【译者有感】

看着对手犯错那种感觉真是令人难以言表，但心情至少不坏。纵观特朗普的就职演讲，译者有以下发现和感触：

1、美国在该开采本土石油的时候没有全力开采、而是优先购买别人家的资源，据说是想等着别人家都没有石油了再开采自家石油。这是一种算计的自私行为。可是，早几十年的美国私心主义者没有想到今天的绿色能源技术发展的不但如此迅速，而且这种技术还没有主流地掌握在美国人手里。显然，在今天这种环保理念深入人心的时刻，特朗普却想着逆时代而动。显然，他会被时代撞得头破血流。这样的“一进一出”，中美在新能源方面的差距将继续拉大。而我们则将会为自己站在历史正确的一边感到庆幸万分。

2、以中国人衡量政治家的标准，特朗普无论如何连我们公务员正科级的干部素养都不够。胜选登基之时却还沉浸在个人恩怨之中，虽然其大谈团结，但实际上根本没有“团结大多数”的概念和胸怀。长此以往地循环下去，实乃中国之幸。

3、尽管宏观上有上述两点之于中国的有利之处，但这位老哥之于中国亦可谓“成事不足败事有余”。所以，我们还是应该战略上藐视他、战术上重视他。总得来说，对美的策略还是应该遵循“你打你的，我打我的”原则，发展好自己就行。

4、就个人修养而言，国人不妨对照中国古人之于成大事者的以下衡量标准，来看看特朗普其人，很有点意思。中国人一向认为：智者闭口不谈,愚者指点天下；谋大事者必藏于心；成大功者不谋于众；谋者不露、强者不暴；智者不锐、慧者不傲。而西方大嘴巴们则往往背道而驰。这就是中西方当下社会治理质量和发展成果的差异之所在。

5、最后一点，就是隐隐感觉特朗普的扩张心思似乎有对抗“人类命运共同体”的味道。

总之，这个演讲稿满篇都是一位活在旧时代之人的翻盘想法，只可惜这个世界已呈现出“轻舟已过万重山”的景象了。而更令人感到惋惜的就是，美西方这类政治人物却颇具市场和土壤，可见其选民基本盘的价值观按照中国人的标准已然积重难返了——不论是民主党还是共和党的选民无不是如此状况。尤其是面对自己的领导人津津乐道于强抢全世界的时候，居然其普通民众还报以能够“抢回家”就是“能耐”的“欣赏眼光”，这就是这个国家整体的悲哀了。

翻译：马玮

万斯副总统、约翰逊发言人、图恩参议员、罗伯茨大法官、美利坚合众国最高法院的法官们、克林顿总统、布什总统、奥巴马总统、拜登总统、副总统哈里斯以及全国的同胞们：

从现在起，美国的黄金时代正式开始了。从今往后，我们的国家将会繁荣昌盛、并重新得到全世界的敬仰。我们将在世界各国之间备受羡慕。而且，我们将不再允许别人薅我们的羊毛。

在我特朗普执政的每一天，直说吧，我将把美国利益置于优先位置。我们所有的主权我们都要重新拿回来。我们的安全将得到保障。正义的天平将重新归于平衡。那种把我们的司法部和政府进行凶险的、暴力的以及不公平的武器化作法就要行将结束。而我们最优先要做的工作就是要创建一个令人自豪的、繁荣昌盛的、自由的国家。

美国很快就将比历史上任何时候都要更加强大、更加地超群绝伦。我满怀信心并乐观地重回总统职位时就认为，我们正站在令人激动万分的、国家开启成功新纪元的起点。变革的大潮正横扫全国、阳光正普照整个世界，这样的时机美国怎能错过。

为此，我们首先要诚实地面对挑战。即使这些挑战多如牛毛，它们也将被世界正在见证的我们巨大的声势和美利坚合众国击得粉碎。就在我们今天聚集在一起的时候，我们的政府正面临着一场信任危机。多年以来，那种与生俱来的、腐败的既得利益集团从我们的国民身上榨取了权力和财富。就在我们社会的擎天之柱倾倒而似乎完全无法修复之际，我们却有着一个即使面对国内一个简单的危机也都无法应付的政府，而与此同时，他们却在国外遭遇了连绵不绝的灾难性事件。

