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THE VILLAGE PEOPLE played out a pre-inauguration Trump rally last night with their famous disco song Y.M.C.A.
Ahead of his inauguration today, US president-elect Donald Trump held a rally last night where he was lavished with with support from his diehard followers and pledged a range of measures in his first weeks and months in the White House.
At the close of the rally, Trump danced alongside the Village People as they performed their 1970s hit Y.M.C.A., which had become the unofficial anthem of his election campaign.
Trump pledged a blitz of presidential actions to end “American decline”, saying that he would crack down on ‘woke ideology’ and immigration.
In a raucous campaign-style gathering in Washington, the 78-year-old Republican promised cheering supporters that he would act with “historic speed” from day one of his White House comeback.
“Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American decline, and we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity,” Trump told a packed sports arena.
“I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country.”
Billionaire Trump was joined on stage by Elon Musk — the tech tycoon who will lead a major cost-cutting drive in his administration — and who vowed to make America strong “for centuries.”
Much of Trump’s hour-long speech focused on immigration, driving home one of the dark messages that helped spur his remarkable victory in November’s presidential election over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We’re going to stop the invasion of our borders,” added Trump, who has pledged to launch raids targeting undocumented migrants within days of taking office.
But he also promised “lots” of executive orders from his first day back in the Oval Office, including one to ban “transgender insanity” and critical race theory from schools and to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports.
Trump also reiterated a promise to release files on the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, his brother Bobby Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Long lines of Trump supporters formed outside the arena despite snowy conditions.
“I wanted to see history unfold before my eyes,” Alan McNeely, 21, a student from Connecticut, told AFP.
Earlier, the future US commander-in-chief paid a symbolic visit to Arlington National Cemetery, the resting place of America’s war dead.
Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, followed by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
The sombre ceremony contrasted with Trump’s last trip to the cemetery as a presidential candidate in August, when the US army criticized his staff for pushing a cemetery employee.
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Congrats to the outgoing president Joe Biden on ending the conflict in Gaza. You will be forever remembered officially as the President of Peace.
@Dave f Doe: I’m sure he has people there to whisper ‘it’s Donald Trump’ lol.
@JB Software: The ceasefire isn’t an end to the conflict, unfortunately. It’s considered a chance to regroup before recommencing. Hamas cannot be allowed to continue governing.
@Dave f Doe: yeah but I bet he’s not on social media sites with 20 different IDs
@honey badger: In that case Netanyahu and his fellow thugs, who have caused suffering and devastation that Hamas can only dream of, certainly cannot be allowed to continue governing. They need to be tried and to do jail time for their war crimes.
@Dave f Doe: orange man is the same age as was biden when he took office.
you sure the orange man mummy can rememers his name? they are the same age after all :)
@Brendan O’Brien: That’s why it’s imperative that Hamas cannot be allowed to remain in power. Their war strategy involves using their own voters as human armour plating to protect their fighters, equipment, ammunition dumps, launch sites, etc.
Israel evacuated every one of their citizens from Gaza to promote peace. It got them suicide bombers in restaurants, shops, on buses, etc. You can’t negotiate with Jihadists. They cannot be allowed to remain in power. No October 7th. No war.
@honey badger: Spin it any way you want, but Palestinians have suffered far more than they have inflicted in this dysfunctional relationship, while Israelis have inflicted far more that they have suffered. One side is the oppressor and one is the oppressed. You choose to stand with the oppressor.
And ‘They started it!’, as a justification for anything and everything, belongs in the playground.
@JB Software: Invade Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico, Invade Canada? President of peace me arse.
@honey badger: Promoting peace includes Genocide?
@James T.Kirk: did you even read the comment?
@honey badger: I agree…Neither can the far right extrimists in the Isreali government calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.. I’m sure you’ll take this opportunity to also condemn the words and actions of Smotrich and Ben Givr..
@JB Software: Sure someone else who can’t accept the war crimes of Netanyahu.
@Dave f Doe: Village people!!!!!
@Brendan O’Brien: Here’s the thing I asked myself many years ago: How do Israelis make peace with Hamas? There isn’t an option that involves Hamas living in peace with Israel as a neighbour. I’ve listened to and read as widely as i can from Palestinians, Israelis, regional commentators, etc. Hamas only wants there to be no Israel and an Islamic caliphate in its place. Your oppressor and oppressed narrative deliberately ignores the realities of radical Islamism and what it has brought to Gaza. It can only be fought. It can’t be reasoned with, and until the people of Gaza realise that it is an ideological cul de sac that offers them only future wars, nothing will change. You mean well, I’m sure, but Hamas relies on many peoples inability to understand its modus operandi.
@James T.Kirk: There’s no genocide, thankfully.
@Brian: I’d be happy to Brian. They have no place in any government. I was particularly pleased when Gvir announced he was quitting. I believe I’ve said this to you before.
@honey badger: Hamas is a terrible organisation, but it suits Israel’s purposes. serving as a pretext for the most horrendous violence against Palestinians in general. And, objectively, the Israeli government and the IDF are far worse than Hamas. The IDF uses torture, sexual assault and rape against prisoners.
