Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump's Inauguration Day Promises and Biden Pardons

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

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In today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson assess the promises made by President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech, from combatting DEI to securing the border, and the messages between the lines. “Here's my point: Trump was blunt, maybe even crude. He said he was going to eventually — we would have the Panama Canal. He was going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the ‘Gulf of America,’and people were kind of hysterical, in their reactions. But it's the way he said it and his directness and his candor and his honesty that bothered them.” “It reminded me of the great seal of the United States, “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” a new order for the ages or for the centuries. That comes from Virgil's Eclogues, the great Latin poet, when he was talking about the birth of a new Roman generation—in particular descendants of Augustus—that would change Rome forever. And our founders in 1776 put it on the seal. And you see it emblazoned on the $1 bill. And that's the type of mood he's trying to encourage.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	It's Monday inauguration day. It's also Martin Luther King Day and the two dates coincided this
0:35.6	year. And Donald Trump has just finished as inaugural address.
0:39.1	The reaction to it was varied, but it was comprehensive as far as the agenda that I think is going
0:44.9	to bother people. It was holistic. 360 degrees, 24-7. We're going to close the border.
0:51.0	The going to close the border.
1:08.8	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. It's Monday inauguration day.
1:13.7	It's also Martin Luther King Day, and the two dates coincided this year. And Donald Trump has just finished his inaugural address.
1:18.7	The reaction to it was varied.
1:20.9	I scanned the mainstream media, the network news, some cable outlets, and there was sort
1:27.2	of outrage. Out outrage at the ambition
1:30.3	of the Trump revolution and outrage at the direct criticism of people in the audience
1:37.2	that had engineered or were part of the Biden tenure.
1:41.4	But it was comprehensive as far as the agenda that I think is going to bother people.
1:47.1	It was holistic. 360 degrees, 24-7. We're going to close the border. We're not just going to
1:53.7	close the border. We're going to deport people who came here illegally. We're going to change
1:58.5	the idea that there is such a thing as anchor babies, or
2:02.3	that just because you happen to be born here, that gives you full rights of citizenship.
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