TRUMP 2017 VS TRUMP 2025: COMPARING TWO INAUGURAL ADDRESSES

The paper focuses on analyzing two inaugural speeches by President Donald Trump, which he gave in 2017 and 2025.The inaugural is regarded as the first chance for the newly elected leader to present themselves, highlight their agenda, and unite the electorate despite their personal choices.The speaker addresses the basic concepts of the audience's worldview.The concept as a cognitive representation of our mental code is verbalized by morphosyntactic constructions, i.e., prefabricated pairings of form, meaning, and function.The aim of the research is to establish morphosyntactic constructions encoding basic concepts of the inaugural speeches.The analysis has shown that there are identical concepts of RENEWAL and UNITY, synonymic CALAMITY and CRISIS, and two varying PATRITISM in 2017 address and SUCCESS in 2025 speech.The verbalization of the synonymic concepts CALAMITY and CRISIS differs in encoding their structural components: in the first inaugural predominate pairings representing the perceptual level of the concept of CALAMITY designating the problems of an American family, while in the 2025 speech most pairings verbalize the notional component of the CRISIS concept underscoring the dire situation in the governmental activities.The RENEWAL concept is highlighted as a promise to overcome all the difficulties of ordinary Americans in the 2017 inaugural and the renovation of the core American values in the 2025 address.The identical concept of UNITY is represented by similar constructions in both speeches, indicating collaboration and integrity.The concept of PATRIOTISM in 2017 inaugural is represented by the pairings designating loyalty towards everything connected with the USA.The SUCCESS concept in 2025 address is encoded by the constructions naming possible achievements of the nation.