‘Israel has sought not to find political solutions to the Palestinian conflict but to contain and manage it. It has cynically helped nurture Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu in particular propping it up as an obstacle to an independent Palestine. “To prevent the option of two states,” Israeli general turned academic researcher Gershon Hacohen has observed, “he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it’s an ally.” Israel is wreaking devastation in Gaza in pursuit of a monster it helped spawn.’
So where are the beheaded babies isreal said were killed. The only children affected are Palestinian killed in their thousands.
Genocide plain and simple.
@honey badger: No, you haven’t, you skirted around the issue. You never actually condemned them or Benny, who along with Ben Givr incited the assination of Yitzhak Rabin. Once assinated,Benny took power and began funding Hamas to undermine the PLO. You see whatever way you look at this Netheyatu and his henchmen are very much part of, if not the problem. They have used violence, murder, the assination of a prime minister and terrorism in their ascension and retention of power.. peace is impossible with them at the helm, and the despicable Hamas organisation they literally created.
@Brian: Sighs. That was Mujama Al Islamya. No need to lie. Look up Sheik Yassin and what happened when he declared that the considerable funding Israel provided for schools, mosques, universities, hospitals etc to be built was intolerable and diversified into Jihad. Yes they were considered a counterweight to Arafat. Arafat took billions and still insisted on abandoning an actual Palestinian state that had global support financial guarantees.
@Dave f Doe: you said before Christmas you had 17 fake accounts. Get help for your own sake.
@Dermot Blaine: The number has increased on an almost daily basis since then.
@honey badger: More pedandicim.. You’re just playing with words now. And no denial of his inciting the assination of Rabin then.. leading a march with a coffin and a hangmans noose as they chanted Death to Rabin. Ben Givr attacked the prime ministers car and states after”We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too “. Two weeks later he was assinated.. and Netheyatu was soon took power. This was all in response to the Oslo Accords.. that’s what these men, including Benny the Butcher,think of peace.. you’re deluded if you think any peace is forthcoming with Netheyatu in power. Any person genuinely seeking peace would be calling for his removal.. as a bare minimum to be taking seriously. So here’s your chance to denounce Netheyatu .. and call for a genuine peace in the region.
@JB Software: god bless President Biden, President of Peace. God knows the mess that would’ve been made if it was left to trump to sort out. Remember that American student who came home unrecognisable after he left was taken hostage in North Korea! trump was too scared to stand up to Kim Jong Un.
@Termaz FX: Oh dear! It seems the far-left wokists are terribly upset today (Mon 20th)…I wonder why? The 164 gender mob have been dumped in the rubbish bin of history. Common sense shall prevail after years of libtard nonsense. God bless President Trump! MAGA
@James T.Kirk:
HAMAS by holding on to the Jewish men women and children hostages are responsible for the continuing war. Berlin had to be flattened to eradicate the Nazis that hid among the civilians.
@Kieran Conroy: god bless the first openly gay President trump!
@Dave f Doe: your account Dave g Doe was banned last week and the tired jim one…
@Dave f Doe: pot kettle dope
They tryed everything to stop him and now he is dancing to YMCA. 4 years of lefties dancing to Trumps tune to begin
@common sense: And Biden was left-wing? learn your ideologies son
@common sense: dancing???? Embarrassing.
@common sense: Pretty woke of him all the same :)
@Colette Byrne: really embarrassing! He’s trying to look like he likes to have fun. Cringe!
@common sense: appropriate, now he’s first lady
He does know it’s a Gay icon song right?
@Robert: Trump gonna show the world what woke really means! Doesn’t need to please the traditionalist anymore ;)
@Thesaltyurchin: and what does Woke really mean? Enlighten us
@Robert:
So what.
@Robert: Trump was the first American president who wasn’t against gay marriage before taking office. Even St. Obama said he believed that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
@Chop Chop: Trump doesn’t believe in anything he has no principles on anything, he’s Amoral. He didn’t even have the character to attend the last innaugration he ran away like an obnoxious child
@Robert: Probably felt the result was illegitimate due to the massive election fraud. I wouldn’t have gone either.
@Chop Chop: Munt. You’re either being incredibly disingenuous or you’re genuinely unhinged. Either way you’re a dose.
@Robert: Well, you’re rude.
@Chop Chop: and you’re incredibly thick
@Dave f Doe: that’d be fun
@Chop Chop: The peaceful transfer of power is more important than his feelings. That he has never conceded despite never showing a shred of evidence in over 4 years is a problem.
@Robert: This is why you guys are losing. You’re close-minded, bad mannered, and extremely boring.
@Chop Chop: and?
@Philip Kennedy: I’m going to need a bit more than that, champ. And what?
@Robert: You have failed at sarcasm Bob.
@Robert:
Spoilt wingers who have from day one, being under the supervision of a adult. Who continue to expect others to solve their needs.
ie. LOSERS
@Thesaltyurchin: What does woke mean?
