In Donald Trump’s new conceit, America was a hellhole in 2016, he made it nice, then former President Joe Biden broke the whole lot, however due to Trump’s 2024 election win, the whole lot will probably be nice once more. Or, as he mentioned in his inaugural deal with on Monday, “The golden age of America begins right now.”
You already know 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 this present day ahead, our nation will flourish and be revered once more all around the world. We would be the envy of each nation, and we is not going to enable ourselves to be taken benefit of any longer.
Considered one of Trump’s conceits is that different international locations now not respect the USA however that they did respect us when he was president—a time when the world actually laughed at him.
Our sovereignty will probably be reclaimed. Our security will probably be restored. The scales of justice will probably 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. Fairly, he’ll be airing his ordinary grievances—Trump’s 24/7/365 celebration of Festivus.
Trump desires to finish the weaponization of the Justice Division? So patently absurd, particularly as Trump continuously talks about all his enemies he desires to prosecute. Simply this previous Saturday, he shared a put up on his Reality Social platform that referred to 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 at the beginning of an exciting new period of nationwide success, a tide of change is sweeping the nation, daylight is pouring over your complete 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 at this time, 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 trendy American oligarchy:
Inauguration visitors Mark Zuckerberg (farthest left), Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk
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 the earth had been there, and it’s potential all 5 had been if Trump pal Larry Ellison was additionally someplace within the crowd.
Trump will stand there and discuss “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 all the time been for the rich:
Our nation can now not ship fundamental providers in instances of emergency, as lately proven by the fantastic individuals of North Carolina, been handled so badly, and different states who’re nonetheless affected by a hurricane that befell many months in the past.
Or extra lately 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 by means of 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.
Possibly these highly effective and rich people will pay their justifiable share of taxes to help these providers? To not point out the brutal insult to the firefighters bravely preventing these fires in Los Angeles.
Additionally, Trump lower the FEMA price range final time he was president. You higher imagine it’ll get hacked this time round as effectively.
It’s my hope that our current presidential election will probably be remembered as the best and most consequential election within the historical past of our nation. As our victory confirmed, your complete nation is quickly unifying behind our agenda …
It received’t be remembered as such. Why would it not be? Sheesh.
And no, the nation isn’t unifying. It’s simply as divided as all the time. In any case, Trump then begins along with his guarantees, main with sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting hundreds of 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’ll drill, child, drill. … We’ll deliver costs down, fill our strategic reserves up once more—proper to the highest—and export American power all around the world.
The U.S. is already a prime power exporter on the earth. Trump will quickly take credit score for one thing Biden has largely finished. Given the local weather disaster, although, this will likely not truly be an excellent factor.
With my actions at this time, we are going to finish the Inexperienced New Deal, and we are going to revoke the electrical car mandate, saving our auto trade and retaining 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 regulation. Is Trump speaking about inexperienced power initiatives underneath Biden’s Inflation Discount Act? In a kind of inexplicable issues Democrats hold doing to themselves, the majority of funding from that regulation went to purple congressional districts. And people Republicans don’t need to hand over that candy federal money.
Me, I’m truly rooting for Trump to kill these initiatives. If Republican voters need federal funding of their communities, they’ll 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 motive to maintain voting Democratic. As a result of watching their tax {dollars} go to ingrate conservatives isn’t doing the celebration any good.
As an alternative of taxing our residents to counterpoint different international locations, we are going to tariff and tax overseas international locations to counterpoint our residents. For this objective, we’re establishing the Exterior Income Service to gather all tariffs, duties, and revenues. It is going to 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 will probably be a tax on American customers. Together with any deportations the administration manages, this can show to be deeply inflationary. So all these individuals complaining concerning the worth 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 facet of private and non-private life. We’ll forge a society that’s colorblind and merit-based. As of at this time, it should henceforth be the official coverage of the USA authorities that there are solely two genders: female and male.
Cruelty will definitely be the official coverage of the USA.
This week, I’ll reinstate any service members who had been unjustly expelled from our navy 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 ladies in fight? I guess it’s ladies in fight roles.
Our armed forces are dealing with a recruiting disaster. Trump desires to make it worse.
My proudest legacy will probably 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 your complete world. A short while from now, we’re going to be altering the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we are going to restore the title of an amazing 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 keep in mind, he desires 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 at this time 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 are going to lead it to new heights of victory and success. We is not going to be deterred. Collectively, we are going to finish the persistent illness epidemic and hold our youngsters secure, wholesome, and disease-free.
He desires to maintain children disease-free … and but he desires a vaccine denier to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers … all whereas being the dude who loves McDonald’s.
The US will as soon as once more think about 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 delightful horizons.
He desires his legacy to be peace, and nothing says “peace” greater than precise, literal imperialism.
Lately, our nation has suffered enormously, however we’re going to deliver it again and make it nice once more, larger than ever earlier than. We will probably 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 offended, violent, and completely unpredictable.
So … is his imaginative and prescient of “unity” and “peace” truly 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 positive to see over the subsequent 4 years is extra anger, violence, and unpredictability, courtesy of Trump. That’s already his legacy, and the whole lot he’s pushing for—deportations, inflationary tariffs, anti-trans hate, and imperialism—will solely additional cement that legacy.
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