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Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. Alamy

Trump pushes culture war buttons in inauguration speech - here are the key moments

Increased border security, a US flag on Mars and ‘taking back’ Panama – Trump’s speech featured many of his campaign promises.

‘FROM THIS MOMENT on, America’s decline is over,’ an energetic Trump declared at Capitol Hill today.

Trump is back in office as the 47th President of the United States, and in his inauguration speech, the controversial political figure hit his usual notes on immigration, education, tariffs and ‘freedom’.

“I was saved by God for a reason,” he said during the speech at the US Capitol, referring to the assassination attempt against him on the campaign trail.

“I was saved by God to make America great again.”

The language used by the divisive politician hardly strayed from his usual rally rhetoric – here are some of the key moments:

Gender policy

Trump said that his government’s official policy would only recognise two genders, ending the current practice of providing a third gender option in some settings.

In a section of his speech targeting what he characterised as “radical woke theory”, and signalling a move against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Trump said:

I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life… As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

The line earned Trump a standing ovation from many Republicans in attendance.

Trump added that he would make America a “colour blind and merit-based” society.

‘Plant the Stars and Stripes’ on Mars

Trump vowed in his speech that the US would again see itself as “a growing nation” that expands its territory, adding that the country would plant its flag on Mars.

We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.

The statement drew immediate applause from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who was seated beside Trump’s son Barron during the inauguration ceremony. 

Musk, a long-time advocate for the colonisation of Mars and close ally of Trump, applauded the president’s bold goal.

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama

Trump also vowed that the United States would be “taking back” the Panama Canal, alleging that China had gained control of the waterway.

We didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we’re taking it back!

Trump has previously not ruled out using military force in Panama.

He said the spirit of a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter that relinquished control of the canal in 1999 had been violated.

The Panama Canal is not owned by China.

Tariffs and taxes

Promising to “return” the US to a “nation that is proud, prosperous and free”, Trump promised to revamp US trade, vowing tariffs and taxes on other countries to aid Americans. 

It’s a pledge that will be watched closely by businesses, officials and politicians in Ireland.

I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.

The changes the Trump administration made during that first term did not result in the damage to the Irish economy some feared. This time around, there are fears the outcome could be different.

Ireland serves as a base for nearly 1,000 U.S. companies, including the European outposts of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Pfizer. 

Border patrol

Trump also announced his intentions to issue a raft of executive orders aimed at reshaping how the United States deals with citizenship and immigration.

The 47th US president outlined how he will set to work “almost immediately” with a series of presidential decrees intended to drastically reduce the number of migrants entering the country.

First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

Trump added that he will send troops to the southern border to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country”, and will declare some cartels as foreign terror organisations.

Climate and cars

Trump promised to end the ‘Green New Deal’ in his speech – a term used to describe policies that address climate change and investment in renewable energy in the US.

We will end the green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American auto workers. We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago.

The US president added that the US “will be a manufacturing nation once again”, saying the nation has “the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth – and we are going to use it”. 

‘Drill baby drill!’

He also pledged to fill strategic fossil fuel reserves up again “right to the top”, and export American energy “all over the world”.

Trump added that his administration would declare a “national energy emergency” to significantly expand drilling in the world’s top oil and gas producer, signalling a sharp departure from Joe Biden’s climate-focused policies.

The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will ‘Drill, baby, drill!’

‘Win like never before’

As well as policy pledges, Trump, in typical manner, included a number of lines filled with his style of hyperbolic positivity.

“I stand before you now as proof that nothing is impossible America, impossible is what we do best,” Trump declared, to yet another standing ovation from Republican lawmakers in attendance on Capitol Hill.

Trump promised the “four greatest years in American history”, saying, “we’re going to win like never before”.

America will be respected again and admired again – we will be prosperous, we will be proud.

Huffington Post journalist Yashar Ali described the address as “more of a campaign speech rather than an inaugural speech”, while Internet personality and Trump supporter Jake Paul said that any American who didn’t support Trump after the speech “simply hates America and doesn’t want what’s best for this country”.

