At 12:01 p.m. Eastern today, Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States. His return to the White House for a second term caps a political comeback unlike any other in U.S. history. He was voted out of office, impeached, indicted and convicted of 34 felonies. Now, Trump is leading the country again.

Cold weather in Washington caused the inauguration to be moved inside the Capitol Rotunda, the capacity of which narrowed the crowd to several hundred V.I.P.s. There, Trump delivered an inaugural speech vowing to save the U.S. from decline. Read an annotated version, and see the words he used most.

“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump declared. “My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all these many betrayals that have taken place and give people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy and indeed their freedom.”

In his address, Trump largely dispensed with the broad unifying strokes that most presidents have turned to on the occasion. “One of the things that was striking about his speech was how much it was about him and his journey as much as it was about the country,” our chief White House correspondent Peter Baker told me. “He said that God saved him from an assassin’s bullet so he could save the country.”

At 78, Trump became the oldest person ever inaugurated as president, eclipsing Joe Biden. He also became the second person to serve nonconsecutive terms as president, joining Grover Cleveland.

Melania: The first lady wore a hat with a brim so broad that it shaded her eyes — giving her an air of inaccessibility.