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7 Highlights From Trump’s Inauguration Address: ‘The Golden Age Of America Begins Right Now’

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President Donald Trump became the second commander-in-chief ever to serve two non-consecutive terms on Monday. He was sworn in for a second time following two failed assassination attempts and an unprecedented campaign to imprison him. . .

Trump said he had been “tested and challenged” more than any of his predecessors. He also slammed the “vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization” of the Justice Department, which has been wielded to prosecute the Democrat-dominated Washington regime’s chief dissidents, including the re-elected president himself.

“Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom, and indeed, to take my life,” Trump said, recalling being shot in the ear at a Pennsylvania rally last summer. “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.” . . .

After capturing the White House for a second time with a platform promoting strict immigration enforcement, Trump indicated the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border was a top priority when outlining the first executive orders of his new administration. . .

Trump characterized the record-setting inflation to plague the nation under the Biden administration as a self-inflicted crisis that can be addressed by harnessing America’s energy resources.

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Armed Demonstrations Unfold in Statehouses Ahead of Inauguration Day; FBI Vetting National Guard Troops in DC Over Insider Attack Concerns

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By New York Post. Armed demonstrators assembled outside the capitols of several states on Sunday, as all 50 states and Washington, DC braced for possible violence ahead of Inauguration Day — but the events were muted and devoid of violence.

In Columbus, Ohio, about 50 supporters of President Trump — some bearing assault rifles and other firearms — escorted a “Liberty or Death” flag to the statehouse around 11 a.m., according to USA Today. . .

About 200 miles away in Lansing, Michigan, a handful of gun-toting demonstrators affiliated with various right-wing and anarchist militias rallied outside the statehouse, according to The Detroit Free Press. . .

At the Texas Capitol in Austin, around 100 protesters showed up. One, carrying an AR-15 rifle, condemned those who stormed the US Capitol in DC.

“All we came down here to do today was to discuss, gather, network and hang out. And it got blown and twisted completely out of proportion,” said Ben Hawk. (Read more from “Armed Demonstrations Unfold in Statehouses Ahead of Inauguration Day” HERE)

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FBI Vetting National Guard Troops in DC Over Insider Attack Concerns

By New York Post. The FBI is vetting every National Guard member stationed in the nation’s capital for Inauguration Day after concerns of a possible attack from within the ranks.

The vetting process, spurned by worries from defense officials, was confirmed by Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy in an interview with The Associated Press.

”We’re continually going through the process, and taking second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation,” McCarthy said. (Read more from “FBI Vetting National Guard Troops in DC Over Insider Attack Concerns” HERE)

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Small Group of Armed Protesters Gathers at Oregon Capitol

By Oregon Live. A handful of armed demonstrators gathered outside the Oregon Capitol on Sunday morning, part of a nationally publicized day of statehouse protests that mostly failed to materialize.

Some of the roughly 15 demonstrators carried long guns and wore body armor and helmets. But even as some counter-protesters appeared, there was no confrontation, with some in both camps conversing.

Several wore Hawaiian shirts, a symbol of the antigovernment “boogaloo” movement, whose adherents anticipate — or in some cases plan to incite — a second civil war. One Hawaiian-shirted man, who called himself AJ and carried a gun, told a reporter he no longer claims association with that movement, adding, “I just stand with liberty for all.” (Read more from “Small Group of Armed Protesters Gathers at Oregon Capitol” HERE)

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Armed Protesters Begin To Gather at Michigan State Capitol

By New York Post. A handful of armed protesters affiliated with right-wing militias gathered outside the Michigan statehouse in Lansing on Sunday, according to reports.

About 20 protesters, including members of the anti-government boogaloo movement, began to gather outside the state capitol shortly after noon –, the Detroit Free Press reported.

The planned demonstration to protest President Trump’s re-election loss comes amid heavily heightened security in Lansing in the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the US Capitol. (Read more from “Armed Protesters Begin To Gather at Michigan State Capitol” HERE)

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5 Remarkable Quotes from President Trump’s Inaugural Address

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It is official. Donald John Trump has taken the oath of office and is now the 45th President of the United States of America.

In his Inaugural address, President Trump talked about the people who put him into office, the “forgotten” men and women of America who have been left behind by the liberal, Big-Government policies of the previous administration.

His speech was not a conservative speech. He did not talk about limited government. Rather, President Trump pledged that the powers of government will now turn and be subservient to the American people.

“At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens,” Trump said. “Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.”

