This statement was released by the White House today after Trump’s swearing in. Be sure to read the last two pledges:
The first promises to restore the names of Confederate leaders to federal facilities like military bases where they had been changed. They were changed to acknowledge that Confederate leaders were traitors. Trump will once again recognize them as heroes. Time will tell if he intends to re-erect the Confederate statues that were removed. For those that were destroyed, he could commission replacements.
The second pledges to remove any recognition of transgender people. Under Trump, they no longer exist.
. MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN
- President Trump will take bold action to secure our border and protect American communities.
This includes ending Biden’s catch-and-release policies, reinstating Remain in Mexico, building
the wall, ending asylum for illegal border crossers, cracking down on criminal sanctuaries, and
enhancing vetting and screening of aliens. - President Trump’s deportation operation will address the record border crossings of criminal
aliens under the prior administration. - The President is suspending refugee resettlement, after communities were forced to house large
and unsustainable populations of migrants, straining community safety and resources. - The Armed Forces, including the National Guard, will engage in border security, which is
national security, and will be deployed to the border to assist existing law enforcement
personnel. - President Trump will begin the process of designating cartels, including the dangerous Tren de
Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations and use the Alien Enemies Act to remove them. - The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty as the appropriate punishment for
heinous crimes against humanity, including those who kill law enforcement officers and illegal
migrants who maim and murder Americans. - MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AND ENERGY DOMINANT AGAIN
- The President will unleash American energy by ending Biden’s policies of climate extremism,
streamlining permitting, and reviewing for rescission all regulations that impose undue
burdens on energy production and use, including mining and processing of non-fuel minerals. - President Trump’s energy actions empower consumer choice in vehicles, showerheads, toilets,
washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers. - President Trump will declare an energy emergency and use all necessary resources to build
critical infrastructure. - President Trump’s energy policies will end leasing to massive wind farms that degrade our
natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers. - President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
- All agencies will take emergency measures to reduce the cost of living.
- President Trump will announce the America First Trade Policy.
- America will no longer be beholden to foreign organizations for our national tax policy, which
punishes American businesses. - DRAIN THE SWAMP
- The President will usher a Golden Age for America by reforming and improving the
government bureaucracy to work for the American people. He will freeze bureaucrat hiring
except in essential areas to end the onslaught of useless and overpaid DEI activists buried into
the federal workforce. He will pause burdensome and radical regulations not yet in effect that
Biden announced. - President Trump is announcing an unprecedented slate of executive orders for rescission.
- President Trump is planning for improved accountability of government bureaucrats. The
American people deserve the highest-quality service from people who love our country. The
President will also return federal workers to work, as only 6% of employees currently work in
person. - President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political
rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law. President Trump is also ending
the unconstitutional censorship by the federal government. No longer will government
employees pick and require the erasure of entirely true speech. - On the President’s direction, the State Department will have an America-First foreign policy.
- BRING BACK AMERICAN VALUES
- The President will establish male and female as biological reality and protect women from
radical gender ideology. - American landmarks will be named to appropriately honor our Nation’s history.

He may have just unleashed a civil war between “us” and “them.” I know my tea kettle is about to burst.
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#MoreAbsurdityGreaterAtrocity
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Forgot to mention that Trump believes he was sent by God to be the President of the United States.
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whenever someone makes that kind of claim your horse manure detector should go off.
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Actually had to clean up the floor after I vomited my breakfast. That’s what happens when all the pseudo- Christians in this country make Trump commit no crimes or sins. Remember Trump once he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and nothing would happen to him.
Trump the Teflon Don.
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Oh, yeah, God saved him from the assassin.
Why doesn’t he go to church, any church?
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Meanwhile, he signs more Bibles and puts his signature above Holy Bible. And cannot cite any scripture. How “Godly.”
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One doesn’t need to go to church to be holey.
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Duane — He did. And the Pastor handed his posterior to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESheItSWy4
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Yup. Bigly.
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Couple of thoughts: American Values — wow, what an example. And, more importantly, I worked very closely with kids who had no idea what was going on with their bodies. They were hurting. They thought something was wrong with them. I read. I studied. I nurtured the kids the best I could to be the best of who they were — unique, bright individuals. I cried a lot. But the kids found solace in our “unique environment” and did not commit suicide like others did. Yes, that extreme. I just report from what I know and lived. And yes, Alyssa became Alex. We laughed. We learned. And Alex is one of the brightest people I know. Blessings all.
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Ugg. No words. It’s going to be a long 4 (or more) years.
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Running,
You and I will have to content ourselves with being barefoot.
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Barefoot??
The first step in becoming one of those xtian rethug sex partiers.
And one gets kicked out of the party when one becomes pregnant.
