The Issue: President Trump’s speech during the inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol on Monday. Some pundits criticized President Trump’s inaugural address as inappropriate and cringeworthy because ...

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President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address on Jan. 20. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Getty President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to bring astronauts to the Moon, without putting a ...

Donald Trump was never going to deliver Lincoln’s second inaugural address—no one else has either—but on Monday the 45th and now 47th President delivered a message of aspiration and optimism that most ...

WASHINGTON — After the violent tumult of four years ago, President Trump’s inauguration ceremonies on Monday began as a valiant attempt at normalcy to demonstrate the resiliency of American democracy.

Jimmy Kimmel addressed the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday night’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and noted how odd the ceremony turned out to be — just as “our long national ...