# 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:** 4
**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 21, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/61 "2025-01-21T01:56:42Z")
Interesting. My ex-husband was a college professor, and the synopses look pretty realistic, not that anybody on the faculties of the colleges ever gave a Nazi salute in class. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/62 "2025-01-21T01:58:11Z")
I don’t think any politician or leader should ever be celebrated like this. Whether they are someone I respect or a dangerous agent of chaos and greed, I don’t think this is a healthy social action. I realize it is an ancient human ritual, but I do not think much of any ritual. Speeches good or bad, I think are pretentious fluff and of little real value, to me anyway. Yes I realize great speaches have inspired and even been valued for various reasons. Maybe I am spectrum, or missing some awareness or connection that I should, but I really dont like it. ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/63 "2025-01-21T01:58:56Z")
Perhaps he thinks if he doesn’t touch the Bible the oath doesn’t take? ---
**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, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/64 "2025-01-21T02:10:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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? My money’s on germophobia. [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/07/donald-trump-germaphobe-1399258](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/07/donald-trump-germaphobe-1399258) (and that was pre-COVID!) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/65 "2025-01-21T02:28:42Z")
I have felt this way before, back when the second plane hit the World Trade Center. ---
**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, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/66 "2025-01-21T04:28:11Z")
He’s been a germophobe for decades. Given that, I was surprised he actually ran the first time. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/67 "2025-01-21T12:59:01Z")
The oath doesn’t mean jack anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/68 "2025-01-21T13:28:33Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Also, does Musk know his hair goes all the way around his head? Did you see any of the clips of all the super-rich guys fidgeting on stage like a bunch of toddlers? These guys are like Trump on steroids. They’re so rich, they literally never have to do anything they don’t want to do. Any activity they engage in starts exactly when they want it to, and ends the exact second they get bored of it. They’ve lost any tolerance for mild inconvenience they might ever have had. So having to hold still for a couple of hours while someone that isn’t them does something is excruciating. Their hair is the same way. They have no sense of what they look like, because they don’t have to. There’s a reason the only ones without bad hair are the ones who are completely bald. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/69 "2025-01-21T13:31:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He’s been a germophobe for decades. Given that, I was surprised he actually ran the first time. What surprised me was how he completely fucked up COVID. I’d have given good odds on a pandemic being the one crisis he wouldn’t mess up, as it aligned so well with his pre-existing personality problems. Alas, no such luck. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/70 "2025-01-21T16:11:03Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > 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? > > My money’s on germophobia. I bet he just forgot he was supposed to. He’s waved Bibles around before. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/71 "2025-01-21T16:56:05Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I bet he just forgot he was supposed to. He’s waved Bibles around before. Yup, and he wanted to salute to make himself look like big tough military person. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/72 "2025-01-21T17:44:41Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I bet he just forgot he was supposed to. He’s waved Bibles around before. Wasn’t it his mother’s bible? Presumably he could get that one disinfected as much he liked. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/73 "2025-01-21T18:12:53Z")
I’m sure he could get the swearing-in bible disinfected, too. I think the person being sworn in generally supplies the one they want to use. ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/74 "2025-01-21T23:55:48Z")
Pope talks out of both sides of his mouth at once. 🙄 **Pope Francis congratulates Trump but calls mass deportation plan a “disgrace”** [https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/pope-francis-trump-mass-deportation-disgrace](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/pope-francis-trump-mass-deportation-disgrace) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/75 "2025-01-22T00:36:01Z")
It’s not talking out of both sides of your mouth to pray that God grants your enemies wisdom. Wisdom to do the _right_ thing and not the thing they _said_ they were going to do. Indeed, Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/76 "2025-01-22T02:58:08Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > While we’re on that subject, did you catch the completely fake air-kiss he gave her? At least an inch between his lips and her cheek. I saw it live. Her hat brim was in the way. People chuckled. But what I want to know is, does [Christie Brinkley](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6756592/mediaviewer/rm315438080/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) want it back? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/77 "2025-01-22T11:57:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Pope talks out of both sides of his mouth at once. 🙄 > [@ekedolphin](#): > > It’s not talking out of both sides of your mouth to pray that God grants your enemies wisdom. Yeah, I don’t see the inconsistency either. ---
**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 22, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/78 "2025-01-22T15:31:24Z")
hat enforced social distancing. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/79 "2025-01-22T18:34:08Z")
I saw on BlueSky that Jewel apparently performed at a party for RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines. Given what RFK Jr.'s plans are, I certainly hope Jewel has taken some time to study the definition of “casualty.” ---
**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 22, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153/80 "2025-01-22T19:16:33Z")
She was just there to show that RFK’s contempt for medicine includes dentistry (I’m a mean person) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-2025-inauguration/1013153.md?page=5)