Mr Spicer’s rebuke followed a larger-than-expected turnout for women’s marches protesting against Mr Trump across the United States on Saturday, including at the flagship event in Washington, where a crowd of hundreds of thousands clogged the streets and appeared to be larger than those who came for Mr Trump’s inauguration.
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Vowing to “get the job done”, President Trump took office Friday outlining a drastically different agenda than that of his predecessor and moving to install key members of his national security team – as he began the work of turning his bold, and often brash, campaign promises into action.
“Fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you”, Trump said in his inaugural address.
At his second inaugural ball, capping a day that his advisers promised would stress unifying a divided nation, Trump spoke of his “enemies” and promised to keep up with the sometimes crass tweeting that has been so controversial.
On Friday, Trump will cap an extraordinary and improbable run for the White House when he takes the reins from President Barack Obama at mid-day, launching the nation into uncharted waters.
Mr Priebus added in an interview with Fox News Sunday that “we’re not going to sit around and take it”. “In my view, Trump will deal with China like a businessman, especially on trade negotiations”, Zhang said. But eradicating all worldwide offshoots, splinter groups and new non-nation warriors is a tall order. “Even our country can erode”.
In Mexico-where Trump’s border wall is top-of-mind-newspapers highlighted the “America first” nationalist fervor in his inaugural address.
“I had something to do with it, but you had much more to do with it”, he said.
That’s a lot to solve, and while an infrastructure program and beefed-up hiring could help, Trump appeared to signal something else already in the crosshairs of critics: expanded use of privately run charter schools, if not vouchers.
Simone Machamer, riding Metro to the march on Saturday morning, said she made the trip to Washington partly because she supports Planned Parenthood and opposes any effort to curb reproductive and abortion rights. It’s possible that they simply don’t remember following the account.
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Washington has been in a state of heightened alert with 28,000 police, law enforcement and military personnel on patrol as tens of thousands of Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters descend on the city for the inauguration and demonstrations including tomorrow’s Women’s March on Washington.
“Obama’s had eight years and I can see my neighbors in worse shape than they were eight years ago”, said Carol Reiller, 66, a retiree who drove seven-plus hours from Buffalo, New York, with her grandchildren to see the swearing-in ceremony.
Those particular words could have been spoken by any politician. We will make America proud again.
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In fact, numerous things that make America so admired around the globe are ingrained in the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, and the rule of law.