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Oh goodie! I can hardly wait to be protected from “radical gender ideology,” whatever that is. Does that mean I can stay barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen? No wait, skip the pregnant. I get to take care of the grandchildren while barefoot and in the kitchen. Do they let grandmothers wear shoes?
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His speech was vile, nasty and vengeful, nothing really positive. From what he said, it sounds like he’s going to take some kind of military action against Panama! That is just nuts. There is no problem with the nation of Panama or their canal. Trump should just shut up, stop with the jingoism and unnecessary saber rattling. But,…………….what else would we expect from this moron-in-chief.
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I kept my vow not to watch. My grandson stayed over. We watched the hilarious, bawdy “We’re the Millers.” This morning, after he left, I did the laundry. Now that is a good morning.
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@Diane — my wife and I did the same. Done. I need to get back to nature, art, and reading books. Not sure how to cope.
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I kept my vow as well. I actually haven’t listened to anything he has said since November. I will read the transcript but his voice grates on my nerves so badly, that I can’t watch or listen to him. I took our new foster dog and our golden retriever for a nice long walk, my husband fixed me breakfast and we just finished watching the newest episode of the .Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew. I am in Southern California and the wind has picked up precipitously and we are under another fire hazard watch.
I would rather focus on the safety of our neighbors and the community than listen to anything he has to say. I am still sick to my stomach over this election.
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Thanks, Running Granny, you are my kind of girl.
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“Trump should just shut up, stop with the jingoism and unnecessary saber rattling.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ad infinitum.
And a zebra can change its stripes while being chased by a leopard that is changing its spots.
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By way of countering Trump today, the educators on this blog ought to read Audrey Watter’s post on AI. Watter’s book is called Teaching Machines and she previously wrote a blog at Hack Education. She took a hiatus after the unexpected death of her son, but she’s back to writing now. Hers is an indispensable voice.
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-literacy-and-the-pedagogy-of-the-oppressor-2/
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“Computer literacy. Digital literacy. Web literacy. “Literacy,” broadly defined, is part of the mission of schools after all.“
Ummm. . . NO! It’s not.
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Read a bit further, Duane! Audrey and you agree.
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“Only 6% of federal employees work in person.”
That should come as a surprise to Army civilians loading ammunition on trucks for delivery and to the civilian guards at those depots, to my mail carrier, to the doctors and nurses at the VA, to air traffic controllers, to TSA workers.
Does anyone check this stuff before it’s sent?
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No need to check. Reality is what the cult leader says it is.
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This list reads like it was put together by two drunks sitting at the end of a dive bar. Trump did nothing today except deliver raw meat to his ignorant base. They are too stupid to understand the real hurt that will happen to them well before it affects the educated,
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FELON47 is a racist, and THE January 6, 2021, traitor. No surprise the malignant narcist, sociopath and megalomanic wants to bring back the traitors of the U.S. Civil War, who fought for and supported slavery, in marble, bronze and naming military bases after them.
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Trump did not put his hand on the Bible when he was sworn in. Melania stood by, in her designer outfit, holding two Bibles. He didn’t put his hand on them. Does this mean he is an atheist in evangelical clothing? A heathen in disguise, appealing to Christian white supremacists.
Also, if you Google, Elon Musk gave the Nazi salute.
Some bunch!
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I think she wore that broad billed hat so that her husband wouldn’t be able to give her a theatrical kiss.
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so…the people who I know who have or are transitioning are…less than human now?
and we’re making the world safe for Neo-Nazis and Confederate apologists…
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Birdchum,
Those people you mention don’t exist anymore.
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Dianne — this is what I was afraid of after working with these kids as a teacher. It really hurts me. https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/01/22/trumps-gender-executive-order-a-full-erasure-on-transgender-rights-advocates-say/?campaign=sjmnbreakingnews&utm_email=8592245344B8D4818542E5264E&active=no&lctg=8592245344B8D4818542E5264E&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2025%2f01%2f22%2ftrumps-gender-executive-order-a-full-erasure-on-transgender-rights-advocates-say%2f&utm_campaign=bang-sjmn-nl-breaking-news-alerts-nl&utm_content=alert
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Rich,
These kids exist. But Trump thinks he can erase them. He doesn’t care what happens to them.
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If, in, say, 50 years, people start asking how this country not only elected an ignorant, small-handed felon to the presidency, twice, I expect any answer will be as bewildered and groping as mine is now.
The tragedy of our age is that, no matter how reasoned and articulate our analysis, the fact remains that a vast portion of our population is composed of fools. And no country can last long when it’s run and populated by fools.
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I realized that one form of capitulation to fascism is kind of built in . . . to having to deal with an unreasonable mentality. The capitulation is the realization that there is no talking to people who, in fact, belong in a looney bin. CBK
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. . . they have chosen to ignore and abuse their own intelligence. CBK.
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I see almost nothing here that will benefit the working class voters that supported him. The war and immigrants and refugees is not going to help anyone.
