In Donald Trump’s new conceit, America was a hellhole in 2016, he made it nice, then former President Joe Biden broke every little thing, however because of Trump’s 2024 election win, every little thing can be nice once more. Or, as he mentioned in his inaugural tackle on Monday, “The golden age of America begins right now.”
You realize he is stuffed with shit. I do know he’s filled with shit. We’d prefer to suppose everybody round him is aware of in order effectively, however does he? It’s the age-old query: Is Trump evil or merely silly?
If his inaugural speech says something, it’s that he’s delusional in what he thinks he can accomplish.
After some throat clearing, Trump’s speech begins:
From today ahead, our nation will flourish and be revered once more everywhere in the world. We would be the envy of each nation, and we won’t enable ourselves to be taken benefit of any longer.
Considered one of Trump’s conceits is that different nations not respect america however that they did respect us when he was president—a time when the world actually laughed at him.
Our sovereignty can be reclaimed. Our security can be restored. The scales of justice can be rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Division and our authorities will finish.
Proper off the bat, we discover out that Trump has no intentions of uniting the nation. Reasonably, he’ll be airing his normal grievances—Trump’s 24/7/365 celebration of Festivus.
Trump needs to finish the weaponization of the Justice Division? So patently absurd, particularly as Trump regularly talks about all his enemies he needs to prosecute. Simply this previous Saturday, he shared a publish on his Fact Social platform that known as for Democratic politicians to be prosecuted.
It’s going to be an exhausting 4 years.
I return to the presidency assured and optimistic that we’re in the beginning of an exciting new period of nationwide success, a tide of change is sweeping the nation, daylight is pouring over the whole world, and America has the prospect to grab this chance like by no means earlier than.
Daylight is pouring over the world, y’all.
As we collect right this moment, our authorities confronts a disaster of belief. For a few years, a radical and corrupt institution has extracted energy and wealth from our residents, whereas the pillars of our society lay damaged and, seemingly, in full disrepair.
Think about the gall of claiming that when the entrance row of your inauguration viewers—in entrance of your Cupboard picks—is the fashionable American oligarchy:
Internet price of these pictured as of Tuesday morning:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: $425 billion
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: $241 billion
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: $212 billion
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: $1.3 billion
Add in Bernard Arnault, who additionally attended and whose familial web price is $181 billion, and also you get a mixed web price of practically $1.1 trillion. TRILLION. 4 of the 5 richest males on this planet have been there, and it’s potential all 5 have been if Trump pal Larry Ellison was additionally someplace within the crowd.
Trump will stand there and speak about “extracted … wealth from our citizens” when he appears to have simply pulled a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme on his personal followers?
It’s telling that when speaking about nationwide disasters, his actual empathy has at all times been for the rich:
Our nation can not ship fundamental providers in occasions of emergency, as not too long ago proven by the fantastic individuals of North Carolina, been handled so badly, and different states who’re nonetheless affected by a hurricane that occurred many months in the past.
Or extra not too long ago Los Angeles, the place we’re watching fires nonetheless tragically burn from weeks in the past with out even a token of protection. They’re raging via the homes and communities, even affecting among the wealthiest and strongest people in our nation, a few of whom are sitting right here proper now.
Perhaps these highly effective and rich people will pay their justifiable share of taxes to assist these providers? To not point out the brutal insult to the firefighters bravely preventing these fires in Los Angeles.
Additionally, Trump minimize the FEMA funds final time he was president. You higher consider it’ll get hacked this time round as effectively.
It’s my hope that our latest presidential election can be remembered as the best and most consequential election within the historical past of our nation. As our victory confirmed, the whole nation is quickly unifying behind our agenda …
It received’t be remembered as such. Why wouldn’t it be? Sheesh.
And no, the nation isn’t unifying. It’s simply as divided as at all times. In any case, Trump then begins along with his guarantees, main with sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting thousands and thousands of undocumented immigrants. As I’ve written earlier than, good luck with that. Even his personal border czar, Tom Homan, is making an attempt to mood expectations.
We are going to drill, child, drill. … We are going to deliver costs down, fill our strategic reserves up once more—proper to the highest—and export American vitality everywhere in the world.
The U.S. is already a high vitality exporter on this planet. Trump will quickly take credit score for one thing Biden has largely finished. Given the local weather disaster, although, this may increasingly not really be a very good factor.
