# Alex's take on the Trump inauguration **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616 "2017-01-20T11:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/1 "2017-01-20T11:41:29Z")
A delicious little Telegraph cartoon [here](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2017/01/19/Alex%20cartoon%20January%2020%202017.gif). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/2 "2017-01-20T16:10:07Z")
Thanks. I love a good World Economic Forum joke. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/3 "2017-01-20T16:23:17Z")
Moved from Elections to MPSIMS. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/4 "2017-01-20T16:43:55Z")
Is this joke based on something that’s actually happened? Has some specific billionaire or finance minister professed “leftist and social democratic values of the liberal elite”? Did some billionaire get snubbed on an inaugural ball invite? Trump apparently didn’t send an official representative to Davos but a couple of his transition team members are attending, afaik. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/5 "2017-01-20T17:01:13Z")
That’s a good 30 seconds of my life I won’t get back… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/6 "2017-01-20T18:39:42Z")
TL;DR (Literally.) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/7 "2017-01-20T20:26:32Z")
I have been alive for 14 US presidential elections. I have ben deemed important enough to be invited to exactly zero inaugurations. I hope to keep that streak alive for another 14+ elections. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/8 "2017-01-20T20:53:38Z")
I’m shocked that strip isn’t in the Sunday papers. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/9 "2017-01-20T23:21:14Z")
Wow, and I thought Mallard Fillmore was bad. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/10 "2017-01-20T23:41:20Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I have been alive for 14 US presidential elections. I have ben deemed important enough to be invited to exactly zero inaugurations. I hope to keep that streak alive for another 14+ elections. 18 for me. The invites must have been lost in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alexs-take-on-the-trump-inauguration/777616/11 "2017-01-21T01:53:30Z")
17 for me. I’m beginning to think it isn’t just an oversight.