这个政府没能保护我们出色的、遵纪守法的美国公民，而是给危险的罪犯提供了栖息地和庇护，这些大多来自世界各地监狱和精神病院的罪犯非法地闯入了我们的国家。我们的政府为了保护外国的边境花费了无数的资金，却拒绝保护美国的边境，说得更严重点，他们拒绝保护自己的人民。

我们的国家在出现紧急状况时已经不再有能力提供基本的服务了，这一点已经在诸如最近受到了极其不公正对待的北卡罗莱拉杰出人民的遭遇上已经有所印证了。而其他一些州至今还在遭受着几个月前发生的飓风所带来的痛苦。说得再近些，洛杉矶森林大火从几个星期前发生到现在仍然还在令人痛心地熊熊燃烧，甚至都不曾有任何象征性的扑救行动。大火肆虐着房屋和社区，甚至危害到了我们国家一些最富有和最有权势的个人，他们中的一些人今天就坐在这里。他们已经没有家了。一想到这点就觉着真是有意思。

但我们不能任其发生了。每个人对此都无能为力。这得改变。我们拥有一个公共医疗保障系统，但它却无法在灾难来临时发挥作用。而我们却比世界上其他任何国家在这个方面所花的钱都要多得多。此外，我们所拥有的教育制度却把自卑教给了我们的孩子，在很多情况下，尽管我们尽量把无尽的爱给予了孩子们，而这个教育制度却教授孩子在憎恨自己的国家。所有这些，今天就要开始改变，并且要尽快改变。

我们这次选举是一个完全地、彻底地逆转可怕背叛的胜利，逆转了所有已经发生的那么多的背叛；同时，这次选举也把信心、财富、民主以及事实上的自由还给了那些被背叛的人们。从这一刻起，美国衰落的一页已经翻篇。

我们的自由和国家灿烂的命运将不再被人弃之不顾。我们要立即恢复美国政府的信誉、能力和对国民的忠诚。在过去八年里，我受到了250年以来任何总统都不曾经历过的严格审查和挑战，而一路走来，也让我汲取了深刻的教训。我能告诉大家的就是，对我们共和国的纠正之旅并非一帆风顺。那些想要阻止我们事业的人一直试图剥夺我的自由、实际上是想要剥夺我的生命。就在几个月前，在宾西法利亚一个漂亮的体育场，一名刺客的子弹洞穿了我的耳朵。但就在那个时刻我就感觉到、甚至至今我依然确信，我之所以能够幸免于难只有一个原因，那就是上帝为了让美国再次伟大而出手救了我。

这就是为什么每天在美国爱国者组成的政府管理之下，我们要一直努力用尊严、权力和实力来解决每一次危机。我们要有的放矢、为所有公民——不同种族、不同宗教、不同肤色和不同信念的公民重新带去希望、繁荣、安全和宁静的生活。今天，2025年1月20日，对美国人民来说，就是一个解放日。

我希望，这次总统选举将成为我们国家历史上最伟大、最重大的一次选举。如同这次我们选举胜利所揭示的那样，对我们政治议题的支持几乎在我们这个社会所有成员当中得到了戏剧性的增加。年轻人、老年人、男人、女人、非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、亚裔美国人、城里人、郊区人和农村人，他们几乎都支持我们的政治议题。而更为重要的是，我们在所有七个摇摆州都无懈可击地赢得了这次普选。即我们以数百万的选票赢得了这次选举。

面对非洲裔和西班牙裔美国人团体，我要感谢你们用自己手中的选票向我倾注了巨大的信任和热爱。我们创造了历史记录，对此我铭刻在心。在竞选过程当中我已经听到了你们的呼声，我期待着在未来几年里与你们并肩战斗。

今天是马丁路德金日，也是他的纪念日——这将是一个伟大的纪念日——在他的这个纪念日里，我们将一起为实现他的梦想而努力奋斗。我们要让他梦想成真。

国家的团结正在重返美国，而自信与自豪也在以前所未有的方式飘荡在美国的天空。在我们所做的每一项工作当中，我的政府将以对卓越和永不松懈的成功之追求时刻鞭策自己。我们不会忘记为谁工作、不会忘记宪法、也不会忘记上帝。