President Trump’s government will put “America first,” he promised. It will put the American people, all American people first, he said.

Here are some of the highlights from his speech:

1. America first:

“We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first, America first.”

2. On domestic policy:

“We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.”

3. On foreign policy:

“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.”

4. On unity:

“The bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.”

5. On the common brotherhood of all Americans:

“It’s time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.”

It is well and good that President Trump believes in a government for, and by, the people of the United States of America. But to make America truly great again, the new president must heed the wisdom of America’s founding fathers. His government must respect the constitutional limits imposed upon it by our founding documents. His administration must pursue an agenda that does not ask what government can do for the people, but rather what individuals, with the inestimable blessings of liberty, can do for themselves and their neighbors.

If President Trump’s administration adheres to the United States Constitution, if it secures the natural rights of the people and protects American liberties, he will be great. (For more from the author of “5 Remarkable Quotes from President Trump’s Inaugural Address” please click HERE)

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Inauguration Insanity: BLM Sets up Human Chain near Bikers for Trump to Block Police

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Disruptive Black Lives Matter protesters formed a human chain to prevent Bikers for Trump from getting to their rally in front of John Marshall Park. Conservative Review’s Maria Jeffrey was at the scene documenting the protest events.

At one point, the BLM human chain also blocked police officers from entering their area.

Those police officers are there to ensure the safety of everyone attending the Inauguration, protesters and Trump supporters alike.

What if they needed to get into the area in case of an emergency? What if someone needed medical attention and Black Lives Matter agitators prevented them from getting the emergency care they needed? What if violence breaks out and they prevent the police from stopping it?

These malcontent creeps are putting people in danger! (For more from the author of “Inauguration Insanity: BLM Sets up Human Chain near Bikers for Trump to Block Police” please click HERE)

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Trump’s Inauguration Speech: Two Feet Firmly Planted on Our Fallen Earth

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Donald Trump has provoked more outright panic among people with advanced degrees than any politician in recent history. It would be easy for the unwary to draw the darkest conclusions. The desperate urgency of his enemies, from panicked globalists penning incendiary columns to social justice warriors literally torching limos, suggests that his rise represents some new force of extremism, or dark, regressive forces that threaten our very Republic.

Surely (onlookers could reason) Trump holds to some radical, dangerous creed, or else why are all these smart people engaged in such a nationwide public meltdown? If you’re sitting in a crowded theater, and not just one person but dozens are shouting, “Fire!”, you are likely to head for the exit.

But sometimes where there’s smoke, there really isn’t any fire, but instead a smoke machine planted in Lady Liberty’s skirt. Today we saw the peaceful transfer of power in our Republic, and the American experiment in ordered liberty is as safe as it ever was. In fact, in key ways it is safer.

Donald Trump: Inclusive Patriot

To those listening honestly with even a modicum of charity, Trump’s speech should have helped to disarm most of the genuine causes for worry that his critics have raised over many months. Trump firmly rebuked the small, vociferous cult of online Caucasoid tribalists whom some have tried to smear him as championing. Trump used these ringing words, which clearly came from the heart:

A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights and heal our divisions.

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: That whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

President Trump made it starkly clear that his vision of national solidarity, of “loyalty to each other” has everything to do with citizenship, and nothing to do with race. His is the healthy, Jacksonian nationalism of a Truman or a Reagan — and not the narrow, crabbed and envy-ridden sentiment of racial separatists or supremacists of any color.

A Foreign Policy for a Fallen World

Trump’s foreign policy principles are clearly drawn from that same Jacksonian heritage, which does not use lofty promises of global transformation that are sometimes hard to distinguish from Jacobin or Leninist rhetoric. Instead, Trump speaks plainly of defending our national interest in a fallen and perilous world. How often over the past 16 years have our decisions on crucial questions, from Iraq to the “Arab Spring,” been distorted and rendered delusional by universalist abstractions, which ignore the stubborn facts on the ground in Fallujah or Benghazi.

Too many “forgotten Americans” from coal mining country or struggling farms have bled out and died on alien sand, as our nation’s debts piled still higher, in pursuit of fantastical projects that seemed uplifting to some speechwriting civilian over on M Street.

Making Citizenship Great Again

Those who are tempted to panic over Trump’s pledges to enforce our duly enacted immigration laws should know that his promises, just like those laws, grow out of a deep respect for citizenship as a concept with texture and meaning, carrying both rights and duties — not some blank PDF which anyone on earth may download and print out at Kinkos.