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    Mute cup of tea
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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:31 PM

    Ireland needs to ditch woke and acknowledge there are only 2 genders

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:33 PM

    @cup of tea: Find a bin and climb in.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:35 PM

    @Ian: kindly get out first

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:35 PM

    @cup of tea: maybe you should stick to drinking tea and let people of different beliefs too their own way of living their lives.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:35 PM

    @cup of tea: and more than two main political parties, as the current ones are useless

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:36 PM

    @Tim Brennan: to

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:37 PM

    @cup of tea: exactly, in a school near me there’s a child going round that is identifying as a ferret, hard to believe but true. It is absolutely beyond believable at what point do people wake up, next you’ll be able to identify as a cat and scrap you’re debt if that the case should be you’re right If you now want to be called Jimmy the cat.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:38 PM

    @Paddy C: Ur a liar.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:40 PM

    @cup of tea: you are 1000% correct don’t agree with Trump to often but agree with him on that .

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:41 PM

    @Paddy C: If you’re going to make something up, it should at least be even mildly funny. 2/10, poor effort

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:45 PM

    @cup of tea: we need free gender affirming care for migrants.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:50 PM

    @Paddy C: BS!

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:56 PM

    @cup of tea: they can all ridicule you if they want but you speak the truth , there are only 2 genders , those with an X and a Y and the other has and an X and another X.

    Prove me wrong

    They define your gender not pretending to be a feckin cat

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:59 PM

    @DC: I am an omnigender and I find this comment transphobic. I am upset now and my only option is to take my anger out on my cat.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:00 PM

    @Paddy C: i believe you , there is a girl in a wexford pres school that her parents fought to get a litter tray in the toilet as she identify as a cat .
    I wonder would they give her a 7 in 1 shot and she can never get a driving licence as cats can’t drive , will she go in the cargo hold in a cage when travelling on holidays

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:01 PM

    @cup of tea: why ?
    Are u affected by this ?

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:09 PM

    @DC: You’re aware that XX and XY aren’t the be all and end all of Chromosomes, aren’t you? And that chromosomes have nothing to do with gender identity

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:12 PM

    @DC: this is also not true. The story has been doing the rounds for a while now, but the school and sometimes the country changes. How sad must you be to just make up crap like that to get “likes” from other small minded chimps

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:13 PM

    @Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: “Gender identity” is a made up term. It has no basis in reality and is the product of the discredited “research” by a paedophile named John Money.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:25 PM

    @cup of tea: Enoch Burke!

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:29 PM

    @cup of tea: no need to acknowledge it. Everyone knows that there are only two genders.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:30 PM

    @Ian: faggEh

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:46 PM

    @cup of tea: Won’t happen though – Irish kids are brainwashed into woke from primary school. The most extreme-left little place in Europe. Run by weirdos. Banana republic. MAGA

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:47 PM

    @Ian: How many genders are there?

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:49 PM

    @Tim Brennan: Can a man become a women? Can a women become a cat? Weirdo far-left is gone! MAGA

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    @Iano C: ‘Ur’ a wokist. Bye! MAGA

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:55 PM

    @cup of tea: Is that you, Enoch?

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:56 PM

    @cup of tea: 100%

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:58 PM

    @cup of tea: brilliant ignorance is inexcusable

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:01 PM

    @DC: You dont even know the difference between gender and sex. As for chromosomes, there are plenty of variations other than XX and XY.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:05 PM

    @Paddy C: charming

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:25 PM

    @Comments Section Closed: You belong in the abortion bucket.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:25 PM

    @Andrew Martin: peedo.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:27 PM

    @Kieran Conroy: There are two sexes. There are multiple kinds of gender. It really isn’t difficult. Trans people have no impact on your life. They’re just people.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:35 PM

    @Iano C: no I’m not it is going on and it’s beyond a joke now

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:36 PM

    @Jason Memail: it’s not made up it is actually going on problem is people don’t seem to believe it haven’t you heard of Enoch Burke?wake up it is going on elsewhere

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:45 PM

    @cup of tea: It’s a bit woke to have his inauguaration ceremony indoors, isn’t it? Only -4 in Washington today!