今天，我会签署一系列历史性的行政命令。借助于这些举动，我们要开启美国的完全康复和对常识的彻底革命。所有这些都是围绕常识展开的。首先，我要宣布在我国南方边界实施国家紧急状态。所有非法闯入都将被立即禁止。我们要开启一个进程以便把数以百万计的外国罪犯遣送回他们奔赴美国时的出发地。我们要恢复在墨西哥继续存在的政策。我要结束那种“抓了放，放了再抓”的作法。我要派遣军队去我们的南部边界驱逐那些对我们国家灾难性的非法闯入人群。一旦我今天签署了这些命令，我们就要把那些策划闯入美国的组织命名为外国恐怖组织。通过激活1798年外国敌对法案，我将要求我们的政府利用联邦和州一级所有的、压倒性的执法力量清除已经存在的外国势力和犯罪网络——这些外国势力和犯罪网络正在对美国进行犯罪，包括对我们各个城市及其市中心的犯罪。

作为军队的总司令，我所担负的责任没有什么比保卫我们的国家免于威胁和入侵更为重要的了。而这正是我目前打算要做的事情。我将把这项工作的责任提高到从未有过的高度。其次，我将要求所有我的内阁成员集中他们可以使用的力量击败创纪录的通货膨胀并迅速降低生活成本和物价。通胀危机起因于大规模的过度消费和逐渐升高的能源价格。这就是为什么今天我还要宣布全国能源紧急状态。我们将打井，幼稚的人啊，是打井采油。

美国将会再次成为一个制造业国家。我们拥有一些其他制造业国家不曾具备的东西：地球上最大规模的石油天然气储量。我们打算把这个东西利用起来。为此，我们的油价将会降低、我们的战略石油储备库将再次填满、直接达到储备上限，并力争出口美国能源至世界各地。美国将会重新成为一个富裕的国家。正是我们脚下的这个液体黄金将帮助我们实现这一目标。

随着我今天各项行政令的颁布，我们将结束绿色新政、撤销电动汽车授权、挽救我们的汽车工业、遵守我对我们伟大的美国汽车工人所做的庄严承诺。换句话说，大家将能够购买你喜欢的汽车。我们将以大家几年前做梦也想不到的速度再次在美国生产汽车。所以我要感谢我国的汽车工人，感谢他们那鼓舞人心的信任票。他们的这种信任使我们在选举中获得了巨大的成功。

我将立即开始对我们的贸易系统进行全面的改革以保护美国工人和家庭。我们将放弃那种对国民课税而滋补其他国家的作法，取而代之的是我们将对外国产品依照税率进行定价并课以关税，借此富裕我们的人民。为此，我们计划建立涉外税务署，以便征收所有种类的进出口关税。这将是从外国人那里流入我们国库的一笔数额惊人的资金。

美国梦将很快复活并将以前所未有的程度兴旺发达。为了恢复信心和联邦政府的有效性，我的政府将创立新的、类型独特的政府效能部。

在经历了联邦政府多年非法的、不合宪法的、不遗余力地对自由表达予以的限制之后，我也将签署一份行政命令，立刻停止政府审查，并把自由言论重新带给美国人民。政府巨大的权利再也不会被用作迫害政治对手的武器了——有些事情有内情我是知道的。我们将不允许这样的事情再次发生了——决不允许。在我的领导之下，我们将恢复公正、平等和立于宪法和法规之下的正义。我们将把法律和秩序带回到各个城市。

这个星期，我还将结束政府试图把种族和性别问题融入社会公共和私生活方方面面的政策。我们将缔造一个不带色彩偏见、并基于是非曲直的社会。从今天开始，从此以后，只有两种性别，即只有男性和女性，这将是美国政府的官方政策。本周，我将全额补发那些因反对新冠疫苗许可而被不公正地排挤出军队的军人们的工资。我会签署一个命令，不允许我们的战士在工作期间遭受极端政治学说和社会实验的骚扰。这种现象要立刻结束。我们的武装部队将只专注于他们唯一的使命——那就是打败美国的敌人。就像2017年里的状态那样，我们将再次建设那支全世界曾经见识过的最强大的军队。

