January 22, 2025
As an American, I was hoping to see Donald Trump start his second term as president going in the right direction. So far, he has been less than successful, even after just 2 days on the job. But right out of the gate, starting with his inauguration on January 20th, turned out to be a flop.
Donald Trump’s Inauguration ratings are the worst in U.S. recorded history.
It has been recorded that almost 25 million viewers watched the inauguration, but almost 34 million watched Biden’s 2021 inauguration. Comparing him to his own first inauguration, it was down almost 20%. He had almost 31 million viewers in his first inauguration. It was without a doubt the weakest and most pathetic inauguration in U.S. history, starting with the poor ratings. Trump blamed the cold weather as the reason why he was bringing the inauguration from the outside to inside the rotunda. But in 2008, President Obama had basically the same exact weather, with very large crowds, and held outdoors.
Pushing that idea aside, what was the inauguration like? First, his speech was very bizarre. He talked like a crazy man, not the leader of the free world. He talked about attacking Panama. He never mentions about helping the economy. He never mentioned about bringing prices down. He never mentioned healthcare.
Then to think about the tech oligarchs attending the inaugural events. Here is just a partial list of such people that I can name.
Elon Musk – Space X CEO – The richest man in the world
David Sacks – A Venture Capitalist
Tim Cook – Apple CEO
Jeff Mezos – Amazon CEO
Mark Zuckerberg – Meta CEO
Shou Xi Chew – TIKTOK CEO
Why were they there? Most likely because they were yearning for attention, and to ask favors from Trump.
For just about any other president in the past, this period of time is supposed to be the honeymoon period for the incoming president. Usually the people from both sides of the isle will come together to give the new leader support, but in this case, that didn’t happen. Lawsuits immediately came to light immediately after his inauguration speech, now totaling 7 lawsuits, especially when he signed a bill on his first day to end birthright citizenship. Trump will lose the lawsuit and when he does, he will blame someone else. He never takes ownership of his failures. Obviously Trump has never read the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment states that anyone born in this country except foreign nationalists offspring, automatically become a citizen of the United States and enjoy the benefits of becoming a citizen when born. They get to enjoy the benefits of the state and of the country, regardless if their parents are legal residents or NOT. Donald Trump is not in office to uphold the U.S. Constitution. He couldn’t even put his hand on the Bible in the swearing in ceremony during the inauguration. Why would he abide by it!
Without a doubt, his favorably rating is low, now reported at 41%. All past Democratic presidents had higher ratings when they went into office by up to 30% higher. So it doesn’t look like the nation is uniting under him. His election created a very real division in the country. Trump needs to be exposed as a fool within his corrupt administration while not protecting the American people in the process.
What else did Trump do on day 1? Well for starters he pardoned the January 6th insurrectionists, and also ones convicted of seditious conspiracy, From poll after poll, only 15-20% of people favored Trump pardoning insurrectionists. These people tried to kill cops, they stormed the U.S. Capital, and destroyed some of the contents, while hunting down Vice President Pence in an attempt to hang him. Still, he pardoned approximately 1500 people, the very people that committed the crimes on Jan 6.
He took down the Spanish version of the Whitehouse webpage. He gave out some very serious pardons. He gave pardons to people who were convicted of sex trafficking. He said he wanted to do it because the libertarians wanted him to do it, so it wasn’t even his idea.
One of Trumps pathetic predictions is that he was going to get peace into Ukraine on day 1. But then in his first press conference, he now was delegating that responsibility to Xi Jinping, who is the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who gained power in China in 2012 and claims he never plans to step down to negotiate the peace in Ukraine. He is the same leader that is forming alliances with Putin to destroy America.
The bottom line here is that Trump is starting off with the lowest ratings of a president in history. Biden kicked his ass in the ratings. Trump does not know how to ‘right the ship’. He will continue to do things that are very unpopular, because he has nothing to lose. He’s never going to run again for office, unless he can become a dictator and just not hold elections ever again.
I was sincerely hoping that I could write a kinder, upbeat story about Trump. But once you become a convicted felon, as he is, he will always be a convicted felon, the first EVER in American history and a man such as him could be nothing but bad for the country. He proves it each and every day. When he puts the tariffs in effect against Canada and Mexico and China as he says he will do on February 1, 2025, Donald Trump will continue to sink to new lows and will hurt the American people in the process. Costs for goods on just about everything will go up for Americans. The U.S. Stock markets will flounder. Our economy is about to go in the tank. So much for the people voting for Trump because they believed he was better for the economy. He’s about to destroy their lives too.