Trump Inauguration To Be A Literal Cold Day In Hell

First of all to all those Evangelical “Christian” preachers who over time have made a huge deal about natural disasters in certain places (New Orleans jumps to mind for me since I was with FEMA at the time) being “God’s punishment F**k You! I’ll bet last Sunday you preached about California getting what it “deserves” from God and have similar sermons prepared for tomorrow. Well, your “God” has chosen to put DC and the second Trump Inauguration into a deep freeze!  So much so that despite others who’ve held outdoor Inaugurations in similar conditions your ‘God replacement’ Trump is making like Reagan and staying inside where it’s warm.  Maybe God is sending YOU a message?  Silly me, if you actually believed in God and the teachings of Jesus you would denounce Trump so clearly you’re just lying sacks of sh*t (just like Trump) and grifters.  Anyway let’s move on.

Yes we already have a couple of articles up on Politizoom about Trump moving his second Inauguration indoors. Both Ursula and Murfster are better writers than me and can throw sharp elbows. They did poke Trump some but screw that – I want to get into some outright TROLLING!  And perhaps explore the ping-ponging emotions bouncing around in Trump’s head over this situation.  However let’s start with the basics: Trump has made it official that his second Inauguration will be held indoors in the Capitol Rotunda. Also, rather than a parade down Pennsylvania Ave. some sort of event will be held at the big arena in DC. Ironically enough it’s in the part of town known as Chinatown. Oh, and not for nothing while the Wizards play there so to the Capitals. An ice-hockey team. In such arenas the ice stays year long and for basketball games they lay down a hardwood court over it. Still, when you think about it it’s kinda funny that those seated on the floor will feel some cold!

Oh my friends but we’re just getting started. The Daily Beast has an article indicating that trolling of Trump for choosing the ‘warm & comfy route’ like Reagan did in 1985 is already ‘bigly’ underway. Now, to be fair Trumpty did put out a reasonable statement on why he made the choice he did and there’s actually some reason in it:

Trump also seemed to suggest that moving the inauguration inside was a matter of safety, mentioning in his Truth Social post: “I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way.”

“It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th (In any event, if you decide to come, dress warmly!),” wrote Trump about the “Arctic blast sweeping the country.”

To which Minnesota Gov. and recent VP candidate Tim Walz dryly replied: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.” (It’s a great tweet with a pic of Walz bundled up with snow starting to coat him – for some reason I can’t embed it here. You can see it in the linked article though) I can’t WAIT to see Trump respond to that!  Obama advisor David Axelrod got in on the action too:

“In ’61, John F. Kennedy was Inaugurated on the Capitol steps, in windchills of 7 degrees. It was almost as cold for Obama in ’09,” he said. “In faIRness, Trump IS more than 3 decades older than JFK & Obama were. Or did he just fear small crowds?”

I guess The Daily Beast wanted to protect the individual (perhaps their WH press pass) who chimed in at that with:

Responding to Axelrod’s post, a commentator added: “For an administration is all about the tough guy culture, they certainly don’t seem that tough. I’ve sat outside in colder temps for hours, but I’m dedicated. Guess he fears his cult followers won’t be that dedicated and that his hair will get messed up with a hat.”

Look, I had just been stationed in the DC area when Reagan’s second Inauguration took place. Attached to the Provost Marshall’s Office at Headquarters Marine Corps (it was in Arlington at the Navy Annex back then) I feared I’d get stuck being one of those attached to duty during the event. Luckily there were enough Reagan fans at PMO to fill out our quota so I was spared. I do recall getting some odd looks when I declined a ticket to the indoor shindig at the Cap Center though.  But it WAS freaking cold and I have to say it made sense to, especially as Reagan had gotten all the pomp and circumstance of a “regular” Inauguration to move things indoors. He was after all an OLD guy.

Still, as our unidentified ‘commentator’ says for such a self-professed “Tough Guy” Trump is being rather the wimp!  Also, keep in mind that the projected temperature Monday is only a degree colder than in 2008 for Obama’s first Inauguration.  (I lived an hour northwest and again remember how freaking COLD it was!) You know, the massively attended one that prompted all those angry crowd size comparisons from Trump (who had about half as many people) eight years later.

