My goodness. The chaos, the pandemonium, the confusion.
It’s just what Donald J. Trump has ordered … allegedly.
That was some wild weekend as Trump became president of the United States.
*Ā The presidentĀ delivered 16-minute inaugural speech that re-stated the winning themes of his presidential campaign and painted a dark picture of gloom and “carnage” in the United States of America.
* The next day, White House press secretary Sean Spicer meets the press corps for the first time and delivers a five-minute scolding of what he said was a deliberate misreporting of the size of the crowd at the inauguration. Amazing!
* Meanwhile, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Spicer was delivering a set of “alternative facts,” prompting “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd to remind her that “alternative facts are falsehoods.”
* Then … the president goes to the CIA ostensibly to pay tribute to the agents who’ve fallen in the line of duty then excoriates the media as a “dishonest” group of people.
* As all this was occurring, several million people around the world hit the streets to march in protest of Trump’s inauguration.
* Finally, Trump told congressional leaders he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because as many as 5 million illegal immigrants cast ballots against him.
Is this what we’re going to get for the next four years? Is this what our allies abroad are going to witness as the 45th president’s administration tries to gain its footing?
He told us he would campaign unconventionally. It now appears that unconventional governance is going to follow.
I’ve got to catch my breath.