In his 2017 speech, Trump pretended to stand with “struggling families.” This time, the emphasis was solely on cruelty.

Among them were curbing illegal immigration, tackling inflation, increasing domestic oil production and levying tariffs on trading partners.

Mr. Trump is tapping into this social and intellectual history, promising to “pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars” — ...

President Trump on Monday declared it was the beginning of a new “Golden Age” in America, pledging to restore a country that he said had been decimated by the previous administration as he ...