Tag Archives: Inauguration Day

New York Magazine reports: Millions of people across the world marched on Saturday to show their support for women’s rights in response to the U.S. presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. Estimates from two university professors collected from local news outlets puts the number of U.S. marchers somewhere between three and four million, though estimating crowd size is notoriously inexact. Still, …

The Huffington Post reports: White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus went after the press Sunday for trying to “delegitimize” President Donald Trump, a man who spent years telling the country that Barack Obama was not constitutionally eligible to be president. “I’m saying there’s an obsession by the media to delegitimize this president, and we are not going to sit …

The Hill reports: President Donald Trump early Sunday touted television ratings for his inauguration, saying 11 million more people tuned in compared to four years ago. According to Nielsen data examined by Bloomberg, Trump’s ratings fell below those for the first inaugurations of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Obama’s 2009 inauguration had 7 million more viewers, the news …

Vox recaps: So it’s safe to say Trump won’t be happy with Saturday Night Live’s cold open. The show opened with a message from Beck Bennett’s Vladimir Putin speaking to the American public about how he rigged the election, quipping that America was the “most expensive thing we’ve ever bought.” But the sketch quickly shifted into Putin trolling Trump, by …

Talking Points Memo reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday accused the media of misrepresenting the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration in order to dampen enthusiasm for the event. “This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer said with emphasis. “Both in person and around the globe.” He accused the media of “deliberately false …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump is accusing the news media of lying about the size of the crowd that attended his inauguration. Addressing employees at CIA headquarters in Virginia, Trump wrongly said the crowd had stretched all the way to the Washington Monument in the middle of the National Mall. Photos taken of the Mall on Friday showed …

This morning I reported that the Trump administration had ordered all Department Of Interior bureaus to suspend tweeting after the National Park Service retweeted photos showing the sparse inauguration crowd on the National Mall. Here’s the internal email sent last night to their social media administrators: We have received direction from the Department through [the Washington Support Office] that directs …

Death & Taxes reports: In the days leading up to Donald Trump’s inauguration, the president-elect’s team made a big deal about the fact that Trump would be penning his own dark, anti-globalist inauguration address. Trump doesn’t need any fancy speech writers like that guy who came before him. He’s gonna buckle down and do everything himself, even if he possibly …

Rolling Stone recaps: Stephen Colbert delivered a long rundown of Inauguration Day Friday on the Late Show. “So that’s it. Donald Trump is president. He knows the launch codes, and he hasn’t tweeted them yet, so far so good,” the host said. The host joined with the social media masses mocking Trump’s overlong red tie that he wore on Inauguration …

The Washington Post reports: The Interior Department was ordered Friday to shut down its official Twitter accounts — indefinitely — after the National Park Service shared two unsympathetic tweets during President Trump’s inauguration. The first noted the new president’s relatively small inaugural crowd compared to the number of people former president Barack Obama drew to the National Mall when he …

As she arrived at the Capitol Building with former President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s official Twitter account issued the above message. Nearly one-third of House Democrats, more than 60 at last count, have elected not to attend the inauguration, but all Senate Democrats are there today.

Here’s the full schedule for the day: 8:30 a.m. — Trump and family leave Blair House for St. John’s Church 9:30 — Trump departs St. John’s for the White House 9:35 — Obamas welcome the Trumps at the North Portico, followed by a sit-down with coffee 10:03 — Announcements begin at the inauguration platform, including majority leaders (Dole, Frist and …

I’ll post a live-stream of the inauguration ceremonies shortly, but if you cannot bear to watch, below is a live-stream of YouTube’s popular Kitten Academy, a multi-camera feed starring energetic months-old fur babies and newborns. If the kittens are napping, you can rewind the feed up to four hours.

The Hill reports: Frank Sinatra’s daughter has a warning about President-elect Donald Trump reportedly choosing her father’s classic song, “My Way,” as the tune for his first dance as commander in chief. “Just remember the first line of the song,” Nancy Sinatra wrote to her more than 140,000 followers on Twitter on Wednesday night. The opening line in the 1969 …

From the New York Post: President-elect Donald Trump is being urged by some advisers to save at least one dance, as he celebrates his inauguration on Friday night, for a very special Republican lady — Caitlyn Jenner. “It’s a brilliant idea,” a member of the incoming administration told me. Besides mollifying the LGBTQ community — wary of conservative Republicans in …

Yeeeeaah. CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump has written his inauguration address draft himself, two senior Trump transition officials told CNN Tuesday. Last month, Trump told guests at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, that he planned to write the speech himself. On Wednesday, Trump on social media shared an image of him writing what …

Entertainment Weekly reports: Donald Trump says he’s happy many of Hollywood’s biggest stars will not attend his inauguration on Friday. “Many of the celebrities that are saying they’re not going, they were never invited,” Trump told Fox News’ Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning. “I don’t want the celebrities, I want the people. We have the biggest celebrities in the …

Loony tune Pam Geller and numerous right wing sites are breathlessly repeating this story from the right wing Washington Times: Donald Trump may have a point about paid protesters: Job ads running in more than 20 cities offer $2,500 per month for agitators to demonstrate at this week’s presidential inauguration events. Demand Protest, a San Francisco company that bills itself …

Popular YouTube comedian Randy Rainbow this morning posted a hilarious pretend interview with Tony and Grammy winner Jennifer Holliday, whom he grills about her initial decision to perform at the inauguration. Holliday canceled her performance on Saturday with a lengthy apology letter to the LGBT community. Watch below.

The Hill reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tweeted that approval rating polls are rigged against him, as a series of polls show him with historically low approval as he enters office. “The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before,” Trump wrote. A …