DONALD TRUMP has been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
Here’s how the ceremony played out…
It’s Sinéad O’Carroll here to take you through the preamble. (Almost wrote pre-drinks there. We promise we’re not imbibing.)
According to our poll this morning, a lot of you won’t be tuning in to see Donald Trump take the oath of office so we’ll make sure to bring you every word, song, dance and reaction.
Speaking of tuning in…
It seems Democrats *really* want to avoid seeing the man who beat their candidate today.
But there is generally less interest across the entire US population about today’s event, compared to the swearing in of Barack Obama for the first time in January 2009.
Reports from Washington DC just now are saying that Trump is making his way to his first event of what will be a long day for him.
Here’s a quick recap of what we should expect and when (all in Irish time):
The inauguration ceremony begins with musical performances
Opening remarks
Religious leaders will offer readings and the invocation
Trump will recite the oath of office
Trump will deliver his inaugural address
Trump and Pence make their way to the Congressional Lunch in the Capitol
The inaugural parade from the Capitol to the White House – an 8,000 strong group of marchers led by Trump
The parties: three official inaugural balls will be held across the city.
Wondering what the president-elect has been saying this morning?
He was also happy about last night’s musical performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
There has been a big kerfuffle about Trump’s people not being able to land ‘big name’ musical and entertainment acts to keep the expected 700,000-900,000 spectators busy ahead of the official proceedings today.
Our colleagues over at DailyEdge.ie have compiled a handy of list of who *is* performing.
We’re still uncertain if we’ll be seeing this guy… or just his troupe.
According to The Sun, he called it a ‘great honour’ for his crew.
Personally, I’m looking forward to these lads.
And this dude.
The Obamas will leave the White House for the last time at 12.45pm (local time) today.
We presume they are doing a lot of messing like this right now as they will have guests in about 30 minutes.
At 9.45am, they will sit down for tea with the Trumps, according to Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources email.
Do you want to sneak a peek during work this afternoon?
Sky News has a livefeed on YouTube here.
RTÉ will have one from here from 4.15pm.
(Sky are playing a bit of Let Me Blow Ya Mind by Eve and Gwen Stefani right now, if that persuades you)
Our video man Nicky Ryan had a look back at the (numerous) times Obama took the oath of office.
It didn’t always go smoothly for the often-unfaltering speaker.
Trump saying that his work will begin on Monday – and not today or over the weekend – came as a surprise to many.
He told The Times of London that he didn’t want to be “signing and get it mixed up with lots of celebration”.
And there were commentators lining up to criticise him. Stephen Colbert used his show to warn the president-elect that the new job doesn’t come with weekends off.
The main story on the New York Times website today also pointed to how far behind Trump already is. Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush write:
In all, Mr. Trump has named only 29 of his 660 executive department appointments, according to the Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking the process. That is a pace far slower than recent predecessors, falling far short of the schedule originally outlined by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who was Mr. Trump’s transition director before Mr. Trump ousted him 10 weeks ago.
This just in from the wires:
Outgoing US President Barack Obama has left the Oval Office for the last time, as he prepares for the inauguration of his successor Donald Trump.
Obama walked into the Oval Office holding a letter, which he placed on the Resolute desk – a 19th-century desk used by many presidents.
It is customary for the outgoing president to leave a personal note for his successor. Obama is now to have morning tea with Trump before they make their way to the Capitol for the inauguration ceremony.
—AFP
He has also taken some time to tweet to his 13.7 million followers.
“It’s been the honor of my life to serve you. You made me a better leader and a better man. I won’t stop; I’ll be right there with you as a citizen, inspired by your voices of truth and justice, good humor, and love.
“As we look forward, I want our first steps to reflect what matters most to you. Share your thoughts with me at http://Obama.org.
“I’m still asking you to believe – not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours. I believe in change because I believe in you.”
We’ve had our first handover sighting.
The Bidens are with the Pences. And there were hugs and kisses all round.
