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Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.
Kellyanne Conway, Trumps White House counselor, had promised that the speech would be elegant. This is not the adjective that came to mind as he described American carnage. That was a phrase the likes of which has never hitherto been spoken at an inauguration.
Oblivious to the moment and the setting, the always remarkable Trump proved that something dystopian can be strangely exhilarating: In what should have been a civic liturgy serving national unity and confidence, he vindicated his severest critics by serving up reheated campaign rhetoric about rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape and an education system producing students deprived of all knowledge. Yes, all.
But cheer up, because the carnage will vanish if we follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American. Simple is the right word.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444077/donald-trump-inaugural-address-dreadful
Squinch
(50,911 posts)HE is the American carnage.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)to please his simple-minded base.