President Trump's inaugural address focused on a nationalist "America first" message. The speech portrayed a bleak view of the current state of the country but promised relentless victory and prosperity through protectionist policies. Trump vowed to turn power over to the American people and away from Washington's elite. He called for unity through total allegiance to the United States.

1. Short and unsweet, Trump’s
inauguration speech puts America
first: Analysis
President Donald Trump’s remarks framed the next four years as
a sharp turn inward, with vague but relentless victory to come.
Donald Trump supporters gather for his inauguration on Friday.
The president's speech ended with a call to unity through "total
allegiance to the United States of America."

2. With unadorned words to a threadbare crowd, President Donald
Trump set a tone of stark nativist redemption Friday, cataloguing
bleakness at every turn and vowing to place America forever
first over the needs of the planet.
As short as it was unsweet — Trump’s 1,470-word inaugural
address was the briefest of any living president save Jimmy
Carter — the newly sworn-in commander-in-chief’s remarks
framed the next four years as a sharp turn inward, with vague
but relentless victory to come.
Historians and analysts in search of phrases for posterity were left
scratching through the entrails of a speech built for populism, not
elegance. The Guardian’s Marina Hyde likened it to something
“assembled from Donald Trump magnetic fridge poetry.”
But as the familiar campaign-style messaging rang out, it was
clear there would be no presidential pivot. The move from
president-elect to the real thing transpired with no noticeable
signal that Trump intends to heal the country’s still-gaping
political wounds.
One gesture of seeming humility — Trump’s speech passed with
barely a reference to himself, a stunning change from the ego-
driven tornado that was his campaign. He turned it over instead
as a moment for the American people, repeatedly vowing their
day had come to regain power from Washington’s elite.
Never before has a president painted such a dystopia at the
moment of ascension. Trump’s America, he said, is blighted by
“mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities;
rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the
landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash
but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of
all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that
have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much
unrealized potential.”

3. Though no single phrase carried historic resonance, Trump
capped his assessment with the word “carnage”: “The American
carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
The word means butchery, bloodbath, massacre — a sadly fitting
descriptor of Syria, perhaps, but an absurd assessment of the
United States.
But if you are going to make America great again, it helps to
start far beneath reality.
Trump’s recipe for recovery is undoubtedly what gave the rest of
the world — and most certainly, the overseers of cross-border
trade in Ottawa — the cause of greatest concern: a promise of
unrelenting protectionism to ensure the United States begins to
win again, regardless of who else loses.
“Protectionism will lead to great prosperity and strength,” Trump
declared, in a phrase eerily reminiscent of the early 1930s.
Trump’s signal to the world beyond his borders began and
ended with a promise to reform the world to “eradicate radical
Islamic terrorism” and abstract assurances to protect old
alliances while nurturing new ones.
This wasn’t about the rest of us. But it also may not signal much
beyond what Trump says in his next tweet. For now, the message
is entirely about inward recovery and the restoration of
something many Americans — perhaps a majority of Americans
— neither miss nor lament.
With tear gas and flash bangs keeping the most aggressive
protesters at bay on the periphery of the inauguration, Trump
ended with his own nationalist appear for unity. But the price of
coming together, he said, would require a litmus test of arch-
patriotism.

4. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/20/short-and-
unsweet-trumps-inauguration-speech-puts-america-first-
analysis.html
“At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the
United States of America, and through our loyalty to our
country,” he said, “we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.”