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my fellow americans four years ago we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country to renew its spirit and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens in short we embarked on a mission to make america great again for all americans as i conclude my term as the 45th president of the united states i stand before you truly proud of what we have achieved together we did what we came here to do and so much more this week we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping america safe and prosperous we extend our best wishes and we also want them to have luck a very important word i'd like to begin by thanking just a few of the amazing people who made our remarkable journey possible first let me express my overwhelming gratitude for the love and support of our spectacular first lady melania let me also share my deepest appreciation to my daughter ivanka my son-in-law jared and to baron don eric tiffany and lara you fill my world with light and with joy i also want to thank vice president mike pence his wonderful wife karen and the entire pence family thank you as well to my chief of staff mark meadows the dedicated members of the white house staff and the cabinet and all of the incredible people across our administration who poured out their heart and soul to fight for america i also want to take a moment to thank a truly exceptional group of people the united states secret service my family and i will forever be in your debt my profound gratitude as well to everyone in the white house military office the teams of marine one and air force one every member of the armed forces and state and local law enforcement all across our country most of all i want to thank the american people to serve as your president has been an honor beyond description thank you for this extraordinary privilege and that's what it is a great privilege and a great honor we must never forget that while americans will always have our disagreements we are a nation of incredible decent faithful and peace-loving citizens who all want our country to thrive and flourish and be very very successful and good we are a truly magnificent nation all americans were horrified by the assault on our capital political violence is an attack on everything we cherish as americans it can never be tolerated now more than ever we must unify around our shared values and rise above the partisan rancor and forge our common destiny four years ago i came to washington as the only true outsider ever to win the presidency i had not spent my career as a politician but as a builder looking at open skylines and imagining infinite possibilities i ran for president because i knew there were towering new summits for america just waiting to be scaled i knew the potential for our nation was boundless as long as we put america first so i left behind my former life and stepped into a very difficult arena but an arena nevertheless with all sorts of potential if properly done america had given me so much and i wanted to give something back together with millions of hard-working patriots across this land we built the greatest political movement in the history of our country we also built the greatest economy in the history of the world it was about america first because we all wanted to make america great again we restored the principle that a nation exists to serve as citizens our agenda was not about right or left it wasn't about republican or democrat but about the good of a nation and that means the whole nation with the support and prayers of the american people we achieved more than anyone thought possible nobody thought we could even come close we passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in american history we slash more job-killing regulations than any administration had ever done before we fixed our broken trade deals withdrew from the horrible trans-pacific partnership and the impossible paris climate accord renegotiated the one-sided
