What did you think of Trumps speech?

[WelshBloke]

So he's going to spend shit loads of money and have lots of American boots on the ground in the middle East?

 

[zinfamous]

Specifically because he did not speak of a positive America, what it looks like with his leadership when he has accomplished his goals.

I'm just waiting for the hammers to come marching down my street.

 

[FIVR]

He's begun the presidency of bleh. it's always going to be like this when he is tasked with expressing himself. It is how he views America; It disgusts him.


If only there was a graphical lexicon representation for the gag reflex. That would be his slogan.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So he's going to spend shit loads of money and have lots of American boots on the ground in the middle East?

I have plans to protect my son if the need arises from foolish wars. Sad I have to think that way.

 

[kage69]

Pallid and Provincial.

Mercifully brief.

I think this is the most accurate description I've seen yet, kudos.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I think this is the most accurate description I've seen yet, kudos.

Yep. Concise and accurate.

 

[MongGrel]

Pablum and assisted.

Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s White House chief strategist, who helped him craft the speech, said it was designed with Jackson in mind.

“It was an unvarnished declaration of the basic principles of his populist, and kind of nationalist, movement,” Bannon said. “I don’t think we’ve had a speech like that since Andrew Jackson came to the White House. But you could see it was very Jacksonian. It’s got a deep, deep root of patriotism there.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4da832ae861_story.html?utm_term=.35c03877a441

Trump began dismantling Obama’s record, starting with reversing a recent mortgage insurance premium cut that had been projected to save some homeowners hundreds of dollars a year. Democrats denounced the action.

“President Trump, with the flick of a pen, ended that new policy, making it harder for Americans of modest means to obtain their piece of the rock, the American Dream — home ownership,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “It only took an hour for those populist words delivered on the steps of the Capitol to ring hollow.”

Sheik Yerbouti - an album by Frank Zappa

I was going to mention that about the Esteemed Mr. Yerbouti, but it is a zoot, I mean moot point

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Pablum and assisted.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4da832ae861_story.html?utm_term=.35c03877a441

Presidents usually get aid in writing speeches so that's no problem, but emulating Andy "By God" Jackson is, being a genocidal prick and all.

 

[dmcowen674]

This will be the first time America starts a World War. Will certainly be interesting.

 

[MongGrel]

Presidents usually get aid in writing speeches so that's no problem, but emulating Andy "By God" Jackson is, being a genocidal prick and all.

But he supposedly was carefully handcrafting it on his own. He made a point of that prior to the inauguration.

I'm not that worried about it really, I never expected him to solo it in reality.

 

[Vic]

If his intention was to set the tone and mood for this country for the next 4 years as negative and ominous, then I'd say he did a great job. How he expects such a public attitude to grow the economy though.. I have no idea. He expects people to buy American, I'm thinking about putting all my major purchases on hold after hearing his words.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

If his intention was to set the tone and mood for this country for the next 4 years as negative and ominous, then I'd say he did a great job. How he expects such a public attitude to grow the economy though.. I have no idea. He expects people to buy American, I'm thinking about putting all my major purchases on hold after hearing his words.

I hope my Japanese fountain pens get through customs soon. Semi-seriously. I believe we need some degree of "protectionism" which is wildly at variance with Trumps concept and execution (heck just about anyone's else's too), but just saying "no" as has already been done with the ACA is foolish in the extreme. I think we can make ourselves more competitive and have at least a partial recovery by making sea changes in how corporate business is structured but any significant change needs to be well considered and phased in.

 

[HomerJS]

A lot of people thought it was dark. I honestly think he is sincere about bringing the country together. I guess time will tell.

Moved from OT. I don't see a thread in P&N about this. Point it out please.
admin allisolm

A 70 year old guy who hasn't shown any sincerity to date? What makes anyone thing he is going to change now??

 

[Brainonska511]

Presidents usually get aid in writing speeches so that's no problem, but emulating Andy "By God" Jackson is, being a genocidal prick and all.

 

[m8d]

 

[alien42]

i heard that this was the only inaugural speech that did not reference history or a historic event.

 

[zinfamous]

Holy shit.

It's pretty clear that this entire family of charlatans signed all of their get-out-of-gym passes themselves, plagiarized their report cards, and paid the nerds to write the essays in response to books that they never read.

 

[FIVR]

It was like somebody gave the speech as a homework assignment to some paranoid 8th grader in Irving, TX. It sucked in many ways, was short.... and already accusations are occurring of plagiarism. And that's not even examining the content of the speech, which was also terrible.

 

[soundforbjt]

Did Melania write his speech or was it Crowley? It was actually more like his campaign stump speech than anything resembling an inaugural address.

 

[Thebobo]

 

[senseamp]

Trump is living in his own "carnage" reality where he is the savior.

 

[IronWing]

The bee thing is bullshit, amusing but bullshit.

 

[Brainonska511]

The bee thing is bullshit, amusing but bullshit.

Yeah, I was about to post something along those lines.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-inaugural-address-plagiarism/

 

[zinfamous]

The bee thing is bullshit, amusing but bullshit.

sure, it may not be as culturally tragic as the whole Avatar vs. Fern Gully thing, but it's still something!

 

[BoomerD]

http://i.imgur.com/6Q4xGw9.gifv