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To ask whether you'll watch the inauguration?

828 replies

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/01/2025 14:26

Bit of a boring one I guess. I'm gonna get the snacks in for me and dd as the coverage starts at 3.30/4pm (UK obs)

I love to watch stuff like this, makes me feel connected to the world 😅🙈

Plus I wanna see if anyone slips up and let's their face show their real thoughts

Plus I'll be making comparisons between barron and Gary barlow's giant son

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TokyoSushi · 20/01/2025 17:08

Lot's of people in the audience seem amused!

Westfacing · 20/01/2025 17:08

What was that bit by one of the preachers referring to Melania loving everyone around the world? Maybe I miss-heard!

Parratha · 20/01/2025 17:08

CheesecakeOnTheLanai · 20/01/2025 16:51

It must be incredibly difficult for Kamala Harris to have to sit through this, just wondering what might have been. I'm still not over Melania's outrageously ridiculous hat, I keep expecting her to moonwalk across the dais.

What's "outrageously ridiculous" about it?? She looks very classy. I wonder what your taste is.

JHound · 20/01/2025 17:08

hattie43 · 20/01/2025 17:00

I'm starting to agree , especially now with the lies about this murderous Stockport kid not being a terrorist .

He wasn’t a terrorist.

3floofs · 20/01/2025 17:08

Feel sorry for Barron, he looks very shy

CrushingOnRubies · 20/01/2025 17:08

Just tuned in.

When the choir walked down the aisle barging past the audience

Melania's hat so she doesn't have to smize.
Where are all the past presidents?

HoraceCope · 20/01/2025 17:08

oh did i miss the YMCA?

99victoria · 20/01/2025 17:09

The difference in colour between his hands and his face 😱(noticed when he was clapping)

JHound · 20/01/2025 17:09

User09678 · 20/01/2025 17:01

And Starmer wasn't invited to this one. That's another first for the UK.

Phew!

Makes it easier to avoid it.

Edited. Appears to be untrue:

No UK prime minister, or any other world leader, appears to have visited the United States at the time of any presidential inauguration going back to when records of visits began in 1874.
This year, in a break with tradition, Donald Trump has invited several world leaders to join him on his inauguration day. Sir Keir Starmer does not appear to be one of the invitees.

The US State Department maintains a list of every visit by a UK leader to the country, starting with prime minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1929.
There were no official visits by a UK leader to the US in 2021, the year of Joe Biden’s inauguration. Then-prime minister Theresa May visited on January 27 2017, seven days after Donald Trump’s first inauguration.
Barack Obama’s first inauguration was on January 20 2009, but it was not until early March that year that prime minister Gordon Brown visited the country. Tony Blair visited the US around a month after George Bush’s first inauguration and John Major visited Bill Clinton around a month after his first term began.
The earliest visit by a UK leader following a US president’s inauguration in the last century appears to be that of Alec Douglas-Home two days afterLyndon Johnson was sworn in to office in 1963. Mr Douglas-Home’s was in the US to attend the funeral of Mr Johnson’s assassinated predecessor, John F Kennedy.

pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-no-uk-prime-minister-has-attended-a-us-presidential-inauguration/

JoanCollinsDiva · 20/01/2025 17:10

It's so AMERICAN!! 🇺🇸

Do they always sing "Glory, glory hallelujah" at inaugurations or has Donald just requested that be sung? 😂

This is actually the first time I've watched one in my life, I'm finding it quite fascinating.

JHound · 20/01/2025 17:11

Cremeul · 20/01/2025 17:06

@user09678 no UK Prime Minister has ever been invited to a presidential inauguration.

Please tell me that wasn’t more MAGA fact free info?!

Ihateboris · 20/01/2025 17:11

BarbaraHoward · 20/01/2025 17:03

Still?

What do you mean?

JoanCollinsDiva · 20/01/2025 17:11

Several of them are there, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Bush.

Westfacing · 20/01/2025 17:12

He sounds so insincere.

MidnightBloom · 20/01/2025 17:12

Blue Steel .... Blue Steel .... 🤣

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/01/2025 17:12

JoanCollinsDiva · 20/01/2025 17:10

It's so AMERICAN!! 🇺🇸

Do they always sing "Glory, glory hallelujah" at inaugurations or has Donald just requested that be sung? 😂

This is actually the first time I've watched one in my life, I'm finding it quite fascinating.

I feel like they don't and this is a new thing 😅

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BillStickersIsInnocent · 20/01/2025 17:12

Is he reading an autocue? He sounds quite coherent

Heatherland77 · 20/01/2025 17:12

Someone in DC said Grindr 'nearby' profiles have gone up 40% with MAGA insurrectionists. They may look like Village People.....

SnidelyWhiplash · 20/01/2025 17:12

I’m watching it, despite my revulsion.

It’s certainly a rather odd ceremony. Feels north-Korean in parts.

Milania looks ridiculous in that silly hat.

orangewasp · 20/01/2025 17:12

The whole thing is both ridiculous and sickening - what an utter twar. Had enough, turning over for Pointless.

ItWasnaMeGuv · 20/01/2025 17:13

Yes, watching now Grin. Delighted that he will reinforce that there are two sexes: male and female, will get males (no matter what they ID as) out of women's prisons, changing rooms, toilets, sports etc. Desperately hoping it happens here in UK soon.

3floofs · 20/01/2025 17:13

All past Presidents (except Obama) botoxed to the max

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/01/2025 17:13

BillStickersIsInnocent · 20/01/2025 17:12

Is he reading an autocue? He sounds quite coherent

And monotone 😴

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Westfacing · 20/01/2025 17:13

BillStickersIsInnocent · 20/01/2025 17:12

Is he reading an autocue? He sounds quite coherent

Of course he is - you could see them just before he started speaking

BillStickersIsInnocent · 20/01/2025 17:14

Westfacing · 20/01/2025 17:13

Of course he is - you could see them just before he started speaking

Ah thanks I didn’t see them