While we recognize the equal humanity, under God, of foreign nationals, for Trump it is unpatriotic to treat them as indistinguishable from our fellow Americans — whose ancestors worked, fought, may even have slaved for the weal of this nation in particular, not for humanity as a category.

In fact, Trump’s vision of citizenship goes a good deal further than many libertarians and classical liberals think fitting: He sees the United States as one vast extended family, to the point that we should be willing to sacrifice economic efficiency for the sake of looking out for the least among us. Sound economists have warned us of the Rube Goldberg absurdities that come along with protectionism, and it’s not at all clear that less fortunate Americans would benefit from a trade war that we provoked.

Helping the Forgotten American

So when it comes time to implement Trump’s agenda in nitty-gritty policies, we must insist that measures meant to help Americans whose livelihoods are challenged by foreign competition be as small-scale and short-term as possible. Just as Trump rightly sees that the U.S. government cannot create democracy where the seeds for it always shrivel, he must realize that the same government cannot save entire industries whose economic foundations in reality are crumbling.

Americans have traditionally been a flexible, adaptable, “can-do” people, who picked up and moved from New England to flee its stony soil for the vast fields of the West, and left unprofitable farms to staff the vast factories of Chicago and Detroit. What Trump sees, as most other Republicans didn’t, is that the transitions which economic reality has imposed on many less-connected Americans have been bumpy, painful, and sometimes destructive.

Wall Street gamblers were able to threaten an economic meltdown in 2008, to gain a golden parachute from the government. The election of Donald Trump is a fitting rebuke to elites in both parties who allowed that injustice to happen.

Trump tapped into the populist current that now runs through most Western countries, a wholesome rebellion against the cozy backroom deals and policy tweaks customized to serve the self-styled “cognitive elite,” the people who sail from elite colleges to corner offices, who use the rhetoric of “justice” and “inclusion” to rise to unaccountable power in U.S. federal agencies and European Union commissions. He spoke in brash and divisive terms of an open split between the interests of these elites and the people they claim to represent. It was bracing to hear him state matters so bluntly.

Restoring the Balance in American Politics

No, Donald Trump will not create a Peronist regime, which wrecks the U.S. economy in pursuit of some ill-conceived “social justice.” He will not embark us on wars of naked aggression and foreign conquest. He will not seed our cities with racial hatred, nor blacklist Hollywood actors.

What he will do is repair the grave imbalances in our politics that has emerged in recent decades. For too long we have allowed those who can master phrases and administer people to thrive, while those who work with their hands are shunted aside — and often replaced by compliant foreigners. Too many policy debates are dominated by a battle of empty abstractions, as taxes rise, budgets burst and real-world communities wither.

In an age when European governments react to the crime waves inflicted by a massive influx of Muslims with Third World skill sets and a 7th century worldview by censoring the news so citizens won’t rebel, it is more than simply refreshing to have a president like Trump, who is impervious to happy talk and in touch with ordinary people. It might even prove redemptive. (For more from the author of “Trump’s Inauguration Speech: Two Feet Firmly Planted on Our Fallen Earth” please click HERE)

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Veterans Explain Why They Came to Trump’s Inauguration

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Thousands of people gathered in the District of Columbia to watch the inauguration of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

Trump was sworn into office Friday at noon, where he marked the event as a time of change for the American people.

“Today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another,” the president said, “but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American people.”

And for those who served—traveling from near and far to watch the peaceful transition of power—it was exactly what they wanted to hear.

“Trump’s the man to bring the country back together again through a united front,” David Barrow, a U.S. Army veteran, told The Daily Signal.

“We support Donald Trump,” he continued. “We believe that he is the man to make America great again. I think he has the fortitude, the willpower, the determination, and the people surrounding him to make good decisions.”

Barrow, who served in the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, or the Old Guard, traveled to the District from Goose Creek, South Carolina, with his wife and daughter to watch Trump take the oath of office.

The 70-year-old said he supported Trump because he expressed a sense of urgency for the economy and has a “desire to re-establish the United States as a world power, both militarily and economically.”

“We believe God has a purpose in placing Trump where he is,” Barrow said.

Wearing a Clemson University cap and a jacket bearing the logo of the Old Guard Association, Barrow said he is looking for Trump to re-establish ties with allies of the United States and “make the military strong again.”

Like Barrow, Mike Costello, 54, of Melbourne, Florida, is looking to Trump to rebuild the military during his time in office.

