EDITORIAL: Michelle, ma belle!
Like former First Lady Michelle Obama, we won’t be attending Trump’s inauguration, and that would be true even if we were invited. We have no idea why Michelle won’t be there (Barack will attend) or why she failed to show up for the funeral services for Jimmy Carter, though it was reported that she had a scheduling conflict that made it necessary for her to remain in Hawaii. It is our suspicion that she stayed away from the funeral because it would have seated her right next to Trump, and that was probably too close for comfort.
Whatever the reasons for her keeping her distance from the inauguration are hers to disclose, and we support her stance on this and would like to see a few other notable and elected officials refusing to attend, which, in effect, would be a silent rejection of his oncoming reign of power and duplicity. And her resolve on the inauguration jibes perfectly with Vice President Harris’s non-invitation to JD Vance for a formal sit-down tour of the White House.
For the first time in the nation’s history we have a convicted felon occupying the Oval Office, and if he fulfills any of the nefarious promises he’s spewed then we are all in trouble. It is almost insufferable to have a leader who is talking about expropriating the Panama Canal, Greenland, and even Canada. What next, Mexico and Iceland?
Those announcements may be only distractions while he plans other more realistic and distressing possibilities, i.e. the deportations and promise to pardon the Jan. 6 rioters, a veritable affront to the democratic process, which is nothing new from this miscreant.
Fasten your public policy seatbelts because there’s every indication that we are in for a rocky ride with unrelenting turbulence from the Trump edicts. Will we survive? Most assuredly — didn’t we make it through slavery, Andrew Johnson, and the Great Depression?
“Michelle, ma belle. Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble!”
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