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:57 PM

    @Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Weirdo. MAGA

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:59 PM

    @Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: State of you…

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:02 PM

    @cup of tea: Why it has nothing to do with anything, why do you care?

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:10 PM

    @Gareth: Gender and Sex were once synonymous, it was only when the perverted John Money started his awful experimentation on kids in the 50s that the definitions started to diverge. The pushers of gender ideology purposely used the term gender to muddy the waters. And those variations in chromosomes you mention, which occur only extremely rarely, still always result in a male or female. Exactly the same as a tiny number of children are born with the wrong number of fingers or toes are still human.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:36 PM

    @Tim Brennan: I respect your comment but I’m slightly confused people of different beliefs? Male and female genders are not beliefs they are biological science based facts, not beliefs.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 11:40 PM

    @Ian: ‘Trans’ is a mental illness.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 11:44 AM

    @Symon: I’m personally so excited about the money I’m going to make investing in Trump coins. Greatest investment ever. In fact I’m going to the bank today to borrow as much as I can to buy more. There’s no way Trump would scam everyone

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:55 PM

    Why is everyone getting so excited. There are only two genders.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:07 PM

    @reg morrisey: it’s crazy how this is a controversial statement. The left wing are just upset that the number of times Trump has been president is the same number of genders that exist.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:37 PM

    @Joe Willis: I’ll type very slowly so that you can understand. Human sexuality is a spectrum. We are all initially conceived as female and then may become male. Now I suggest you do something very novel. Start to learn the science involved in human embryo creation and subsequent development. The misconception that we are either 100% male, or 100% female doesn’t hold up to any proper examination. Additionally, the brain’s conditioning during childhood and early adulthood leads to further drift in terms of sexual identity and attraction. You’re dim-witted reliance on wrong-headed simplifications and false attribution of the causes and resolutions of human complexity is……oh, I forgot to apologise for insulting you in advance. You are a parrot of the easily injected right-wing “things were much better x number of decades ago”. And don’t blame me for being reactive and reducing you down to a stereotype and being deeply disrespectful to your point of view……that’s your own stock in trade, so suck it up buttercup.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:50 PM

    @Numinous20111: basically 2 genders then

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:02 PM

    @Numinous20111: look, you don’t need to lower yourself to insult others on their parrot views here. You’re above it. However, most people just won’t buy what you’re saying and probably never will. I personally can accept people wish to identify however they please, but pathologists will always ever only identify a dead body as one of two genders no matter how young/old or recent/ancient it is. On that basis, I can only accept the same outcome.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:24 PM

    @Numinous20111: How slowly did you type? It’s hard for us to tell… will definitely take your word for it though

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:50 PM

    @Numinous20111: well in all fairness we actually start as a$$holes and unfortunately some people remain as such

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:05 PM

    @reg morrisey: “it is appropriate to use the term sex when referring to the biology of human and animal subjects, and the term gender is reserved for reference to the self-identity and/or social representation of an individual.”… deal with it ya’ll lol

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:17 PM

    @Numinous20111: I’m going to assume Robert Winston, the world renowned scientist, knows just a bit more about biology than you do. Unless you’ve also been a pioneer in IVF with over 300 peer reviewed, published scientific papers and multiple fellowships and chairs. On the assumption you haven’t, I’ll go with his thoughts on your pseudoscience.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 10:38 AM

    @Numinous20111: Got it!
    So, there are in fact two genders, but while most people are overwhelmingly one or the other, people have different proportions of each. I note that we are still dealing with two genders. You don’t seem to have come up with a third in your lengthy sermon.
    I guess that most people (of whichever gender) accept this as a fact, but as polite and sensitive folks they are prepared to address you by whatever pronoun or name you wish to be signified by – she, they, it, Bonzo or whatever.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:36 PM

    A fantastic speech……very poignant on Martin LK day of all days. A President that appears to remember and fulfil the manifesto that saw him elected with a massive majority

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:47 PM

    @Mary Linton: a majority that wasn’t particularly impressive in historical terms.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:49 PM

    @Mary Linton: 1.5% is not a ‘massive majority’. Maybe some basic education about basic mathematics?

