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Author: Ba Jiuling, Source: Wu Xiaobo Channel
The rotunda of the U.S. Capitol is famous for its circular dome that allows visitors to breathe.
As far as you can see, above 54 meters is a zenith mural called “Washington Ascends to the Immortal”: The founding father of the United States, Washington ascends to heaven and stands side by side with the gods; under the painting is a circle called “American History Decoration”The sculpture group with more than 200 years of history has emerged from Columbus landing to the development of the aviation industry.
Source: Reuters
In this atmosphere of “the ancestors are above and the emperor and the queen witnesses”, Trump completed the American adult ceremony – the inauguration ceremony of the new president.
If your impression of this day is still at the intensively announced measures yesterday (as shown below), you might as well follow us to change our taste today.
Thousands of photographers around the world have recorded this historic moment. We used 5 moments and 20 pictures to complement it to restore a more plump first day of the president.
Source: New York Post
Enter the mirror: a special tie
Inauguration Day is full of grand scenes, grand ceremonies and photo-taking. On such a world-class stage, clothing and outfits, including colors, cutting and details, will become the focus.
The first lady’s special hat, the senator who entered the venue in hoodies and shorts, the vice president’s wife with brighter tones compared to most people, and Hillary’s brooch became hot topics for fashion editors.
Source: Getty Images, Reuters
But when Trump appears in the camera, his tie quickly attracts attention.
Unlike the bright reds of the past, the new tie is a mixture of red and blue, which creates a purple effect.
Fashion editor Rui commented:“The softer the signal in my world, I don’t need to yell. I don’t need to cast. I’ve arrived.”
The source of Trump’s suit is untestable, but it will undoubtedly be made in the United States.
In the new era that Trump is about to begin, he still devotes his beautiful vision for the return of American manufacturing. The suits on his body may be one of the driving forces. This is a sad story: the clothing manufacturing industry in the United States has been declining.Some factories that produce clothing for previous inauguration ceremonies no longer exist.
Source: Reuters
Infield: $1.3 trillion
On the day Trump took office, the world entered the annual “Davos World Economic Forum” time, providing a “world economic vane” for the new year.
In the past, from heads of state and politicians to leaders and executives of large enterprises, all would gather in the Swiss town of Davos.But today, the dozen of them with the most weight surrounds Trump and occupy the best seat at the ceremony.
Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegses even had to cross their shoulders to watch the ceremony.
Their net worth totaled over $1.3 trillion.The best place is left to the three tech giants sitting behind the Trump family: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
Source: Bloomberg
The corporate tycoons attending the ceremony include LVMH CEO and French richest man Bernard Arnold, Co-founder of Alphabet Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar PiChay, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Las Vegas Sands Group’s major shareholder Miriam Adelson, hedge fund number John Paulson, media tycoon Rupert Murdochand Apple CEO Tim Cook and others.
Musk is undoubtedly the most highly regarded one, and when Trump’s speech mentioned “to plant the star-striped flag on Mars”, he waved his fists excitedly.A few hours later, he was officially given an executive order, and the Ministry of Efficiency (Doge) was established, and he was greeted by an office that could accommodate 20 people.
Source: Observer.com
Eight years ago, Trump broke into the White House with a loneliness, and eight years later, behind him is the richest and most influential corporate leader in the world.The only drawback is Huang Renxun’s absence. On that day, he was attending the company’s annual meeting in Beijing and experienced Huawei’s three-fold screen.
The media also found Zhou Shouzi, who was among the crowd. His TikTok not long ago experienced ups and downs from closure to recovery within 14 hours. Trump’s newly signed executive order temporarily stopped the ban on him in the United States.Give it a 75-day grace period.
But behind the carrot is a big stick, and he also threatened: If it is not approved, then increase the tax.
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Outfield: A pen thrown into the crowd
The first sentence of the US Constitution is that all legislative powers belong to the United States Congress, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives, where Trump deliberately chose to complete the transfer of power.
The second sentence is that executive power belongs to the President of the United States of America, and Trump declared the “Return of the King” with his pen.
On the day of his inauguration, Trump actually held three speeches. What is well known to the world is the inauguration speech in the Capitol. The second speech took place after watching Biden leave in a naval helicopter. He was at the Capitol.Supporters elsewhere made improvised speeches at rallies.
Source: EPA
At this time, the familiar Trump appears.
He reiterated the old tune of accusing the 2020 election of “manipulated”. He boasted about his large-scale victory in the 2024 election. He said that he was a bit of a show-off just now, and he was reluctant to talk about “unity” in his inaugural speech.
But this time he can not only say it, but also do it.
On this day, he signed a total of 46 documents, including administrative orders, statements, memorandums, etc.Among them, 26 executive orders were issued, setting a record for the number of administrative orders issued in a single day.
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Their focus seems to have and only have one “interior affairs”.According to statistics from Minsheng Securities, the signed documents ranked among the top three in administrative departments, border and immigration, energy and environment.
