Former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton sat politely as President Donald Trump excoriated their failures and what he described as the “betrayals” of the political class in his second inaugural address.

Trump vows to send astronauts to plant an American flag on Mars and to establish an “External Revenue Service” for tariff collection.

Festivities started earlier when Trump arrived for service at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Here's the latest: Among the executive orders Trump signed with a flourish in front of a cheering crowd was one mandating that federal workers return to their offices five days a week.

Trump vowed to “defeat what was record inflation.” Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022 after rising steadily in the first 17 months of Biden’s presidency from a low of 0.1% in May 2020. The most recent data shows that as of December it had fallen to 2.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.