Costello, his wife, and daughter made the decision to travel to the District for the inauguration just two days before Trump took the oath of office—a decision Costello attributed to his “relentless” wife.

An Army veteran, Costello and his family run a communications business, and he said the last eight years have been especially difficult for his small business.

“It’s been tough,” he told The Daily Signal. “It’s hell.”

The 54-year-old said he’s seen his taxes and the cost of health insurance—Costello provides coverage to his employees—increase over the span of President Barack Obama’s presidency.

Costello supported Trump from Day One, and said the president separated himself from the pack of more than a dozen other Republicans vying for the GOP’s nomination early on.

“He’s not a politician,” he said. “He spoke his mind. You didn’t have to worry about what he was thinking or if he was lying to you.”

Unlike Costello, Scott Mason didn’t support Trump early on.

Mason, of Hilton Head, South Carolina, initially backed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the primaries and “Texas candidates,” like Sen. Ted Cruz, he said.

But after the Republican primaries ended, Mason, 50, decided to support Trump.

“It’s the direction that he wanted to take the party and wanted to bring it back to the American public, or at least his intention was to give it back to America,” Mason told The Daily Signal. “We’ve heard that from other candidates before, but it’s never been a believable thing, and obviously he came to a position where he had everybody and they believed what he said.”

Mason served in the U.S. Navy but now works for fire rescue in South Carolina.

During a campaign stop in the Palmetto State, Mason—who was working at the event—said Trump stopped him and his colleagues for a “grip and grin,” and to thank them for their work.

Over the last eight years, Mason said he feels like America has “taken the blame for a lot of things that have gone on globally.”

He specifically pointed to the Iran nuclear deal and the Obama administration’s handling of the January 2016 detention of 10 Navy sailors by Iran.

“There’s a lot of things that left a bad taste, and hopefully we’ll go in a new direction, a better direction, one that directs the general public’s agenda,” Mason said.

The Navy veteran traveled to the District with his son and wife. The trip to the nation’s capital was a Christmas gift to his 14-year-old son, who was gifted a Trump/Pence poster along with the weather forecast for Jan. 20—Inauguration Day.

Over the course of Trump’s presidency, Mason said he hopes to see Trump enact “American-centric type of policies.” But he also wants the country to unite around the new president.

“When it’s all said and done after the election, America needs to come together and do what’s best for America and go forward,” Mason said. “I don’t believe that if you go back to this day four years ago, eight years ago, that there were protests against President Obama, so that just goes to show you how slanted the two parties are and their reactions to results.”

Already, Trump has the support of at least one man who opposed him during the election.

George Davis, a 66-year-old from Muskogee, Oklahoma, came to the inauguration not to see the new president, but to raise money to fix up a Vietnam War memorial in his town.

Standing on the route inauguration attendees walked to the Make America Great Again welcome concert, Davis sold Trump banners to “raise as much money as I can.”

An Army veteran who served in Vietnam and Panama—and received two Purple Hearts during his time in the military, he said—Davis said it was Trump’s campaign promises that he disagreed with, particularly his commitment to build a wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico, and his economic policies.

“He was in areas like Pittsburgh and places like that that I’ve visited, and there’s no way he can refit the factories to open them back up again without spending billions of taxpayer money,” Davis said, “and I just don’t agree with that.”

He also said he disagreed with his rhetoric toward the country’s allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and referenced the petition members of the British Parliament debated in June calling for Trump to be banned from entering the country.

“They’re some of our strongest allies, and he weakens us by talking that trash and getting them mad at us,” Davis said.

Still, the 66-year-old said he hopes Trump fixes the issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs and strengthens the military, which Davis said has been weakened over the last eight years.

And now that Trump is sworn in, Davis said he stands behind the new president.

“He’s our new commander in chief,” he said, “so yes, I do support him.” (For more from the author of “Veterans Explain Why They Came to Trump’s Inauguration” please click HERE)

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Trump Inauguration Protesters Dishonor Long-Held Principle

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More than any other political act, the orderly transfer of power from one administration to another at a presidential inauguration demonstrates convincingly that we are a nation of laws and not of men.

Even with the closest of outcomes and the losing side’s understandable disappointment — and even anger — victor and vanquished normally pledge to work together for the common good.

