Posted on 01/17/2025 8:31:11 AM PST by DallasBiff
Eight years ago, Donald Trump delivered an inaugural address that overshadowed the typical optimism and promises of unity with a dark portrait of national life.
His unapologetically populist and nationalistic speech installed the phrases “American Carnage” and “America First” into the presidential lexicon. It signaled how he would govern in his first term — and how the president-elect might govern in his second.
Here is a look back at Trump’s initial remarks and why they remain relevant ahead of his encore Monday.
‘The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer’
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
We’re on the cusp of peacefully removing a fraudulently installed Administration. I suppose time will tell if it shouldn’t have been done a different way.
What an incoherent dog’s breakfast of an article. Does he have a thesis or even a point? He seems to have a hard time finding a way to repudiate the goal of making America great and having all citizens prosper without the heavy boot of government on their necks.
The communists in the US feel a seething hatred at this sort of notion. They hate the common man.
Results!
All that matters is results.
Trump’s first term resulted in America gaining back it’s strength and relevance back on the world stage. The economy was the best in probably all of America’s history. Democrats hated that any republican could do so much that the democrat party stood a chance of being made irrelevant. They had to cheat in order to get rid of Trump.
Now they want to vilify Trump again, even before he takes on the presidency again. Scared is the best word that defines how the democrats and their media allies feel. Being made irrelevant and outcasts, is scary, but, they asked for it.
Inaugural speeches and any other speeches have become necessities, but, it’s what happens after the speeches that matters, and the results show that Trump was a winner in the first term and will be in his second.term. That’s very scary for democrats. There must be something that the democrats can use against Trump to get him out, before he completes making the democrats completely irrelevant.
I can almost feel the dark shadow building already....😂😂😂. Just kidding. Sound like the writer needs to move someplace more accepting. Like EUtopia.
Inauguration day in 2017, the Democrats and their minion media malcontents said Trump’s term was going to be dark, so much so that they proclaimed Trump will ruin America. It didn’t quite pan out that way until four years later when Biden became President. Those were the darkest four years in our country’s history.
Let’s see if they double down on their delusions. Trump’s attorneys should be present to prepare the lawsuits against the liars in the legacy media.
30,000th post on FR! What I wish President Trump would say: “ in addition to getting Illegals out of the Country, I am also announcing Operation Penochete, tp deport all leftists to the marxist Counrty of their choice.
I’m only up to 13,000+. But, 102,000+ responses. 😂👍. A lot of things I’d like him to say. Next Monday to branDUHn and carmela “You’re Fired!”. “ Get ‘em outa here!”
AP = All Propaganda
“...a dark portrait of national life.”
The hate continues. See Tagline.
True story: the bull dyke whore who,in the summer of 2020,was the Attorney General of Massachusetts commented while the riots were in progress "yes,the country is in flames...but that's how forests grow". That bull dyke wore is now the Governor of Massachusetts.
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