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Now on track to equal Joe Biden’s record as the oldest ever sitting president, the 78-year-old Donald Trump last night looked and sounded well-rested for once, as well he should given he’s had almost three months to recover from a gruelling campaign.

“We’re not going to take it any more,” he droned, sounding like a tranquillized Howard Beale. “We’re going to unlock the liquid gold that’s under our feet, that’s right, liquid gold. We’re going to restore law and order to our streets. We’re going to restore patriotism to our schools, get radical left woke ideologies the hell out of our military, out of our government. And we are going to make America great again.”

Nothing unusual there, or in the rest of his speech. This was the same Trump that left office in 2021: riffing ad nauseam on his election victory, pinballing between scattered data points that flatter his pretension to dominance, alternately predicting the outbreak of World War Three and promising “it’s not gonna happen”, dwelling on “the Trump effect” and surging crypto yields, and taking credit at length for saving TikTok from the ban that briefly shut it down in the US. (His scheme to save the app seems to involve a compulsory American purchase that will “make a lot of money”, but the specifics, if they exist, remain obscure.)

Like the campaign speeches that reliably sent even his fans streaming towards the exits with boredom, his vacuous riffing made for unrewarding listening. Even worse, Trump foolishly invited Elon Musk on to the stage, crediting him for his victory in Pennsylvania. An ever-looser cannon who’s still entrusted with Pentagon contracts while running a social media safehouse for Nazis and porn bots, Musk seemed unusually rattled and jittery; with no text loaded in the autocue, he stammered through his improvised remarks before fleeing the stage.

As Trump campaign events always do, this pulled together the familiar and the fringe, conventional politics and outright lunacy, cheery these-United-States patriotism and sneering bigotry. Almost all Trump’s lead-in speakers hit on the same themes of retribution, punishment and the just humiliation of adversaries – cruelties already dealt, and those yet to come.

Trump and his costars were particularly keen to celebrate the supposed demise of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.

The Maga elite’s fixation on DEI policies in the public and private sectors may once have been opportunistic pandering, but clearly it’s now for real: speaker after speaker got their biggest cheers for celebrating the abandonment of diversity policies by major corporations. 

Megyn Kelly, who having once helped blow the whistle on sexual harassment at Fox News is now more or less limited to hosting a caustic pro-Trump podcast, delivered borderline racist impressions of Oprah Winfrey and Kamala Harris (“my favourite one was the preacher accent!”) before celebrating how ordinary Trump supporters donned their Maga hats to protest against being “forced” to acknowledge that racism exists.

She sounded almost high, intoxicated at her newfound freedom to stick the knife in and twist it at her leisure. So did Stephen Miller, the far-right architect of Trump’s harshest immigration policies, whose speech would have had you think that recognition of trans identities had been abolished wholesale overnight. “There are men and there are women!”, he yelled, “and it’s not up to you whether you’re a man or a woman: that’s a decision that’s made for you by God, and it cannot be changed!”

Ah yes, God. He featured prominently, and not just in his perennial role of blessing America. One religious speaker at the rally’s opening thanked him for using Trump as a “vessel”; another prayed that he would rain down fire to purify the country. Trump himself has notoriously never publicly displayed any sign of deep engagement with Christian scripture or theology, but the Christian radicalism in his inner circle is too prominent and too extreme to ignore.

Remember Project 2025, the sprawling programme for a future Republican presidency that was so extreme Trump had to spend last year pretending to know nothing about it. (He has now appointed several people involved to his administration.) In the foreword, its leading intellectual Kevin Roberts wrote that the American concept of liberty has been misconstrued:

“When the Founders spoke of ‘pursuit of Happiness’, what they meant might be understood today as in essence ‘pursuit of Blessedness’. That is, an individual must be free to live as his Creator ordained – to flourish. Our Constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought.”

To listen to last night’s speakers, the decision of how Americans “ought” to live has been made. They must be authentically American; that is, not trans, or liberal, or the wrong kind of “diverse”, or naively kind to the undeserving or weak. They must defy and help dismantle “the system”, the inspirational example being Trump’s evasion of multiple attempts to prosecute him in the face of overwhelming evidence. And they must celebrate the destruction and expulsion of the unamerican – specifically unamerican people.

That last theme, in all its dimensions, may well come to define Trump’s first weeks in office. Miller, who declared at Trump’s terrifying Madison Square Garden rally a week before the November election that “America is for Americans and Americans only”, said last night the Trump team have drafted an executive order that will serve “justice for every precious soul stolen from us by Joe Biden’s open border”.

Given that even some Senate Republicans may baulk at the worst things Miller would suggest (taking children from their parents and caging them for the cameras, for one thing), executive action bypassing Congress is his and Trump’s best shot at doing the maximum damage to the most people before the courts can stop them.

“By the time the sun sets tomorrow,” Trump said, “the illegal invasion of our borders will have come to a halt and all the illegal border trespassers will in some form or another be on their way back home.”

Reality will kick in. That “tomorrow” is now today. Trump is pathologically prone to hyperbole, overpromising and outright lying; there is no universe in which the US could identify, round up and deport millions of people in a single day.

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Trump also promised to release papers on the assassination of JFK, end the war in Ukraine, “end inflation”, and order the construction of an Iron Dome defence shield to cover – what? The entire continental US? He did not say, instead lurching back to DEI (“critical race theory and transgender insanity”) and playing a compilation video lamenting how the army has become too gay, as opposed to proudly indoctrinating soldiers to revel in extrajudicial murder.

It’s ridiculous stuff. But Trump also bragged that he has pledged to sign as many executive orders as he can as quickly as possible. They will already have been written. Many will yet be found legally unsound, but not before they are at least partly enacted with very real and grim consequences for untold numbers of lives and livelihoods.

The overall message: Swagger and gleeful cruelty have won. The era of diversity and sunny tolerance is over. Oil is the future. None of Trump’s enemies will be spared. The YMCA is not a gay anthem. And the convicted rioters who attacked Congress on 6 January, 2021, brutalising police and chasing elected officials into panic rooms, are now “the J6 hostages”.

The details, as it always goes with Trump, have yet to be hammered out. But the new Maga era – “the four greatest years in American history,” Trump said – has begun.

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