Unfortunately, a coalition of left-wing radicals has now pledged to do all that it can to disrupt Donald Trump’s inauguration, including blocking streets and perhaps bridges, preventing people from assembling along the parade route, spreading false “news” about the ceremony’s participants and their remarks, and pledging a “permanent opposition” to the Trump presidency.

One newspaper referred to the left’s “post-election frenzy of fundraising, war rooms, protests and social media hysteria.”

This radical left has ignored the example set by past presidential losers such as former Vice President Al Gore and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who after suffering defeat demonstrated their respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.

In 2000, George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Gore by a little more than half a million votes (out of 101.4 million cast) but won the electoral vote by the slimmest of margins — 271 to 266, one vote more than the 270 needed.

Gore could have refused to accept the Supreme Court’s decision putting a stop to ballot counting in Florida, but instead, he said that “for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.”

Gore quoted Stephen Douglas’ comments to Abraham Lincoln, who had just defeated him for the presidency: “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.” With his concession remarks, Gore provided an example of high statesmanship rather than low partisanship.

A little more than two months ago, Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by nearly 3 million votes out of 129 million cast, but won the electoral vote decisively by 306 to 232 votes.

Many Clinton supporters remain in deep denial, lending their support to the disaffected and the disgruntled who have promised to protest at the inauguration of Trump.

To her credit, Clinton has not encouraged the protests, but has rather stood by what she said at her concession speech on election night: “I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans.”

Endeavoring to put politics behind her, Clinton said that “we owe [Trump] an open mind and a chance to lead” and acknowledged the importance of “the peaceful transfer of power.”

We do not know what Trump, ever unpredictable, will say in his speech after he has taken the oath of office to become our 45th president. But we have reason to believe that his inaugural address will be, at least in part, Reaganesque — optimistic and confident.

Speaking of Ronald Reagan, I think (as I wrote in National Affairs) that 2017 resembles 1981 in several significant ways.

Republicans have accumulated a vast backlog of conservative ideas over the past eight years that were blocked by President Barack Obama and are now available to Trump.

Similarly, The Heritage Foundation’s 1980 Mandate for Leadership contained a mountain of conservative policy reforms going back decades that helped Reagan move the federal government in a conservative direction.

Even so, Heritage has now offered the Trump administration a similarly comprehensive blueprint for conservative policies in every federal department and agency.

These include repeal of Obamacare and the creation of a free-market health care program; the repeal of Dodd-Frank and the shutting down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; restoration of the work requirements for federal welfare; a flat tax rate on personal income; a commitment to traditional marriage; and the strengthening of our armed forces so that they are second to none.

The 2016 election returns have given conservatives a golden opportunity. The conservative agenda has proven solutions to many of the problems that led so many Americans — more than 61 million — to vote for the change that Trump promised.

It is now up to conservatives to convince policymakers from the White House to the statehouses to pursue the right path, to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ourselves and those we love. (For more from the author of “Trump Inauguration Protesters Dishonor Long-Held Principle” please click HERE)

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Ex-Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino Warns You about the Leftist Inauguration Violence the MSM Is Ignoring

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If you are attending President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C. tomorrow, be careful. The malcontents on the Left are unwilling to accept the election results and you very well could be caught up in a violent protest.

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino explains how if the threats coming from left-wing groups came from right-wing groups during Obama’s inauguration, the media would be hysterical.

Stay alert tomorrow, and be safe! (For more from the author of “Ex-Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino Warns You about the Leftist Inauguration Violence the MSM Is Ignoring” please click HERE)

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Fireworks, Protests, Celebs, Prayers — What to Expect at the Inauguration

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Besides a lot of paid violent protests, what else can we expect to take place at Friday’s inauguration? President-elect Donald Trump has promised it will be quite an event. “We’re going to have a very, very elegant day. The 20th is going to be something that will be very, very special, very beautiful.” An estimated 900,000 are expected to attend the 45th presidential inauguration.

Thursday: The Celebration

Events begin 3 p.m. EST on Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknowns. In Washington, several marching bands will play at the southwest end of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

At 4 p.m., the “Make America Great Again!” Welcome Celebration concert begins at the Lincoln Memorial. Musical guests and celebrities making appearances include Toby Keith, Jon Voight, the Piano Guys, Lee Greenwood, DJ Ravidrums, 3 Doors Down, and the Frontmen of Country. Many big names stayed away such as blind tenor Andrea Bocelli, who received death threats. Donald Trump himself will be speaking at the event.

The day will conclude with a fireworks show.

