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TeleSUR Special Envoy Carlos Montero updates us on the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington D.C., asking Gabriella Romo, communicator and internationalist for her analysis. teleSUR

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00:00Welcome back. This Monday, January 20th, President-elect Donald Trump will be

00:06sworn in official ceremony as President of the United States for the term 2025-

00:112029. In this context we are will be going live to Washington DC as our

00:17special envoy Carlos Montero is there with the details of everything that is

00:20being prepared ahead of the swearing-in ceremony.

00:30Hi Luis, good afternoon at this time. President-elect Trump and his wife, Melania

00:39Trump, they are at the Arlington National Cemetery. They are in front of the tomb of

00:45the soldier unknown. After that, they are planning to go to a basketball stadium,

00:52arena, the way they call it here, the Capital One. We are at three o'clock

00:57expecting it's going to be like a party celebration because he's going to talk.

01:05There are going to be a lot of artists, celebrities, special guests and it's

01:12something really important because four years ago, you remember how he left the

01:16White House in January 6. It was a mess in the Congress and that was the last

01:21time that the President-elect was in the Capitol talking to people. He's going to

01:27talk back today very close to the same place that happened January 6 a few

01:32years ago. The weather is changing everything. It's really cold here. I would

01:40say it's like 32, 35 Fahrenheit degree. The plan was to do a big party

01:47tomorrow, the inauguration outside with the parade, with people celebrating on

01:53the street, but they have to change completely. The swearing ceremony is

01:57going to be inside, inside of the Capitol, what is called a rotunda. And then what's

02:04happening with people, they were expecting 200,000 people here in the

02:08Capitol. Those people, they are going to have to see the ceremony indoors. They

02:13have to, some of them, in this arena, in the Capital One arena. It's not so big. It

02:18has a capacity for 20,000 people. But the truth, Luis, is that tomorrow is going to

02:26start a new era in the USA. The first day in office, Donald Trump is planning to

02:32sign 100 executive orders. Those executive orders are going to be from

02:38immigration to weather related to economy. And of course, it's going to be

02:46something we are all worried about. What's this one we know he's going to

02:50sign about? It's going to be about TikTok. America woke up today, this Sunday, and

02:56when they tried to get into that application, he said, we are not

03:01allowed. The application is blocked because it was an order of the

03:07justice of the USA. Donald Trump said today that he's going to extend the

03:13possibility for TikTok to be open for a few months more until they decide what's

03:19going. What he would like to do is that TikTok goes to half part to American,

03:24half part to foreign funds. But that's the first executive one. I don't know

03:30it's going to be the first, but it's going to be one of the executive orders

03:33he's going to sign tomorrow. But I was talking about the new world that we have

03:38to see from tomorrow. Mental health is something very important. You know, the

03:44mass deportation he's expecting has a lot of people here in the USA very

03:50worried. What's going to happen? To talk about this, Ms. Romo is here with us.

03:57She's an internationalist. Her specialty is mental health. Thank you for being

04:02with us. And I would like if you can share with us what's your advice to

04:08people who are watching us here in the state and they are very scared. What's

04:12going to happen tomorrow and also outside of the state with the Donald

04:16Trump presidency? Well, definitely there is a lot of fear among the Hispanic

04:20community, particularly people who don't have documents. And we actually were

04:25starting to see the reaction. A lot of impulsivity. People are already like

04:30avoiding going to work, not sending their kids to school. So like express

04:36marriages like they were not thinking about it, but probably to have that

04:40insurance of, you know, let's try to stay together and see if we can get

04:45papers. So some of the advice that I always tell people is that they need to

04:51know their rights. They need to know, you know, you are not supposed to, for

04:57example, say your immigration status to anybody unless there is like it comes

05:02from an authority. People need to know, you know, to have their documents also

05:09like up to date. People need to check with an attorney to a respectable lawyer.

05:16There is a lot of people right now who they are like sending misinformation and

05:22acting like they are lawyers, but they are not. So there is a lot of rumors.

05:26There is a lot of like, you know, trying to trust somebody who probably is not

05:31the most respectable person or trustworthy. So checking with a real

05:36attorney, real lawyer to help if they have probably a possibility, an

05:41opportunity to change their status. And this is going to start from the, I don't

05:47know, first day, but second day, the Washington Post, they have inside

05:51information that they are saying that on Tuesday, a day after of the swearing

05:57of Donald Trump, is going to be a lot of riots in Chicago. They are going to be

06:01looking for immigrants. And the city of Chicago today published an alert saying

06:07what Gabriela is telling us, that you have to be careful. You have to be

06:11informed to know what are your rights, what you have to do. But it's a situation

06:17though, absolutely. I mean, a lot of people are scared about this. And we were

06:24talking this morning with another, the director of ONG, who protect immigrants.

06:32I said, please, the best advice you can give them is to don't talk, to don't give

06:35any information to the authorities, because there is nothing they can do.

