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  • What Trump said after inauguration as 47th POTUS

    What Trump said after inauguration as 47th POTUS

    As earlier reported, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States of America (USA) on Monday with a vow to put America first and restore the sovereignty of the nation.

    In his inaugural speech, the newly sworn in President Trump said God saved him from assassin’s bullet to “make America great again”.

    “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,” he said during his inaugural address.

    Recall Trump was shot on July 13 near Butler, in the state of Pennsylvania. Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to climb to an elevated position with an assault rifle and fire a number of shots at Trump at the rally, with a bullet grazing the former U.S. president’s right ear.

    Speaking during his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, Trump declared that effective immediately, the U.S. government will officially recognise only two genders: male and female.

    TNG reports the new President also declared a national emergency at U.S. southern border, saying: “all illegal entries will be addressed immediately halted and we begin the process of millions and millions criminal aliens back to their places from which they came”.

    He added: “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”.

    President Trump also vowed to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America by executive order and that the U.S. will take back the Panama Canal. He also said the U.S. will send astronauts to Mars.

  • BREAKING: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th POTUS

    BREAKING: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th POTUS

    Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America (USA), has just been sworn in as the 47th President of the U.S (POTUS).

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Donald Trump was sworn in as 47th POTUS in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday after winning the U.S. presidential election last November.

    After taking the oath of office with the Bible, Trump disclosed in his inaugural speech that his top priority as President is to create a proud, prosperous and free America.

    “The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward our country will flourish and be envy of every nation.

    “I will simply put America first. Our sovereignty will be restored. Our safety will be restored. From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” Trump said.

    TNG reports Trump swore the oath in a grand ceremony attended by his family, former U.S. presidents and dignitaries from the United States and abroad.

  • Inauguration: Putin congratulates Donald Trump

    Inauguration: Putin congratulates Donald Trump

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his imminent inauguration as U.S. President.

    He had heard Trump’s demands to restore direct contacts between Moscow and Washington and to do everything to prevent a third world war, Putin told Russian news agencies at a meeting of the National Security Council on Monday.

    “We certainly welcome this approach and congratulate the president-elect of the United States on taking office,” Putin said.

    He said he is also prepared to resume dialogue with the new U.S. administration on the conflict in Ukraine.

    Russia, he said, is interested in long-term peace, not in a ceasefire to regroup and later resume hostilities.

    Russia has been waging a brutal war against Ukraine for almost three years. It has repeatedly accused the leadership in Kiev of oppressing the Russian-speaking population in the country.

    In addition, Moscow sees its security threatened by Kiev’s efforts to join NATO.

    The Kremlin is therefore demanding not only the ceding of territory from its neighbour, but also a renunciation of a powerful army and its accession to NATO and other permanent military alliances with the West.

    Moscow is also claiming the role of protecting the Russian-speaking population and thus a say in Ukrainian domestic politics in the future.

  • Watch moment Pastor Kumuyi prayed for US president, Trump at his inauguration

    Watch moment Pastor Kumuyi prayed for US president, Trump at his inauguration

    A video showing the moment the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM, Pastor Williams Kumuyi took part in a special event ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in the United States, US has surfaced on social media.

    Kumuyi, during the event, named the ‘Inauguration Praise and Prayer Convocation’, held at the Greater New Hope Baptist Church and organized by Jim Garlow’s Well Versed World ministry in partnership with Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, delivered a powerful message to American church leaders, emphasizing the importance of holiness and righteousness for spiritual revival and national progress.

    The event united religious leaders and believers to pray for the nation and the incoming administration.

    He prayed: “Almighty God. We thank You and bless Your name.

    “What a great and glorious God you are. I want to thank You, Lord, for the church in America. You said, upon this rock, You would build Your church – not just for that generation but for every generation, and You say the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

    “Lord, we come in preparation for the celebration of Donald Trump, the president tomorrow. We’re asking that You will grant him wisdom and You will grant the church the unity, the revival, the knowledge, the vision, the forthrightness to speak the truth to power. And we pray, as You connect the church with the leader, that it will be a good unity, that You will help the President, and that the church will remain the church.

    “Revive Your church, restore Your church and purge Your church that there will be the holiness and the righteousness You expect for Your church, and the church will have a meaningful ministry in the government, as well as for America.”

