Big, awful hats! An improvised a cappella! Completely improper ensembles! That's … home entertainment?
Released January 21, 2025 5:45 AM (EST)
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. First Lady Melania Trump inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP through Getty Images)
The night before his Jan. 20 inauguration, Donald Trump took the phase at the most recent of his apparently 60,000 project rallies to tease how satisfying his swearing-in event would be. “You're going to have a great deal of enjoyable enjoying tv tomorrow,” he swore. While I can think about many adjectives to explain how it felt enjoying him take public workplace for the 2nd time– “nauseating,” “repugnant,” “an awful, terrible, no great, extremely bad day”– “enjoyable” would not be among them.
The clown with his trousers dropping? Examine. The scene where the bad guy is imply? Inspect. If those things are home entertainment, Donald Trump's 2nd inauguration was right on the cash.
Sitting on my sofa with a minor white wine hangover from attempting to drown out my stress and anxieties before America quickened its decrease, it was tough not to be moved by the real sense of phenomenon. Transferred to laughter, that is. The whole affair wasn't fancy in the manner in which governmental inaugurations typically are, with grand screens of skill and showmanship from stars and political leaders alike to make us think in the boilerplate promises for an intense future ahead. Rather, this inauguration was downright wacky, an over the top presentation of absurdist pageantry and empty pledges. Clothing varied from awful to horrible, hats practically secured viewers' eyes, individuals were shoulder-checked by marines and all over you looked, there was a blonde lady whose makeup artist abhors her, with lifeless eyes showing her ethically insolvent soul. More on Carrie Underwood in a minute!
The beginning was a top-to-bottom farce, more lined up with the meanings of home entertainment in the timeless Schwartz and Dietz tune “That's Entertainment!” than authentic amusement. The clown with his trousers dropping? Examine. The scene where the bad guy is indicate? Examine. If those things are home entertainment, Donald Trump's 2nd inauguration was right on the cash.
The drama started early Monday early morning with Melania Trump, ever committed to being a Christmas-hating animation bad guy, coming to the popular inauguration day church event impersonated the Hamburglar. Her ensemble included a wide-brimmed hat and a long navy coat, which she continued for the inauguration hours later on. While being accompanied into the event in the Capitol, eyes concealed behind her hat and coat buttoned up, she was a dead-ringer for H.G. Wells' Invisible Man. Fitting, considered that anything more than one foot in front of her would be undetectable below the shadow of her cockamamie chapeau.
A hat was eventually proper, offered the temperature level exterior. It was the coldest inauguration day in 45 years, implying that the prepared outside event needed to be ditched and moved within the Capitol's rotunda,
