# What will Trump do on Inauguration Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459 "2017-01-06T17:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/21 "2017-01-06T19:36:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > First off-[Let’s have a purge!](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ambassadors_us_586f4a64e4b043ad97e2cd84) ALL U.S. Envoys appointed by the previous President have been ordered to vacate their offices by Inauguration Day, leaving many countries without U.S. Ambassadorial representation for who-knows-how-many months until new ones are appointed. No traditional transition period to train the new guys and find homes for the old guard-Just “Get the fuck off my property and leave the key under the mat.” He asked all politically appointed Ambassadors to resign. Not all Ambassadors. You seem to get your info from the same sources as Trump. ---
**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 6, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/22 "2017-01-06T19:38:15Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > He asked all politically appointed Ambassadors to resign. Not all Ambassadors. You seem to get your info from the same sources as Trump. I did say “ALL U.S. Envoys appointed by the previous President”, didn’t I? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/23 "2017-01-06T19:39:38Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Seriously, Czarcasm? Trump’s going to head a parade, make an oath, and stay in the spotlight as long as possible. He’ll make a speech, and then retire to an office with all the news cameras to sign a bunch of symbolic papers repealing the ACA, defunding planned parenthood, start building the Great Wall, deporting undocumented aliens, and start a land war with ISIS. Ya’know…all the stuff he promised to do. > O, and he’ll make teaser statements of the Supreme Court Justice nomination but not actually announce who it is. I hope he’ll finally disclose the unbelievable things his team in Hawaii found. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/24 "2017-01-06T19:43:47Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I hope he’ll finally disclose the unbelievable things his team in Hawaii found. Investigations in a tropical paradise on someone else’s dime always take longer. “You won’t believe what they’re finding” doesn’t necessarily relate to Obama’s birth certificate. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/25 "2017-01-06T19:44:51Z")
If I remember correctly from what he said during the campaign, his first day in office was going to be when he completely fixes the problem of gun violence in the US. Because he’s the only one that can fix it. Since he’s the one that said it, I’m not sure if that actually falls into the “imaginary” category or not. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/26 "2017-01-06T19:45:07Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > He asked all politically appointed Ambassadors to resign. Not all Ambassadors. You seem to get your info from the same sources as Trump. No. ALL Ambassadors appointed by Obama. That would be ALL of them. The wording was NEVER “all politically appointed ambassadors”. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/27 "2017-01-06T19:57:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > No. > > ALL Ambassadors appointed by Obama. That would be ALL of them. The wording was NEVER “all politically appointed ambassadors”. Whose wording? ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/28 "2017-01-06T19:59:56Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > He asked all politically appointed Ambassadors to resign. Not all Ambassadors. You seem to get your info from the same sources as Trump. Just what do you think an ambassador is? An elected office? FFS, this country needs a civics class. Seriously. Lets just shut down for a week of classes. We will be far better for it in the long run. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/29 "2017-01-06T20:04:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > No. > > ALL Ambassadors appointed by Obama. That would be ALL of them. The wording was NEVER “all politically appointed ambassadors”. Where the hyperbole comes from is by not admitting that it’s not far from what has always happened. Even in the obviously and unapologetically biased Huffpo the article says that “He was confirming a report in the New York Times, which quoted diplomatic sources as saying previous U.S. administrations, from both major political parties, have traditionally granted extensions to allow _a few ambassadors_, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.” So in the past most were out on day one but “a few” were allowed to stay on for a little while. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/30 "2017-01-06T20:07:20Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Just what do you think an ambassador is? An elected office? FFS, this country needs a civics class. Seriously. Lets just shut down for a week of classes. We will be far better for it in the long run. Here are some Ambassadors that are not political appointees and I presume are not asked to resign: [Joan Polaschik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_A._Polaschik) [Richard Mills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Mills,_Jr.) [Marcia Bernicat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Bernicat) etc. etc. From a brief glance, more than half of ambassadors are not political appointees. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/31 "2017-01-06T20:08:17Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Just what do you think an ambassador is? An elected office? FFS, this country needs a civics class. Seriously. Lets just shut down for a week of classes. We will be far better for it in the long run. There’s also tradition. [In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassadors.html) > [@](#): > > President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, **breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods. > \*\* > The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors,** particularly those with school-age children\*\*, to remain in place for weeks or months. