President Donald Trump, yesterday, declared that he was saved by God from assassination attempts while campaigning for a second term in office to make America great again as he was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States of America.

He pledged to make some immediate and sweeping changes in the next few days, promising to deport millions of undocumented and ‘criminal aliens’, use military force at the southern border to reduce the number of migrants entering the country drastically, declare national energy emergency to expand drilling and tackle inflation.

He also promised to usher in a golden age and bring an end to what he described as America’s decline, while adding that US policy will recognise only two genders.

“My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place, and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy and indeed their freedom.

“The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. From this moment on, American decline is over,” Trump said.

On deportation he said: “First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border with Mexico.

“All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came. I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”

On gender identity, he said: “I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. As of today, it will, henceforth, be the official policy of the United States Government that there are only two genders — male and female.’’

Trump, who said he would impose tariff on other countries, rather than on US citizens, said: “I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.

“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will increase tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.”

“I will declare a national energy emergency to significantly expand drilling in the world’s top oil and gas producer,” he said, adding: “The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today, I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will ‘Drill, baby, drill.”

Trump noted that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, take back the Panama Canal and change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

He said: “Above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we’re taking it back.”

Trump, who campaigned on a platform of clamping down on migration and whose policies are popular with people who fret over changing demographics, also intends to put an end to the centuries-old practice of granting citizenship automatically to anyone born in the United States. We’re going to end asylum.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary, Anna Kelly, told reporters that the Rump administration will create “an immediate removal process without possibility of asylum. We are then going to end birthright citizenship.”

The notion of birthright citizenship is enshrined in the US Constitution, which grants anyone born on US soil the right to an American passport.

Kelly said the actions Trump takes would “clarify” the 14th Amendment — the clause that addresses birthright citizenship.

“The Federal Government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States,” she said.