Donald J. Trump is president again, sworn in today for a second term, capping perhaps the greatest political comeback in American history.
President Trump gave a subdued 30-minute inaugural address and then immediately signed a flurry of executive orders to make good on many of his campaign pledges, including to crack down on illegal immigration, increase domestic energy production and reverse many of the policies of the Biden administration. He also made proclamations that have no teeth, such as declaring that he is restoring free speech, reversing the betrayals of the last four years and that from now on, the United States will only have two genders, male and female. He also decreed that Mt. Denali give up its Native American name and return to the name Mt. McKinley, and that the Gulf of Mexico will be rechristened the Gulf of America.
For more, KCBS Radio news anchor Bret Burkhart and KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with Bob Shrum, longtime Democratic political consultant and director of the Center for the Political Future at USC.
