Presidential Historian: Trump’s Speech a 'Direct Indictment of Obama & Status Quo'

[rangerrebew]

Presidential Historian: Trump’s Speech a 'Direct Indictment of Obama & Status Quo'

 

(CNSNews.com) – Presidential historian Craig Shirley [1] characterized President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address [2] as “a direct indictment of [President] Obama and the status quo” and “a declaration of war” against the Washington establishment.

In the 16-minute speech Trump delivered on Friday after he was sworn-in as the nation’s 45th president, he said that his inauguration was “not merely the transfer of power from one administration to another, and from one party to another.

 
Source URL: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/presidential-historian-trumps-inaugural-address-was-declaration

[Sanguine]

Um, yes, it was, Mr. Shirley.

[rangerrebew]

Wow, doesn't believe in the status quo.  How awful.

[Right_in_Virginia]

From the article:

“Trump’s speech blended FDR’s Forgotten Man, [Ronald] Reagan’s conservatism, [Andrew] Jackson’s populism and [Charles] Lindberg’s America First,” said Shirley, a biographer of former President Ronald Reagan. “But there was also a generous helping of compassion. It was a direct indictment of Obama and the status quo.

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“It was very focused on the average American, not the elites or politicians. He basically ignored all those elite folks sitting behind him. It was for people who really want the country to turn 180 degrees in the other direction.”



http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/

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[skeeter]

Wow, doesn't believe in the status quo.  How awful.

That seems to be the opinion of a few in some surprising quarters.

[endicom]

Um, yes, it was, Mr. Shirley.

And do call him Shirley.