我们不仅要用我们胜利的战争来衡量我们的成功，我们也要用我们结束的战争来衡量我们的成功。而且，也许是最重要的一点，就是最好我们永远也不陷入战争。我将要留给大家的、最令人自豪的成就就是我要做一位和平缔造者和统一国家的人。这就是我的目标，即做一位和平缔造者和一位统一国家的人。非常让我感到荣幸的就是，截至到昨天为止，也就是我就职的前一天，中东的人质就要各自回家了。

美国要重新耸立在这个世界最伟大、最强大、最令人尊敬的国家之巅，让世界充满敬畏和敬仰。从现在开始，要不了多长时间，我们就要把墨西哥湾改名为美国湾。我们要把伟大的威廉▪麦金利总统的名字恢复为麦金利山，他本该在那儿、也属于那儿。麦金利总统凭借关税和人才把我们的国家打造成了非常富裕的国家。

他天生就是个商人，他为泰迪▪罗斯福所做的、包括巴拿马运河在内的许多伟大之事带去了大量的资金，而这个巴拿马运河却被愚蠢地交给了美国之后的巴拿马这个国家。我的意思是说，想想吧，美国在这个项目上投资了比之前任何项目都要多的资金，并为此牺牲了38000条生命。而这个根本不应该建设的愚蠢赠礼却对我们态度恶劣。巴拿马破坏了他们给予我们的承诺。他们彻底背离了这笔交易的目的、背离了我们之间的协议宗旨。美国商船被严重地课以了过高的运河通过费用，一点也没有得到哪怕形式上做做样子也行的公平对待，而美国海军也遭受到了同样的境遇。最重要的是，现在是中国在运营这个巴拿马运河。而我们没有把运河交给中国，我们是交给巴拿马的。所以，我们要把它重新拿回来。

首先，我今天要给美国人说的是，我们是时候再次用历史上最伟大文明的勇气、活力和激情行动起来了。所以，当我们解放了这个国家，我们将带领这个国家迈向胜利和成功的新高度。我们不会被任何事物所吓阻。再有，我们将根除慢性病的流行、确保我国儿童的安全、健康，使他们免于疾病的侵扰。美国将再次认识到自己是个发展中国家，一个需要增加财富、扩张领土、建设城市、拔高愿望并把我们的旗帜插向美丽新边界的国家。我们要追随上天赋予我们的命运迈向星际宇宙，让我们的宇航员把星条旗插到火星之上。

这是一个伟大国家的根本所在。现在，我们国家要比其他任何国家更具雄心。世上没有任何国家像我们一样。美国是探索者、是建设者、是创新者、是创业者也是拓荒者。对未知领域的探索精神我们早已经铭刻在心。对下一次伟大冒险的呼唤回荡在我们的灵魂深处。我们美国的前辈们把几块小小的殖民地拓展为濒临美洲大陆边缘、由这个地球上最卓越公民组成的强大共和国。没人就此止步。美国人民踏过崎岖不平的荒芜之地，艰苦跋涉了几千英里。他们穿过沙漠、翻越山脉、勇敢面对未知的危险、赢取了西部荒野、结束了奴隶制、从暴政手中拯救了数以百万计的人民、使数百万人摆脱了贫困、驾驭了电能、裂变了原子、把人类送上了太空、并把人类知识的宇宙放进了人类的手掌心。如果我们一起努力，就没有任何我们做不到的事情，也没有任何我们实现不了的梦想。

很多人都认为，我不可能再次历史性地登上这样一个政治舞台。但就像今天大家所看到的，我现在就站在这里。美国人民已经发出自己了的声音。我现在就站在大家的面前，这说明大家绝不应相信有什么东西是不可能做成的。在美国，不可能的事情就是我们最擅长的事情。从纽约到洛杉矶、从宾西法利亚到凤凰城、从芝加哥到迈阿密、从休斯顿到华盛顿特区我们现在站着的地方，为了我们的权利和自由，几代爱国者付出了他们的一切，塑造并建设了我们的国家。这些爱国者是农民、士兵、牛仔、工厂工人、炼钢工人、煤炭工人、警察以及拓荒者，他们勇往直前，从不被困难吓到。他们一起铺设了全国的铁路、竖起了摩天大楼、建设了高速公路、赢得了两次世界大战、打败了种族主义和共产主义、并在他们所遇到的每一次单独的挑战当中获得了胜利。