We’ve got the first images of the Trumps in and the internet has already blown up with commentary about how she is ‘channelling Jackie O’ in blue Ralph Lauren. (John F Kennedy’s wife wore something similar in 1961 as he was sworn in).
*The Trumps have arrived at the White House*
Here are some more images from that greeting at the White House:
A shot of the crowds about an hour out from the beginning of the ceremony.
Melania Trump gifted a Tiffany-blue box to Michelle Obama on her arrival to the White House.
The outgoing First Lady wasn’t quite sure what to do with it.
As they’re getting closer to a new administration, the US public’s confidence in a President Donald Trump is, eh, waning just a little.
Just 53% of people believe he can manage the executive branch effectively – that compares to an 84% rating for Obama and a 77% for George W Bush.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have just arrived at Capitol Hill.
Not an easy day for that family. (She is all waves and smiles though.)
(Click here if you can’t see the video)
Kellyanne Conway has also been snapped at today’s events – and her outfit has created quite the stir.
The Guardian’s correspondent in DC, Paul Lewis, is giving us a feel of what it’s like far back on the Mall right now.
After two hours of listening to the jaunty, jaunty music being played over the speakers as the guests arrive to the National Mall, I’m not that sad to hand over the reins to my colleague Daragh Brophy who will take you through officialdom until America has a new president.
Godspeed.
Thanks Sinead,
We’re just over an hour away from the oath of office ceremony.
News feeds from Washington are showing the Trumps and the Obamas leaving the White House and preparing to head to the Capitol.
Nobody’s moving particularly quickly in this motorcade.
Trump’s supporters are out in force in Washington – but plenty of protests have also been scheduled for today.
Here are some scenes from the streets of the city:
Bill and Hillary are here.
A cheer from the crowd as George W and Laura Bush are introduced.
Trump has arrived.
Was that a grimace, after his handshake with Democrat Nancy Pelosi?
The Trump children are here.
And in case you were keeping an eye out for him, that’s former Bush VP Dick Cheney under that hat.
Fun fact – Dick Cheney was born in Nebraska and is Barack Obama’s 8th cousin (yes, really).
While we’re on the subject of Obama’s 8th cousins (how’s that for an awkward link) – we paid a visit to another of them a few weeks ago.
Henry Healy showed us around the Offaly motorway service station named after America’s first black president, and the visitor centre where people can learn about his links to the area.
Boos ring out from the crowd in Washington as a picture of Hillary Clinton is displayed on the big screen.
On Sky News, Kay Burley has been talking to two women in the crowd about that ‘October surprise’ video of Donald Trump boasting about groping women, which many commentators thought would derail his campaign.
They didn’t think what he said was right but added that it shouldn’t have been dragged up during the campaign, because it was so many years ago.
One of them also added:
I’ve heard worse. I’ve heard women speak worse. Nobody should speak like that.
Here come the current (still current) President and Vice President.
Barack Obama and family will be afforded one last flight on the presidential plane after the ceremony.
They’ll head for the far side of the country to Palm Springs, California for a holiday.
Expect the standard shot of him boarding a helicopter in Washington within the hour.
Smiles and handshakes from the President as he chats with George W Bush and former Democratic president Jimmy Carter.
Here comes Trump.
The incoming president is walking into the ceremony by himself.
Commentators are noting how he looks very serious as he strides in – perhaps weighed down by the enormity of the situation.
Donald John Trump has been announced to the crowd.
John.
Why did we never look that up in all those months.
He greets his children, and delivers a swift peck on the cheek to the incoming First Lady.
Huge cheers from the crowd.
The chairman of the inauguration committee Senator Roy Blunt is now addressing the crowd.
For anyone engaging in some kind of drinking game (not that we’d necessarily endorse that kind of thing) there have already been namechecks for Ronald Reagan and George Washington.
Prayers are now being said in Washington.
In a few minutes Mike Pence will take the oath of office, taking over from Joe Biden.
Back in Ireland, a number of protests are planned for this evening.
One supported by left-wing groups including the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit party takes place outside the Central Bank Plaza in Dublin at 5pm to coincide with the Trump swearing-in.