06:40Exactly. So that's one, but also like people should, this is the moment when

06:45they really have to show like excellent behavior, like, you know, respect traffic

06:51lights, the laws, don't drink while you're under your influence, don't drink when

06:56you are driving. So those are the things that don't, don't stay in the radar of

07:03people. So try to be as low profiled as possible. Because, you know, if you, you

07:09pass a traffic light and it's then, you know, right now police can stop you. And

07:15if they see in your documents that you are not allowed to have a driving license or

07:19you are not allowed to be in this country, they will send you directly to a

07:23detention center, to the immigration authorities. And in detention centers,

07:27people stay there probably for months before they can send, be sent back to their

07:32countries. And that's another thing that people should know. People think like, oh,

07:36if I get deported, I go back immediately. You might be in the detention center for

07:40like, which is like a jail basically for months.

07:43How do you see this second chance that Donald Trump has at the White House? Some

07:48people call it Trump 2.0. What can we expect of him?

07:52It's a more empowered president with much more knowledge about how Washington works,

07:58the dynamic of politics. And also he really has much more power. You see the people

08:04he's surrounding with. They are not like the typical politician. These are like his

08:10friends, people who have supported him and that follow an agenda, which is very much

08:16whatever the president says. So I think that this is what we're going to see. We see

08:22that Trump has made very straightforward points of what it will look like these four

08:29years. And so I think that that's why the whole world right now is kind of like shaky.

08:35Right. It's like we don't know what he's going to do and say a lot of people who

08:38understood when Joe Biden gave the final speech from the White House a few days ago.

08:45He used a term that people are confused.

08:48Oligarchy. Be careful of the oligarchy.

08:50What does he mean? We know what's an oligarch, but when he talk about the power of the

08:55oligarchy. Yes. So the power of these super rich people who now will be in power as

09:01well. So before, probably we'll have like this separation of the businessmen.

09:06These are entrepreneurs like billion, not millionaires, billionaires.

09:09And now they'll have also the power from the government.

09:13So this is what we've seen in Russia, for example.

09:16And so we might expect to see that here in the United States as well.

09:20And you're going to see that tonight, tonight in a few hours, three o'clock p.m.

09:24Eastern time that you are going to see Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon.

09:29You want to see Elon Musk, who's been very close to Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, the

09:34creator of Facebook. Those are people who are going to be close.

09:37And also is something we are going through a process is very interesting.

09:41The USA, what they call the Donald Trump nominated different cabinets.

09:47And it's never been a cabinet of people with so much money.

09:51They call it the cabinet of the millionaires.

09:53Is that good or bad for a country?

09:56I think it is dangerous.

09:57I think is I think it is dangerous because when there is so much money behind, they

10:03might, you know, set the agenda and they may have a lot of power as well because, you

10:08know, follow the money. Right.

10:09That's the say the say of like, just follow the money and see the result.

10:13So I think that it might be dangerous because when you give billions to a person, they

10:20can misuse it.

10:21So it is going to be the power of the capital, the money, the one who has money is in

10:25power. And what's happened to normal people and also what's happened to a country like

10:30this? That's really so divided because, I mean, you have the Camilla Harris lost the

10:35election, but it didn't lose for much.

10:37Even we have to recognize Donald Trump, I mean, he has the two cameras of the Congress

10:43is in the Republican hands.

10:45The Supreme Court is in in the member who are very conservative.

10:51But there are a lot of people who are against Trump.

10:54Yes. So we see that polarization and we see that, you know, people might not be quiet.

11:01Right. Maybe when he was in the past, people were saying resist.

11:06That was like the from the Democrat, the Democratic Party and the Democrats were saying

11:10that let's just resist.

11:12But I think that this time things might be different.

11:15We don't know. But we definitely we see a polarization among the society of the United

11:19States with these important issues, you know, so like immigration, the economy, how

11:25United States, the role that it has in the world, particularly with the wars that we're

11:29seeing in Gaza. And, you know, what he's saying about Greenland and Panama Canal, all

11:36those things. I mean, sometimes they are so crazy that they sound funny.

11:40Something I really want to thank you very much for this conversation.

11:43And I really was talking about resistance yesterday here in Washington.

11:48It was a protest.

11:49It wasn't absolutely as big as it was four years ago.

11:52They were around 5000 people.

11:55Some people say maybe they are getting tired.

11:57Maybe they think we are not going anywhere.

11:59But the reality is there are a lot of people who are scared of what's going to happen in

12:04the USA from tomorrow and what's going to be the relation that Trump is going to have

12:09with the region, with Latin America, with Mexico.

12:12Yesterday was a gala.

12:16The Latin Hispanic committee were a lot of rich Spanish people, a lot of them from Miami

12:21and the situation, I mean, what's going to happen with Latin America is going to be a

12:25lot of questions around that.

12:27And it's really scary.

12:28But this is all for this moment.

12:31I remind you guys in, let me see, exactly in one hour, the Capital One Arena is going

12:39to be full of people.

12:40People are being waiting from early this morning.

12:43And I think Trump is going to be there around four o'clock.

12:47But before there are going to be a lot of speakers, celebrities, rich people like we

12:51were talking with Ms. Romo.

12:53And we are going to have a lot of information to tell you the next time we talk.

12:57Luis, I'm going back to you to the studio.

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