“This was the most important viewers to ever witness an inauguration — interval — each in particular person and across the globe.” If I might have one second in time to do over, it will be that presser. My phrases weren’t chosen properly, and so they’ll reside with me perpetually due to that. “These makes an attempt to minimize the keenness of the inauguration are shameful and mistaken.” However lots has modified since that second at that podium. These subsequent 4 years are going to be very completely different. And I’m about to inform you why. [MUSIC PLAYING] So after we received in 2016, there was an instantaneous try to delegitimize the win. It was resistance, resistance, resistance. Companies enacted woke insurance policies. They advised their workers it was OK — they may take the time off, go march, cry. This time, they’re throwing checks on the man. “Mark Zuckerberg donated one million {dollars}.” “Ford, Normal Motors and Toyota will donate $1 million every to Donald Trump.” “OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman —” “C.E.O.s from TikTok, Google, Apple, Netflix —” Giving them fleets of vehicles, Coca-Cola sending down the primary inaugural Weight-reduction plan Coke to Mar-a-Lago. “On this time period, all people needs to be my good friend. I don’t know.” It’s unreal, the distinction between then and now, the resistance versus the welcoming. To be blunt, I’m a bit jealous. After we got here into workplace in 2017, it was virtually like a forged of characters out of a present. You had Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks. We all of the sudden all grew to become family names. “All proper, quiet down, quiet down.” I bear in mind popping out of church one morning and my telephone buzzing. “Now, I’d like to start at this time by apologizing on behalf of you to me.” There had been a “Saturday Evening Dwell” skit. Not solely did you might have this mixture of persona — “Steve Bannon turning on this White Home, turning on the president’s household.” “Omirosa Manigault was reportedly making an attempt to barge into the White Home residence.” “Bannon, Kushner, West Wing turf wars.” “Plenty of chaos.” “Reince Priebus is out.” “Sean Spicer is out.” “President Trump apparently getting uninterested in all of the infighting contained in the White Home.” They have been leveraging tales within the media to go after each other. I imply, frankly, some individuals weren’t there to serve the president and his agenda. However this time, he’s working the entire present. It’s all him. It is a way more disciplined, centered course of, beginning on the prime. “Susie likes to remain within the background. She’s not within the background.” Susie Wiles, she’s been within the marketing campaign world since 2016. Karoline Leavitt, the incoming press secretary, labored for President Trump within the first time period. “I noticed simply how pleasant and great President Trump really is.” Take somebody like Pam Bondi. She’s recognized the president for many years. “He’s my good friend.” From White Home counsel to workers secretary, these are individuals who have a level of familiarity and a relationship with President Trump that almost all of us didn’t have going into the 2017 first time period. Look, will there be infighting? Will there be individuals going at one another on coverage? Completely. And that’s a wholesome and good factor. He encourages that. However there’s a giant distinction between combating over coverage and backstabbing to throw them beneath the bus and hopefully eliminate them. “I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear —” “Individuals bear in mind in 2017 when he gave his inaugural deal with, he talked about — “This American carnage stops proper right here and —” When he’s challenged, he’s going to struggle again. And that was the man that you just noticed in 2017 as a result of he was dealing with a resistance on a number of fronts. It is a Donald Trump that’s being celebrated. This time, I feel he needs to be a way more aspirational and magnanimous president. How can we make individuals extra affluent? How can we carry individuals up out of poverty? How can we safe the nation extra? How can we make America more healthy once more, convey wellness again into the nation? It’s going to be cataclysmic. Individuals are unified and centered. That is about Trump and his agenda. It’s going to be historic, by any measure. [MUSIC PLAYING]