MORRISTOWN – By the standards of Donald Trump, this was a very short speech.

His second inaugural address was less than 30 minutes – a far cry from the 90 minutes he sometimes spent on stage during the campaign.

But the length – or even the substance – was not the main thing.

It was the simple fact that Trump was again president of the United States.

About 75 or so Trump backers congregated inside a local watering hole to witness history, an event put together by Phyllis Florek of Mendham Township and John Sette, a former county Republican chair.

Local GOP officials on hand included Anthony Bucco, the Senate Minority Leader, Sheriff James Gannon, Surrogate Heather Darling and County Commissioners Deborah Smith and Tom Mastrangelo.

As is the norm, many wore some type of Trump-related clothing: a shirt, a hat, a jacket.

As the clock ticked to noon, the crowd grew silent with anticipation.

“This is it,” someone shouted as Trump moved forward to take the oath.

Then, there were cheers all around as all watched the traditional, but still moving, 21-gun salute.

Trump immediately talked about a “golden age” of America, which he came back to more than once. Trump’s tendency to repeat himself was one pattern that his second inaugural address maintained.

Back eight years ago, Trump’s spoke of “American carnage” and how he was the only one who could fix it.

Monday’s speech was not as dark, but a similar theme emerged.

The new president talked about a “radical” and “corrupt” system.

He said inmates and the mentally ill from foreign shores were coming to the United States.

He said our education system is awful and that no one is safe.

But now, a new time has arrived.

He called it “Liberation Day!”

Reinforcing campaign themes, Trump said he would expel the undocumented, end electric vehicle mandates and “drill, baby drill.”

We digress. The term, “drill, baby drill,” always gets loud applause from Republicans, a response that is more emotional than anything else. Consider that the United States last year produced more oil than ever before – an average of 13.2 million barrels a day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. So a lot of people are drilling now.

Trump did not mention pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, as he said he would do, or his rather quixotic desire to buy Greenland.

But he did talk about the U.S. taking back the Panama Canal and in line with Trump’s notion of “manifest destiny,” calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico.

Inaugural addresses are important – some are even memorable.

But the real work begins afterwards – like now.

At least someone in the crowd was thinking like that. Trump had hardly been sworn-in when someone yelled:

“How about the executive orders?”