Trump may have been inaugurated on 20 January, but he might as well have become president on 28 February. While his inauguration speech will be known for its gloomy words like ‘carnage’, this speech will be remembered for his upbeat tone about the promise of America.

In many ways, it was the long-awaited pivot that Trump has always promised. This was unlike any other speech we have seen from Trump: he was disciplined, didn’t veer much at all from the script and hit his marks.