On Monday, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president. At his inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, he spoke of the beginning of the “golden age of America”. With a raft of executive orders including the pardoning of US Capitol rioters and the withdrawal of the US from the World Health Organisation and the Paris climate agreement, Trump’s first day back in the Oval Office was anything but quiet. Here is how the media reported it:
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