Túrin Turambar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:36 pm
President Trump's inaugural address
Fairly brief and to the point. A few things I picked up on:
He thanked the Obamas graciously for their help in the transition and drew loud cheers from the audience.
"For too long a small group of people in Washington D.C. have reaped the rewards of government while the people have born the costs...their victories have not been your victories."
"What truly matters is not which party controls government, but whether government is controlled by the people."
The education system flushed with cash but not delivering results (which is a fair call, as the U.S. spends more per capita on education than almost any other country with mixed results).
"We are one nation, their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success."
"We defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own."
A lot of talk about infrastructure again, mirroring his victory speech.
He will eradicate radical Islamic terrorism (a very big call!).
"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice."
Going into space to free humanity?
And the crowd-pleasing "make America great again" at the end.
This inaugural address, the "American Carnage" speech, weirdly borrowed from one of Bane's speeches in
The Dark Knight Rises (at other points in his presidency, Donald Trump likened himself to Thanos and, as I recall, to the Emperor from
Star Wars) and was described by former president George W. Bush to others on the dais that day as "some weird shit." I'm resurrecting this thread briefly because of this new study about a subject that Trump tackled in the speech that immediately became a flashpoint of his presidency, immigration, in light of
this news:
As ye sow... 
