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Trump vows border emergency, energy push and regulatory rollbacks in inaugural address
Summary
In his Rotunda inaugural address President Trump pledged immediate executive steps: declaring a national emergency at the southern border, designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, declaring a national energy emergency and rescinding electric-vehicle mandates and other climate-linked policies.
President Donald J. Trump used his inaugural address in the Capitol Rotunda to announce a series of immediate policy intentions that he said would be enacted by executive action.
Trump told the assembled dignitaries and guests that he would "declare a national emergency at our Southern border" and halt "all illegal entry," and said he would "begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came." He also said his administration would "designat[e] the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations" and would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as part of enforcement efforts.
On energy and industrial policy, Trump said he would "declare a national Energy emergency" and pursue an expanded drilling agenda; he also pledged to "end the green New Deal" and "revoke the electric vehicle mandate," presenting those moves as tied to lowering costs and restoring manufacturing.
The president framed these declarations as immediate executive priorities, stating he would "sign a series of historic executive orders" and establish new entities to improve government efficiency. The transcript records strong rhetorical claims about prior presidencies, elections and criminal pardons; these assertions appear as political argument and were not substantiated in the ceremony itself.
What the transcript shows and does not show: The speech contains multiple policy pledges and asserted legal steps, but the live coverage and produced videos do not include enacted text, implementation timelines, or statutory citations beyond rhetorical references (for example, to the Alien Enemies Act). Those details were not provided in the Rotunda narration and would be needed to evaluate immediate legal or budgetary effects.
