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President Trump's Inaugural Address, January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025 · U.S. Department of State · 0:30:15

Embedded from the source channel — never re-uploaded. Watch on YouTube

What happened

President Donald J. Trump delivered his inaugural address in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025, upon taking the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States. The State Department published the address in full, with the official transcript hosted by the White House.

The address is the founding statement of the second Trump administration — the speech in which the President laid out the program his cabinet and agencies have since implemented across foreign policy, energy, immigration, trade, and government reform, and to which administration officials across this site’s coverage repeatedly return.

Because the full text is a matter of public record at whitehouse.gov, this page records the address’s delivery and provenance rather than paraphrasing a 30-minute speech into a summary that would flatten it; the embedded official video above carries the address as delivered.

Why it matters

The inaugural address is the baseline document for the entire administration: every policy tracked on this site traces its stated mandate to the commitments the President made in this speech on January 20, 2025.

Sources: U.S. Department of State, “President Trump’s Inaugural Address”, 2025-01-20 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-01-20). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.