"America is back" is a catchphrase and political slogan used by a variety of United States presidents and other political leaders to assert a return to American prosperity or engagement after their election.
The slogan was also used during the presidency of Joe Biden and, according to Alessandro Colombo, was "repeated by Biden almost daily during the first 100 days of his presidency". "America is back" was also digitally invoked in the first 100 tweets from Biden's Twitter account following his election.
Trump repeatedly invoked the slogan at the start of his second presidential term, including in his first address to Congress in 2025.
The slogan has been used to convey different messages.
As used by Ronald Reagan, "the slogan 'America is back!' signaled the return of such 'traditional values' as enthusiasm for unregulated economic growth", according to T. J. Jackson Lears.
In his analysis of the slogan as used during the presidency of Joe Biden, Dennis Mills explained that "Biden ... [was] attempting to return to the Obama-era focus on America's diplomacy. This is the meaning of Biden's slogan 'America is back'". According to Daniel Rueda Garrido, Biden's usage of "America is back" to indicate a heightened foreign policy focus on Atlanticism positioned him "as the incarnation of America, which is held as the centre of the form of life of liberal capitalism and democracy" and "which presupposes a moment of prior retreat hinted presumably at Trump".
However, Marc Chandler writing in Barron's in 2021, noted that there was reason to be skeptical about the assertion "America is back" since the "U.S. may be one election from leaving NATO and pulling out of the Paris Accord". A study published in the Australasian Journal of American Studies posited the use of "America is back" was as a renunciation of the first presidency of Donald Trump.