WASHINGTON (AP) -- America is getting what it ordered on Election Day.
If anyone was expecting an evolution from Donald Trump the candidate to Donald Trump the president, never mind.
The new president delivered an inaugural address Friday that was straight from his campaign script -- to the delight or dismay of different subsets of Americans.
Trump gave nods to unity and began with kind words for Barack and Michelle Obama, but pivoted immediately to a searing indictment of the status quo and the Obama years.
Presidents past have promised an American Covenant, a New Frontier, a Great Society.
Trump sketched a vision of "American carnage."
Then he promised to end it with a nationalist "America First" approach to governing.
It was a speech for Trump's supporters, but maybe not those who voted for somebody else.
When Trump told the crowd on the National Mall and watching from afar that "everyone is listening to you now" and spoke of a "historic movement the likes of which the world has never seen before," he seemed to harking back to his voters.
"At some point, there has got to be a transference to being the leader of all the people," said Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, though, heard "exactly the speech Trump needed to give to be the kind of president he wants to be."
"In a very workmanlike way, he was reasserting precisely the themes that had gotten him elected," Gingrich said. "He is trying to communicate how he sees the next few years from his perspective: It will basically be pitched again and again as the people vs. the establishment, and it will be constant striving to reform the system."
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