When Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday (AEDT), he declared, “The golden age of America begins right now.”

We shall see. Trump took charge of the Oval Office the first time around, in 2017, on the back of the motto that cannot be measured: Make America Great Again. He then lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Now he has returned after 77 million people voted for him. It cannot be denied that victory gives him the green light to govern as he said he would during the campaign. After all, he won.

Guests including Mark Zuckerberg (left), Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk at the inauguration.Credit: AP

Images from his inauguration appear like a gathering of a plutocracy. There were some of the masters of the financial universe, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg (worth $US212 billion, or $A340 billion), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ($240 billion), Tesla’s Elon Musk ($434 billion) and Google CEO Sundar Pichai ($1.3 billion), all in a row. They took pride of place, ahead of........

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