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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuardian editorial: Trump's inaugural speech "a declaration of political war"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-inauguration-a-declaration-of-political-warYet all this was in fact a sham. Donald Trumps inaugural address was a declaration of war on everything represented by these choreographed civilities. President Trump its time to begin to get used to those jarringly ill-fitting words did not conjure a deathless phrase for the day. His words will not lodge in the brain in any of the various uplifting ways that the likes of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy or Reagan once achieved. But the new presidents message could not have been clearer. He came to shatter the veneer of unity and continuity represented by the peaceful handover. And he may have succeeded. In 1933, Roosevelt challenged the world to overcome fear. In 2017, Mr Trump told the world to be very afraid.
Mr Trumps speech was by turns bitter, blowhard and banal. It boiled with resentment and contempt for politics, and the checks and balances of the US system. It was aimed at those who voted for him, not at those, the majority, who did not. It said barely a word about race. Its America First nationalism was crude and shameless. The speech seethed with scorn for everything about the capital city that he now seeks to bend to his will. It was, though, almost wholly empty of detail or of clarity about how its goals would be achieved. Even before he opened his mouth, Washington was on edge about what a Trump presidency might mean and the world was on edge about what is happening to America. Everything Mr Trump said confirmed that those instincts were correct. Presidents have often come into office promising to take the nation on a new path. But if Mr Trump can be believed, his election and his speech signal the biggest shake-up in Washington in living memory.
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The time for empty talk is over, said President Trump today. Now arrives the hour of action. At home and abroad, and in the light of todays speech, that is a truly terrifying prospect.
Shanti Mama
(1,288 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)listening to this Political diatribe,had to walk away. Somehow I knew this is what his speech was going to be. Watched the body language of the old time Politicians who were there out of respect for the Office,and it said the same as this story.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)for turnout to his shit show today and last night. He's not beloved by everyone, adoring and fawning over him. He's laughed at all over the world. So, unfortunately, he will try to punish everyone for not loving him like he believes he deserves to be adored.
Someone on FB was stunned when one of their acquaintances wished Trump would get assassinated. Just shocked and amazed that someone could wish death on another human. Jeez, I wonder if this dolt knew that Obama had more death threats in his term than Clinton and Bush combined. These trumpbots sure are clueless.