New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth provides two imagined
previews of the ceremony.
This
week, he was forced to abandon his cherished “Trump” 757 for an Air Force jet,
and, according to people close to the transition, he has traded in his Android
phone for a secure, encrypted device approved by the Secret Service with a new
number that few people possess.
The official rationale was security. But
some of Mr. Trump’s new aides, who have often been blindsided when a reporter,
outside adviser or office seeker dialed the president-elect directly, expressed
relief. Several of them, however, expect the new president to satisfy his
compulsion for continuous communication by calling outsiders and by tramping
from office to office in search of gossip and sounding boards.
In his 751 word pre-inauguration address
at the Lincoln Memorial, Trump used the phrase “going to” 22 times.
He promised he was “going to”: “unify our
country ... do a special job ... get our jobs back ... not let other countries
take our jobs ... build our great military ... strengthen our borders ... work
together ... and make America great again.”
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| President-Elect Donald Trump and his family at the Lincoln Memorial |
Here’s the full text:
Thank
you very much. Thank you very much everybody, and thank you Tom. I’d like to
congratulate our incredible entertainers tonight. Toby, and Lee Greenwood and
all of the great talent. It was really very special. I also have to thank our
incredible military right here. Thank you. Stand up, please. You guys were
really great. Thank you. So this journey began 18 months ago. I had something
to do with it, but you had much more to do with it than I did. I’m the
messenger. I’m just the messenger. And we were tired. And I love you. Believe
me, I love you. We all got tired of seeing what was happening. And we wanted
change, but we wanted real change. And I look so forward to tomorrow. We’re
going to see something that is going to be so amazing. So many people have
poured into Washington, D.C.
This started out tonight being a small
little concert, and then we had the idea maybe we’ll do it in front of the
Lincoln Memorial. I don’t know if it’s ever been done before. But if it has,
very seldom. And the people came by the thousands and thousands, and here we
are tonight, all the way back. All the way back. So it’s a movement that began,
it’s a movement that started, and it’s a movement like we’ve never seen
anywhere in the world, they say. There’s never been a movement like this and
it’s something very, very special. And we’re going to unify our country, and
our phrase – you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat – “Make America
Great Again.” But we’re going to make America great for all of our people,
everybody. Everybody throughout our country. That includes the inner cities,
that includes everybody.
And we’re going to do a special job, and I
can only tell you that 18 months ago, we never knew, a lot of people didn’t
know, some people had a feeling. A lot of people didn’t give us much of a
chance, but we understood what was happening. And that last month of the
campaign, when I traveled around to every place that you can imagine. State
after state after state, speech after speech. And we had ten thousand, twenty
thousand, thirty thousand people. There was never an empty seat, just like
tonight. We didn’t know if anybody would even come tonight. This hasn’t been
done before. And you look. It was the same way. And we all knew that last month
of the campaign. I think a lot of us knew the first week of the campaign, but that
last month of the campaign we knew that something special was happening.
And I can only tell you this: The polls
started going up, up, up, but they didn’t want to give us credit. Because they
forgot about a lot of us. On the campaign I called it “the forgotten man” and
“the forgotten woman.” Well, you’re not forgotten anymore. That I can tell you.
Not forgotten anymore.
So I want to thank my great family, my
incredible wife Melania. They’ve been so supportive, and it wasn’t easy for
them. But they have been so supportive. I want to thank you, most importantly.
And I promise you that I will work so hard. We’re going to get it turned
around. We’re going to get our jobs back. We’re not going to let other
countries take our jobs any longer. We’re going to build up our great military.
We’re going to build it up. We’re going to strengthen our borders. We’re going
to do things that haven’t been done for our country for many, many decades.
It’s going to change. I promise you it’s going to change.
So I’ll see you tomorrow. And I don’t care
frankly if it’s going to be beautiful or if it’s going to rain like crazy.
Makes no difference to me. I have a feeling it’s going to be beautiful. But I
will see you tomorrow, and I’m going to be cheering you on. You’re going to cheer
me on, but I’m going to be cheering you on. Because what we’ve done is so
special. All over the world they’re talking about it. All over the world. And I
love you folks, and we’re going to work together. And we are going to – make
America great again. And I’ll add: Greater than ever before! Thank you very
much and enjoy the fireworks. Thank you everybody. Thank you.
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