Trump touts a giant investment and launches his revenge campaign – 01/22/2025 at 02:30

Donald Trump, the day after his inauguration, announced on Tuesday a giant private investment in artificial intelligence and launched his political revenge campaign.

The Republican president touted a project called “Stargate” to the press, promising investments of “at least $500 billion” in technological infrastructure in the United States.

It should generate “almost immediately more than 100,000 jobs,” assured the billionaire, who always liked to line up spectacular figures.

Stargate brings together the “cloud” (remote computing) specialist Oracle, the Japanese investment company SoftBank, and the generative AI start-up OpenAI, whose leaders were present at the White House.

Each in turn, the three bosses thanked Donald Trump.

“We couldn’t have done this without you,” said Masayoshi Son (SoftBank). He praised the promise made the day before by the 78-year-old president, that of bringing America “into a golden age”.

In the same vein, Donald Trump had made another commitment, much darker, that of avenging the “betrayal” of which he judges that the United States was the victim after the election in 2020 of Democrat Joe Biden.

The Republican president declared overnight that he had ordered his team “to actively identify and dismiss more than 1,000 people appointed by the previous administration.”

– “Not aligned” –

People “who are not aligned with our vision to make America great again,” he said on his Truth Social platform.

He assured that four people had already been “fired” – including former chief of staff of the armed forces Mark Milley, one of his pet peeves, removed from an advisory role. Chef José Andrés, recently decorated by Joe Biden for his humanitarian actions, was also targeted, but he assured that his function in a commission devoted, among other things, to food was over in any case.

Admiral Linda Fagan, appointed by the former Democratic president to head the US Coast Guard and the first woman to head one of the six branches of the army, was also fired.

The new administration also withdrew the police protection enjoyed by John Bolton, former White House National Security Advisor during the Republican's first term, who became a fierce critic.

Asked about this, Donald Trump said that his former advisor was a “stupid” man and that this protection should not be guaranteed for life.

He also defended his decision to pardon 1,500 people convicted of attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent Joe Biden from coming to power, or to commute their sentences for some.

Among the beneficiaries of this gesture of clemency are the leaders of two far-right militias, the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

“Their sentences were ridiculous and excessive,” said Donald Trump, who just before this attack had heated up his supporters with a speech about a “rigged” election – a false assertion that he maintains.

– Bishop –

After a triumphant inauguration, Donald Trump met a completely different welcome early Tuesday morning, during a religious service at the Washington National Cathedral.

“There are gay, lesbian, transgender children from Democratic, Republican or independent families, some of whom fear for their lives,” said the Episcopalian Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, urging him to show “mercy “.

“They may not be citizens, or they may not have the right papers, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,” she also argued.

The Republican president issued decrees on Monday targeting illegal immigration and denying the existence of transgender people.

The Republican remained unmoved, saying only upon his return to the White House that the church service “could have been much better.”