# Will you be watching the inauguration? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533 "2017-01-19T10:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/41 "2017-01-19T22:34:12Z")
I’ll be at work and even if I had speakers or a headset to see and hear it streaming, I wouldn’t waste the electrons. I’ve got work to do for a KC-130 flight trainer - that’s much more important. I’ll watch the news tomorrow night, so whatever is covered there, I’ll see. I’m hoping it involves a rogue meteor landing on Trump’s head and either vaporizing him or knocking some sense into him. Either one would work for me. I don’t expect it to happen, but a girl can dream… ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/42 "2017-01-19T22:59:03Z")
I work for a public school system in the close-in DC suburbs and we are closed tomorrow. Unfortunately. I’d rather be at work so I’d have something else to do other than brood and try to avoid any news sites (I don’t watch TV anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/43 "2017-01-20T00:09:55Z")
Let me know if President Obama declares martial law and calls off the inauguration indefinitely tomorrow morning. THEN I might be arsed to turn on the teevee. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/44 "2017-01-20T00:16:01Z")
I’d rather be boiled. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/45 "2017-01-20T01:46:11Z")
I will probably watch some, I’m off tomorrow, but it’s not a priority and I have errands, etc to do. I may end up catching a lot of it taped. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/46 "2017-01-20T01:53:23Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > I work for a public school system in the close-in DC suburbs and we are closed tomorrow. Unfortunately. I’d rather be at work so I’d have something else to do other than brood and try to avoid any news sites (I don’t watch TV anyway). I normally watch the 6:30 news but not tonight ! It was about the inauguration ! I don’t think I will watch any news for the next few days . I don’t want my blood pressure going up , it’s fine right now and I want to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/47 "2017-01-20T01:57:23Z")
I watch/listen to a lot of NPR/PBS. They will surely cover every minute but I may experience a point where I can’t deal with it anymore. I am stocking up on alcohol to blot out reality once I get home from work tomorrow. What a nightmare. I didn’t like Trump from the minute I tried to watch an episode of Apprentice and I haven’t seen a single thing from him since that made me think any more highly of him. So…Long answer made short, I will probably catch some of it before I pass out. ---
**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 20, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/48 "2017-01-20T01:59:25Z")
This should make [the actual swearing-in interesting.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/with-swearing-in-trump-to-come-face-to-face-with-justice-hes-berated-as-a-dummy-155955664.html) > [@](#): > > In July 2012, Donald Trump called in to CNBC’s “SquawkBox” show to rant about Chief Justice John Roberts’ surprise decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. > > “I think John Roberts should be ashamed of himself,” Trump said, before questioning the Supreme Court justice’s intelligence. “He looks like a dummy, because, frankly, his decision does not seem to be written by [a] supposedly smart man.” > > “Dummy” was just the beginning. Over the next four years, Trump tweeted that the chief justice’s decision was “bull\*\*\*t,” irrational, “disloyal” and “stupidity.” He has insulted Roberts on Twitter nearly two dozen times, making the chief justice by far the biggest target of Trump’s ire on the court. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/49 "2017-01-20T02:03:49Z")
I think I _may_ have watched Obama’s first inauguration. If so, that may be the only one I’ve watched; like some others here, I’m just not that big on ceremonial events, even ones I approve of. So I’ll definitely take a pass on seeing ‘the abomination that causes desolation’ standing where it does not belong. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/50 "2017-01-20T15:58:46Z")
No! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/51 "2017-01-20T16:14:54Z")
I’ve never watched an inauguration, and this is not the year to start. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/52 "2017-01-20T18:13:44Z")
Is it over? No, I didn’t watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/53 "2017-01-20T18:52:38Z")
The first choir that sang did sound a little Satanic. He started his speech at least being gracious toward the Obamas, thanking them for their help during the transition and saying President Obama had been “magnificent”. But from there it started taking a turn for the divisive. Lots of “America first, America first” (NBC did a word cloud of his speech, and America got mentioned a lot). And then his most interesting line was claiming that we’re going to “eradicate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the Earth” (good luck with that). The inauguration has been over for a while, but now police are firing tear gas rounds at protestors somewhere on the streets… ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/54 "2017-01-20T18:56:24Z")
Full-gear riot police on NBC now firing tear gas, flashbang grenades, and pepper spraying people (reportedly). ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/55 "2017-01-20T19:32:09Z")
I didn’t watch, mostly out of indifference (to the ceremony itself, as opposed to the transition it manifested). I figured that if anything unexpected happened, I’d hear about it. Sent from my SCH-I435 using Tapatalk ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/56 "2017-01-20T19:34:42Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > He started his speech at least being gracious toward the Obamas, thanking them for their help during the transition and saying President Obama had been “magnificent”. I’m sure his supporters will take that seriously, but not literally. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/57 "2017-01-20T19:56:38Z")
No, haven’t watched any since maybe Jack Kennedy’s. Very interested in the nation’s governance but have an aversion to most ceremonies. ---
**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 20, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/58 "2017-01-20T20:50:20Z")
Nope. Didn’t, haven’t, won’t. [This photo](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/comparison-president-trump-and-barack-obamas-inauguration-crowds/), however, showed up on my FB feed. Worth a thousand words. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/59 "2017-01-21T01:16:15Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I watch/listen to a lot of NPR/PBS. They will surely cover every minute but I may experience a point where I can’t deal with it anymore. I am stocking up on alcohol to blot out reality once I get home from work tomorrow. What a nightmare. I didn’t like Trump from the minute I tried to watch an episode of Apprentice and I haven’t seen a single thing from him since that made me think any more highly of him. So…Long answer made short, I will probably catch some of it before I pass out. As it turns out, I came home from work (where I was avoiding coverage) and exercised my 2nd Amendment rights by shooting up a couple tomato sauce cans. Felt good. Then I started drinking and cursing at the TV news coverage. We will survive this. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533/60 "2017-01-21T01:55:17Z")
I want my pie. I have yet to watch, or feel interested in watching, an inauguration ceremony. I felt no need to break that trend this time. I’m not feeling 2021, 2025, or 2029 either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-be-watching-the-inauguration/777533.md?page=4)