The pompous, royal inauguration spoke of a strengthening of a class system, in which the role of nobility is played by corrupt bureaucrats and the role of serfs by everyone else.
But as Wheaton's above note implies, Trump's inauguration speaks more to the growing trend of live video consumption, rather some indication of the president's popularity as compared with others.
One Washington DC newspaper I read when I was covering the inauguration spoke to that thin line between love and hate, and the ways in our speeded up world that admiration can soon sour.
Jackie Evancho, one of the few performers who agreed to appear at Trump's inauguration, spoke out after the new administration's Title IX announcement and asked to meet with the president to press the case for transgender rights.
On Inauguration Day, speaking from the steps of the Capitol building, Trump reaffirmed those allegiances and priorities: "We are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington D.C., and giving it back to you, the people".
In his inauguration address, Nelson Mandela spoke of a covenant of his own, longing for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world".
She endorsed Obama, sang at his inauguration and spoke with him backstage.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells January 20 , 2017At his Inauguration, Donald Trump spoke about a history in which power had been concentrated among élites and politicians, and said, "That all changes.
You could hear it when Mr. Obama became the first president to utter "gay" at an inauguration, and spoke of a 1969 raid on a gay bar in sanctifying language normally reserved for battlefields like Lexington and Normandy.
In the chilling speech he gave at his inauguration, Trump spoke of "American carnage".
On the eve of a historical inauguration, people spoke freely and with excitement about the environment, health, life, freedom, dreams, hope and change.