总之，我们一起走过了上述历程，在美国的历史上，我们现在站在了最伟大四年的起点上。在你们的帮助下，我们将恢复美国的承诺、重建我们所热爱的这个国家。我们是如此地热爱这个国家，这使得我们成为了一个民族、一个大家庭、一个在上帝庇护下的辉煌国家。所以，我要对每一位为孩子着想的父母和对每一位为未来梦想的孩子说：我与你们同在，我将为你们而战、为你们而赢。我们将会赢得前所未有的胜利。

在过去的几年里，我们国家遭受了巨大的痛苦。但我们会恢复国家的常态并使其变得再次伟大、比以往任何时候都更加伟大。美国将是一个无与伦比的国家。这个国家将充满怜悯之心、富有勇气并将令人刮目相看。我们的力量将终止所有的战争、并把一个新的团结精神带给这个一直处在愤怒、暴力和完全不可预测的世界。

美国将重新赢得包括信奉宗教、信仰坚定和充满善意之人的尊敬、重新赢得他们的敬仰。我们的国家将繁荣昌盛。我们将为之自豪。我们将强大无比并获得前所未有的胜利。没人能够征服我们，也没人能够恐吓我们，更没人能够击垮我们。总之，我们永不言败。

从今天起，美国就是一个自由的、主权完整的、独立的国家。我们将屹立不倒、我们将豪迈生活、我们将大胆梦想，没有什么东西能够挡住我们前进的脚步——因为我们是美国人！未来是我们的，而我们的黄金时代现在才刚刚开始。

谢谢大家，上帝保佑美国。感谢你们所有人，谢谢。

（以下是特朗普总统就职演讲英文原文）

Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris and my fellow citizens:

The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation. And we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.

During every single day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end. And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud and prosperous and free.

America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country. Sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.

But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing and the United States of America. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, the 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, 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.

It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world. 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.

Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina, who've been treated so badly. And other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago. Or more recently, Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense. They'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. They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting.

But we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anything about it. That's going to change. We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world. And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change starting today and will change very quickly.

Our 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. From this moment on, America's decline is over.

Our liberties and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer be denied and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency and loyalty of America's government. Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history, and I've learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our Republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life. Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.

That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed. For American citizens, Jan. 20, 2025, is Liberation Day.

It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country. As our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of our society. Young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban and rural. And, very importantly, we had a powerful win in all seven swing states and the popular vote. We won by millions of people.

To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it. I've heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.

Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor — this will be a great honor — but in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.

National unity is now returning to America and confidence and pride is soaring like never before. In everything we do my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution. And we will not forget our God.

Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It's all about common sense. First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. Under the orders I sign today we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities.

As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions. And that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices. And that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.

America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth. And we are going to use it. We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again. And it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.

With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers. In other words, you'll be able to buy the car of your choice. We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago. And thank you to the auto workers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did tremendously with their vote.

I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury coming from foreign sources.

The American Dream will soon be back and thriving like never before. To restore confidence and effectiveness to our federal government, my administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.

After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents. Something I know something about. 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 Constitution and the rule of law. And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.

This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit based. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from the military for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate with full back pay. And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It's going to end immediately. Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission—defeating America's enemies. Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.

We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end. And, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That's what I want to be. A peacemaker and a unifier. I'm pleased to say that, as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world. A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And we will restore the name of the great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.

He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States — the United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made. And Panama's promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.

Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred. Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease free. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.

And it's the lifeblood of a great nation. And, right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There's no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced.

After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history. With your help, we will restore an American promise and we will rebuild the nation that we love. And we love it so much. We are one people, one family and one glorious nation under God. So to every parent who dreams for their child and every child to dreams for their future: I am with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you. And we're going to win like never before.

In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly. But we are going to bring it back and make it great again. Greater than ever before. We will be a nation like no other. Full of compassion, courage and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.

America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith and goodwill. We will be prosperous. We will be proud. We will be strong and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken. And we will not fail.

From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign and independent nation. We will stand bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way. Because we are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun.

Thank you. God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you.