In Cork, People Before Profit have arranged a protest to take place between 5.30pm and 6.30pm at Daunt Square.
Also, this happened earlier…
As we gear up for the Pence ceremony – let’s take a moment to look back at this, between Barack Obama and his VP from last week.
Pence has some Irish roots – wonder if he’ll have the same penchant for quoting our literary greats?
They’s still saying prayers and singing hymns in Washington.
And yes, quite a few people have turned out to watch…
Senator Chuck Schumer now addressing the crowd.
We’re getting under way.
Mike Pence about to take the pledge.
That’s it.
“So help me God.”
Pence becomes VP.
Trump will take the pledge in a few minutes.
But first ladies and gentleman, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Justice John Roberts will now swear Donald John Trump in as the 45th President.
He’s in.
Trump will now give his inaugural address.
It emerged in recent days he’s written it himself.
Trump begins his speech by thanking the former presidents present to watch his ceremony.
The opening lines of his address differ little from his campaign stump speech as he tells supporters how power will be handed back to the people from the elite of Washington.
January 20th will be remembered, he says, as the day “the people became the rulers of this great nation again”.
So far, there’s really not much here that’s all that different to the speeches he’s been making during the campaign, and in the months since the election.
For many decades we’ve enriched foreign industries at the expense of our industries, Trump says.
US leaders have also failed to invest properly in the American military.
One by one, factories shuttered and left American shores, he says.
The wealth of the middle class has been ripped from their homes and distributed across the world.
But that’s the past, he says to applause. We’re here to talk about the future.
“From this day forward it’s going to be only America first. America first.”
Trump says America will eliminate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the Earth.
Finally we must think big but dream even bigger, Trump says
We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action always complaining and never doing anything.
“The time for empty talk is over.”
“We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.”
Americans are also ready to unlock “the mysteries of space,” he says, a little incongruously.
He rounds off the speech with his typical sign off – upping the volume a little perhaps.
His final line?
Something about making America great again.
Here’s a six-second highlight package, if you’re just tuning in now.
Meanwhile on Twitter…
The reviews are in.
More of this sort of thing later – but here’s some instant reaction.
Meanwhile, in Dublin…
In case you were wondering how long until the next inauguration, Buzzfeed has just published this…
The Obamas and Bidens are preparing to depart Washington.
The obligatory ex-pres helicopter shot.
There goes Obama…
Our reporter Cormac Fitzgerald is at the Dublin protest at the Central Bank Plaza.
A protest is also taking place in Cork, and there are marches planned for Dublin and Galway tomorrow.
Photos: Cormac Fitzgerald
Our editor Susan Daly was at a viewing reception at the American Embassy in Ballsbridge. She writes:
“At the US Embassy, Chargé d’affaires Reece Smyth (who is running the show until Trump appoints an ambassador to Ireland) told assembled US citizens, embassy staff and media, that Ireland should not forget ‘that it is the only country in the world whose leader has a standing appointment with the US president’. So that would imply that the shamrock-in-a-bowl Patrick’s Day meeting is still a safe bet for this year.
“There was a life-sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump beside a large screen showing the inauguration, and some red-white-and-blue bunting but the inauguration ‘party’ was a subdued affair, lasting just the two hours around the ceremony from 4-6pm.
“Smyth said that ‘despite speculation in the press’, if he was to be asked who would be the next Ambassador of Ireland, he could only say: ‘I don’t know’. He also said that he had no idea and no indication of when one would be appointed.”
We’d love to bring you a photo of the Trump cardboard cutout, but all phones and other recording devices were taken from guests on the way in the embassy gates…
Photos: Susan Daly
No choppers for Joe Biden.
He’s taking the train home to Delaware…
This just in from the deputy weather editor at the Washington Post.
From the plan:
“For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years.”
While we were all otherwise occupied, Fox News made a big-name hire.
From Associated Press, on the protests:
POLICE DEPLOYED PEPPER spray in a chaotic confrontation blocks from Donald Trump’s inauguration as protesters registered their rage against the incoming president.
