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Crime Syndicate: TRUMPs Golden Age -Chaos/Dysfunction & A Coalition of CREEPS
TRUMPs Golden Age - Chaos/Dysfunction & A Coalition of CREEPS
Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that
The Guardian 22 JAN 2025
Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk among the NERD broligarchy at Donald Trumps inauguration.
Full American democracy is barely 60 years old, yet seems to be in an advanced state of cognitive decline. At his inauguration yesterday, Donald Trump seated the tech bosses, his nerd broligarchy, in front of his supposed cabinet.
Needless to say, it was all a hopelessly overstimulating day for Elon Musk, whose double salute on stage later was a pure Dr Strangelove spasm, generously described by the Anti-Defamation league as an awkward gesture. Listen, if your friends won?t tell you, then who will?
As for the staging of the inauguration, it was an occasion devoid of a sense of occasion. I would honestly have preferred Trump to ride in on the QAnon shaman. Instead, and not to get all British & try to copy their state events, the world was forced to watch a quite staggeringly inept and lo-fi ceremony.
You constantly expected someone to grab the mic and say: Could the owner of a red Honda Civic please move your car as its blocking in the burger van. Or maybe, as viewers round the globe sat waiting in mortified vain for singer Carrie Underwoods basic backing track to kick in WHICH FAILED, to announce: Apologies, ladies and gents, we have a tech fail. Is there anyone who knows about tech in the house?
In a manner befitting a modern and correctly prioritised new era, a vast amount of comment was expended on female attenders? clothes choices, with Jeff Bezos fiancee outfit coming in for more heat than the decision to summarily rename bits of the world and to annex others.
That could be fun to look back on. Grandpa, what did you say when he said he wanted to retake the Panama Canal, considering the horrifying chain of events that ended up sparking? Ah, well now I think I said something like, Jeez woman can you just put them away for ONE day.
Having said that, I had a huge amount of time for Melanias sartorial defensiveness (tailoring by Adam Lippes, millinery by Iron Dome). Donald and Melania in the Statuary Hall of the US Capitol, 20 January 2025.
Over in the Oval Office, meanwhile, the Diet Coke button has been restored ? the least imaginative red button ever to grace a strongmans desk ?
...Along with busts and paintings of admired politicians who are too dead to be able to tell Trump precisely how much theyd have hated him.
'THE DON'
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