With my actions right this moment, we’ll finish the Inexperienced New Deal, and we’ll revoke the electrical automobile mandate, saving our auto business and preserving my sacred pledge to our nice American autoworkers.
Congrats, Elon Musk, who owns the electrical automobile firm Tesla.
Additionally, the Inexperienced New Deal isn’t legislation. Is Trump speaking about inexperienced vitality tasks underneath Biden’s Inflation Discount Act? In a kind of inexplicable issues Democrats hold doing to themselves, the majority of funding from that legislation went to pink congressional districts. And people Republicans don’t need to hand over that candy federal money.
Me, I’m really rooting for Trump to kill these tasks. If Republican voters need federal funding of their communities, they will vote Democratic subsequent time. And when Democrats have energy, they should spend that cash on their constituents. Construct these factories in blue cities and states. Give them a purpose to hold voting Democratic. As a result of watching their tax {dollars} go to ingrate conservatives isn’t doing the social gathering any good.
As a substitute of taxing our residents to counterpoint different nations, we’ll tariff and tax overseas nations to counterpoint our residents. For this goal, we’re establishing the Exterior Income Service to gather all tariffs, duties, and revenues. It will likely be large quantities of cash pouring into our treasury coming from overseas sources.
Each enterprise chief, together with these sitting in Trump’s inauguration viewers, is aware of that this can be a tax on American shoppers. Together with any deportations the administration manages, this may show to be deeply inflationary. So all these individuals complaining in regards to the value of eggs? Buckle down—it’s about to get a lot worse.
Additionally, there’s already an “External Revenue Service.” It’s the customs a part of the U.S. Customs and Border Safety company.
After years and years of unlawful and unconstitutional federal efforts to limit free expression, I may also signal an government order to right away cease all authorities censorship and convey again free speech to America.
Put a pin on this one. It received’t age effectively.
This week, I may also finish the federal government coverage of making an attempt to socially engineer race and gender into each side of private and non-private life. We are going to forge a society that’s colorblind and merit-based. As of right this moment, it can henceforth be the official coverage of america authorities that there are solely two genders: female and male.
Cruelty will definitely be the official coverage of america.
This week, I’ll reinstate any service members who have been unjustly expelled from our army for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate, with full again pay. And I’ll signal an order to cease our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments whereas on responsibility.
I’m gonna should analysis what “radical political theories” he’s speaking about. Is it girls in fight? I guess it’s girls in fight roles.
Our armed forces are going through a recruiting disaster. Trump needs to make it worse.
My proudest legacy can be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I need to be, a peacemaker, and a unifier.
I’m laughing too!
America will reclaim its rightful place as the best, strongest, most revered nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the whole world. A short while from now, we’re going to be altering the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we’ll restore the identify of a terrific president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, the place it needs to be and the place it belongs.
Trump’s a loon.
He additionally claims he’ll take again the Panama Canal. However bear in mind, he needs to be remembered as a peacemaker and unifier, as he threatens Panama (and Greenland and Denmark, and Canada, amongst different allies).
Above all, my message to Individuals right this moment is that it’s time for us to as soon as once more act with braveness, vigor, and the vitality of historical past’s best civilization. So, as we liberate our nation, we’ll lead it to new heights of victory and success. We won’t be deterred. Collectively, we’ll finish the persistent illness epidemic and hold our kids secure, wholesome, and disease-free.
He needs to maintain youngsters disease-free … and but he needs a vaccine denier to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies … all whereas being the dude who loves McDonald’s.
The US will as soon as once more contemplate itself a rising nation, one which will increase our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and exquisite horizons.
He needs his legacy to be peace, and nothing says “peace” greater than precise, literal imperialism.
Lately, our nation has suffered tremendously, however we’re going to deliver it again and make it nice once more, higher than ever earlier than. We can be a nation like no different, filled with compassion, braveness, and exceptionalism. Our energy will cease all wars and convey a brand new spirit of unity to a world that has been indignant, violent, and completely unpredictable.
So … is his imaginative and prescient of “unity” and “peace” really extra like “world conquest”? Positive appears that means. As a result of nothing says “angry, violent, and totally unpredictable” like Trump himself and his MAGA motion.
Certainly, if there’s something we’re certain to see over the following 4 years it’s extra anger, violence, and unpredictability, courtesy of Trump. That’s already his legacy, and every little thing he’s pushing for—deportations, inflationary tariffs, anti-trans hate, and imperialism—will solely additional cement that legacy.
