Trump 2.0
Monday's Inaugural of President Trump 2.0 was one of the smoothest, most patriotic and unabashedly American events in DC history.
Monday's Inaugural of President Trump 2.0 was one of the smoothest, most patriotic and unabashedly American events in DC history. If you didn’t get to see it, here’s video of his full Inaugural Address.
Here are some key quotes, including the stirring declaration that “The golden age of America begins right now.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/20/key-quotes-from-donald-trumps-inaugural-speech-n4936164
And here’s a recap of Townhall.com’s live blog of Inauguration Day, with some lively commentary…
If you didn’t catch the speech and prayer by our friend, The Rev. Franklin Graham, it’s a must-see. Here’s video and an appreciation by Victoria Taft at PJ Media of why it was so strong.
Trump made it clear that the horrible policies of the past four years, like “the vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government, will end.” His supporters expressed joy online that Biden and Harris had to sit right there on stage and listen to it. They also noted that when Trump said free speech would again be protected, he got a standing ovation while Biden and Harris just sat on their hands, looking like they were sucking lemons.
Everything went off perfectly. Even the one glitch turned into a triumph: when Carrie Underwood’s music track failed to play (sabotage by AV Club leftists?), she showed why she’s an “American Idol” by singing a beautiful a cappella rendition of “America The Beautiful” (no autotune necessary) that instantly became iconic.
It was a perfect metaphor for the new day in America: Bitter Trump haters attacked her and threatened her career for daring to show her love of country by singing at a Presidential Inauguration. She defied them, and when faced with an obstacle, overcame it and triumphed. Now, her critics look irrelevant and she has a career-defining moment that will go down in history. It’s similar to how the powerful leftist showbiz gatekeepers wanted to send Trump to prison. Now, he’s President again, and where are Harvey Weinstein and P. Diddy?
Not that they're giving up. Some leftist groups are already launching lawsuits to try to stop Trump’s executive orders, and one even claims to be preparing impeachment papers for the “crimes” Trump committed during the Inauguration. We can’t help wondering how long it will take them to realize that most of us are now just laughing at them. They seem to forget that they had four years to steer the car and they ran over a lot of people and put it in the ditch. It’s now time for them to sit in the back seat and shut up while someone qualified takes the wheel – at least until Americans have enough time to forget just how badly things went the last time they were allowed to drive.
We should also mention that Melania Trump looked absolutely stunning in both her daytime and evening wear. We assume the economy is already being stimulated by clothing factories working 24/7 to turn out affordable knockoffs of those looks. It’s a disgusting testament to the bitter leftist partisanship of women’s fashion magazines that they never put her on a single magazine cover in four years. We can’t help wondering if they’ll keep up that TDS policy, and if so, when will a wealthy Republican launch a fashion magazine for non-leftist women, put her on the cover, and outsell all of them the way “Gutfeld!” is trouncing everything else on late night?
Finally, An Inaugural Video Exclusive! We obtained a clip of Joe Biden leaving the White House that nobody else has:
True to his word, President Trump (it’s such a relief to remove the “-elect” from that title) signed a blizzard of executive orders. The first EO alone reversed 78 Biden executive orders! We don’t have the space to go through every one of them, but we’ll hit the high points and direct you to more information. In the meantime, you can watch the video of the signing ceremony and relive the thrill of knowing that every scratch of his pen helped return America back to sanity.
Some of Trump’s other executive orders included a federal worker hiring freeze and withdrawing us AGAIN from the Paris Climate Treaty. That’s the agreement that would cripple our economy with stringent energy restrictions while doing nothing about the worst polluters like China and India (China is building an average of two coal-fired power plants every week.)
Matt Vespa at Townhall.com has a round-up of more major Trump executive orders, which include declaring a national emergency at the Southern border and sealing it, ending “catch and release,” killing the app Biden’s people created to make it easy to apply for refugee status online, withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, ending government DEI initiatives, creating DOGE, granting an extension to TikTok to find a new buyer, killing Biden’s EV mandate, reopening American fuel exploration and scrapping offshore wind power projects, blocking government censorship of free speech, ending “birthright citizenship” and affirming that it’s now government policy that there are only two genders (male and female, for those who’ve forgotten.)
Here are some of the pro-Israel EOs that Trump signed…
And here’s a mega-thread on X of all the EOs, some of them illustrated with hilarious Internet memes.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/01/21/trump-executive-action-mega-thread-lott-n2407070
Trump also immediately fired the top three officials in the immigration court system, whom he expected to try to thwart his deportation efforts.
It’s worth noting that Trump’s end to the mandates on EVs and hybrids will likely not make a bit of difference in how many of either type of vehicle is sold. Biden forced manufacturers to make EVs (bribing them with our tax money), but now they’re taking a bath because hardly anyone wants to buy them. It’s the same thing that happened years ago in California: The state mandated that a certain percentage of cars sold would be EVs without considering that there was no mechanism to force every third or so shopper to buy a car he didn’t want. So the mandate was rescinded. Darn freedom, ruining all those utopian progressive plans again!
It was also a tremendous waste of money for no result. EVs are no more friendly to the environment than ICE cars, when you consider the dirty, dangerous mining of the battery components, the tire wear, old battery disposal, and the toxic smoke and water runoff if they catch fire.
Meanwhile, hybrids are among the biggest sellers and sales are only rising. People like them because they combine great mileage with no range anxiety. The fact that they run cleaner is a nice bonus, but that’s not the reason people buy cars. As always, the market had the last word, and that word to Biden was “Scram.”
Saw this article this morning, "DOJ to investigate officials who obstruct Trump's immigration enforcement, memo says", which describes the "new legal" DOJ thinking with respect to sanctuary cities and states, put out by the acting AG. As I read this it should start legal action against every governor, mayor, state legislator and city council member that voted for sanctuary status for their jurisdiction. This measure is four years overdue. The concept of sanctuary as it was used in this case is blatantly illegal and was only "allowed" by the Biden administration leading the way in breaking the law with respect to border security. As bad as that is it was worse that the republicans largely sat by and let it happen. It's hard for me to believe that nothing could have been done to challenge this in four years when all it took is for Trump to get elected, it didn't even require his AG to be confirmed to make it happen.