Listless, uninspired and robotic: Trump's vision of a "golden age of America" rings hollow

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The only thing he didn’t do was invoke Hannibal Lecter.

The rest of the pieces of Donald Trump’s standard rally speech were there for his second inaugural address Monday: the meaningless lies, the empty chest-beating threats, the insane repetition of “as never before” braggadocio, a pandemic of pandering and self-promotion.

There were high points in the grotesquerie — he’s going to “take back” the Panama Canal because we have been “treated so badly” and somehow China owns it now, or something; he’s going to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, which means, we must assume, another map assaulted by a Trump sharpie, and by God, that will be that!

Designating the cartels as terrorist organizations, as he pledged, is so empty a threat, it’s as if a piece of paper in Washington D.C. will scare guys wearing respirators in a fentanyl lab down in Zacatecas. Feeding red meat to the Christian Nationalist right that there will now be two “official” genders is not just a rhetorical bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos, it will have real effects on the lives of real transgender people — and in the Rotunda of the nation’s Capital on Martin Luther King Remembrance Day, it got a rousing cheer.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/20/listless-uninspired-robotic-trumps-vision-of-a-golden-age-of-america-rings-hollow/

[patphil]

1. He's talking about all the "gold" he's going to transfer from the US government to the super rich.

A golden age of lawlessness and corruption.
A golden age of transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the upper class..
A golden age of selling US secrets to our enemies.
A golden age of disenfranchisement of millions of US citizens.

I guess it's all in your interpretation of "golden age".

[dutch777]

2. That's right. Enrich Trump and friends is the gold. Most of the rest of us will suck eggs. (Expensive eggs).