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By Kathryn Watson
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President Trump’s second inauguration didn’t look like his first one, as there was a smaller audience this time around inside the Capitol Rotunda.
But Mr. Trump’s Friday decision to move the program indoors due to dangerously cold temperatures does nothing to change the order of the ceremony.
Here are the people who spoke Monday:
As is custom for new presidents, Mr. Trump delivered an inaugural address. In the roughly 30-minute speech, Mr. Trump vowed the “golden age of America begins right now” and “from this moment on, America’s decline is over.”
His first inaugural address lasted a mere 16 minutes, and spanned 1,433 words. It was the shortest since the late Jimmy Carter’s inaugural address in 1977.
“American carnage” was a phrase that reverberated from Mr. Trump’s 2017 speech.
“The American carnage stops right here, right now,” he said in that speech. “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first. America first.”
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York, delivered the invocation.
“The president was kind enough to ask me to do the opening prayer,” Dolan told New York’s PIX11 Morning News on Christmas Eve.
Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, delivered an invocation. Graham has been a strong supporter of Mr. Trump, despite the president-elect’s legal and moral challenges. Graham declined to endorse Mr. Trump during the primaries, waiting to voice his support until he was the apparent GOP nominee.
The ceremony is an interfaith one, and the benediction was delivered by four religious figures of four different faith traditions. Rabbi Ari Berman is the president of Yeshiva University. Imam Husham Al Husainy is with the Karbalaa Islamic Center. Senior Pastor Lorenzo Sewell is responsible for 180 Church Detroit. And the Rev. Father Frank Mann is with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was nominated by Mr. Trump, delivered the oath of office to Vice President JD Vance. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to Mr. Trump. It’s tradition for the court’s chief justice to swear in the president.
Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.
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