@Ciaran Murphy: It’s Ironic that he’s using this song, given the nature of it and the traditional values his followers look to uphold, I then took that irony and turned it into sarcasm… Woke is anything that flies in the face of what you could consider as ‘traditional’ or status quo.
So glad America saw sense, great times ahead.
. . “crack down on a woke ideology”. . . Now that is what we need
With a bunch of gay lads dancing on stage lol
Imagine if he had played this at the 2016 rally with Mike Pence……wonder would he be saying its all woke given the way that lad carried on with calling his missus mother and all that nonsense
Anyways will be interesting to see what donnie does in ukraine and how hes gonna deal with putin without making himself look bad. And when hes deporting legal migrants but musk and his mates are importing a few thousand for all them jobs americans arent smart enough to do. Its amazing how the america first talk has gone very quiet when u have two foriegn billionaires
Woke is over
Finally we see it as the PR ruse it was all along.
A nation of gowls
If I was a conscientious judge in America, I’d stop being concerned about applying the law impartially and just look out for my own neck now. The politicians have caved to the rich or to MAGA. The corporate media have mostly tried to monetise the political chaos. The voters keep screwing up. Why would a judge place themselves in danger to bail out everyone else who couldn’t do their jobs.
@Numinous20111: have you gotten any fresh air since Trump won the election
@Numinous20111: gibberish. Go back to bed
Why don’t you all just block trolls,
Why are they on e ery thread the same ones. @the journal please sort it.
@Dave f Doe:
just fu@king
id!ots like ewe.
If he does what he is saying I wonder would he come and take over Ireland .
Great that the Ukraine war will be over in the next 24 hours. He is a great man, I believe everything he says.
If they didn’t do the dance saying M-A-G-A, to the tune of YMCA, they missed a trick.
Be interesting to see if Trump intervenes in the Enoch Burke saga. Could you imagine the egg on Martins behind if Trump mentions Enoch at a St Pats event.
@AnthonyK: how on earth would he have any authority to intervene on that. He has no authority in Ireland whatsoever. Go back to bed mate get some rest
@AnthonyK: Ud swear burke is some kind of victim under house arrest or something, bloody hell stop making a lad who along with his family would happily have this country back in the hands of the church and its ways……then ud really see what woke would look like, Trump has already had 4 years of dealing with the burkes of this world in his last VP and knows when push comes to shove they aint worth doing much for
@Robert: Woke is dead Robert, time to put the frock away for a few years.
@Freda Peeple: religion is also dead but seems enoch and co dont seem to get that either. Woke and religion are the same cos its a bunch of numpties that believe its their way or no way at all.
@Freda Peeple: you don’t even know what the word means
@AnthonyK: Lol! Enoch does need an ‘intervention’ all the same.
@Patrick Newell:
Yea, but being told to make believe a bloke in a dress is now a women is more a biological question.
@Robert: Oh come on… lighten up.
Trump is good craic, its one of the reasons people like him.
Transgender inequality but can we solve the Enoch Burke problem.
@Willie Marty: the only one with the power to stop that is Enoch Burke
@Willie Marty: best thing burke can do is take himself and his family off to murica and find a nice town where many residents have 6 fingers, marry their sisters and then claim to be seriously religious all at the same time……he would have no issues then about his beliefs etc
@Patrick Newell:
From your description there.
Might be cheaper and less of a hassle to move to Kerry .
trump the elitist having his inauguration indoors, away from the great unwashed. He’ll throw them scraps during his unending presidency, and they’ll be grovelling for them.
@Fiona:
Actually he is holding the event in Doors because his followers are from the poor sections of America and can not afford warm clothing for an outdoor event unlike the wealthy.
Trump seems to like this ‘gay anthem’ quite a lot.
@Jack Hayes: very woke for the US to have a president who plays for both teams
The old saying you can fool some off the people most of time all off the people some off the time does not apply to the good ole US of deluded axx holes interesting times ahead methinks
I feel elated to see The Donald taking his place among the greatest people that ever lived. Joyous times. Good mover as well. Happy days.
Interesting times ahead
I hope that Trump speaks publicly in support of Enoch Burke, Michael Martin would shit in his trousers.
@Declan Young: how many accounts are ya using to post about this lad……newsflash: hes not that important!!!
@Declan Young: Why would Martin care?
@Declan Young: Burkes fellow Evangelicals, who form a large part of Trumps support base, have already disowned him. If you want to help Enoch, get him away from his mother, deprogram him and rescue him from the family cult she brainwashed him and his siblings into. Mental help is what he needs.
@Dermot Blaine: If you truly believe that, then you would have been against his lengthy incarceration. But I suspect that you didn’t give a damn.
Perhaps the real reason for Hamas giving back hostages as according to RTE, ” Trump, whose envoy joined the negotiations in Qatar, had warned of “hell to pay” if Hamas did not release its hostages before the inauguration.”
It’s a beautiful day. Would have been a better choice.
Trumpf is bi
This IS day one. Where are the orders.
First fail.
Pathetic to see Starmer brown nosing Trump for all he’s worth despite them being at opposing ideological ends of the scale. The tradition of the British lapdog is alive and well it seems.
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