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President Donald Trump sought to strike an uplifting tone in his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2025, proclaiming that America would soon enter “a golden age” and that God had spared his life to make America great. Supporters viewed the inauguration as a triumph or a vindication, while critics perceived it as a dark omen for the future of American democracy and noted several alarming passages. Trump’s inaugural address, however, was soon overshadowed by a flurry of highly controversial executive orders and criminal pardons that the new president began signing later that day.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich says that Donald Trump just gave the biggest, boldest, best inaugural address of any U.S. president in history, and encourages Americans who missed it to set some time aside to watch it or read through the transcript.
The following is an excerpt from the above video:
It was a remarkable speech. As I listened to it, I thought, you know, this may be the most revolutionary speech ever given by an American president as part of being sworn in. I went back the next day and began reading Jefferson’s two inaugural addresses, Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural. Those were clearly the most bold inaugural addresses prior to Trump, and it was just very clear that the Trump address was dramatically bolder.
It was bolder about culture. It was bolder about the economy. It was bolder about politics. It was bolder about reshaping the government, and it was much bolder about foreign policy and the changes that are coming. I think President Trump believes, and he said this in his speech, that his life had been saved by what I thought at the time was absolutely a miracle, because God had a mission for him.
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