Friday January 20 was a day that many people
had waited for for many reasons. For Conservatives, the day that Barack Hussein
Obama would vacate the White House for good was a day eight years in the
making. And not only was he off to begin the next phase of his life which was,
thankfully, his post-presidency, he was turning over the keys of the People’s
House to the opposition Party. Some still doubt that Donald Trump is a
Republican much less a Conservative, but he has a GOP House and Senate behind
him. If Conservatives are lucky, they won’t screw it up.
People from all over the nation made the trip
to Washington D.C. to witness something that rarely happens in any other part
of the world, the peaceful transition of power. Oh sure, in some areas of Washington
things were not so peaceful. Rioters calling themselves “protesters” set fires,
threw bottles at police, and generally continued to throw their collective
temper tantrum over the fact that Donald Trump was now the President.
Things started pretty traditionally. You had
dignitaries including former Presidents in attendance, military bands playing
patriotic music, and of course, swearing in ceremonies. If you happen to be
watching mainstream media, or Liberal cable channels, you would have thought that
America had finally surrendered and we were just waiting for our new alien
overlords from a distant planet to come issue every American citizen a
microchip and take over life as we know it. The meltdown was as infantile as it
was hilarious. Terry Moran if ABC news called the notion of “America first”,
“dark”, and suggested it had overtones of 1930’s anti-Semitic slogans in
Germany. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews did not even try to hide his Nazi insinuations.
He called Trump’s inaugural speech “Hitlerian”. Poor Chris, no tingles up his
leg this year.
Over at the Fox News Channel, the usual
suspects could not cut the new President some slack either. But they made a
serious attempt to make it look like they were, sort of. Chris Wallace noted
that President Trump’s inaugural address was that of an “insurgent, the leader
of a revolt that has won and taken control of Washington”. Fidel Castro, but in
a good way? Brit Hume described it as “not poetic but quite strong”. Kind of
like telling your friend that the dress she is currently wearing does not make
her butt look nearly as big as the one she just tried on.
As the term of the nation’s first black
president came to an end, poll after poll shows America’s black population very
divided on whether or not Barack Obama’s presidency was good for them. The
statistics certainly do not bear it out, but every president has his die hard
supporters. Barack Obama’s are no exception. But it appears that so many of
them supported him for no other reason than the color of his skin. It is
something that seems completely contradictory to the work of Dr. Martin Luther
King, whose life and legacy was celebrated by Americans inside of the same
week. This came to mind later in the day as Melania Trump’s amazing Jackie
Kennedy-esque blue outfit with matching gloves was discussed and an
African-American co-worker called the new First Lady a “fake-a** b**ch”, then
proceeded to mumble something about Michelle Obama being called a monkey, not
acceptable to any rational person on either side of the aisle. But wow, this
statement was not racist at all! Note sarcasm.
This chronicles only the first day, and not
even an entire day of Donald Trump’s time as President. Welcome to the next
four years. This should be fun.
