Augural address

Donald J. Trump, allegedly put in by Putin (no pun intended) was finally sworn in yesterday under a light drizzle and in the presence of prominently white crowd. The black crowd were somewhere outside the inaugural venue protesting about the legitimacy of the elections allegedly hacked by the Russians who incidentally do not have any known names in the field of information technology.

The president men claimed the inaugural speech was written by the president himself. Big deal.We didn't have to hack into his tweet account or wait on the CIA to know that; as the speech was replete with dour cliches and uninspiring sentences capable of further dividing an already alienated country. Typical Trump. While he may have been assisted by a Tele prompter to manage his off the line remarks, nothing could be done in form of assistance to his grotesquely gestures and combative body language that would have been obvious even to Stevie Wonder.

I thought it was more magnanimous to be humble in victory than in defeat, but it was the beaten Hilary Clinton that stole the show with her appearance at the inauguration. She simply decided to go high when they go low, even after the election. The 45th president in the delivery of his inaugural address must have thought he had an "apprentice" audience, rather than, the assemblage of the ruling class that came to witness a smooth transition of power that hardly happen in other parts of the globe. We all expected very little in terms of poignancy and we were not disappointed, as nothing was augural about the address.

Though the president mentioned the magnificence of the outgoing first family in ensuring a hitch free transition for him, more emphasis must be laid on this seemingly innocuous act for the benefit of uninvited foreign Presidents who watched it with generator powered devices around the world. Obama has always been a class act and that resonated in the early planning and eventually, the outcome of the occasion.

Going forward, the president again rambled about making America great again- without telling us how, to the somewhat decent applause of the crowd. Guess that will be the responsibility of his "balanced" cabinet to deal with.

As the President and his vice saw the outgoing president off in a waiting helicopter and his vice in an Amtrak public train, the world was left to wonder what benefits accrue to the people who are led by selfless and motivated leaders.

Since I did not get a formal invitation either from the inauguration planning committee or the protesters, I decided to sit on the fence (not the proposed Mexico wall, that is yet to be built) in order to witness this. The words 'blacks' and 'white' as it appear on this treatise have been used more as lexicon than demographic.