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    Jan 20th 2025, 10:35 PM

    @Richard Reynolds: 312 electoral college vote to 226 is a MASSIVE MAJORITY in my eyes

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:31 PM

    So screw the environment? The man’s a threat to the entire world. Hopefully next person to have a go won’t miss

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:33 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: I’m hoping his obesity ends him sooner rather than later.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:46 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: don’t worry, the next Republican who replaces him will have the exact same policies. Enjoy the next 4 years pipsqueek.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:10 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: Vance is more dangerous

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:56 PM

    @Joe Willis: Obnoxious troll. Do us a favour and dye

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:09 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: America is going to be an industrial powerhouse! :’D… it’s beautiful to watch tho, people believe this ‘bigly’

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    Jan 20th 2025, 11:09 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: I’m happy the way things are, I’m not a progressive who think constant change will make me happier like you, or give you the happiness that you long for. So I’ll enjoy the next 4 years while you pander to the other social rejects for validation of your sorry existence.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 7:52 AM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: What would you like him to dye? Dye his hair blue? People like you are the reason Trump was reelected.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:38 PM

    Culture war is designed to distract you from class war

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:39 PM

    @Mr Sparkle: Hence why it’s always pushed by the wealthiest people, left or right

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:56 PM

    @Mr Sparkle: Farts

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:13 PM

    @Dave f Doe: Enlightening comment Dave

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:30 PM

    @Mr Sparkle: Enough with your Marxist nonsense, you absolute plank. There’s no such thing as “class” or indeed the term “working-class.” Such a word implies that poor people somehow work harder and produce more labour and capital than those who are middle-income or rich, which is simply not true. Life is good, stop with your pouting and whining. The rich have gotten 280% richer since 1980 (wonderful) and the poor have gotten 40% richer as well (also wonderful) so no, inequality is not a bad thing. It is the sign of a properly functioning economy. The countries with the lowest inequality in the world are Afghanistan, Cuba and North Korea because everyone is equally poor. Billionaires only keep 2% of all the wealth they generate and 88% of millionaires and 72% of billionaires are self-made.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 10:17 PM

    @William Jennings: can’t help but think of my 22 year old landlord who inherited 20 properties from his Grandfather and hasn’t worked a day in his life when you say “inequality is not a bad thing”

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    Jan 20th 2025, 11:12 PM

    @Mr Sparkle: How did his grandfather acquire those properties. Every parents goal is to leave a better life for their offspring. He was born to a successful family that worked to get what they got. He could have also been born to a malnourished family in Eritrea with no food. But he didn’t. Life isn’t fair and you can’t seem to accept that.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 1:01 AM

    @Joe Willis: well, we know which side you’d have been on when the brits walked all over us anyway

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    Jan 21st 2025, 1:15 AM

    @Mr Sparkle: Boo-hoo Sparkle, it’s not my problem if facts offend you. Bravo to that grandfather for working hard and being able to give his grandson such a great gift which is the fruit of his hard labour. In any case, I suspected that you wouldn’t have answers to what I said. Is that because you know I’m right? Giving a jealous sop story because your life didn’t turn out the way you thought it would isn’t a coherent rebuttal to the fact that inequality is simply not a bad thing, not matter what your bitter ass whines.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 11:23 AM

    @Mr Sparkle: what the Brits did was illegal, they were a foreign threat. Having multiple properties is legal. How have you even made that comparison?