Friday: The Inauguration

The Trump and Pence families will attend a private church service Friday morning at St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House, an historic house of worship known as “the Church of the Presidents.” According to the National Park Service, every President since James Madison has worshiped there on some occasion.

As is tradition, incoming President Trump will then meet with current President Barack Obama at the White House before riding together to Capitol Hill.

The swearing-in ceremony begins at 11:30 a.m. on the western side of the Capitol building. The U.S. Marine Band will play the prelude. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, will deliver the welcoming statement. Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Reverend Dr. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and the New Destiny Christian Center’s Pastor Paula White-Cain will deliver the readings and invocation. Cardinal Dolan will read King Solomon’s prayer for wisdom in leading Israel. The Missouri State University Chorale will play a musical selection.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will swear in Pence. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform next, followed by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swearing in Trump. The Marine Band will play “Hail to the Chief.”

Trump then delivers his inaugural address, which is expected to be short. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Reverend Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse and The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Bishop Wayne T. Jackson of Great Faith Ministries International will wrap up the proceedings with readings and the benediction. America’s Got Talent runner-up, 16-year-old Jackie Evancho, will conclude the inauguration by singing the National Anthem.

The hour-and-a-half-long inaugural parade follows at 3 p.m. Over 8,000 participants march along Pennsylvania toward the White House, including Trump and Pence. Talladega College, a historically black college in Alabama, is one of the organizations sending a marching band to participate, even though the school had to bravely ignore complaints from the public and a few alumni.

Finally, Trump, Pence, and their wives, will attend three inaugural balls, two at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and a third, the Armed Services Ball, at the National Building Museum.

Boycotting Congressmen, Protesters and Counter-Protesters

About 65 Democratic members of Congress are refusing to attend the inauguration. These include Sen. Jeff Sessions’ bitter critic, Rep. John Lewis; Keith Ellison, Congress’s only Muslim, who wants to run the Democratic National Committee; left-wing stalwarts like Rep. John Conyers and Maxine Walters.

The Atlantic reports that “A Senate Historian told The Sacramento Bee that while ‘about 100 lawmakers skip the presidential inauguration every four years” due to scheduling conflicts, the Senate Historical Office ‘had no record of a boycott comparable to that being proposed for Trump’s inauguration.’”

The left has planned massive violent protests, much of which was organized by an organization known as DisruptJ20, which almost certainly receives funding from left-wing billionaire George Soros. Undercover videographer James O’Keefe of Project Veritas filmed activists planning to put butyric acid in the ventilation systems in order to drive people out of the balls. They also expressed their intent to form blockades in various locations.

While there are concerns the protesters will overwhelm law enforcement, a biker group is vowing to provide a “wall of meat” to block the protesters. The bikers are predicted to provide the biggest pro-Trump demonstration at the inauguration. Bikers for Trump founder and leader Chris Cox told Fox News, “In the event that we are needed, we will certainly form a wall of meat. We’ll be shoulder-to-shoulder with our brothers. And we’ll be toe-to-toe with anyone who’s going to break through police barricades.”

The White House will be live streaming the events from its website, as are multiple news outlets. See the official program here.

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Attacks Planned All over the Country during Trump’s Inauguration

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Earlier this week, Fox News reported a secret meeting of #DisruptJ20, a collection of anarchist groups planning to disrupt the inaugural. Trevor Loudon got into the meeting and recorded it for a while before being discovered and thrown out. The covert recording was a project of Matthew Vadum’s Capital Research Center to expose these leftists:

That story was an intro to a 20 minute video, “America Under Seige”, that CRC will release thursday, available free on YouTube. Here is the trailer to the video. It is part of CRC’s Dangerous Documentaries series.

Project Veritas also came out with covert videos of #DisruptJ20 planning meetings:

Part I. They talk about using butyric acid, which smells like vomit, in the ventilation shafts of buildings and setting off fire alarm sprinkler systems. These people should be arrested in advance for planning these terroristic activities.

Part II. They talk about “throat punching” which can be deadly, and shutting down the Metro. I think the idea is to hook a chain on the Metro train door when it opens and hook the other end to the train so the door can’t close.

Judicial Watch reports that there may be actual terrorist attacks along the border to disrupt the inaugural.

There has been an attack inside Mexico on the building site of a new U.S. Consulate near the border.

You should share all of this information with everyone you know. America spoke this election, but the Left refuses to get the message. They need to get it, loud and clear. In the meantime, we need to be ready for their attacks.

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