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Ben Reacts: Trump Sworn In as #47

2025/1/20
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Ben Shapiro: 我认为特朗普总统的就职演说是成功的。它既务实又鼓舞人心,既关注眼前的问题,也着眼于长远的目标。演说简洁有力,重点突出,避免了冗长复杂的论述,这使得公众能够集中注意力,理解他的核心信息。他概述了他未来四年计划中的关键内容,包括打击毒品贩运集团、将‘留在墨西哥’政策恢复原状、宣布国家能源紧急状态以及采取强硬的外交政策。他还提到了美国领土扩张的可能性,以及重新控制巴拿马运河的计划。 总的来说,我认为特朗普总统的第二次就职演说与其说是充满激昂的辞藻,不如说是务实和具有战略性的。他强调了威慑战略的重要性,并表示不会为了让别国富裕而损害美国工人的利益。他明确表示,他的目标是为美国人民赢得胜利,并以成功作为衡量其政府的标准。 特朗普总统的政治理念是功利主义的,目标是为美国人民赢得胜利。他将兼顾务实和远大目标,这将使其具有历史独特性。他的政府将关注创新和活力,追求更宏大的目标,并比第一任期更具目标性和严肃性。他险些遇刺的经历增强了他的责任感和目标感,这使得他不会满足于现状,而是积极地制定和实施他的施政纲领。 我相信特朗普总统的政府不会专注于报复,而是着眼于解决美国人民的问题,优先考虑美国利益。他将任命能够打破现状的人才,以确保他的政策能够有效实施。总而言之,我对美国的未来感到乐观,我相信特朗普总统的第二次执政将是成功的。

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So it's a pretty impressive speech from the former and current president of the United States. President Trump gave a 29-minute address, very short for him. It began with him suggesting that this was the beginning of a new golden era for the United States. That obviously is his ambition. And then he recapped the last four years, which he characterized as dark, depressing. I think obviously he was right in all of that. And then he began to lay out an incredibly pragmatic plan.

course of action that he's going to pursue immediately. And that includes everything from designating drug cartels, terrorist organizations, to putting back in place, remain in Mexico, from declaring a national energy emergency to drill baby drill. Those are his words to a foreign policy that's led with strength. He mentioned the release of three hostages by Hamas.

over the weekend. The President of the United States also dropped some pretty charged language about what he sees as the future of American territory. He used the phrase "manifest destiny" to describe the possibility of expanding America's territorial holdings, including regaining some level of control over, for example, the Panama Canal, which he said we did not build for the use of China or ownership by China, which of course is exactly correct. The bottom line is this: President Trump said in the speech that he is going to be a common-sense president.

And that is what you heard. This is a president who is much more focused than he was during his first term. This is a president who actually has an agenda. This is a president who is ready to make that agenda happen in real time. I don't think that it was the most soaring rhetoric I've ever heard from President Trump, but it was some of the most pragmatic rhetoric that I've ever heard from President Trump. Again, it was a shorter address than he usually gives in these sorts of situations. And I think that played to his benefit because, again,

and allowed the American public to focus on what he was saying. He suggested that maybe the most important wars we fight are the ones that we never fight, which is a strategy of deterrence that he has suggested in the past and that he pursued with alacrity during his first term. He suggested that when it came to foreign trade, that we were not going to impoverish American workers in order to make people rich elsewhere. We'll see how that manifests in terms of his actual trade and tariff policy.

But the bottom line for President Trump is, was, and will be utilitarian. It's going to be about winning. It's going to be about pragmatic winning for the American people. That's the theme that he kept coming back to. And he also, in the more inspirational moments of the speech, I think, talked about what he sees as the future of the country and the past of the country, the sort of pioneer spirit that it takes to cross mountains and settle along rivers, the kind of pioneer spirit that it takes to, for example, go to the moon and plant an American flag on the moon.

There's an aspirational nature that's combined with the pragmatic, utilitarian, on-the-ground stuff that I think is gonna make President Trump's second term unique and could, in fact, make President Trump's second term historically unique. It's pretty rare to have a president who's both pursuing the sort of pragmatic, on-the-ground things that are necessary to fix the broken toilet

and at the same time, pursuing the big ideas, the big bold ideas. And it's been a long time in this country since we've pursued actual bold ideas. For a very long time, probably my entire political lifetime, we've been stuck in the position of sort of global managerial class, where it's our job to sort of fix things around the world or fix things at home. President Trump did talk about innovation. He talked about dynamism. He talked about

shooting for something that was larger. And again, there is to his administration a seriousness of purpose that I think a lot of people found lacking at the very beginning of his first administration. He's learned something. Again, the key line was one that Jeremy mentioned a moment ago.

And that key line was that God saved his life in order to make America great again. And I think that because that happened, because he narrowly avoided being assassinated in front of the American people, having his head blown off on national television, I think that he does have a seriousness of purpose. He could sit back on his laurels.

He could right now say, "Listen, I won. I did the thing that I set out to do. I won one term, I lost, and now I came back and I won a second term in historic fashion." He's not doing that. He actually has an agenda. And you can see that agenda unfolding in real time. We're noticing as this speech was unfolding, the White House site had already shifted over to a picture of President Trump with the label "America is back."

And it's worth mentioning right here that on his way out the door, this broke pretty much as President Trump got up to speak, that Joe Biden actually pardoned all the members of his own immediate family in preparation for the idea that Republicans were gonna go after them. That's not true. The reality is, again, that President Trump, I think,

is not going to be focused, and I hope he's not going to be focused, and I think his speech suggests this. This is not a revenge-minded administration. This is a forward-looking administration that is looking to solve the problems of the American people, that is going to put American interests first on foreign and domestic policy, and again, is going to be measured by its success. That was the word he used many times during the speech, success. And that's always been President Trump's metric

of what matters is success and winning. I don't think any of that is going to change in the second administration, but I do think the approach will change much more practical. He actually knows how Washington works now. He's appointing people who are gonna break the things that need to be broken. I'm not sure I've ever been more optimistic about the country in my lifetime, which is, I think, a far cry from where all of us were four years ago.

Our faith has been placed in President Trump as President of the United States again. And I think that the faith of the American people, I hope and I pray, I think as all of us do, that the hope that the American people have placed in President Trump is well justified. Celebrate the 47th president with 47% off your membership. Go to dailywire.com/subscribe.