Trump Takes Power

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By Britt Nelson

Kaboom! The world has turned ‘hot-potato’ political. President Trump took office Friday in Washington and the next day women all over the world took to the streets to protest him and support ‘Women’s Rights.’ It’s easier to understand Trump’s controversial victory than it is to understand what these women want that they don’t already have.
President Trump’s inauguration was spectacular with a million people plus and went off without a hitch. American patriotism shined on Friday, but the Women’s March on Washington and in cities across America and around the world on Saturday showed clearly the divisions that sooner or later will explode again into more violent protests especially when the U.S. Supreme Court votes again on abortion.
Hearing all the women’s speeches on Saturday there was not one word about the harsh treatment of women in Islamic counties under evil Sharia Law.
Voting statistics show that 53 percent of white women voters voted for Trump, according to The New York Times. Hey Gloria Steinem put that in your feminist pipe and smoke it.
Meanwhile, on Friday President Trump’s inaugural parade on Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol Building to the White House showed off the USA’s finest. American high school marching bands, military and veterans groups, police organizations and other first responders were all on magnificent, respectful display while blocks away anti-Trump protesters were burning cars, smashing windows in an ugly full-blown riot.
One of the parade highlights was seeing 10-year-old Barron Trump walking along Pennsylvania Avenue with his mom and dad waving to the people lining the street. A heartwarming sight. Barron also stood on stage with his father in the early morning hours of Nov. 9 when it became clear that Trump had won the presidency. Barron again was with his father in the parade reviewing stand as his dad saluted again and again the military and police. During the parade this young man in his suit and tie looked much older than 10. He does not deserve to be mocked by anyone including NBC’s Saturday Night Live and their not-so-funny portrayals of President Trump and his family.
The only time the new president seemed to get a little teary-eyed was when the Color Guard and cadets from the New York Military Academy passed in front of the reviewing stand and he saluted them. President Trump attended the New York Military Academy in Cornwall, New York from age 13 through high school during the early 1960s, according to Wikipedia. He was a cadet officer and this is where Trump’s respect for the military began. Even though Trump did not join active-duty U.S. military after high school his love and respect for the military and all law enforcement surely began during this time in his life.
President Trump’s inaugural address was different from any other recent incoming president in that his words were not written by a high-paid professional speech writer, but by himself and close staff. His speech was not eloquent and full of flowery, hollow speech. It was a refined expansion of the many speeches he gave during those packed Trump rallies held across the nation which led to his election as the 45th President of the United States. There was nothing “dark” about Trump’s speech as mainstream media spinner’s claim, that’s pure nonsense.
“America First” is President Trump’s main theme as he begins his presidency and why not? On Nov. 8 America filed for divorce from establishment government and on Jan. 20 the papers were signed.
Look how U.S. Senate Democrats folded and confirmed retired four-star U.S. Army Gen. James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis as Trump’s secretary of defense by a vote of 98 to 1. Trump’s attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-Ala), did not vote on Mattis, according to FOX News. All that heated talk by the Democrats of opposing each and every one of Trump’s cabinet picks fell short — way short.  It appears to be smooth sailing for the rest of Trump’s cabinet picks, but look out when Trump nominates his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last year.
Following Scalia’s death, President Obama’s nomination to the high court was ignored by the Republican controlled Senate preferring to wait for the next president to take action, which President Trump will do without delay. It’s not a question of if but when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Roe Vs Wade, the 1972 high-court decision making abortion legal, then all hell will break lose.
According to news reports, pro-life women’s groups were invited then dis-invited to the Women’s March on Washington. The pro-lifers did not show up causing conflict, rioting and burning because now they have a president that supports them.

About the Author

Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.

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