To be looking forward to watching Trumps inauguration on Monday

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I'm quite looking forward to this. And wondered if anyone else was. I don't expect so but thought I would ask anyway!

@cardibach that's OK.
I understand that not every poster on here is interested.
It's actually quite a huge subject and I'd suggest googling Trump. There is also an interesting documentary on u tube. He's a very controversial character and he's come into power at a very critical moment for the world.. Changes in oil /electric, Russia /Ukraine, Israel /gaza and so on.

Ai, race to the moon...

He's not a classic diplomatic politician and doesn't speak as such. He's unpredictable and some say unstable so yes it's definitely a moment in history.

I don’t need to google trump. I know more than I want to about him. He’s not interesting to me, he’s repellant. Why do so many peo0le who like him think those who don’t are ignorant? It’s very condescending. I’d agree he’s unstable. That doesn’t make his inauguration historic or in any way interesting either.

Why is it important

The entirety of his support base.

Anyone who thinks he's a leader, a savior, an intelligent person or even remotely competent is incredibly naive.

He has nothing in his mind but to satisfy base instincts like thirst, hunger, revenge and self-aggrandizement. Like his poorly educated (his words) followers, he iis totally manipulated by people with extreme socio-political views or just economic agendas.

More Americans have health insurance than ever before.
Violent crime is down.
Income inequality has fallen.
Real-terms wages have risen at their fastest level ever.

Data: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-biden-accomplishment-data/

Are you talking about sleepy joe? Time to go.. who do you think was manipulating Biden’s strings lmfao

Honestly?

I’d rather shit in my own hands and clap.

The country has been utterly trashed by the democrats and the electorate know it. Americans are not stupid.

Americans are rightly concerned about their economy, inflation, illegal immigration, and are desperate for policy change. Legal immigration is encouraged, something that those suffering from TDS conveniently forget.

Women, poor people, “non white” people and young people all voted for him. Overwhelmingly. Why do you think that is?

Trump won both Electoral College and popular vote, first Republican since 1988.
He flipped key states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. I don’t think he gaf if “mumsnet” doesn’t like him lmao.

This

Naive at best. Wholly delusional and wilfully ignorant to my mind.

I watched and had second hand embarrassment when he was speaking. It was beyond cringeworthy.

Dementia may be a possibility I'd imagine.

I'm surprised so many people have the time. I'll still be at work.

Unfortunately it's the wrong time of day over in Japan. I'd love to watch it in a pub so I can boo loudly.

I have checked the demographics, and, although the Democratic majority in these groups was reduced from previous years, it is NOT true that they voted overwhelmingly for Trump.

53% of women; 85% of black voters; 67% of all non-white voters; and 54% of 18-29-year-olds voted for Harris.

Among voters with a family income of less than $50,000 a year, the vote split 50-50. And Trump got just under 50% of the vote as a whole (Harris got a bit over 48; there was also an independent candidate). I accept that Trump was legitimately elected; but it wasn't an overwhelming majority,

Are you talking about Biden?

No. Trump. Its in the thread title.

It looked like a happy event last night.

I was struck by the optimism. Haven't seen that since Tony Blair swept into Downing Street.

That came across too from radio interviews in US

You mean blasting out D:reams Things Can Only Get Better at an out going PM, while actually meaning...we always knew it would get much, much worse... doesn't count?

Really. I remember watching TB and his speech. It was a strange thing and very infectious even the cynical media and traditional tory voters were impressed. And it was good for a time.

Mn does sound angry in comparison today, for the most part anyway. I don’t think those in the US celebrating will take much notice of the reams of posts on Trump

Women, poor people, “non white” people and young people all voted for him. Overwhelmingly.

"Overwhelmingly"? Bollocks. He got 49.8% of the total vote and Harris got 48.3%. For him to have an "overwhelming" majority of women, non-whites, and young people, it means the white male boomers must have voted in huge numbers for Harris. 🤔

The result was closer than the Brexit referendum. Trump might call it a landslide but it wasn't even that at the level of the electoral college.

At the moment Greenland is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Interestingly Greenland has a Prime Minister which has declared they are working towards independence from Denmark, and thereby loosening those ties. The Danish Parliament would have to approve Greenland’s independence, it seems. I don’t know if Greenland would swap complete independence, or swapping being a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark for stronger ties with the US (if it was ever offered). Their Prime Minister has said he may be open to more co-operation with the US. Greenland may be quite happy that their new desirability will at the very least give them a stronger position with Denmark.

https://archive.ph/WFEkr . This is the archived version of link below.

https://fortune.com/europe/2025/01/14/greenland-ready-to-cooperate-with-trump/

It's bizarre that people voted trump in.

But we can also say that it's totally bizarre that people in the UK agree that one single family (the royal family) is better than everyone else.

It is totally bizarre.

It isn't bizarre that people voted the Democrats out.

Not everyone in the UK agrees that one single family is better than everyone else.

I think those two statements are called 'generalisations' which are strictly prohibited on here.

The majority of people in the UK agree that one family is better than everyone else.

If they didn't agree with it, they would have a revolution to get rid of the royal family.