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    Jan 21st 2025, 1:08 PM

    @Mr Sparkle:
    The educated working class continue to reject socialists.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:38 PM

    Mango Mussolini in full flow! Populism while lining his own pockets. A true man of the people…lol

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:51 PM

    @Iano C: Could be worse it could be Kamala Harris

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:54 PM

    @Iano C: cope harder Ian. The madness of the last 4 years is creeping away. There are 2 genders, DEI hiring is racist, illegals get deported. Look at Milei in Argentina, he has turned the country into an economic success in 12 months.. how?? He did the opposite of what the EU is insisting on, the same EU that is in decline and being turned into a 3rd world hell hole.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:59 PM

    @Freda Peeple: Biden deported more illegal immigrants in his year than the Orange Shitgibbon could in any of the years he was in the White House, with full control of both houses

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:11 PM

    @Joe Willis: Entertaining lies of Boring ones I guess

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:14 PM

    *over

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:49 PM

    @Iano C: day 1 and we’ve already had 2 Nazi salutes from Elon Musk

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    Jan 20th 2025, 11:01 PM

    @Dermot Blaine: except it wasn’t a nazi salute you anaemic snowflake

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    Jan 21st 2025, 10:03 AM

    @Freda Peeple: is that the fella that wants to make 12 hour working days mandatory? We’re ment to be moving further from slavery not looking back at it and getting ideas

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:05 PM

    Ukraine’s limitless credit card has just been revoked at a till in Poland.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:41 PM

    @Stephen: prepare for your pay packet to be raided in support of Ukraine now that the Donnie has decided to stop support and give it away to his buddy in the Kremlin, if you don’t like paying a bit more then emigrate to someplace

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:27 PM

    I have no problem with people wishing to identify as whatever gender they wish however why should I have to know about it. I don’t go around shouting that I’m male, that’s my business and I keep it to myself. Why do people who identify as something other than male or female feel the need to shove it down everyone’s throats? Why can’t they get on with their lives as who they are, why do they think because they identify as something other than male or female that we need to know about it. Why should they be treated differently to anyone else? I have zero time for Trump but here I support him 100% and I hope that his actions are copied worldwide. It’s time to stop this nonsense and pandering to a very small minority.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 2:28 AM

    @Andrew Speers: Well I was out on Saturday night, a rarity and not where I live and there was a person who was a man but dressed as a woman, nobody cared and we all listened to the music and drank our pints . I went out for a smoke, and that person was also outside, and someone who was passing said something derogatory to that person. It was responded to in kind. But why can’t we accept people who wish to live like this? If they aren’t harmful to anyone, what’s the problem ?

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    Jan 21st 2025, 2:01 PM

    @Paul O’Mahoney: Ding, nail on the head. Doesn’t matter at all to 95% of people. Live and let live, problem for some it’s ‘live and everyone else needs to live like me’… the delicious irony of the “don’t tread on me” brigade.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:43 PM

    Plant a flag on Mars. They already have on the rovers that landed there! There is no territorial gain to it in any case, as with the US flag planted on the Moon, it’s purely symbolic.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:31 PM

    If Trump wasn’t a Zionist, he would be a great leader of a nation. His policies are a lot better than sleepy Joes.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:32 PM

    @Joe Willis: what policies are better and how will they benefit ordinary people?

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:41 PM

    @Ian: Stopping illegal immigration at the border. That will benefit ordinary citizens by not making them vulnerable to loose criminals. Like what happened to Joeelyn Nungaray in Texas. No DEI policies, meaning you can only get hired based off merit, not based off what colour skin you have or your sexual orientation. ‘Gender affirming’ care of children, I mean I don’t have much to say about that one, it speaks for itself. I do not agree with his Zionist policies, but there will never be a president in the US who will be anti-Zionist, as the AIPAC lobby is too powerful.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 6:55 PM

    @Ian: I’d be copies Javier Milei’s policies he will be doing ok!

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:35 PM

    @Joe Willis: He won’t and can’t stop illegal migration. You’re absolutely wilfully ignorant if you think he can or will. DEI policies are inclusive, scrapping them based on the current mantra of hate, will feed more problems. Gender affirming care is no ones business except the people directly involved. It saves lives. We can both agree on the zionist shit.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:35 PM

    @Joe Willis: Not really. It’s very important that the US President remains an ardent Zionist in order for the idiots of the world to get taught a lesson while they attempt to spew their antisemitic nonsense and anti-West values. Zionism is one of the greatest visions ever and it is the most successful decolonisation to ever happen through the world. Trump already sold out Israel with the terrible hostage deal that he forced them to sign that allows 1,000 Hamas militants to be released. I really hope that he himself is given a clear warning to stop flirting with the Islamists up in Dearborn and wider Michigan because he wanted a few extra votes from the towelheads that hate Israel. Trump only cares about himself and no one. Sometimes that can be beneficial, sometimes that can be disastrous.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 11:16 PM