Spirited demonstrations unfolded peacefully at various security checkpoints near the Capitol as police helped ticket-holders get through to the inaugural ceremony. Signs read, ‘Resist Trump Climate Justice Now’, ‘Let Freedom Ring’, ‘Free Palestine’.
But at one point, police gave chase to a group of about 100 protesters who smashed the windows of downtown businesses as they denounced capitalism and Trump. Police in riot gear used pepper spray from large canisters and eventually cordoned off the protesters, who shouted, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” as a helicopter hovered overhead.
The confrontation happened about an hour before Trump’s swearing-in at the Capitol.
Closer to that scene, lines for ticket holders entering two gates stretched for blocks at one point as protesters clogged entrances.
More details here.
From earlier.
President Obama waves goodbye as the former first family fly off for a holiday (much-deserved no doubt) in southern California.
People have noticed a similarity between a phrase used by Trump in his speech and a certain Batman villain.
The inaugural parade is set to begin…
From our video journalist Nicky Ryan:
You might have caught our livestream of Trump’s oath of office and inaugural speech over on Facebook earlier. We invited our viewers to leave a reaction as the speech went on.
For those unfamiliar with Facebook Live, you have six options: A like, a laughing face, a heart, a shocked face, a sad face, and an angry face – the final option proved to be the most popular by far.
Angry reactions peaked during the following line of the speech:
We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action — constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.
Shocked faces peaked as religious readings began after Trump finished his speech, and sad reactions at the start of the broadcast just as Vice President Mike Pence finished his oath.
There are no obvious highs for the other reactions.
The most liked moment? When Trump left the stage – take from that what you will.
As the Trumps and Pences line up for the inaugural parade, we’ll leave our liveblog coverage there for the evening.
Our team will bring you any breaking news over on the main site throughout the night.
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Over 600 people on hospital trolleys, seven million overspent on a hospital which not one patient has ever set foot in.. Yet in Ireland we have people out on the roads protesting about a new elected president thousands of miles away..
Sigh! I see you have a lot to learn about virtue signalling.
Cosmo, the same clowns were probably out marching in the city for the blacklivesmatter nonsense.
@Cosmo Kramer:
The leader of the US does affect Ireland. Apart from being a massive employer and large trading partner we have a lot of Irish citizens living in the US.
Do say US doesn’t matter is to be blind to what happened in 2008, they started the global financial crisis..
Ireland has one of the most open economies in the world, if America get a cold we get pnemonia.
And if that happens there will be no money for hospitals…
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/822271024636923904 Not all heroes wear capes….or pants!
Same reason they introduced that bill last night
They don’t wanna get anything DONE they’re attention seekers
Americans have plenty of reason to protest, the fact that 54% of the country voted for someone else worry over him being a fascist but do you ever see people protesting the UK pm here?
It’s weird, when he starts a war yeh ok but he’s not even sworn in yet ffsake
Notice be it protesting invasions or leaders this shower never protest Russia or China or Serbia or Turkey plenty of fascist leaders and human rights abuses and invasions there…not s word
@Cosmo Kramer: People protesting a guy democratically elected, yet when taxes are raised, rights swindled away, corruption of the highest order rampant throughout, nobody bothers there ass’s….. good riddance to these people. Hope Trump gives them something to cry about…..
@william
Rights swindled away, corruption of the highest order, sounds like you’re reading out of trumps playbook.
@Peedur Dante: You would think that, but he has not been in charge yet, and these have already happened. Wars started in the last 8 years under Obama…. corporations getting huge contracts to fund a war…. yes, Obama’s have shown grace and class…. and people believe that crock of shlt.
@Cosmo Kramer:
The elevation of Trump and our crumbling public health system here are both symptoms of the same problem. That is the capitalist system which exploits the many to enrich the few.
