To ask whether you'll watch the inauguration?

Former presidents aren't on our screens often so we don't see a very slow difference in their looks. I hardly recognised Bush. Yes it's surprising to see them very much older but dare I say it the men mostly grow old gracefully while the wives fight it and go for face lifts etc etc.

Well, they are all older….

Trump born June 1946. Clinton born August 1946.

The footprints of a generation and how many died so young: Joe Biden was born 1 week before Jimi Hendrix

I watched it thinking about House of Cards

Isn't Trump 78?

Yes Bill Clinton is 78, and younger than Donald Trump

Yeah and I think Bush is also about 77 or 78 too ?

I was shocked at Bill Clinton then I googled and saw he is 78!

Anyone else think that the former US President’s have all aged quite a bit ? Even Obama looks a lot older..
Clinton and Bush too.

”So what you’re saying is…..” <proceeds to state something they clearly were not saying>

Because they don’t actually have a genuine issue with anti-semitism…..it’s just a convenient political tool they can use.

I actually thought people were exaggerating Leon’s Sieg Heil and thought maybe or was just one of their weird tics he does. But it was fairly blatant. But they don’t care as he is one of theirs and let’s face it - this is the kind of thing Trump supporters voted for.

So you are saying only if you're to the right do you care about anti-semitism? Or is it that if youre to the far left, alongside Corbyn and his mates, it doesn't really matter? Islamists have a lot to learn from the Jewish communities on how to present their views without hatred.

Mrs Vance is Asian - who would expect her to be blonde? Miaow

I couldn't help noticing JD Vance, barely 40, is fully growing into his greying middle age. And his wife Usha also had some lil grey strands on show.
Something of a minor achievement compared to the ultra blonde republican fembot look of the other MAGA women like Lara Trump , Melania and the dog killer Kristi Noem have. They are all several years older, let alone sandy blonde Donald

I think you mean some mumsnetters?

You seem clueless.

Just look at the number of times he turns up in public with fake Melanias. She just doesn't want to be with him.

Having only recently watched the last episode of series 2 of The Diplomat, I desperately want Rufus Sewell to make a phone call to Trump. I tell you, that man's lethal powers over the the phone are awesome.

I remember my mother watching the Kennedy one.

Well the ketamine might finish him off if Trump doesn't before the end of his term in office.

I'm American, and I've never watched any of the inaugurations of the President or any other elected official. I'm also British and I've never watched or paid much attention to the swearing in of new MPs. The only thing I know about the most recent one came from some work relevant articles discussing the different oath choices people made, particularly the variations in the Sikh oaths that caused some confusion and debate.

I find the idea repeated many places, including on here that if one loathes Trump they must be a Democrat a bit strange. No one has to be a Tory to not like Starmer - his biggest detractors seem to come from Labour.

I imagine the inevitable fallout between Trump and Musk will be at least mildly amusing, though Musk is not the only wealthy tech guy who shifting to Trump's tune. I also find that strange - I'd have thought that the wealthiest people who are the least likely to be impacted would push the other way, but at least this time, they don't appear to - they're bending the knee for some reason.

And while Elon may have a lack of empathy, that lack of empathy or theory of the mind being a part of autism has been scientifically questioned for over a decade. It's been largely replaced in most research on it with the double empathy theory.

Myers Briggs has been dismissed scientifically even longer, it is the astrology of psychology - great for a laugh and some find personal value, but it has no basis to be applied to others.

I find it interesting that those right wingers who will scream ‘antisemitism!’ if someone slightly to the left of Genghis Khan so much as mentions they didn’t like Barbara Streisand’s 2nd album, are strangely silent in the face of Musk Sieg Heiling on every television network across the planet.

I used the word 'suspect'. I'm not claiming to 'know' anything about their relationship. What 'seems' to you to be 'mutual respect' seems to me to be an act for public consumption.

his face looks as if he uses gravy granules for bronzing powder, petty of me I know but he needs to tone it down

he has/is being given an office in the White House and he is head of the new Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) which is about making cuts, I would call that powerful. Poor Elon also seems to have something the matter with his arm given the way he was flinging it around recently, maybe he was just overcome with the emotion of the long day😄