Pardons and Populism: Trump’s First Day Back in the White House

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On Monday, in the culmination of an extraordinary political comeback, Donald J. Trump was officially sworn in as president of the United States for a second time. Mr. Trump’s return comes just four years after being voted out of office, and being impeached for trying to overturn that result. Peter Baker and Jonathan Swan, who cover the White House for The Times, discuss the message Mr. Trump sent in his inaugural address and the actions he took during his first hours in office. Guests: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	It's a free volume on civil and religious
0:04.0	T-shirts.
0:06.0	So it is around 9.30 a.m. on inauguration day, and we are headed to the Capitol.
0:16.0	And as you can perhaps hear through the microphone.
0:21.6	Hopefully not if I do my job well.
0:23.6	It is really, really windy and very cold.
0:26.6	So we are layered to the hilt.
0:29.6	Like five layers.
0:31.6	Wool socks.
0:32.6	Double socked.
0:33.6	Thermal underwear.
0:35.6	Two hats.
0:36.6	Because we're going to spend a lot of this day outside.
0:42.4	There it is.
0:43.9	Yeah, oh, that's a beautiful view.
0:48.7	We're standing about a football field and a half away from the U.S. Capitol.
0:53.7	I am staring at the dome.
0:56.5	And because it is so bone-chillingly cold,
1:00.6	the inauguration, which is normally held outside,
1:04.1	facing the National Mall,
1:05.9	this has been moved inside the Capitol,
1:08.8	in the rotunda, which we're looking at. And at this very moment,
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