Less than 400 buses received permits for Friday’s ceremony, compared to the 1,200 permits given by the city for the Women’s March the following day.
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The Washington authorities reportedly predicted that 800,000 to 900,000 people would attend Mr Trump’s inauguration, about half of the 2009 crowd.
“The crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealised potential”.
Donald Trump needs to get a grip or he is going to throw away his entire presidency and ruin the Republican Party brand for a generation.
I’m no fan of Trump.
“We all got exhausted of seeing what was happening and we wanted change but we wanted real change”, he said.
The demonstrations highlighted strong discontent over Trump’s comments and policy positions toward a wide range of groups, including Mexican immigrants, Muslims, the disabled and environmentalists. We caught them in a beauty. “I just wanted my voice to be heard”, demonstrator Sharae Cloak told the Post. This is not to say the crowd was embarrassingly small.
Protests against Trump, who has vowed that U.S. policy would be based on the principle of “America first”, also were staged in Sydney, London, Tokyo and other cities across Europe and Asia. But a part of me has been thinking for a while that we could solve a lot of economic problems in this country with a true “Buy American” mindset, which requires a measure of self-sacrifice.
Law and order was a central theme of President Trump’s election campaign, and he wasted no time reminding Americans how he would tackle the issue.
Richard Nixon’s first and second terms drew memorable protests, with demonstrations over the Vietnam War before his second stint in the White House. Really at the core of many causes is human dignity.
And, he said, they are being dishonest about what they saw on Inauguration Day, which he said was a “massive field of people”.
Cary said Trump’s negative tone was a “missed opportunity” to inspire Americans. “I’ll not put president with his name in the same sentence”, she said.
Since its grassroots beginnings, the Women’s March has since attracted the support of some prominent organizations and female leaders.
Dana Fuchs, an actor and New Yorker from Long Island, said: “I’m just sad”. Donald Trump, the victor in an election cycle that organizers say was characterized by rhetoric that “insulted, demonized and threatened” women of all backgrounds, was officially sworn in as president on Friday.
He also took the time to tweet about the amount of interest in his swearing-in ceremony and related inaugural events. “By the way, this applies to any attempts to try to count the number of protesters today in the same fashion”, he said.
As the ABC’s Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel reported past year, a billionaire businessman promising to bring back jobs and factories was an attractive proposition to many voters.
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Moments later, he added: “The rest of the 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument, was packed”. It’s a lie. We caught (the media).
