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A “revolution of common sense” is coming. That’s what Donald Trump is expected to say in his second Inaugural Address today. The ceremony begins at noon, albeit in the Capitol Rotunda instead of outside on the stairs because of bitter cold. Trump hasn’t even taken office yet and he’s already solved global warming.
The downside to the change is that though two of our Pop Culture Contrarian podcasters, Andrew Culper and Sterling Henry, are in DC today to celebrate the festivities and distribute a little promotional material, they won’t make it into the Rotunda. There were 250,000 ticketed guests for the outside inauguration, but the Rotunda fits roughly 600 people.
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A few symbolic notes:
The last time the Inauguration was held in the Rotunda was Ronald Reagan’s second one in 1985, so maybe that’s a good omen.
Speaking of Reagan, upon taking the oath a second time, Trump will be older than the Gipper was when he left office. He will even surpass Joe Biden’s record as the oldest president to take office, though no one thinks of Trump as being anywhere near as feeble and nigh incapacitated as Biden. Trump is as energetic and dynamic as a man half his age.
JD Vance will be sworn in as the next vice president. Just 40 years old, he will be the third-youngest man to serve in that post, and he’ll be the first one with a beard since Charles Fairbanks in 1909. Let’s hear it for bearded men!
Trump is the first president to be inaugurated to non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland won back the White House and began a second term in 1893. Unlike Cleveland, Trump did so after being indicted four times (and bogusly convicted once) by Democrat wagers of lawfare and surviving two assassination attempts during the campaign.
His return to office marks arguably the greatest political comeback in American history. The protests that marked his first inauguration are virtually nonexistent, and even the Republican divisions have almost totally healed. Instead, the Democrats are deeply divided and leaderless.
In a preview of Trump’s speech obtained by The Wall Street Journal, he is expected to say this:
I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country. My message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization.
As the Journal notes, that’s quite a bit more optimistic than Trump’s first address in 2017.
That doesn’t mean Trump is unaware of the serious problems besetting our nation. Far from it — he highlighted each of them and rode voters’ deep dissatisfaction with the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris regime to a comfortable victory in November. He also has a lot of plans for rectifying things. With typical bravado in his rally Sunday, he promised to “act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country.”
He is expected to issue more than 200 executive orders today, many of which are aimed directly at undoing the damage done by an outgoing president few people will miss. As Douglas Andrews put it this morning, those orders cover “everything from declaring a national border emergency to declaring war on the drug cartels to terminating the electric vehicle mandate to abolishing the Green New Deal to withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords to unleashing Alaskan energy to ordering federal workers back to their offices to establishing a biological definition of sex to ending DEI programs across the federal government.”
Trump is also expected to quickly pardon many of the more than 1,500 people charged for actions on January 6, 2021. Given that Biden just issued pardons for the entire J6 Committee (along with Anthony Fauci and Mark Milley) so as to avoid what he warned would be Trump’s “revenge,” Trump should feel free to pardon anyone and everyone who was not involved in any violence on January 6. Perhaps we might even be able to just move on as a nation.
In short, we are hopeful that today marks a new beginning after the dark failures and intentional damage of the last four years. As I said when Trump took office the first time, it’s the end of an error. You might also call it Morning in America.
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