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Trump's inauguration speech took on 'imperial tone': Hilsenrath

President Donald Trump has officially been sworn back into office for his second term on Monday, January 20. Trump has a slew of policies and executive orders he seeks to enact on his first day back in office following his inauguration ceremony. Serpa Pinto Advisory founder Jon Hilsenrath sits down in-studio with Julie Hyman and Seana Smith to weigh in on the Trump persona that materialized in his inauguration speech "It was actually quite confrontational, I think a lot of cultural commentary. One of the two things jumped out at me... was an imperial tone that I haven't heard from him before," Hilsenrath says. "The recitation of Manifest Destiny, which was... a phrase from the mid-1800s that was used to kind of explain and justify America's expansion into Oregon and Texas and other places.  Hilsenrath goes on to say that the election wasn't "for a lot of Americans about these kind of imperial ideas" and that he "didn't hear a lot about tariffs" from Trump. Watch President Donald Trump's 2025 Inauguration ceremony, while staying up to date with all the market news and economic data covered by Yahoo Finance. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.