Five takeaways from Trump's first speech

Donald Trump has been sworn successful arsenic the 47th president of the United States, opening his 2nd word successful the White House aft a decisive comeback successful November's election.

In his 29-minute inauguration speech, Trump promised to reconstruct the American imagination portion besides informing of the chaos and demolition near by the erstwhile administration.

In lawsuit you missed it, present is simply a look astatine the highlights.

Presidents thin to usage their inaugural addresses arsenic a accidental to telephone for unity, making wide and lofty pledges and steering distant from elaborate policy.

Not Donald Trump.

The Republican got close down to specifics, moving done a laundry database of argumentation promises and actions helium would instrumentality successful the archetypal 100 days.

Trump said helium would state a nationalist exigency astatine the confederate borderline (something helium did successful 2019) and deploy nationalist troops for migration enforcement, enactment helium promised connected the run trail.

And helium said helium would motion an enforcement bid meant to "immediately halt censorship and bring backmost escaped code successful America".

• Read much astir the enforcement orders expected from President Trump.

Trump took america backmost to possibly the astir stunning infinitesimal of a chaotic and tumultuous statesmanlike campaign: his attempted assassination.

"Those who privation to halt our origin person tried to instrumentality my state and so instrumentality my life," helium said.

"Just a fewer months ago, successful a beauteous Pennsylvania field, an assassin's slug ripped done my ear, but I felt past and judge adjacent much truthful now, that my beingness was saved for a reason," helium said.

"I was saved by God to marque America large again."

Trump besides looked overseas - promising melodramatic enactment overseas - and to the sky.

The Republican said helium wanted the Panama Canal nether US control, falsely claiming it is presently operated by China. Panama has sovereignty implicit the waterway.

"We're taking it back," Trump said.

And helium prompted a laughter from erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who appeared to ace up erstwhile the president said helium would alteration the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America".

Trump besides looked upwards, vowing to "pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, to works the stars and stripes connected the satellite Mars".

This remark was met with a agleam grin from tech billionaire and Trump advisor Elon Musk, who has agelong said helium wants humans to colonise the faraway planet.

For Trump supporters watching the code successful the Capitol One arena successful Washington DC, 1 of the biggest applause lines came erstwhile the president said: "It volition henceforth beryllium the authoritative argumentation of the United States authorities that determination are lone 2 genders: antheral and female."

Trump vowed to thwart efforts to "socially technologist contention and sex into each facet of nationalist and backstage life".

He promised to make a state that is "colour-blind and merit-based".