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The Trump Presidency
January 20, 2017, 05:00 PM
Floyd D. BarberThe Trump Presidency
Wish I had changed channel sooner. CSPAN is showing the parade without comment.
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January 20, 2017, 05:01 PM
WaterburyBobThe clouds of Mordor have parted ...
"If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards
January 20, 2017, 05:02 PM
12131quote:
Originally posted by SIGWALLY:
I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American today...
I'm always extremely proud to be an American. Today was a special day, because We The People gave tyranny the GTFO.
Q
January 20, 2017, 05:11 PM
dgwiggansBreitbart reporting
"Trump Offers Father Down on His Luck $10,000 Check at Inaugural Event
A FedEx courier and former security guard from Illinois was surprised with an invitation to meet with Donald Trump after the President-elect saw a story on the struggling single father. But the special meeting wasn’t the only surprise. The young man was stunned when Trump presented him with a check for $10,000.
Shane Bouvet, a 23-year-old single dad, was featured in a Washington Post story highlighting his visit to D.C. to support Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The paper revealed that Bouvet was headed to D.C. in a borrowed suit and donated shoes to celebrate Trump’s oath of office.
“This is pretty much the biggest thing I’ve done in my life,” Bouvet told the paper. “I don’t get out much. I’m a small-town, blue-collar guy.”
But a mere visit to Washington to see this historic day was far from the only notable thing about Bouvet’s visit, because Trump himself saw the paper’s feature on Bouvet and invited the young man to a one-on-one meeting.
On Thursday, only a day before he took the oath of office to become the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump met Mr. Bouvet, shook his hand, and offered some help.
“This is the greatest guy,” Trump said as he shook Bouvet’s hand in a tented area behind the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, the Post reported.
Bouvet called his father and had him say hello to the president in waiting. The President-elect laughed that Bouvet’s father, who is also named Don, has “a great name.”
After Bouvet’s phone call back home, Trump signed autographs for the young man’s son and then came the big surprise.
As Mr. Bouvet prepared to end his historic meeting with the President-elect, Donald Trump handed him a personal check for $10,000.
As he walked away stunned and crying, Bouvet muttered aloud, “Did that just happen?”"
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January 20, 2017, 05:23 PM
mbinkyquote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
How they draw that duty, I have no idea. I thought I had used up a lot of my lifetime supply of good luck when I got shore duty in Coronado as a brand new Ensign in the middle of the VN war!
He probably got picked something like this:
<BN Cmdr gets all his officers in a room. Gunny Highway voice on>
"Ok listen up. One of you war dogs has to escort the new first lady in a few days. I'll take volunteers first. [hands go up] No not you Jones, Jesus Christ my schnauzer has a better face than you. Not you either O'Donnell. God Dam I don't need someone up there representing us licking the back of the bulletproof glass. Smith get over here. Dam Captain Smith you know what? You are silly and you're ignorant but you look like a God Dam Abercrombie model. Do you have a picture of Zac Effron over your rack? Of course you do we allow that shit now. Oh well looks is enough. Smith if you ask for her number I will personally make sure the ghost of Chesty Puller shits all over you, you understand that? [Captain Smith rogers up] Get your poop in a group Smith dress blue alpha inspection tomorrow morning at zero five. Dismissed"
January 20, 2017, 05:24 PM
S600MBUSAquote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Very cool to see Trump and Pence saluting our troops as they walk past.
Is it proper for Pence? Neither Trump nor Pence are military, but Trump is head of state, CIC. The Veep is neither.
Is it just imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
On a related note, I was surprised to read recently that until Reagan, it was unusual (some considered it improper even) for the president to return a salute from the military. President Reagan explained how it came about during a speech in Iceland:
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“I can’t resist telling you a little story that I’ve just told the marine guard at the Embassy. The story has to do with saluting. I was a second lieutenant of horse cavalry back in the World War II days. As I told the admiral, I wound up flying a desk for the Army Air Force. And so, I know all the rules about not saluting in civilian clothes and so forth, and when you should or shouldn’t. But then when I got this job and I would be approaching Air Force One or Marine One and those Marines would come to a salute and I — knowing that I am in civilian clothes — I would nod and say hello and think they could drop their hand, and they wouldn’t. They just stood there. So, one night over at the Marine Commandant’s quarters in Washington, and I was getting a couple of highballs, and I didn’t know what to do with them. So, I said to the Commandant, I said, ‘Look, I know all the rules about saluting in civilian clothes and all, but if I am the Commander in Chief, there ought to be a regulation that would permit me to return a salute.’ And I heard some words of wisdom. He said, ‘I think if you did, no one would say anything.’
Along the same vein, I doubt anyone will correct VP Pence
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January 20, 2017, 05:25 PM
sdySenate confirms Kelly for DHS
Kelly's nomination easily passed the Senate in a 88-11 vote.
http://www.washingtonexaminer....-dhs/article/2612526adding:
The Senate will vote Monday on the nomination for Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, to serve as CIA director after six hours of debate.
January 20, 2017, 05:29 PM
JALLENHe must read Sigforum.
I noticed that Mr. Pence had started hand over heart since we have discussed it, standing next to an Admiral and the President saluting.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown January 20, 2017, 05:30 PM
RAMIUSWho's the officer to Trump's left? My right.
January 20, 2017, 05:31 PM
Balzé HalzéAnd here comes Kings Point!
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January 20, 2017, 05:31 PM
mbinkyquote:
Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Who's the officer to Trump's left? My right.
General Mattis. Looks like the General is already talking policy lol
January 20, 2017, 05:33 PM
MRMATTFIRST TROOP - from Philly. Played rugby against those guys many years ago.
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January 20, 2017, 05:33 PM
JALLENThe gal on Fox Business News, Mercedes Schlapp, just characterized Senator Schumer's remarks at the Inaugural as "the obituary of the Democrat Party."
Ho ho!
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown January 20, 2017, 05:34 PM
wcb6092Watched the inauguration,raised the American flag,and then the clouds lifted and the sun came out.Got on my bike and rode 14 miles,smiling all the way.
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January 20, 2017, 05:34 PM
jdmb03Congrats President Trump.
January 20, 2017, 05:36 PM
MRBTXThe Boss is finally driving the boat. Rest well everybody.
January 20, 2017, 05:36 PM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Who's the officer to Trump's left? My right.
General Mattis. Looks like the General is already talking policy lol
That is who is there now. Before there has been a series of Joint Chiefs one by one. The last uniformed guy was the Coast Guard, IIRC.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown January 20, 2017, 05:37 PM
greybeard9I'm late to the party but what a wonderful day for our country!
"In the age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness." - Saul Bellow January 20, 2017, 05:37 PM
mbinkyDam I missed all the Joint Chiefs. Wow. Wonder if it was congrats or if something is going on. Trump and Gen. Mattis seemed to be exchanging more than pleasantries.
January 20, 2017, 05:38 PM
rduckworAs the parade ended, the CINC was talking business with the SECDEF. It was abundantly clear that it was down to business. Let's go!
RMD
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