President Donald J Trump

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What's all this nonsense about women in London marching in the streets against The Don?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Trump.html

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LEFTARDS....

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Considering his past speeches and considering his agenda.... I thought this was a good speech by Trump... not sure he wrote it though.

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: Thank you.

We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.
Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come.
We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.

Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent.
Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another -- but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.

For too long, a small group in our nation's Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished -- but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered -- but the jobs left, and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
That all changes -- starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment: it belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.
Everyone is listening to you now.
You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.
Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.
But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
We are one nation -- and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams; and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we've defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.
One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind.
The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world.
But that is the past. And now we are looking only to the future. We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power.
From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.
From this moment on, it's going to be America First.
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.
I will fight for you with every breath in my body -- and I will never, ever let you down.
America will start winning again, winning like never before.

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.
We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.
We will get our people off of welfare and back to work -- rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.
We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world -- but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones -- and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity."
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
There should be no fear -- we are protected, and we will always be protected.
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger.
In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action -- constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.
The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.
Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.
We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.
A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words:
You will never be ignored again.
Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.
Together, We will make America strong again.
We will make wealthy again.
We will make America proud again.
We will make America safe again.
And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.

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The new US Press Secretary gave it to the LW Prog mainstream media pack this morning. About time someone told them where to get off.

2 thumbs up for Sean Spicer.

Taking his first press briefing at the White House Mr Spicer spoke for about 10 minutes and then walked out without taking any questions.

"Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power ... some members of the media were engaged in deliberate and false reporting."

Mr Spicer first pointed out an erroneous report from a pool reporter that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr had been removed form the Oval Office.

Mr Spicer also said that the Trump administration were “going to hold the press accountable,” partly by reaching the public through social networking sites.

Wouldn't it be great if someone had the courage to take it to the media in Australia.

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LEFTARDS....

I thought "feminists" ... all encouraged to wear the so-called pink "pussy hat". There are even knitting patterns online.

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Leftards they'd all be leftards too...

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Been one great big global anti-democratic Prog dummy-spit nef.

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Been one great big global anti-democratic Prog dummy-spit nef.

Yeah, why has aggie suddenly taking so much interest in American politics?

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Why does AG do anything?

Sideshows only amplify Trump’s core message
The Australian
January 22, 2017
Chris Kenny
Associate Editor (National Affairs)

Anyone in a liberal democracy has the right to engage in public protests — that should go without saying — but there are a few things to say about the “Women’s marches” around the United States and elsewhere today.

At their core, they are anti-democratic. These protests have not been triggered by anything the US President has done — they were organised weeks ago and Donald Trump was only inaugurated two days ago — but rather at the outcome of the election.

These crowds of protesters are marching as a way of stomping their feet at the outcome of a democratic election. They come after we saw violence and smashed windows on the day of the inauguration.

It is a national — make that global — dummy spit.

Now we have silly debate about whether Trump’s inauguration, Barack Obama’s or the protest marches drew the bigger crowds. This is a juvenile, social media-style version of democracy.

And it is not elevated or justified any further because President Trump and his team are egocentric and petty enough to engage in it. The crowds don’t matter. Nor do the fake news stories about a bust of Martin Luther King being moved from the White House (it wasn’t).

These media sideshows, all aimed at mocking Trump, tend to fuel his support outside the Beltway. They amplify his core message — the theme of his inauguration address — that an outsider has moved in to shake up the Washington political and media establishment.

While millions take to the streets around the US and the world, there is not a single policy or an action they rally against. They are united against President Trump.

Fair enough — as I said, everyone has that right — but the time to stir up opposition to Trump was last year and, in particular, in the lead up to the election. A mass movement on election day, crowds of people marching to the polling booths in the Democrat states won by the Republican nominee, would have made a difference.

Not enough of them cared then. They were not energised by the candidate the Democrats put forward, Hillary Clinton, who was, at best, pedestrian and certainly offered only more of the same.

So the political imperative for the protests is belated, on the one hand, and premature when it comes to opposing any actual policies or decisions. It looks more like mass petulance.

Then there is the feminist element. These are women’s marches. This brings into question what outrages against women are sufficient to inspire such public concern.

Clinton lost the election to a man who, on any objective level, lacked the political experience or character traits to make him an ideal candidate. The fact Trump was able to win was an indictment on Clinton herself and her campaign.

She chose to run in large part on identity — vote for me because I am a woman — and this didn’t work with enough women, let alone men.

(I know many Trump critics point to the popular vote. The popular vote has never been the aim of the US presidential contest therefore campaigns are tuned to winning individual states rather than a national majority. No one knows what the result would have been if that was the campaigning aim and it is disingenuous and weak to seek to change the terms of the contest after losing it.)

In the past Trump has said and done many things that most of us would regard as crass and sexist. Even during the campaign some of his references to Clinton were, to use a word, deplorable.

Yet if feminists want to rail against injustices to women, there are far more pressing issues around the globe than oafishness in the Oval Office; especially when you recall that Clinton defended her own husband when he was exposed for exploiting and harassing women from that same office.

Whether it is female genital mutilation, force marriages, rights to education and work, domestic violence and even the right to show their faces in public, there is no shortage of outrageous subjugation of women around the world, with elements of it replicated even in western democracies like the US.

Protest that.

Around the world we are forced to see Hollywood actors who live their lives behind secure walls in multi-million dollar mansions decrying increased fortification of the US border. And the same actors who flood the entertainment market with shallow, violent and often amoral movies, now offer themselves as the public arbiters of political morality. Truly.

For US citizens the best way to proceed is obvious. If Trump grates with you — wait for him to do something in office and then criticise it.

Better still, mobilise next time to vote for a better candidate in order to defeat him. That’s how democracy works.

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JUVENILE ... exactly.