President Donald Trump takes the oath of office at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20.
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Moments after he was sworn in as the 47th US president, Donald Trump gave a staid inaugural address in the Capitol rotunda filled with policy pronouncements on inflation, immigration and energy, along with a call for common sense in politics.
Barely an hour later, he was in entirely different form. From Emancipation Hall in a lower level of the building, he delivered an animated rant in which he decried a “rigged” 2020 election, called former US Speaker Nancy Pelosi “guilty as hell” and railed against former congresswoman Liz Cheney. He said his advisers had told him not to talk in his first address about the pardons Joe Biden had issued or the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters.