OMG! TRUMP STRIKES A NATIONALIST TONE!
WSJ reports President Trump even using a ‘term’ NEVER before used in an inaugural speech…”carnage”…to describe the last 8 years of Obama rule
“most ominous inaugural address ever”
To use a term Alec Baldwin likes to throw around to inspire “beautiful people” like Sally Field and Michael Moore, Trump’s speech has historians and speechwriters “peeing” in their pants over what the Wall Street Journal report calls “one of the most ominous inaugural addresses ever”.
The Journal’s reporter noted that Trump “aimed to show unity” by using “plural pronouns”, including ‘our’, ‘we’, ‘us’ …at a higher rate than his three immediate predecessors. (Oh! The humanity! What’s to become of us!)
(It occurs to us that by this point in his presidency, Barack Obama had probably used pronouns including ‘I’ and ‘me’ dozens if not hundreds of times more than all of his predecessors.)
Reading writer Michael Bender’s account of Trump’s speech and the reaction of ‘experts’, a reader wouldn’t be surprised to read on Monday that the new president plans to move the oval office to the Reichstag.
Hearing and reading most media reports on President Trump’s address and his promise to restore the nation’s government to the people, and ‘make America great again’, one could only conclude that America has just experienced the most benign presidency in history and is at the dark dawning of the rule of Attila the Hun!
Other ‘alarming’ elements of the speech including such ‘disturbing’ themes as… get ready…”America first”, and, the writer noted, the words “radical Islamic terrorism” were used for “the first time in an inaugural address”! (Everybody certain Jefferson didn’t?)
And, I know it was stunning for me to hear, and perhaps many other Americans, but the speech also included for only the second inaugural address to mention the words “win” or “winning”!
Can you imagine?
Finally, it was not reported by the Journal, but for me, it was an incident of great significance: Even though there was a gentle drizzle, a US Marine was not required to hold an umbrella for the nation’s newest chief executive lest he be discomforted. For me, that’s a great leap forward compared to Mr. Trump’s predecessor, and a positive sign of things ahead for America. DLH
