badly and other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Or, more recently, Los Angeles, where we were watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s speech after becoming president again was followed by a flurry of &ldquo;shock and awe&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">executive orders rolling back<\/a> a host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Biden administration<\/a> initiatives, several of them signed in public at Capital One Arena. He told Democratic officials to their faces that he would be undoing their handiwork.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/donald-trump-inauguration-day-white-house-washington-dc\/\"><strong>INAUGURATION DAY LIVE UPDATES: DONALD TRUMP SWORN IN AS 47TH PRESIDEN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-climate-agenda-wont-replace-jobs-it-seeks-to-kill-separate-ap-wapo-fact-checks-suggest\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda Won\u2019t Replace Jobs It Seeks To Kill, Separate AP, WaPo Fact-Checks Suggest\">auto industry<\/a> and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers,&rdquo; he said, ripping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/314828\/the-inflation-reduction-act-doesnt-reduce-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>. &ldquo;In other words, you&rsquo;ll be able to buy the car of your choice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump&rsquo;s critique extended beyond Biden and the Democrats to the broader Washington establishment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t exactly Gerald Ford&rsquo;s &ldquo;My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over,&rdquo; but it was close.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For American citizens, Jan. 20, 2025, is Liberation Day,&rdquo; Trump declared.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining Biden officials on hand for the event might have asked themselves, &ldquo;Liberated from whom?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and, indeed, their freedom,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;From this moment on, America&rsquo;s decline is over.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump sounded similar themes in his first inaugural address eight years ago. &ldquo;The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country,&rdquo; he said at the time. &ldquo;Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation&rsquo;s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But holding the inauguration indoors helped keep the focus on Trump&rsquo;s vanquished political foes. Biden and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, who lost to Trump in November, were often in the camera shots as the new president vowed to regain control of the border and blamed them for the &ldquo;inflation crisis&hellip; caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This time is also more personal than in 2017, after repeated indictments and assassination attempts. &ldquo;The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and, indeed, to take my life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump again argued that the justice system had been used as a weapon against him, as Biden and Harris looked on.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents, something I know something about,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We will not allow that to happen. It will not happen again under my leadership. We will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law, and we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This time was undoubtedly personal for Biden and Harris too. They had both campaigned against Trump as a threat to democracy. He defeated Harris and replaced Biden. Monday&rsquo;s inauguration took place in the Capitol, which a mob of Trump supporters stormed four years earlier to disrupt the certification of Biden and Harris&rsquo;s election. Now they had to smile at and applaud Trump, who did not criticize them by name but was nevertheless scathing in his assessment of their time in office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s speech was in some ways as unusual as a former president returning to the Oval Office. The big themes and rhetorical flourish that are common in inaugural addresses were kept to a minimum, though there were notable exceptions, such as when Trump said, &ldquo;In America, the impossible is what we do best.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, there was more of a laundry list of action items more often heard in the State of the Union or even a campaign speech. &ldquo;I was saved by God to make America great again,&rdquo; Trump said in the sole reference to the catchphrase that has been his slogan since 2015. He was less restrained when talking to a crowd of supporters in Emancipation Hall, attacking former House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA) and the Democratic-run Jan. 6 committee. &ldquo;I think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s delivery of that first speech was subdued, as is often the case when he doesn&rsquo;t deviate much from the prepared text, but he otherwise sought to project energy and urgency. The latter may be especially necessary with the midterm elections coming in two years and Trump being constitutionally ineligible to run again in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Trump is back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> while Biden and Harris have been sent packing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1940315\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1940315\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s triumphant return: a scathing critique of past leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2659,"featured_media":2393001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25020622188598.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[48894,4902,5894,3634,4086],"class_list":["post-2393000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-liberation-day","tag-opinion","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25020622188598.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393004,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393000\/revisions\/2393004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}