The inauguration of Donald Trump and the beginning of his second term as US President is at the forefront of many newspapers. Metro published a photo of Trump embracing his family and wrote, “Now the world waits to see what happens next…”
I say Trump has been “liberated” and he has done so by promising to increase fossil fuel production, promising to crack down on illegal immigration, and signing an executive order declaring that the US government is officially “only Will recognize two sexes.
The Times quoted Trump as saying that “America’s golden age is just beginning”. The paper said his comeback comes after a 2020 election defeat, four criminal trials and a near-miss assassination attempt, describing it as a “remarkable comeback”.
The Financial Times says Trump has “promised to act increasingly on the populist and nationalist platform that won him last year’s presidential race”. It says he has repeatedly pledged to take back control of the Panama Canal and withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, though it also says he has yet to implement new import tariffs pledged before the election. Have stopped announcing.
According to the Guardian, Trump said America would “prosper and be respected throughout the world again”. It quoted him as saying, “We will be the envy of every country and we will no longer allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”
The Daily Star, in typically irreverent fashion, says that a “giant orange man” has become the 47th US President. Paraphrasing the oath taken by presidents during the inauguration ceremony, it says: “So help us God”.
There are photographs of the inauguration in many newspapers, but the guilty plea entered by Axel Rudakubana on the first day of his Southport attacks trial is prominent. The 18-year-old admitted killing three girls, aged six, seven and nine, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July. The Daily Express says Rudakubana had previous contact with police and was referred to the Prevent anti-terror scheme three times between the ages of 13 and 14.
The Sun describes the fact that Rudakubana was able to carry out the murders as a “huge state failure” and asks: “Why didn’t anyone stop him?”
According to the Daily Mail, Rudakubana had planned the attack on his old school just a week before the attacks in Southport. The newspaper described it as “the last in a series of missed opportunities” to stop the killings.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who has announced a public inquiry into the murder, is quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying that “there are serious questions to answer about how the state failed to protect these girls”.
The Daily Telegraph says the government faces questions about why the public was initially told the attack was not being treated as terrorism. This led to allegations by UK leader Nigel Farage that there had been “a massive cover-up from day one” and shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said that public suspicions that information was being hidden “contributed to that anger. Which spread into the subsequent riots”.