@Ryan Carroll:
The purpose of the AAA-PBP bill last night was to prevent opportunistic evictions by landlords. Sale of property and family transfers are the most common justification used by landlords to remove tenants before the Part 4 tenancies expire and many of them are bogus in order to remove tenants and hike up the rent. The AAA-PBP bill was an attempt to close those loopholes and prevent the homeless crisis getting worse.
Interesting to note also that even neoliberal Labour party and free marketers like Stephen Donnelly voted for the bill as they understand that homelessness is a national crisis and cannot be allowed to escalate via forced evictions.
@Ryan Carroll:
Turkey
“Enough is enough! The government has long violated democratic rights, the rights of workers, trade unions and minorities. The violence in Gezi Park was only the tip of the iceberg. Around 8,000 trade union and Left activists, journalists and Kurdish politicians are imprisoned. And Turkish media broadcast – supposedly on Erdogan’s orders – TV cooking shows while the people try to find out through foreign media and the internet what is going on in their country!
We call for:
• The immediate release of all people imprisoned during the protests and freedom for all political prisoners
• An independent working-class commission formed by unions and democratically elected representatives of the movement to investigate the police repression and bring those responsible to justice
• Full democratic rights, including the right to demonstrate and to form trade unions and political parties
• Abolishment of anti-terror laws and special courts and of all the repressive and reactionary laws implemented by the AKP in the past years
• An end to the repression of Kurds
http://socialistparty.ie/2013/06/turkey-mass-movement-challenges-erdogan-government/
@Ryan Carroll:
Here’s a few words on Russia:
“Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a Russian political activist and member of the punk group Pussy Riot, was jailed in August 2012 for hooliganism and blasphemy. Her crime was to stage an anti-Putin protest, along with two other performers, inside Moscow’s Orthodox Cathedral. Despite claims that Russia has made steps towards becoming a more open society, those in power took immediate steps to silence the band’s radical feminist message…… Under these circumstances it is vital for the international community of working people to mobilise, demanding the release of Russian dissidents like Nadezhda, and an immediate end to state repression.”
http://socialistparty.ie/2013/11/release-putins-political-prisoner/
@Ryan Carroll:
And a few on China:
“ In the quarter century since the June 4th massacre, China’s economic growth achieved ‘miracle’ status, and despite its current slowdown is widely tipped to overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy before the end of the decade. The CCP’s model of ‘state capitalist’ development has created more dollar billionaires than anywhere outside the US, most of whom hold strong connections to the dictatorship and even sit in its auxiliary organs. The apparent successes of the CCP regime, after wading through the blood of anti-government protesters in 1989, has produced admirers among the world’s capitalists (even if many governments increasingly view China as a military and economic threat). This has also spawned the theory of “resilient authoritarianism” – a regime that has adapted, co-opted, and imitated, in order to stay in power.”
http://socialistparty.ie/2014/06/china-1989-25-years-since-mass-democracy-movement/
While you’re at it, how many sick or hungry people could be saved with the millions of dollars being spent on this inauguration charade?
Bread and circuses.. without the bread
Where did you get the 54% from?
@Cosmo Kramer: True there is a national demonstration tomorrow protesting about those issues and more and most of the people there this evening wont go to that ,why ? no politician will be let speak ,A.A.A/P.B.P. Sinn Fein ,wont support it ,as they cant control the agenda , shame on them
Enda Kenny, take note what trump said the people and the country come first not the banks the corporations or big business men .
Hold on, but isn’t he a big business man at the head of a big real estate corporation? I’m confused
I find Trump to be loathsome, but the vapid whinging about him is a very entertaining silver lining.
For example, you heard about the “women’s march”? They wanted to get as many women as possible to voice their concern about his attitude to women, and to represent ‘marginalised groups.’
Then they banned pro-life feminists from taking part. But not the Council on American Islamic Relations. Lol!
@Emeralds: Yeah! I heard that one of the “Pro Life” groups (Students for Life) wasn’t going to’stand in solidarity with women.’ Their intention was to change viewpoints.So yeah,they were probably told to pi$$ off.Rightly so, too..
That’s nice, Francis. But not what I was talking about.