    @William Jennings: putting the words anti-Semitic and anti-west is a complete contradiction. It’s well known that they absolutely despise the West. The West has been declining, and our share of native whites is decreasing every year. All of this since WW2. Why? Go figure.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 1:00 AM

    @Joe Willis: No actually, it most certainly isn’t. Western values stem from the Judaism-Christian tradition. It is Jerusalem where our key fundamental values like the rule of law, justice, the sanctity of life, equality of opportunity and moral responsibility came from. How could you make such a nonsensical comment? Israel is literally the only Western country in the Middle East which follows our way of life and culture. In 1940, the population of Jewish people worldwide was 17 million. 85 years later, the population of Jewish people worldwide in 2025 is only 15.7 million people and hasn’t recovered. I know that facts don’t come easily to you, but please be quiet and stop embarrassing yourself by continuing spewing laughable nonsense.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 7:34 AM

    @William Jennings: you’re a good goyim.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:58 PM

    The wife wouldn’t even allow him kiss her.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:18 PM

    @Tim Brennan: With all the asses he kissed, would you blame her…free Melania..

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    Jan 20th 2025, 7:51 PM

    Somehow most of that speech sound very, very familiar….and also very tailored to the most simplistic possible acceptance without asking any questions of how, where, when, who, why and didn’t you make most of these same pronouncements the first time? And then spend 4 years Tweeting at all hours of the day and night, failing to do anything meaningful besides sign a GOP formulated tax break, play golf, attend rallies, rant about anyone who pointed out objective reality to you, claim only you could be trusted to sort it out/tell us what was real or not/was responsible for everything good, except when that turned out to not be good and then it was RHINO’s/the bums you hired as the very best available/the imaginary radical far left and the nebulous ANTIFA……..What a bankrupt person.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:42 PM

    Donald the shepherd must be so happy with all his followers, baaaa

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:23 PM

    trump the populist, saying what people want to hear. So much for ‘saying it like it is’. He’s turned into the very kind of person he claimed to despise.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:45 PM

    Such a poorly-written and poorly-executed speech from Trump to be perfectly honest. He fails to get into the nitty-gritty about what he’s actually going to do to reduce the size of government and roll back on spending. Oh wait, I know why! He doesn’t actually care about any of that. He added 8 trillion dollars to the national debt, just as much as Biden did. Every single government department grew under his watch and he’s such a coward for refusing to privatise Medicare and Social Security. Not to mention Trump is very eager to sell out his allies one by one. He forced Israel to agree to one of the worst deals I’ve ever seen a US President broker in American history, he’s gonna pull the plug on supporting the heroic Ukrainians and has repeatedly said that he “doesn’t care” about Taiwan.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:05 PM

    There are infinite genders :)

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    Jan 20th 2025, 10:48 PM

    @Thesaltyurchin: There are only 2 genders, strands of mental illness are infinite

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    Jan 21st 2025, 2:06 PM

    @Declan Young: Would agree on the mental illness, we certainly know less than we do more. Unfortunately for your argument the word ‘gender’ is not biological and so is in part subjective. If you were to say ‘There are only two sexes’ I would unequivocally agree, but you cant, you’re unable to separate yourself from something that bares no meaning to your life, eagar to be up in someone else’s life, shouting and spewing bile, no way to treat the mentally ill as you put it.

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    Jan 20th 2025, 9:07 PM

    Trolls infestation

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    Jan 20th 2025, 8:04 PM

    Read the story under this and that’s the Trumpian society

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    Jan 20th 2025, 10:01 PM

    Go Trump while LA burns.

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    Jan 21st 2025, 11:42 AM

    I hope everyone bought as much Trump crypto coins as possible. The best investment ever in the whole world. Totally not a scam

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