Listless, uninspired and robotic: Trump’s vision of a “golden age of America” rings hollow
2 months, 1 week ago

Listless, uninspired and robotic: Trump’s vision of a “golden age of America” rings hollow

Salon  

The only thing he didn’t do was invoke Hannibal Lecter. The rest of the pieces of Donald Trump’s standard rally speech were there for his second inaugural address Monday: the meaningless lies, the empty chest-beating threats, the insane repetition of “as never before” braggadocio, a pandemic of pandering and self-promotion. Trump’s inaugural address omitted one of his greatest expectations, repeated time and again on the campaign trail, that he would end the war in Ukraine before he was inaugurated. There were high points in the grotesquerie — he’s going to “take back” the Panama Canal because we have been “treated so badly” and somehow China owns it now, or something; he’s going to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, which means, we must assume, another map assaulted by a Trump sharpie, and by God, that will be that! If you were looking for a theme for the new Trump presidency, he gave us one: “A new golden age of America,” which for me, anyway, invoked images of the Trump Tower lobby’s mix of knick-knacks and 80’s “luxury” writ large.

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