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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump’s Inaugural address
Apparently he ran in 1999 and Christopher Buckley, one of the best and funniest writers - to my mind - wrote this:
My fellow Americans,
This is a great day for me personally. Youre very smart to have voted for me because Im going to do positive things for this country, starting with this mall Im looking out over. For starters, I dont know why this is called a mall. Where I come from, New York Citywhich happens to be the greatest city in the world, and the reason I say that is that I built most of it, and I only build quality, so I think I know what Im talking abouta mall doesnt look like this. Where are the shops? I see grass, ponds, an obelisk. This is not Cairo.
I dont know how much the government paid for the Washington Monumentand I have no problem with George Washington, but he wasnt a businessmanthey overpaid. Youve got a 560-foot tall structure sitting on some of the most prime real estate in the country, incredible views, including of my new home. People would pay a lot for a duplex co-op in a building like that. I would charge fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars a square foot, and Id get it. No wonder this government is trillions in debt. . . .
With foreign policy, the same. Im a businessman. Other countries want to do business with us, Im all for it. Trade, great. I have no problems with people trading with us, but its going to be fair trade, by which I mean we come out on top. Or they can sell their TVs and cheeses to someone else. Maybe North Korea could use them. Again, its not complicated. Missiles? Very simpleyou aim one at us, I fire 100 at you. So dont go there. . . .
That about covers it. I have to go, because the important senators and congressmen are giving me a lavish luncheon in the rotunda. I understand theyre serving a lot of shrimp, much better food than theyve had in Congress for a long time. Basically theyre trying to impress me so I wont cancel their highway projects and ethanol subsidies. I know how they do things. Now theyre going to find out how I do things.
By the way, Ive directed the Treasury to issue a couple billion extra in $100 chips. Enjoy yourselves. Its the dawn of a very great era.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-president-trumps-inaugural-1458256626
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I imagine he'd redecorate the WH to look like a sleazy Trump hotel.