In a generally forward-looking, brusque, and patriotic inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump went off the rails toward the end, making promises that were unenforceable, silly, or dangerous.
Unenforceable is his desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
He can call it the Gulf of Borscht for all anyone cares, but the International Hydrographic Organization names and charts international bodies of water. Map makers will not be following Trump’s goofy whim.
As President, he can rename Alaska’s Mt. Denali, its indigenous name, back to honoring President William McKinkey, although I see this as No. 235 on things Americans care about. Even most Alaskans prefer Denali.
The dangerous idea is his statement about the Panama Canal: “We are taking it back.” Reason? It is controlled by China, he said. And that is the first falsehood of his new term. It is not controlled by China.
Before he went off the rails, the opening of his address targeted one of his two campaign topics — illegal immigration.
He promised to declare a national emergency on the Southern border, and declaring the cartels terror organization. He would reinstate “wait in Mexico,” and end “catch and release.” He also said he’d get the military to enforce the border.
He would target criminal aliens. He did not talk numbers he would deport, probably wisely.
He would also declare a “national energy emergency” to deal with inflation, which was the second of his two great campaign issues. He said he would direct his cabinet to bring down the cost of things, and the first weapon in this fight would be expanding energy resources, and also tariffs.
The first will piss off environmentalists — along with his pledge to end the electric vehicle mandate and the green new deal — and the second will fly in the face of economists’ warnings that tariffs will bring higher prices.
His plans would usher in what he called the “golden age of America,” and would always put America first. In red meat to his base, he said the U.S. would recognize only two genders — male and female. Did this fall under his promise to “unify” America?
In all modesty, reflecting on his near assassination, he said God put him here to “make America great again.”
He promised America would be a manufacturing nation again, he would create an External Revenue Service to collect from foreigners, restore government efficiency, stop governmental censorship, return law and order to cities, drop social engineering from the military.
And more.
Is it possible?
“The impossible is what we do best,” he said.
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He is a disgrace. He lies like I breath -- easily and without thought. I loathe the idea of having to hear his stupidy for the next four years, and my expectations for what he will accomplish could not be lower. America First my ass. It has been, and always will be, Trump First, everyone else second.
Indeed Freeze.
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How many genders do you count Stu?
Gender is a socially constructed concept. There can be as many genders as people who make them up. As for sex, which is biologically determined, there are more than two. There are people born with characteristics that are both male and female -- or intersex people of which hemaphrodites are an example.
So help me here—-If I’m shopping for a hermaphrodite at Kohl’s do I head for the Men’s, Women’s or Accessories Department?
Wow, there really are people who think like that. I’m blown away,
Regarding the tariffs - so he is suggesting it will tax the foreign companies more (ok, let’s assume) and lower that burden from Americans. The otter is where my question is - is he pairing the tax increase with some tax decrease? Is he lowering the tax brackets again as a result of the anticipated increase in external revenue?
*otter = latter
Tariffs are paid by the importer (and the cost is passed on to the consumer) not the exporter nor country of origin.
BTW, Trump🤡 reportedly wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico after himself, but 'The Bay of Pigs' was already taken.
He's been busy, refilling the 'Trump Swamp of Mar-a-Lardo' with billionaires, lobbyists, suck up politicians and cowardly tech bros, far right loons, Magats, and seriously disturbed people like RFK, jr & Kash Patel.
P.S. Trump lies like we breath. He lies bigly & often because he does it to wear people down & become inured to his yuge lies. GOD, please save us from this charlatan, Satan's spawn Don the Con.
Trump is a cynical, ill-informed, transactional grifter returning to the presidency. He has and will fully denigrate whatever was left of the office. Listening to his inaugural address reminded me of a quote in MacBeth:
“Now his title hangs loose about him like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.” God help us.
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Gulf of Borscht is very funny, I like it.
Trump does say things that go too far, agree, but just to be fair and to place all of this in perspective, wouldn't it be interesting to compare things that go too far said by Biden and Trump?
In Biden's four years as President, and in fact, in Biden's decades in the Senate before, Biden has been almost as much of a liar, exaggerator and a make-it-upper as Adam Schiff, and Schiff is the undisputed Congressional "King of King, Lord of Lords of Liars."
All in all though, it seems that Trump's 180 degree change from Biden's, will be much better for all of us, and will return our country to a normalcy of common sense lost under Biden, that was buried even deeper under the seditious behavior of Pelosi for eight years. So..........
Why is Pelosi not in jail, yet?
Why is a convicted felon like Trump💩not in jail (besides highly partisan judges slowing down cases)?
BTW, Biden inherited both the Covid-19 outbreak and the Afghanistan mess from Trump🤡. Trump made a very bad deal with the Taliban, sidelining the Afghan gov't and he politicized Covid calling it a "Democrat hoax".
Thanks to Biden we have the world's best economy (China's economy is tanking). And as I look all around I see infrastructure being built/repaired. Trump promised an infrastructure bill (bigly lie) but Biden had one and got it passed. Anyone who thinks Trump🤡 is sane and rational ought to see a psychologist.