That leads me to the matter of what’s bouncing around in that empty Trump head. He KNOWS his crowd was nothing compared to Obama’s. Hell he still can’t let go of that!  He also knows how cold it will be and if he couldn’t come close in 2016 he’s scared sh*tless of the size of crowd he’d draw this time around. Yes, there are MAGAs willing to brave the cold and I’ll get to that. I saw Chris Jansing comment today that plenty of people know how to dress for the expected conditions and have waited hours on end for Trump in bitter cold for rallies in the past.  So he WOULD get a crowd. Just not much of one and no way in hell does Trumpty want THAT visual.

However the fact is quite a few Presidents have had outdoor Inaugurations in similar conditions.  Ursula’s write-up can provide you some specifics. And if Trump hadn’t spent all these years running around acting like Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist or Special Operations warriors weren’t pu$$ies compared to HIM I wouldn’t be saying jack.  I’d say the same thing I did about Reagan and would have about Biden – ‘The dude is pretty old and it makes sense. Plus a LOT of folks who’d be stuck providing security won’t have to spend hours shivering in the streets!’  However the trolling of Trump has just begun and we have an entire weekend of it to look forward to. And Trumpty Dumpty’s reaction of course.

However as the late-night infomercial pitchmen always say “But Wait, there’s MORE!” It seem MAGAs aren’t just pissed but willing to say so. To reporters!  Yep, there are plenty, probably thirty or forty thousand who geared up and shelled out the money to travel to DC so they could have their bigly ‘experience of a lifetime’ Monday. And now are left out in the cold, or I guess in their hotel rooms to watch things on their TVs. At least they’ll be warm and won’t have issues when they need a bathroom so that might take some of the edge off their anger. But angry they are.

If you look at one of those red state/blue state electoral maps there’s that HUGE swath of states west of the Mississippi River stretching all the way to the west coast states. That swath is mostly red and those folks in the bulk of them are quite used to dealing with extreme cold.  Just like good ole Tim Walz (I hope you look at his tweet) and for that matter fellow Minnesotan Amy Klobuchar who announced a Presidential run in a driving snowfall and it didn’t bother her in the least!  Think I’m kidding about angry MAGAs?  Check out this article from Raw Story: They spoke with MAGAs who made the trip and who aren’t at all happy:

‘Well, I don’t like it,” stated one man wearing a black MAGA hat. “I mean, we came all the way to Washington from Oklahoma and, you know, now we’re not going to get to see it?”

Speaking for himself and his friend wearing a knit Trump beanie he added, “We’re like, we might as well have stayed at home and watched it on TV.”

Another man complained, “It’s actually something that we’ve been looking forward to for historical purposes and being a part of it that’s once in a lifetime” as his companion agreed and added, “Absolutely.”

“We made all the plans, all the arrangements to come up and be a part of this event and all of a sudden to hear that it’s being moved indoors,” he added as his friend chimed in with, “We’re prepared for the weather –– it’s not a problem.”

The article contains a link to Jansing on MSNBC who tosses to a colleague that interviews a couple of unhappy MAGAs on camera.  Who knows? If Trump 2.0 turns out as expected perhaps twenty thousand or so of these kinds of people scattered in a bunch of red states will grumble to their pals. Or on social media. Trump managed to polish over the cracks in his MAGA armor to win in November but it wasn’t by much. There simply aren’t enough “tech bros” out there to cast votes for him or other Republicans – in two years when the midterms roll around. Trump STILL needs his MAGAs and he knows it. I’m not so sure his “tech bros” get that simple fact.

As we know all is not solid and hunky-dory in conservative circles despite what the media would have us believe.  We don’t need rank and file MAGAs to suddenly start voting for Democrats. Them being pissed enough not to vote at all should be enough.

In the meantime I’m hoping some seriously creative people who are great at meme making start doing a number on Trump over him being unable or unwilling to brave the cold on Monday. Like Obama and others before him did!

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