Well, it’s now official – after two months of dithering by “Sleepy” Joe Biden’s lame-duck presidency – Donald Trump has been sworn-in as the 47th President of the U.S. of A!! Your Eyewitness wonders whether the unusually icy conditions and bitter cold that forced the event to be shifted inside the Rotunda might be a portent of cold foreign relations, since Trump is sticking to his announced annexation of Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal!!
Now…like him or hate him, for sure, no one’s gonna be indifferent to him! Which is just the way he wants it!! Early on, during the hiatus, the inauguration ceremony signalled Trump’s vision of a new America when, for the FIRST TIME, he invited some foreign heads of state for the occasion. That’s right… never been done before! It’s a sign of imperial hubris and vassalage!! The invitees themselves stirred comments – as for instance including China’s Xi (who didn’t show up) and excluding India’s Modi – with whom most thought there was an ongoing bromance!! Argentina’s Milei and Itali’s Meloni were expected – being fans of Trump.
The other difference was the prominence of tech billionaires such as Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Apple’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The latter’s fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, caused quite a stir with her plunging neckline that revealed her lacy bra. Zuckerberg, seated next to her, was caught sneaking a peek!!
Usually, the celebrities that grace this event are from Hollywood, but this time they’d mostly backed the loser, Kamala Harris!
But there was a Hollywood touch, however, when Trump “air-kissed” his wife Melania, whose wide-brimmed sombrero might or mightn’t have caused the lack of contact!! Some figure that the latter might’ve been deliberate, since neither party would’ve wanted their makeup smeared!!
Another noticeable feature on the people’s front was the large size of Trump’s family. They alone could’ve served as his backdrop!!
Another standout was Trump plunging into governance matters without skipping a beat. He signed a slew of Executive orders, among which the pardoning of all involved in the Jan 6 assault on Capitol Hill was expected!! As was the declaration that the “Gulf of Mexico” is now the “Gulf of America”!! Your Eyewitness wonders whether the oil majors would now talk about their drilling in the “Gulf of America”!!
Your Eyewitness was, however, disappointed that Trump didn’t mention Mad Maduro next door. His mentioning of increased oil production to bring down the US cost of living – read lower gas prices – signals that he won’t be cancelling Chevron’s Venezuelan licence to ship the more-than-200,000 bpd arriving at the Gulf of America refineries. This, of course, serves as one of the major props to Mad Maduro’s regime!!
…exploitation of killings
Sadly, once again, the killings during what David Granger calls “The Troubles” in the early years of this century are being resurrected by the Opposition in the lead-up to General Elections.
What else can you dub such efforts other than “wicked” attempts to polarize the electorate racially to prevent them from voting on issues. Now, this doesn’t mean that there oughtn’t be an inquiry into those killings; that was agreed to by all parties for quite some time now. In fact, the Granger Administration began one with great fanfare, but it petered out after an inconclusive Inquiry into the Lindo Creek Murders – which fingered the Joint Security Forces!!
What’s reprehensible are the claims of the numbers killed having been inflated from around 400 up to 1200!! Fact of the matter is the joint Opposition parties conducted research and compiled a “Full List of Extra-Judicial and Other Killings Between 1993 and 2009”. It ended with #449: David Leander, aka David Zammett, aka “Biscuit”, being killed on 24th July 2009!!
…APNU?
Looks like the members of APNU have decided to kiss and make up after Norton missed a meeting last year and was booted out as Chairman.
But PNC plus four zeroes still leaves just PNC!!
