Even as President Donald Trump painted another dark picture of America during his second inaugural address — “Our government confronts a crisis of trust,” he said — there was also a more hopeful theme in his speech: Manifest Destiny.
As the newly sworn-in president signs an ambitious slate of executive orders in his first days in office, he has also set his sights on the literal expansion of the United States.
Trump spoke of the U.S. as a “growing nation” — not just in wealth, but in expanding territory, one that “carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.”