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This is what victory feels like.”
Elon Musk, a major Trump supporter and the world’s richest man, pumped the air, jumped up and down, whooped and bellowed, candid and unpretentious enough to break into a little dance saying
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The past is never dead,
William Faulkner famously wrote
That's what I want to be — a peacemaker and a unifier,
Trump saidNational unity is now returning to America and confidence and pride is soaring like never before.”
When Trump summoned so much of the American pastThis machine kills fascists.”
After all, it came from the mind of a man who railed against injustice and famously wrote upon his guitar
We will not forget our country,
President Donald Trump saidWe will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars,
Trump saidAmerica will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world,
he saidThe administrative burdens themselves are, in some sense, a deliberate test of deservingness,
Dr. Heather Hahn, an associate vice president at the nonpartisan think tank Urban Institute, explained of America’s social insurance programs
All that red in the middle, where Trump won, what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.”
Calling up the 2016 electoral map, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued
I don’t think hard-working Americans should be paying for all the social services for people who could make a broader contribution and instead are couch potatoes,
former Florida representative Matt Gaetz once argued in 2023 while lobbying against anti-poverty programsIf you know the words, help me out here,
she finally said before launching into an a cappella version of the song
The only bipartisan thing about Trump on Monday was his purple checked tie and opening promise of ‘the golden age of America’,
he added
He applauded just once during the speech, when his old enemy mentioned the release of Hamas hostages, and spent much of it looking at the ground,
Diver wrote, reflecting on polarised political environment in the USWhat made this day different from that one, however, was considerable evidence that Trump is more focused and better prepared to act swiftly and in doing so, establish himself and his powers,
he addedUnlike when Trump first began his ascent to the pinnacles of US political power in 2015, however, Trump represents the current emerging establishment as much as any one man. And sitting behind him on the dais were a collection of some of the wealthiest, and most influential, corporate leaders in the world”.
Zurcher stuck a cautionary note, writingThe challenges lie ahead, both to the substance of the first round of orders and more importantly to issues that executive orders cannot solve,
he notedThe American revolt against the liberal order has been brewing for some time in the 21st century,
he writesTrumpism has always been about making brash, blunt and blatant the forces shaping society for years. An oligarchy has long held sway in America. He is now elevating it without apology or shame,
he writesBut despite the warm tone of his rhetoric, there were also hints of the battles to come. His call for “national unity” did not extend to the Democrats in the room, who sat silently, aghast,
he wrote