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Donald Trump appears to have quoted Batman villain Bane in his inaugural address.

President Trump took the oath of office on Washington DC's National Mall today, delivering his first speech in front of the grand neoclassical columns of the Capitol Building.

But in the hit 2012 movie The Dark Knight Rises , masked bad guy Bane - played by Tom Hardy - used some eerily similar language in a speech in front of the neoclassical columns of Gotham's City Hall.

In today's speech Donald Trump said for too long the US had been controlled by the elites.

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In today's speech, Trump promised he'd be taking America back from the elites, "and giving it back to you the people."

In Bane's speech in The Dark Knight Rises, the muscular mercenary pledges to take control back from the corrupt forces in charge of Gotham City, "and give it back to you...the people."

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Elsewhere in his speech, Trump promised to end crime and gang violence in America.

He said: "The crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealised potential.

"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."

Meanwhile, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke sent his congratulations to Donald Trump on his inauguration as President.

He tweeted: "We did it!"