Maybe undoing energy regulations might bring down the cost of gas, but doing so will accelerate climate change and make the planet unlivable.
“All agencies will take emergency measures to reduce the cost of living.”-This would be great, but didn’t he already say he couldn’t bring down the price of groceries. Call me a skeptic, but I don’t think he’s going to reduce the cost of living.
This is petty, but I must admit that I experienced some schadenfreude watching the complaints of his supporters who flew out to DC, but literally got left out in the cold. As George Carlin once said this country is run by an exclusive club and you ain’t in it! The members of the club were inside surrounding Trump.
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David Pearce: Duh. . . . CBK
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Apparently, the price of eggs went up because of the bird flu epidemic and the culling of chickens. . . . can you imagine.
. . . don’t know about bread. CBK
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Catherine — surprisingly not as much as I thought. Costco normal 5 dozen eggs (14.79) now 17.59. Bread was 5.89 two loaves of Watsonville Sourdough — 6.89. Everything has been climbing since he mentioned tariffs. Another source said the “big retailers” met in December planning how to compensate for tariffs. I noticed a jump in dog food, coffee, nuts, and chocolate. Gum too for some reason. I have recorded prices since the pandemic. My wife and I will just do without. But what “protector” leadership from this putz.
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…and rounding off the day were the Nazi salutes made by Musk.
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According to the Anti-Defamation League, those were only “awkward gestures”.
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And thus does a respected institution destroy its credibility utterly.
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Lady Liberty’s et tu, Brute? moment to the AntiDefamation League.
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The golden age of America begins right now!!!! So said the liar-in chief. More like the pyrite age of America.
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In a long list of executive orders rescinding Biden EOs, Trump rescinded Biden’s cap of $2,000 on prescription drugs for those on Medicare and Medicare.
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He also pardoned all J6 criminals and gave them invites to the inaugural balls
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Oh, the hogs are lining up for feeding, and we’re on the menu.
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This is not about Donald Trump.
Every country has its idiots, it narcissists, its haters, its dividers.
This is about the American People. They voted for an obvious idiot, narcissist, hater, national divider to be their president and chief-in-command.
In 2016, the American People could not predict what kind of president Donald Trump would make.
In 2024, the American People knew exactly what kind of president he would make. The majority of the American People voted for an idiot, a narcissist, a hater, and a divider.
Let’s not blame Donald Trump for what just happened. Idiots will be idiots. Let’s blame the American People.
Now let’s educate the American People. If you don’t think all hope is lost.
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hminkema: Right on. The inherent problem is what Aristotle knew–having good parents (and we can extrapolate to having good teachers and a qualified culture to grow up in) is not just a good thing; it is also essential for a good upbring. And changing a poor upbringing where such goods are in absentia, takes another generation or more of change to cure the cancer and wash away the poison, even if it can be cured and washed away, which is a different question.
So much depends on people having a real “change of heart,” so to speak. It’s like expecting those who went to jail for the insurrection will come out changed people who now understand their own complicity in evil. CBK
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“The majority of the American People voted for . . . “
NO, absolutely NO, they did not. Why do you repeat the spurious lies of the Amurikkkan reichwing?
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Diane: At the background of this is education. For decades, well-meaning teachers and others in education could not even THINK that so many people (on the wealthy right with psychological roots in the slavery south) and whose foot-in-the-door banner was “public-private partnership” (that hid their hard-and-fast anti-democratic/anti-Constitutional movements) could snooker committed well-brought-up teachers and set the conditions for propagandizing and proselytizing the nation’s white children and disengaging all others.
Your early turnaround response to what was going on (if I am right in this) was just one example of someone early-on realizing something poisonous about what was going on.
I think things are going to change big-time; but I also think self-destruction is on the menu for them–I hope sooner than later. CBK
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Can you say “standards and testing malpractice regime”???
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Putin is now occupying the Oval Office. The chaos and division will all serve to weaken us and, by extension, strengthen Russia.
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I grew up landscaping (rather weeding yards) and mowing lawns; learned to fix everything. I love watching a couple of guys: Spencer with SB Mowing and AL Blades. If you really want to see empathy and good will towards people watch this. This is what a leader should be doing with all our hurting people, not make them scared. Also see the Pastor who really handed it to 47 today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESheItSWy4&t=50s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMIDHyBsCI Imagine how much good these billionaires could do to not “hand out” but life people up. Make them feel valued rather than gutter trash. Blessings.
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Al Bladez video is rather long so fast forward to the end to see how he surprises this homeless family having some misfortune.
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Also, so appalling to mention that his billionaire friends lost their homes in the LA fires (the ones on stage). None did. It would have been nice for him to have some empathy for the people who now have absolutely nothing. https://nypost.com/article/jeff-bezos-houses-real-estate-portfolio/
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