Trump First Inauguration — 'America First' Era Begins

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President on January 20, 2017, delivering a bleak 'American carnage' address. He immediately pursued an 'America First' agenda: withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Paris Climate Accord, imposing steel and aluminum tariffs, challenging NATO burden-sharing, and beginning a trade war with China. Trump's first term was marked by extraordinary volatility — two impeachments, a pandemic, and the January 6 Capitol attack.