# Ya gonna watch Trump's Presidential Inauguration on Friday, January 20? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 2, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133 "2017-01-02T10:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/41 "2017-01-02T20:24:01Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > People here (or maybe it’s just you) keep saying stuff like that, and I don’t know where it comes from. One and 1/3 terms as a Senator and one term as SecState. Been out of government now or 4 years. Kerry and Biden have her beat, hands down, and that’s just off the top of my head thinking for 2 seconds. You’re confusing “experienced” and “prepared”. The latter is about planning. Clinton is moderately experienced but she’s been planning her presidency since she was about 8. Trump doesn’t appear to even fully understand what the job is, let alone what he’s going to do in it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/42 "2017-01-02T20:39:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You’re confusing “experienced” and “prepared”. The latter is about planning. Clinton is moderately experienced but she’s been planning her presidency since she was about 8. On that last part, I will agree. But I don’t think that is what the poster meant. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/43 "2017-01-02T20:50:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > … Mostly it depends on the quality of the musicians involved in the concert, which pretty much guarantees I won’t watch Trump’s apart from what turns up on the news. Any counterprogramming will get monster ratings–a smart TV exec could put together an ‘alternative viewing’ concert that would break records. How about _David Hasselhoff: The Comeback_? It would kill! ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/44 "2017-01-02T21:46:57Z")
I’ll be in transit much of the day – on my way to Washington for the Women’s March. But even if I were home, I’d claw my eyes out before I watched that whiner take office. ---
**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 2, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/45 "2017-01-02T21:54:17Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I tend not to watch shitty reality TV shows featuring washed up “B-” celebrities, so… no. > > I think it will be simply vulgar, showy and tasteless. You’ve summed up the next 2 to 4 years. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/46 "2017-01-02T22:09:06Z")
I need to schedule a medical procedure that would be done under anesthesia. If it happens on that date then I could watch. Being thoroughly drugged up might make it bearable. ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/47 "2017-01-02T23:36:58Z")
I will, but only for the main course- the actual address. At other times I will be looking for a job (or working in a job hopefully), but I will be paying attention. If I miss the speech, I’ll just ask for a text-only version. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/48 "2017-01-02T23:41:30Z")
I have a subsequent engagement. ---
**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 3, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/49 "2017-01-03T00:13:40Z")
Looks like there won’t be a live, follow-along thread on the SDMB that day. I’m okay with that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/50 "2017-01-03T00:20:53Z")
Well, you can bet on it happening _now_, motor-mouth! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/51 "2017-01-03T01:41:05Z")
On this MB, the number of threads about a US president is inversely proportional to how much he or she is liked. You can bet your bootie that at least one thread gets started while the inauguration is in process. And I suspect there will be more than one. ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/52 "2017-01-03T02:41:20Z")
I’m mildly curious to see if the bible he is sworn in on catches fire, but other than that, sitting through any of his speeches is already nauseating enough without the dire circumstances attached. I don’t think I can handle watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/53 "2017-01-03T02:57:43Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever watched one, so not sure why I would start now. > > People here (or maybe it’s just you) keep saying stuff like that, and I don’t know where it comes from. One and 1/3 terms as a Senator and one term as SecState. Been out of government now or 4 years. Kerry and Biden have her beat, hands down, and that’s just off the top of my head thinking for 2 seconds. If you thought on it for longer than two seconds ( 😃 ) you might realize her work as Sec State has her in the current know about the world’s political scene, her time as First Lady has given her a nearly unique insight into the job, moreso than any other non President or First Lady, and her time running one of the world’s great planet-spanning charities that’s helped millions of people has given her a bit of perspective that Kerry or Biden might not have. She’s been in personal contact with world leaders for decades. Could Kerry or Biden handle it, sure. She was the person best prepared to do it, IMHO. ---
**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 3, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/54 "2017-01-03T04:09:41Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, you can bet on it happening _now_, motor-mouth! Judging by the poll, 12 people will be posting and 86 will be sitting it out. Surely, that was not me you were addressing with an epithet? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/55 "2017-01-03T04:17:52Z")
Yeah, but you don’t really want to see that happen, do you? They don’t have much in the way of ideas themselves, and you gotta go and give 'em one? ---
**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 3, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/56 "2017-01-03T04:27:04Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Yeah, but you don’t really want to see that happen, do you? They don’t have much in the way of ideas themselves, and you gotta go and give 'em one? I agree with your point, but please make such points in the future without calling me names. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/57 "2017-01-03T04:27:48Z")
Well, now I _want_ a follow along thread (this would save me from watching it). Surely one of you is willing to throw yourself on the grenade for the rest of us? > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Supposedly he is going to write it himself, so yes. Or Stephen Miller, the speechwriter who wrote his speech for the Convention is writing it. He says he that he is anyway. Trump said that he was as of Dec 26. Guess this is something else that flips. Color me shocked. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/58 "2017-01-03T04:31:25Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Well, are ya gonna watch? Oh, hell, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/59 "2017-01-03T16:40:17Z")
I Voted no. I don’t have the visceral anger necessary for “Hell no!”. The thought of watching instead simply evokes severe queasiness. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133/60 "2017-01-03T16:55:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You’re confusing “experienced” and “prepared”. The latter is about planning. Clinton is moderately experienced but she’s been planning her presidency since she was about 8. Trump doesn’t appear to even fully understand what the job is, let alone what he’s going to do in it. I honestly don’t know whether you’d be pleased or disturbed if Trump came out and said, _yeah, foreign policy, Pence will basically handle that; and domestic policy, too._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ya-gonna-watch-trumps-presidential-inauguration-on-friday-january-20/776133.md?page=4)