New Wave Feminists were due to take part in the rally (not protest against it) but were kicked out for being pro-life. The organisers of this march claim to be speaking for women. So firstly, they presume to speak for women (including the tens of millions who voted for Trump) and secondly their “intersectional”-ism doesn’t extend to women who disagree on one issue…….but it’s ok for Muslims to disagree. Oh, but they still claim to speak for those women they’ve banned
Students for Life have their own protest. Their right to assemble and express themselves are just as valid as your hypocritical feminist friends’. The fact that you’re so blasé about squashing those rights by simply “[telling] them to pi$$ off and rightly so” reveals your authoritarian leanings. This is where words like “feminazi” come from.
Fortunately, you’re impotent. They can protest if they want.
But they are women. For some reason these protesters think women are one homogenous group that think exactly the same as them. I suppose the point is that nobody can claim to speak for all women.
“Fortunately, you’re impotent. They can protest if they want.”
So the “new wave feminists” were going to march in solidarity with the organisers of this march who said : “We believe in Reproductive freedom.We believe in safe,legal affordable abortion”? Hahaha..Let them protest away with the other “pro life ” yokes …
So it’s a march for abortion and Islam, rather than a march for women? They should say that then
@emeralds
Why would they ban the council on American Islamic relations?
For being, by ‘march for women’ standards, “anti-choice”. The same reason they banned New Wave Feminists
Just in case their links to Hamas weren’t enough
@Peedur Dante: “Their links to Hamas” <- never proven.. There were two posters on here before who went on with that crap…hmmm..
Great argument there Francis. The March for Women organisers have been vindicated by you typing ‘hmmm’
@Barnes: Oh dear ! Can you provide any credible evidence (court case) that CAIR were involved with Hamas ? Take your time.
@Emeralds : You were the lad/lass (I’m going with the latter) that went on waffling about CAIR and their ‘link to Hamas’ .So boring.
@emeralds
Why do you think the American council for Islamic relations is “anti- choice” ?
@Emeralds: Muslims aren’t inherently anti-choice, in fact I don’t think there’s a single Muslim country with more restrictive abortion laws than Ireland. Look it up.
I wouldn’t deny most Muslim majority countries are conservatives in other ways, but the reality is usually a lot more complicated. Same with the “vapid whinging” which is actually minority groups terrified for their safety, and rightly so. They already faired badly enough under Trump, let alone someone who puts avowed white supremacists and anti-LGBT extremists in his cabinet.
I think all the next 4 yrs will show trump being the same as every other politician taking care of his wealthy friends and breaking the majority of his promises, the swamp is already as full as ever
@johnp: Trump never took a salary
@johnp: So why are people not out there protesting every other politician? Because they are stupid, from a pussy generation, who devoutly follow fake news.
@William Kavanagh:
Very bad turnout!
So what were the tea party a protesting about then
Compared to obamas turnout it’s very small down about 50%
@Barnes: he meant poor turnout on thejournal.ie comments sections. The usual losers who talk rubbish yet turn a blind eye to the many atrocities committed by Obama.
Shit just got real.
@Dave Murray: Time to dig a shelter in the garden and make food/water/gas supplies for hard time. ;-)
Can’t stump the Trump.
Ah yes the season finale of America
A lot of his voters contrary to popular perception are bit racists they voted for him cos he marketed himself as a populist
That groups gonna get huge buyers remorse when :
•They loose their health insurance or premiums explode even more (polls show many don’t realise the affordable care act and obamacare are the same thing)
•He signs an executive order as planned to kill overtime rules
•signs bill privatising social security so pensions are wiped in the next stock crash
….and on and on it goes
They are gonna get s big shock
*not
I love the way the Hollywood elites got into such a tantrum over a man who will actually do something to help working people.
MAGA.
yes he’s been such a champion of the working man his whole life,stiffing contractors and putting people or e if business because he wouldn’t pay up, and then the wonderful trump university that screwed people out of there money, for nothing, you are so right he’ll be great for the working class and what an inspiring speech!?!!d*#k
Some snowflakes just move from one outrage to another, they need something to be outraged about constantly.
