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To be looking forward to watching Trumps inauguration on Monday

278 replies

Viviennemary · 18/01/2025 09:11

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

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Abhannmor · 18/01/2025 10:36

BruceAndNosh · 18/01/2025 10:19

JD Vance is the source of some of the worst ideas. Vance would feel right at home in a Gilead Commander's uniform.

Vance is the scarey one tbh. And he could live for decades. He is owned and operated by Peter Thiel who lives in NZ. Or used to. Keeps a lower profile than the Muskerberg.

Thewaitingseason · 18/01/2025 10:36

President Musk and vice puppet Trump will be great ! I’m sure they’ll have it all under control !

PandoraSox · 18/01/2025 10:37

AlisonDonut · 18/01/2025 10:28

Don't tell me #BeKind is in your twitter profile?

No, it isn't!

Why should I be kind about a bigoted misogynist?

JanuaryBluehoo · 18/01/2025 10:41

@WhatTheFuckIsThisNow yes, but can you see any party 100% looking after them??

Rotherham?

It's best to remember that sadly no party will we just have to keep fighting and pressuring and getting out of the mindset that one party or person will defend them or increase them.

PandoraSox · 18/01/2025 10:41

Newfoundzestforlife · 18/01/2025 10:21

Wow....I'd hate to have your karma...

If my karma is bad, imagine what Trump's is going to be like.

ByMerryKoala · 18/01/2025 10:43

Yeah, probably. It's going to be interesting. Maybe not so much the inauguration but what follows as the geopolitics shift to frustrate/ accommodate/ appease Trump and to see which bits of the bluster will make policy.

Pinkissmart · 18/01/2025 10:44

PortiasBiscuit · 18/01/2025 09:21

No one actually believes he has any kind of real power so they?
I am terrified of whoever is manipulating this senile old man, however they are unlikely to be in evidence at the inauguration.

I’m so curious.

Who are ‘they’?
There are all these conspiracy theories about they/ them controlling everything, but who are ‘they’?

ThatsNotMyTeen · 18/01/2025 10:46

PandoraSox · 18/01/2025 09:21

It is a shame they have moved it indoors. Standing around in the freezing cold might have seen him off.

These were my thoughts, or that a sniper might have stood a chance

bifurCAT · 18/01/2025 10:46

ExtraOnions · 18/01/2025 09:17

Boring Goady Post, posted for the express intention of garnering annoyed responses. There is no AIBU question. If you are that short of people to talk to IRL,that you have to spend Saturday morning posting deliberately devisive messages on a public forum, I would examine your life choices.

It's only goady if you respond. Congratulations, you took the bait.

Here's one, Labour are doing an awesome job!

Lilifer · 18/01/2025 10:48

Viviennemary · 18/01/2025 09:11

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

Yep looking forward to this too! 🎉🙌🏻

ByMerryKoala · 18/01/2025 10:48

ByMerryKoala · 18/01/2025 10:43

Yeah, probably. It's going to be interesting. Maybe not so much the inauguration but what follows as the geopolitics shift to frustrate/ accommodate/ appease Trump and to see which bits of the bluster will make policy.

And the bellyaching as the #bekinders pull back the mask and demonstrate the full range of unhinged wish fulfillment - that's always good for a laugh.

CloudyIslandSkies · 18/01/2025 10:48

Name changed as I don’t want a load of abuse.

I will watch the inauguration if I can. I quite like Trump, I hope Melania is treated better by the press in the US this time around. Biden was dreadful and Obama disappointing.

JanuaryBluehoo · 18/01/2025 10:51

@CloudyIslandSkies you shouldn't have to name change to avoid abuse that's awful mn should not allow it.. Unfortunately an organised group of very left wing posters seem to think it's their job to police this site.
It means we can't express our opinion freely or have debate without it being dragged into some tortured left wing morass.

Newsenmum · 18/01/2025 10:53

What exactly do people like about him and think he’ll do? Surely he’s just going to do lots of drilling, make himself lots of money and make everything worse?

Newsenmum · 18/01/2025 10:55

Like ok, forget all the nasty shit he’s said and done - what do people like about his policies? I’d like to learn.

CloudyIslandSkies · 18/01/2025 10:55

@JanuaryBluehoo oh thank you, it’s a bit feeble of me but I agree the far left get very nasty and very angry. I am completely at ease with posters having different politics from me, I wouldn’t dream of getting cross about it. Unfortunately anyone who disagrees with the left is called a racist and misogynist.

Newsenmum · 18/01/2025 10:56

BettyBardMacDonald · 18/01/2025 10:06

Agree.

I read that he will be dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency as well. That will have an adverse ripple effect around the globe.

This is what I mean. Are peoole not scared about climate change?

IncessantNameChanger · 18/01/2025 10:56

Already lost too many hours of sleep watching the US election tbh. What will be, will be.

As a rule I dip in and out of news as its all so negative. Not getting sucked into the fear machine with this. Maybe if he at some point does try to take Greenland by force because without NATO we will be next.

Overall the vast majority of US citizens want all of this and support him taking another state. That's the primary thing. He didn't stumble into power. He was voted in.

If you don't like Musk interference with our politics, then you need to respect the Americans don't want ours either

Notagoodenoughreason5 · 18/01/2025 11:00

There are several UK Trump Supporter websites that you can visit to praise the Tangerine Tyrant..yet, you choose mumsnet 🤣😀

CloudyIslandSkies · 18/01/2025 11:03

I think he will keep the dollar strong, increase wage growth, get rid of some transgender policies Biden introduced such as allowing trans men to compete alongside women.

LinnettdeBelleforte · 18/01/2025 11:05

Notagoodenoughreason5 · 18/01/2025 11:00

There are several UK Trump Supporter websites that you can visit to praise the Tangerine Tyrant..yet, you choose mumsnet 🤣😀

This poster loves posting goady nonsense. She also posted a thread saying that the news should stop reporting on the fires in Los Angeles because it wasn't fair on the people of Gaza, or something like that.

Luminousalumnus · 18/01/2025 11:06

Newsenmum · 18/01/2025 10:53

What exactly do people like about him and think he’ll do? Surely he’s just going to do lots of drilling, make himself lots of money and make everything worse?

I don't like HIM, but that's not really relevant. I already like the fact that his threats/strong encouragement look like they have bludgeoned a ceasefire in Gaza. And no, it wasn't Bidens teams negotiation that achieved this.

Mamebea · 18/01/2025 11:08

CloudyIslandSkies · 18/01/2025 10:55

@JanuaryBluehoo oh thank you, it’s a bit feeble of me but I agree the far left get very nasty and very angry. I am completely at ease with posters having different politics from me, I wouldn’t dream of getting cross about it. Unfortunately anyone who disagrees with the left is called a racist and misogynist.

Have you seen some on the right ? Veins are bulging out with hatred. It’s all divide. Trump and musk together with his swamp that he was supposed to drain are going to make the left look rosy soon.

ByTheSea · 18/01/2025 11:08

It would be difficult for me to look forward to it less. 🤮🤢🤮

BellyPork · 18/01/2025 11:11

I'm looking forward to four years of belly laughs every time I turn on the news.