Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter,
President Clinton, President Bush, fellow
Americans and people of the world – thank you.
We the citizens of America have now joined a
great national effort to rebuild our county and
restore its promise for all our people.
Together we will determine the course of
America for many, many years to come.
Together we will face challenges. We will
confront hardships. But we will get the job
done.

Every four years we gather on these steps to
carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of
power.
And we are grateful to President Obama and
First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid
throughout this transition. They have been
magnificent, thank you.
Today’s ceremony, however, has very special
meaning because today we are not merely
transferring power from one administration to
another – but transferring it from Washington
DC 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 borne the cost.
Washington flourished but the people did not
share in its wealth. 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.
While they have celebrated there has been little
to celebrate for struggling families all across
our land.
That all changes starting right here and right
now because this moment is your moment. It
belongs to you. It belongs to everyone gathered
here today and everyone watching all across
America today.
This is your day.
This is your celebration.
And this – the United States of America – is
your country.

What truly matters is not what party controls
our government but that this government is
controlled by the people.
Today, January 20 2017, will be remembered
as the day the people became the rulers of this
nation again.
The forgotten men and women of our country
will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is
listening to you now.
You came by the tens of millions to become
part of a historic movement – the likes of which
the world has never seen before.
At the centre of this movement is a crucial
conviction – that a nation exists to serve its
citizens.
Americans want great schools for their children,
safe neighbourhoods for their families and good
jobs for themselves.
These are just and reasonable demands
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our
inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like
tombstones across the landscape of our nation.
An education system flushed with cash, but
which leaves our young and beautiful students
deprived of all knowledge. And the crime and
the gangs and the drugs which deprive people
of so much unrealised potential.
We are one nation, and their pain is our pain,
their dreams are our dreams, we share one
nation, one home and one glorious destiny.

Today I take an oath of allegiance to all
Americans. For many decades, we’ve enriched
foreign industry at the expense of American
industry, subsidised the armies of other
countries, while allowing the sad depletion of
our own military.
We’ve defended other nations’ borders while
refusing to defend our own.
And spent trillions and trillions of dollars
overseas while America’s infrastructure has
fallen into disrepair and decay.
We have made other countries rich while the
wealth, strength and confidence of our country
has dissipated over the horizon.
One by one, shutters have closed on our
factories without even a thought about the
millions and millions of those who have been
left behind.
But that is the past and now we are looking
only to the future.
We assembled here today are issuing a new
decree to be heard in every city, in every
foreign capital, in every hall of power – from
this day on a new vision will govern our land –
from this day onwards it is only going to be
America first – America first!
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on
immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to
benefit American workers and American
families.

Protection will lead to great prosperity and
strength. I will fight for you with every bone in
my body and I will never ever let you down.
America will start winning again. America will
start winning like never before.
We will bring back our jobs, we will bring back
our borders, we will bring back our wealth, we
will bring back our dreams.
We will bring new roads and high roads and
bridges and tunnels and railways all across our
wonderful nation.
We will get our people off 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 see good will with the nations of the world
but we do so with the understanding that it is
the right of all nations to put their nations first.
We will shine for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new
ones, and untie the world against radical Islamic
terrorism which we will eradicate from the face
of the earth.
At the bed rock of our politics will be an
allegiance to the United States.
And we will discover new allegiance to each
other. There is no room for prejudice.
The bible tells us how good and pleasant it is
when god’s people live together in unity.

When America is united, America is totally
unstoppable.
There is no fear, we are protected and will
always 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. As Americans, we know we live as a
nation only when it is striving.
We will no longer accept politicians who are
always complaining but never doing anything
about it.
The time for empty talk is over, now arrives the
hour of action.
Do not allow anyone to tell you it cannot be
done. No challenge can match the heart and
fight and spirit of America. We will not fail, our
country will thrive and prosper again.
We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready
to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the
earth from the miseries of disease, to harvest
the energies, industries and technologies of
tomorrow.
A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our
sights and heal our divisions. It’s time to
remember that old wisdom our soldiers will
never forget, that whether we are black or
brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood
of patriots.
We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and
we all salute the same great American flag and
whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of
Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska,
they look at the same night sky, and dream the
same dreams, and they are infused with the
breath by the same almighty creator.
So to all Americans in every city near and far,
small and large, from mountain to mountain,
from ocean to ocean – hear these words – you
will never be ignored again.
Your voice, your hopes and dreams will define
your American destiny.

Your courage, goodness and love will forever
guide us along the way.
Together we will make America strong again,
we will make America wealthy again, we will
make America safe again and yes – together we
will make America great again.
Thank you.
God bless you.
And god bless America.