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/32 "2017-01-06T20:45:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s also tradition. > [In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassadors.html) Tradition is great but this doesn’t effect me or the country. This tradition helped a few political appointees with childcare issues. So Trump is being a dick to a few ambassadors. That’s the issue. So what, as a political appointee you serve at the pleasure of the president. It’s the nature of the beast. All those countries with ambassadors who don’t have childcare issues would have been without a senate confirmed envoy regardless. It’s not like the embassies will be empty they are filled with career diplomats. This constantly trying to portray everything Trump does as the worst thing ever since the last thing we told you about is overhyped. Just wait a few minutes, I’m sure he will do something really bad in a few minutes. ---
**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 6, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/33 "2017-01-06T20:54:36Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Tradition is great but this doesn’t effect me or the country. This tradition helped a few political appointees with childcare issues. So Trump is being a dick to a few ambassadors. That’s the issue. So what, as a political appointee you serve at the pleasure of the president. It’s the nature of the beast. All those countries with ambassadors who don’t have childcare issues would have been without a senate confirmed envoy regardless. It’s not like the embassies will be empty they are filled with career diplomats. This constantly trying to portray everything Trump does as the worst thing ever since the last thing we told you about is overhyped. Just wait a few minutes, I’m sure he will do something really bad in a few minutes. Unless he know beforehand what will be the worst he will do, how will we we know beforehand when it’s o.k. to start commenting on what he has already done? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/34 "2017-01-06T21:03:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Unless he know beforehand what will be the worst he will do, how will we we know beforehand when it’s o.k. to start commenting on what he has already done? Because this particular issue means very little. It can’t be the worst thing he does since it’s not even particularly important. OMG Trump is getting rid of all the ambassadors! That’s never happened before! (Except that it’s what happens for the majority of embassies other than for a few that would ask for extensions because of childcare issues) ---
**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 6, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/35 "2017-01-06T21:09:19Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Because this particular issue means very little. It can’t be the worst thing he does since it’s not even particularly important. > > OMG Trump is getting rid of all the ambassadors! That’s never happened before! (Except that it’s what happens for the majority of embassies other than for a few that would ask for extensions because of childcare issues) But this thread isn’t about that one thing being the worst thing he has done/will do. This is a thread about what he will actually do on inauguration day, and I just threw out the first example to get the ball rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/36 "2017-01-06T21:22:29Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Here are some Ambassadors that are not political appointees and I presume are not asked to resign: > > [Joan Polaschik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_A._Polaschik) > [Richard Mills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Mills,_Jr.) > [Marcia Bernicat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Bernicat) > > etc. etc. > > From a brief glance, more than half of ambassadors are not political appointees. From your link: > [@](#): > > In July 2014, Mills was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. ambassador to Armenia > [@](#): > > Joan A. Polaschik is a diplomat and United States Ambassador to Algeria. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate July 29, 2014 > [@](#): > > Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat (born 1957) is a diplomat and United States Ambassador to Bangladesh. She was nominated by President Obama May 2014 and confirmed by the Senate on November 18, 2014. They are all political appointees ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/37 "2017-01-06T21:27:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I would absolutely love it if he started his Inaugural Address off by saying, “Good morning, my fellow Americans. Barack Obama - YOU’RE FIRED!” Of course you would. How old are you again? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/38 "2017-01-06T21:28:52Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > No. > > ALL Ambassadors appointed by Obama. That would be ALL of them. The wording was NEVER “all politically appointed ambassadors”. Perhaps you should read the linked article above. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/39 "2017-01-06T21:32:46Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > They are all political appointees You don’t seem to understand what a “political appointee” is in this context. All ambassadors are appointed by the president. Those three are career foreign service officers, not political appointees. Polashick joined the foreign service in 1995, Mills in 1988, and Bernicat in 1982. “Political appointees” are generally people without significant previous foreign service experience who are appointed because of political service to a party. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459/40 "2017-01-06T21:33:37Z")
Judging by his childish tweets about _The Apprentice_, Trump’s primary concern on Inauguration Day will be television ratings. He might really lose it if he sees reports that viewership is down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-on-inauguration-day/776459.md?page=3)