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By Frank Bruni
Collaborative opinion writer
The “American carnage” disappeared. No sentence at Donald Trump’s inaugural moment stands up to distilled his disgust as much as those terrifying words of the first.
But the recriminations they have given them? The representation of the United States as dystopia that desperately needs immediate help? These were also surprising in the comments he spoke in the Capitol Rotonda as in the speech he delivered after leaving an oath 8 years ago on Monday.
And they were joined by a newly pronounced messianic streak. America’s 47th president — who was also our 45th president — told us that he is not merely on a quest to bring this country into line with his and the MAGA movement’s vision for it. He is on a divinely directed mission.
Recalling the day in July in Butler, Pennsylvania, when “a killer’s bullet went through my ear,” Trump said, “I felt then, and I feel even more so now, that my life had been stored for a reason. It was stored through God” to make America wonderful again. “
This time is the Guardian: the same narcissism and great grandiosity of Trump, plus a disturbing measure of theocracy, in a deeply disturbing phrase. And it is a sign of the certainty that he feels about all the decrees he promised, all the legislation he presaged and all the changes, from a militarized border to a opposite war when he promised.
Even if the confident portions of Trump’s speech, the promise of national prosperity, a guarantee of “national unity,” revered culture and deferred to convention, there is a darkness that the subtleties so scattered simply cannot and did not conceal. . Essentially, it did not sow inspiration. He rejected Realy and settled his accounts.
He went through an endless litany of court cases about the mistakes of the Democrats who until today held the reins of government. Cleanup efforts in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, attempts to involve wildfires in Pacific Palisades, inflation, race- and sex-like projects, fossil fuel regulations — America under other leaders could do nothing. But he would fix everything. And take control of the Panama Canal along the way!
His strangely sober demeanor belied a ridiculously colossal schedule and an even more colossal self-esteem. It is said that our unique maxim characteristics are accentuated with age, and Trump is that maxim that made us president (again), his revenge and at his peak.
In one of the other most memorable lines of his speech, he said: “Over the past 8 years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history. This is a tremendously reductive reading of American history. what God would say about it.
Frank Bruni is a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University, the author of the book “The Age of Grievance” and a contributing Opinion writer. He writes a weekly email newsletter. Instagram Threads @FrankBruni • Facebook
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