If you want to draw keywords in “internal affairs”, it is undoubtedly Biden.
Trump directly signed an executive order to “revoke the former administration executive order”, and at the same time, a comprehensive liquidation of Biden in various fields.
To give a few examples: He stopped Biden’s “green new policy” aimed at promoting green employment, regulating the fossil fuel industry and limiting pollution, and at the same time declared a national energy emergency and vowed to “continuously drill” to get moreAmerican fossil fuels, etc.; stop all “diversity, fairness and inclusive” (DEI) plans within the federal government under Biden; revoke Biden’s decision to remove Cuba from the US list of countries supporting terrorism; and against Biden’s administrationThe work of subordinate law enforcement and intelligence agencies is reviewed, etc.
Source: Reuters
The BBC commented: Trump turned a normal presidential act – revoking orders from the previous administration of different parties – into a farce.And he obviously enjoyed it, and while signing, he also provoked: “Can you imagine Joe Biden would do this?”
At least Biden would not throw the pen to the auditorium that signed the document.
Source: Reuters
When the 78-year-old Trump finished his actions as an 8-year-old, he returned to the White House to continue giving orders.At midnight, he announced on social media that he had issued a “official dismissal notice” to the four officials appointed by Biden, claiming that there will be more than 1,000 more next.
Source: Truth Social
Benchmark: Golden Age and Gilded Age
It seems difficult to find a US president who can match Trump in history.But Trump now has his benchmark: a US president who is not well-known to the Chinese and is not regarded as great by most Americans: William McKinley.
Recently, he has been addicted to world geography and made two geography-related decisions on his first day in office:
First, it announced the change of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States.The executive order related to it, “Restoring the Name of the Great Memorial to America” has also been signed.
There is a behind-the-scenes footage here, the New York Post captured, at the inauguration ceremony, Trump said, “In the near future, we will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.” He won the audience’s standing up and applause, and also won theHillary’s laughter.
Video screenshot: From the New York Post
Second, renamed the highest mountain in Alaska, “Dinali Hill” to “McKinley Hill” – a move that slapped Obama in the face. In 2015, he changed his name in the language of the Alaska Native people – TrunPu believes that this is to tamper with history to cater to liberal ideas.
Making McKinley the “highest mountain” again is also the peak that Trump will reach.
McKinley is the 25th president of the United States, a 125-year difference from Trump, equivalent to half of American history, and the ending was bleak, and he died of assassination, but what he did coincided with Trump’s current situation.
During his tenure, he expanded U.S. territory, including Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines, into the United States, and Trump’s land goals have already covered Mars.
The funder behind McKinley is J.P. Morgan, who has received $250,000 in campaign funds, and Trump is now also an important technology, finance and oil tycoon.
More importantly, McKinley is also a “tariff president” who has raised tariffs to more than 50%. He said the tariff move is intended to protect the domestic market of U.S. manufacturers, providing funds to the government without requiring tax increases.
It sounds like Trump is a McKinley replica, and Trump said at the inauguration: “We will impose tariffs and taxes on foreign countries to make our citizens rich.”
At the end of the 19th century, McKinley’s era was called the “Gilded Age”. Coincidentally, Trump’s inauguration speech began with “The Golden Age of America” and ended with “Our Golden Age”.
Source: New York Post
Market: Wealth is hard to find in danger
The golden age portrayed by Trump has at least four years of operational cycle, and the financial market is focusing on the opportunity to “gold rush”, but on the first day, uncertainty has made traders anxious.
In the executive order, the highly-watched “tariff” is temporarily absent, with only two directional expressions: “expressing tariffs on foreign countries” and “establishing foreign tax bureaus”.Comment by The Economist: This president, known for his outspokenness, rarely showed ambiguity on major issues this time.
This has triggered volatility in the financial market.
The dollar saw its first correction in many days, with the dollar index falling 1.2%.Only Canada and Mexico, which were announced to be tariff-raising, were injured, with the Canadian dollar falling to its lowest point in nearly five years.
Source: Yingwei Finance
The day before, the RMB rebounded sharply late at night, and the offshore RMB rose 1% on the same day to rebound to 7.26, with five consecutive checkpoints of receipts and payments, but analysts rigorously reminded “Don’t interpret Trump’s performance on the first day of his tenure.”.
Bitcoin has also experienced an early rise and a subsequent fall, and cryptocurrency is another promise Trump has not fulfilled on the first day.
As the saying goes, buy expectations, sell cash, as a comparison, on the first trading day after Trump took office, the stock price of its subsidiary Trump Media Technology Group fell 11%. They are waiting for new stimulus, but they should notWait too long.
Conclusion
This day was just an appetizer, as a senior American media person said: “In the next four years, Mr. Trump’s words and deeds will keep surprise us – many are good, some are bad., and many more are unexpected or hilarious. Americans will go through a crazy journey. Sometimes this discord can be confusing. Fasten your seat belt, everyone.”
In the words of us Chinese, it means: “Seeking for self-blessing.”
