# USA 2025 Inauguration **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153 "2025-01-20T13:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/41 "2025-01-20T18:57:34Z")
my turning to the comedy channel was thwarted. 2 people went in to watch the inauguration. ah, fetterman, stay you. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/42 "2025-01-20T18:59:09Z")
Trump is still talking. I guess he could only try to seem reasonable for a short time. Also I can’t hate on Fetterman. I may not agree with all his opinions but I do appreciate his commitment to comfortable clothing. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/43 "2025-01-20T19:10:56Z")
Has he talked about all of the American Carnage? The migrants eating the dogs and the cats? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/44 "2025-01-20T19:23:52Z")
Have you checked the luncheon menu? ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/45 "2025-01-20T21:12:10Z")
Well we got a emphatic couple of Nazi salutes from Musk on day one, so that’s a start. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/46 "2025-01-20T21:18:59Z")
Trump’s inaugural address was pretty dark. I don’t think Lincoln was that dark during the Civil War nor Wilson during the First World War or FDR during the Second World War. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/47 "2025-01-20T21:26:02Z")
My wife played the playback, and I heard most of it. Not sure it was quite as dark as his first one. Couple thoughts - I’m sure glad I’m not gay/trans. Sure wants to go all in on fossil fuels, huh? I’m not sure how many 10s of thousands of issues I would wish to have addressed before “Gulf of America” made it to the top of my list. So much talk. Now let’s see what gets done. I thought SNL’s cold open was spot on Sat, with their newscast being continually interrupted with Trump’s inanities. I’m going to do my best to not play into that. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/48 "2025-01-20T22:59:18Z")
That open was sooo very funny. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/49 "2025-01-20T23:20:30Z")
> [@Zoobi](#): > > Well we got a emphatic couple of Nazi salutes from Musk on day one, so that’s a start. This is actually why I came to this thread. I read on several sites that Musk appeared to give the Nazi salute, so I watched a video clip of it. It was, indeed, the Nazi salute. He held his hand over his heart, and with a grunt, flung that arm, palm down, at the angle of the Nazi salute. Then he turned and did the same thing without the grunt for those behind him. “Hmm,” I thought, " he was talking about his heart and his heart flying out to you, so maybe that’s what he intended by the gesture." Then I realized that only an idiot even more idiotic than Musk wouldn’t recognize that it’s the same gesture. What do the rest of you think? ETA: I apologize if this post is off-topic. I read the whole thread, but while the title indicates a general discussion of the 2025 inauguration, the first post establishes that this is supposed to be about favorite parts of presidential inaugurations in general, so I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/50 "2025-01-20T23:21:37Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > What do the rest of you think? I think that no matter how anyone tries to defend it, we all know that after Hitler, no one does anything even close to this without knowing what it looks like. He meant it. It’s him being a teenage “edge lord” again. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/51 "2025-01-20T23:31:23Z")
Only agreed to attend if she could cosplay as a WWI navy nurse? [![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3HcmrdJQFVJJ8ggX356088Yc0l06Nm4soASBr4dG06Etd7i09DW0tfDEtJstNB4-OUiuzpVT9duhCGbDFzB8VoMpdYmQgtd_0GcIDW722zwHg160fIUOBaq-_4m-zAwN0Xw74J6Paak/s1600/Yeoman+(F).jpg) ](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk3HcmrdJQFVJJ8ggX356088Yc0l06Nm4soASBr4dG06Etd7i09DW0tfDEtJstNB4-OUiuzpVT9duhCGbDFzB8VoMpdYmQgtd_0GcIDW722zwHg160fIUOBaq-_4m-zAwN0Xw74J6Paak/s1600/Yeoman+(F).jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/52 "2025-01-20T23:35:21Z")
I went looking for this and found this [38-second YouTube clip from PBS NewsHour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw). Sure looks like a Nazi salute. Wonder how Fox News will explain it? ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/53 "2025-01-20T23:45:05Z")
The richest man in the world gave a Nazi salute on MLK Jr Day. But if you show any concern about this you’re just hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/54 "2025-01-20T23:45:33Z")
I should have supplied a link, so thanks for doing so. I doubt Fox News shows it or even mentions it. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > He meant it. It’s him being a teenage “edge lord” again. Good point. Remember the good ol’ days when someone giving the Nazi salute would have been booed off the stage and out of the political arena? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/55 "2025-01-20T23:48:07Z")
BTW, I didn’t notice this but the NYT noted that Trump didn’t put his hand on the Bible while taking the oath? Fearful of getting burned perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/56 "2025-01-21T00:17:07Z")
Also, does Musk know his hair goes all the way around his head? I’ve seen 1st graders comb their hair better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/57 "2025-01-21T00:37:45Z")
You don’t get to a 400 billion dollar fortune by wasting money on combs. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/58 "2025-01-21T00:42:55Z")
Who was watching the bands next to DJT? Carmen SanDiego? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/59 "2025-01-21T00:54:23Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Remember the good ol’ days when someone giving the Nazi salute would have been booed off the stage and out of the political arena? Hell, it was just four years ago that Netflix made a whole six-episode dramedy about a college professor losing his job for making a Nazi salute in class: > **[The Chair (2021 TV series)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chair_(2021_TV_series))** > > The Chair is an American comedy drama television series created by Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman. It is set at the fictional Pembroke University, "in what seems like New England". The series was released on Netflix on August 20, 2021. In January 2023, The Chair was canceled after one season. > Professor Ji-Yoon Kim is the newly appointed chair of the English department at Pembroke University. The first woman chosen for the position, she attempts to ensure the tenure of a young black colleag... ---
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/60 "2025-01-21T01:17:16Z")
Was busy working during the whole shebang, but heard (on news radio) Trump was sworn in _without_ putting his hand on a bible. [trump no bible - Search](https://www.bing.com/search?q=trump+no+bible&form=ANNTH1&refig=cdbaf643d7f644f0b43957f83a09f592&pc=U531) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153.md?page=4)