    Kumuyi also shared a heartfelt prayer during an interview with SRN News, saying: “Almighty God, You chose to bring President-Elect Donald Trump to Your throne and to lead at this time. We’re asking that your grace will be with him through Your wisdom and Your power. And we pray You will help him remain focused on all the things he’s brought out in his campaign of giving Christ the recognition and the honor that He deserves. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.”

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  • U.S. gears up as Trump assumes office as president today

    U.S. gears up as Trump assumes office as president today

    Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as president of the United States in Washington on Monday, returning to the White House for a second term four years after his initial re-election bid ended in defeat.

    Trump, a Republican, will replace outgoing President Joe Biden in the top U.S. political office at noon (1900 GMT), two and a half months after defeating outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election.

    Biden had defeated Trump in 2020, but stepped aside as the Democratic candidate mid-campaign in July amid intense concerns about his age and mental fitness.

    Trump, who has long refused to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 election, ultimately stayed away from Biden’s swearing-in ceremony in January 2021, breaking with tradition.

    Earlier that month, Trump’s insistence that he won and that his “victory” was stolen from him led to the storming of the Capitol in Washington, the seat of the U.S. Congress, by his supporters.

    Biden, on the other hand, is set to attend the ceremony as per tradition.

    In the morning, Trump is scheduled to attend a service at St. John’s Church in Washington.

    After the swearing-in ceremony, the Bidens are then set to receive the Trumps for tea at the White House.

    The inauguration was originally meant to take place outside on the west side of the Capitol as usual, but was relocated indoors as Washington was experiencing stuck in sub-zero temperatures.

    After taking the oath of office, Trump will deliver his inaugural speech as the 47th President of the United States of America.

  • What I want from Chinese owners of TikTok – Trump

    What I want from Chinese owners of TikTok – Trump

    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday told his supporters that he wants Chinese-owned short-form video app TikTok to be at least 50 per cent owned by U.S. investors.

    On the eve of his swearing-in, Trump told a rally in Washington that he would allow the app to continue operating in the U.S., “but let the United States of America own 50 per cent of TikTok.”

    “TikTok is worth nothing, zero without an approval,” to operate, Trump said. “If you do approve, they’re worth like a trillion dollars, they’re worth some crazy number.

    “I’m approving on behalf of the United States, so they’ll have a partner, the United States, and they’ll have a lot of bidders and the United States will do what we call a joint venture,” Trump added.

    The popular app blocked access for U.S.-based users for about 12 hours on Sunday.

    This was due to a new U.S. law mandating TikTok either be sold by its current Chinese owners, ByteDance, or else be banned in the country, was set to come into force.

    The app came back online after Trump, who is set to take office on Monday, said that he would issue an executive order reinstating the platform in the U.S.

    Relieved U.S. TikTok enthusiasts hope ‘magic’ returns as app is restored

    On Saturday night, for the first time in five years, millions of American TikTok users who logged on for a late-night scroll were met with an unwelcome notice that their beloved app had been banned and shut down.

    Their exile lasted less than 24 hours, ending when the Chinese-owned company restored service on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump, who returns to power on Monday, said he would revive U.S. access.

    But the TikTok masses had already started contemplating life without the app that has captivated nearly half of all Americans.

    As users returned, some cringed at sappy goodbyes posted before the shutdown or thanked Trump on social media site X, while others wondered whether the TikTok world would ever be the same again.

    “We’re back but at what cost?” one user mused on the platform.

    Trump’s action to save TikTok, owned by ByteDance, represents a reversal from his first term in office.

    In 2020, he aimed to ban the short-video app over concerns the company could share Americans’ personal info with the Chinese government.

    More recently, Trump has said he has “a warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” crediting the app with helping him win over young voters in the 2024 election.

    TikTok stopped working for U.S. users late on Saturday before a law shutting it down on national security grounds took effect on Sunday.

    Trump said he would “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.”

    “I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

    Though relieved, some users wonder if such a change to the company’s ownership structure would ultimately alter the TikTok experience.

    “I think back to when Elon bought Twitter and how dramatically it shifted overall sentiment and how people interacted on the app.

    “So that gives me a lot of concern,” said Kelly Sites, 38, referring to billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media site now known as X.

    “I don’t want the magic of the algorithm to change,” said Sites, a part-time content creator based in Kansas City, Kansas.

