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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have an advance copy of Trump's inaugural address, in case anyone's interested
"My fellow Americans: it'll be great, believe me. Shit, it's cold out here. I'm done. Where's my limo?"
In keeping with the length of his attention span, you understand........
Takket
(21,563 posts)They're done with places most Republicans couldn't find on a map, or even tell you the continent where it is located.
mopinko
(70,090 posts)the deplorables might start to wonder if it is in russia.
DFW
(54,370 posts)If it ain't in wonderful Russia, who cares, right?
Too bad these people don't make enough to visit Russia in droves. Then they could see for themselves this white man's paradise they think they admire so greatly.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)He's now down to the Topeka Junior High School Marching Band and a poem read by Kelsey Grammer.
Initech
(100,068 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)"Pussy Snatch Fever"
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)I am kind of curious.
It's a solemn occasion and Orange Ass just can't rise to it.
Will his minions write something that at least sounds professional or will he again break the rules and say something outlandish?
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)He will not be bold, he will not be the anti-Washington mover and shaker. He will look exactly like any other guy getting sworn in. He'll be boring.
His only talent is being the huckster and con man, his only skill. If he's not doing that, he's mediocre and boring.
Soon after he is sworn in, I predict he will delegate 98% to his chosen officials and focus on being the face for the media and little else. Those cabinet members and officials are who to be wary of.
He's rightly scared of having a press conference where he'd have to answer a real, in depth question about something serious. Twitter is where he wants to be, where he can pick the topic (a trivial one) and expound on it with falsehoods and brags.
Class clown, dunce, bully, faking his way through life. Voted in by chumps, and also by people who were anyone-but-Hilary.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)Yeah...now that Hillary is no longer in politics, Benghazi is a closed issue!
Mendocino
(7,488 posts)can he sing?
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)takes off right from the platform, blowing away all the bunting and wigs and scarves in the annoyed crowd.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Not gonna be That much verbiage. Take out all the pronouns, the verbs, all commas and periods and the entire "My fellow Americans:... and you've nailed it.
niyad
(113,284 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)I need to take a course in dumbing down. Using an apostrophe to form a plural, spelling "lose" with a double "o," spelling "too" with a single "o," etc.
niyad
(113,284 posts)to be fluent in that awful snarling that passes for language amoung those "people" (and I use that word most advisedly)
DFW
(54,370 posts)Even some of the oddball languages I know (Swedish, Catalan, Dutch) all have hard and fast rules. Republicanese is a language whose rules are like an amba, changing shape with every second, and never the same if you take your eyes off it for more than a second.
niyad
(113,284 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)"The truth is what I say it is!"
lark
(23,097 posts)Lots of biglys and yooges and you losers and I'm the best, smartest ever, you are going to be so glad you put me in this office. All the while he'll be internally laughing at the rubes who he totally conned and some will be conned to their deaths when they get sick and ACA is no longer available and nothing at all has replaced the subsidies, it's just afford it or die and he will be totally fine with that.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)of speech, I would add "It'll be great" a couple of more times, as he tends to repeat himself.
Maybe something like
"My fellow Americans: it'll be great, believe me. Really great. Shit, it's cold out here. But I promise you, it'll be great. I'm done. Where's my limo?"
DFW
(54,370 posts)My bad!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)Like the "span" between one side of a dime to the other.
summerschild
(725 posts)I doubt it will be long enough to cover the bottom of the bird's cage here.
DFW
(54,370 posts)It will be short enough, predictable enough and boring enough to learn by heart in less than a minute.
Don't watch on TV, though, unless you haven't eaten for 24 hours prior...........
GaYellowDawg
(4,446 posts)Not easy for me to chuckle about any of this, but that worked.
DFW
(54,370 posts)Laughing beats slitting our wrists or jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, and they seem like about the only other reasonable options at this point.
Walking around in a daze and repeatedly saying, "What the FUCK?!?" has worked for me so far. But I have to transition to something else.
DFW
(54,370 posts)Most doctors recommend not doing that for more than 30 days consecutively, for fear of addiction.....
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)al rolled into one.
THEN-
He'll start dropping names. That could take an hour, if anyone's there to listen.
DFW
(54,370 posts)He may also vaguely recognize the name of Sanjay, but he wouldn't know who that was, either.
He'll know Cotton Gandhi and Gandhi Dapples, and probably think he's been spelling them wrong all these years.