This is absolutely ridiculous though.
@Gerard McConnell: Enough snowflakes can cause a blizzard and they can bring the country to a halt.
He’ll grab that bible by the …..
What speech.
Truly inspiring.
We’re all American today.
I’m having another Bud.
Butt hurt regressive left group Antifa smashing the place up aleady…Leftists are to true fascists in our society.
@Barnes: People like you are a literal cancer on politics on society. Fascism isn’t a word you can take and apply to anything and there’s good reason why it’s come up in terms of Trump. Just as Jews & Roma from holocaust surviving families – many of them have made the comparisons themselves.
Fascism is not the same thing as “violence” and in fact a myriad of other ideologies, including no doubt your own, justify or use violence. The difference is you most likely believe in bombing the middle east and executing black people in cold blood as opposed to physically resisting a fascist regime.
So were the allies in WW2 by the same extension “the real fascists”? I guess you root for the Empire in Star Wars huh?
In fairness the empire were trying to peace to the galaxy but the pesky rebels kept blowing up their Death Stars.
Imagine handing over a presidency to that…..Obama will need some Motilium!
Seems to be a very white crowd……..
Haha the amount of whinging losers in town earlier was hilarious, could barely contain their rehashed, Clinton sponsored talking points long enough to stop shaking. What a glorious day, look forward to seeing how much the losers rampaging through the streets let themselves down even further tonight as darkness falls and the paid protesters ramp it up. May even raise a beer later on, brilliant.
@Henry Krinkle: It’s not about whinging. It’s about the fact that the US elected a borderline fascist and people are terrified for their safety and rights. The LGBT & Civil rights sections were removed from the White House website, and you still don’t think we have anything to worry about?
@Leighanna Rose Walsh: Why is it every time lunatics on the left run out of reasonable/logical arguments you retreat under the Nazi/fascist/Hitler banner, grow up ffs.
Trump isnt taking a salary
Best of luck to him
I bet he’ll declare taxes for each year of his presidency and they’ll show $1 of income each year.
God help us all
God help the world
I just hope the grass on the grassy knoll is long enough to hide the snipers turret. 2 taps and we are gold
Kinder, gentler politics…
@Zx5vZulB: __ It was actually a fella that went by the name of Greasy Noel, the grassy knoll thing was a misunderstanding.
Perhaps it would be good idea to give him a year before judgment…….Trump has some new ideas let’s see how they work out ….He is not all evil and neither was Obama all good….Let’s hope he stops bombing countries in the middle east like Obama did yesterday Libya on his last day in office
In a show of solididarity to The Easily Offended, let’s all gather around a pyre of Riverdance cds, join hands, and belt out a few bars of ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’.
There’s no one more easily offended than trump – ever see his early morning tweets? If trump was a duck, he’d drown with all the water stuck to his back.
gar, I think you might need professional help. Very unhealthy mindset you seem to have.
What a loser
The divided states of America.
@Tony Daly: The media did their best and CNN worked their hardest with even as it seemed to many, on giving ideas on how to kill Trump and acting like they wanted someone to do that?
Going to be a entertaining 4 years.
The only difference between Trump and his predecessors is that there’s no surprise factor when he facks them over.
Sinead, did you draw the short straw on this assignment or did you volunteer?
Well done Jackie. Beautifully sung. I shed a tear there. (or maybe it’s the onions)
“A man is defined not by what he represents but by what he hides”. God bless America.
“From this day forward it’s going to be only America first. America first.” What a statement when standing in front of the world. What an idiot made many promises to red neck America wonder how long before they start pointing their squirrel gens at Trump……
What a proud it must be for his kids
In the end Trump had to settle for the z street band to play
Before even looking I know this comment section is going to be full of people who value unsmashed windows more than the lives of minorities & LGBT people.
Windows lives matter.
Oh what a sad ‘country’ we are!!
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Who says Trump was a racist or anything but the media???
What a sad ‘country’ we are!!
Let the games begin
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