    The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to the overall operations of ByteDance, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely, Reuters reported in April.

    While questions linger about the future of TikTok, some users – particularly those who earn a living from it – lament their trust in the government will never be the same.

    “I think that this is a very sad time in history,” said Richard “Chuck” Fasulo, 37, a mechanic and auto-influencer from Duchess County, New York.

    Fasulo told Reuters that the app helped him dig his way out of debt, more than double his income and take his family on vacation for the first time last summer.

    Confronting the specter of losing the business opportunities that the app provided him was not a pleasant experience.

    “I think that myself, like many others, have gained a lot of disdain for the U.S. government,” said Fasulo, who has about 400,000 followers.

    For others, however, relief is the important thing, no matter its source.

    “I would choose a political stunt over losing TikTok forever,” Charlotte Warren, 31, a dating and relationships content creator based in Austin, Texas, told Reuters.

    Without TikTok, she said she could lose up to 60,000 dollars in annual income, over 200,000 followers and was unsure if she would continue posting content to other platforms.

    “I just wanted my app back.”

  • Trump to sign over 200 executive orders immediately after inauguration

    Trump to sign over 200 executive orders immediately after inauguration

    On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump staged a campaign-style rally in frigid Washington where he and his supporters celebrated his win.

    Here are some takeaways from Trump’s remarks on Sunday:

    As he has been signalling for weeks, Trump is expected to sign a torrent of executive actions on Monday to make good on his campaign promises.

    “The American people have given us their trust, and in return, we’re going to give them the best first day, the biggest first week and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history,” Trump said.

    A source familiar with the planning confirmed Trump is preparing to sign more than 200 executive actions on Monday.

    The orders are expected to cover border security, mass deportations, rolling back government diversity initiatives, pardoning Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack defendants, boosting oil and gas production, and replacing thousands of career government bureaucrats, among other policy items.

    Trump vowed to repeal “every radical and foolish executive order of the Biden administration” within hours of assuming the presidency.

    Trump and other rally speakers said Trump has been given a clear mandate to carry out his plans.

    Although critical of his predecessor’s record, Trump largely avoided the name-calling of past rally speeches.

    It was perhaps a preview of the tone Trump will try to strike on Monday during his inaugural address.

    The existence of the rally itself was unusual.

    Traditionally with a new president, campaign rhetoric yields to more substantive conversations.

    The language of transition typically focuses on the handover between administrations.

    But the crowd at the Capital One Arena was indistinguishable from any at Trump’s prior campaign events: men and women clad in red MAGA hats, Trump-adorned shirts and American-flag regalia.

    And the speakers who took the stage often spoke at the prior events: Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, longtime Trump aide Stephen Miller, and two of Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric.

    Trump, too, recycled many of his campaign soundbites on border security and crime and played campaign videos on the arena’s screens.

    As the campaign wound down, Trump lamented that his rallies were going away. So Sunday’s event was a nostalgic thank-you of sorts to his supporters.

    “We’re all going to be sworn in together. That’s the way I look at it,” Trump said to cheers.

    Sunday’s scene will likely stand in striking juxtaposition with Monday’s rarefied swearing-in event at the U.S. Capitol, where tech all-stars such as Tesla’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai are expected to be present.

    Their companies and many others donated millions to Trump’s inaugural fund.

    Trump is aiming to pack his administration with billionaires, including Musk, the world’s richest man, who will head up his government efficiency effort, Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent, and Education nominee Linda McMahon.

    The official balls at which Trump is expected to speak Monday night are invitation-only and will likely be populated with mega-donors and the U.S. corporate elite.

    The tension between the populist MAGA diehards and Trump’s corporate allies has already shown itself on issues such as H1-B, a visa programme for foreign tech workers, and TikTok and may deepen as Trump identifies his near-term priorities.

    Is there room under Trump’s tent for all of them? We’ll soon find out.

    Musk has been at Trump’s side since he won the election in November.

    So it was no surprise when Trump asked him to come on stage during the rally to cheers from the MAGA faithful.

    “We’re looking forward to making a lot of changes, and this victory is the start really,” said Musk, who will chair Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.

    But Musk’s advisory role may extend beyond that mandate.

