Donald Trump inauguration: Highlights from Lincoln Memorial speech
US President-elect Donald Trump attended the Make America Great Again! concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Thursday
New Delhi: Attending the “Make America Great Again!" concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump delivered a speech in front of a massive of supporters on the eve of his inauguration as the 45th President of the US on Friday. The speech could well have been a rehearsal of what he is going to say in his inauguration speech.
Here are the highlights from Trump’s Lincoln Memorial speech:
• This journey began 18 months ago. I had something to do with it, but you had much more to do with it. We all got tired of seeing what was happening, and we wanted change.
• My campaign was a movement that started, and it’s a movement like we’ve never seen anywhere in the world they say. There’s never been a movement like this, and it’s something very, very special.
• We’re going to unify our country, and our phrase – you all know it – ‘Make America Great Again!’ But we’re going to make America great for all of our people.
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• We’re going to do a special job and I can only tell you that 18 months ago… A lot of people didn’t give us much of a chance, but we understood what was happening. And that last month of the campaign when I traveled around to everywhere you could imagine… We knew that something special was happening, and I can only tell you this: the polls started going up, up, up but they didn’t want to give us credit. Because they forgot about a lot of us… Well, you’re not forgotten anymore.
• I want to thank my great family. My incredible wife Melania. They’ve been so supportive, and it wasn’t easy for them… I want to thank you most importantly, and I promise you I will work so hard.
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• We’re going to do things that haven’t been done for our country for many, many decades. It’s going to change. I promise you, it’s going to change.
• I will see you tomorrow, and I’m going to be cheering you on… Because what we’ve done is so special. All over the world they’re talking about.
• We are going to work together, and we are going to make America great again. And I’ll add, greater than ever before.
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