    He is likely to work with Trump’s White House appointees such as Russell Vought and James Sherk to shrink the size of the federal government while also replacing thousands of career employees with hand-picked Trump political employees.

    As befitting his status, Musk was called by Trump to the stage to speak, while JD Vance, who will be sworn-in on Monday as vice president, was not.

    As it was, Trump seemed to be unsure where Vance was in the arena.

    “Wherever the hell he is,” Trump said, looking about. “He’s here someplace.”

  • Trump to end ‘invasion of borders’ immediately after inauguration

    Trump to end ‘invasion of borders’ immediately after inauguration

    On the eve of his swearing-in ceremony, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told supporters that he would implement anti-immigration measures from day one of his second term in office.

    “By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt.

    “All the illegal border trespassers will, in some form or another, be on their way back home,” the Republican said at a rally in Washington.

    As during his election campaign, Trump used broad generalisations and portrayed undocumented migrants living in the U.S. as criminals.

    While there has been a rise in crime in some areas of the U.S., experts attribute this to complex socio-political causes.

    There is no evidence of a migrants-driven crime wave, nor of migrants committing crimes at higher rates than U.S. nationals. One of Trump’s key election promises was to carry out mass deportations.

    To implement this plan, Trump has nominated several right-wing hardliners to join his government.

    According to U.S. media, the first raids are set to begin shortly after his swearing-in on Monday.

    These are initially planned in Chicago and may also extend to other cities. The action is scheduled to last for a week.

  • Pope Francis flays Trump over anti-immigration plans

    Pope Francis flays Trump over anti-immigration plans

    One day before the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President, Pope Francis criticised his plans for an immigration crackdown when he returns to the White House on Monday.

    In an interview with Italian programme Che Tempo Che Fa on Nove aired on Sunday, the pope was asked about Trump’s mass deportations plans once he returns to office.

    The pope said he had not spoken to Trump since his first term in office.

    He, however, said if it is true that he wants to expel undocumented migrants “it will be a disgrace, because it makes poor unfortunates pay the price of societal imbalance.”

    “This won’t do,” the 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church told Italian presenter Fabio Fazio. This is not how you solve things,” he added.

    The relationship between Pope Francis and Trump is considered tense.

    Before the presidential election in November, the pope was critical of Trump and his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.

    “They are both against life, both the one who gets rid of migrants and the one who kills babies,” referring to Harris’s support for a woman’s right to choose an abortion.

    On Monday, Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in Washington.

    According to U.S. reports, he was set to sign a range of executive orders from day one, with a special focus on anti-migration measures.

  • British PM Starmer hails Trump ahead inauguration

    British PM Starmer hails Trump ahead inauguration

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has congratulated U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration and said that the so-called special relationship “will continue to flourish for years to come.”

    The US president-elect will be sworn in to his second term in the White House on Monday, eight years after he first took the oath of office.

    Starmer paid tribute to the “depth of friendship” between the 47th president and the UK, and pledged to continue to “work together to ensure the success of both our countries and deliver for people on both sides of the Atlantic.”

    Trump spent the eve of the inauguration at a rally, where he declared his supporters had “built a new American majority that will lead our country to success for generations to come.”

    UK politicians including Nigel Farage are in the American capital ahead of the ceremonies, but questions remain over what impact the second Trump presidency will have on economies across the world if he follows through on threats to implement tariffs.

    In a statement on Sunday evening, Starmer sent his congratulations to Trump.

    “For centuries, the relationship between our two nations has been one of collaboration, cooperation and enduring partnership.

    “It is a uniquely close bond,” the prime minister said.

    “Together, we have defended the world from tyranny and worked towards our mutual security and prosperity.”

    Starmer and the president-elect met in New York in September at Trump Tower, ahead of the U.S. election, and at the time the UK leader said he is a “great believer in personal relations on the international stage.”

    Starmer added on Sunday: “Since our first meeting in September, the President and I have spoken about the need to deepen and invest in the transatlantic relationship.

    “We will continue to build upon the unshakeable foundations of our historic alliance as we tackle together the global challenges we face and take our partnership to the next level focused on shared opportunities ahead for growth.

    “I look forward to our next meeting as we continue our shared mission to ensure the peace, prosperity and security of our two great nations.

    “The special relationship between the United Kingdom and United States will continue to flourish for years to come.”