While everyone runs out to support or protest America’s new president, the best-kept secret of Washington remains the best-kept secret: No politician can be rightly judged on only campaign promises and threats, nor cheers and jeers from the masses. Until Trump has results to judge, any support and protest is a mere theater rating.
If background has any bearing on the future, the 19 months of Trump’s career have shown something unusual for a politician: a consistent message. That consistency has been tested more than any politician before him with constant objection at every turn, and he still has not changed his message, not even at his inauguration. And, the first executive orders he signed also stayed on message. So far, Trump has been consistent.
Trump protesters and supporters have a single, telling difference: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Trump supporters believe the bottom level of needs is in crisis (food, shelter, basic economics, physical safety); Trump protesters believe the middle levels are in crisis (social relations both foreign and domestic, emotional needs, individual identity); both believe it is a crisis that threatens America’s existence.
Before running for office, Trump fired people for not working hard or not correctly experienced for the specific job. His message and methods haven’t changed. Looking at the consistency in Trump, his supporters, and his protesters, the future will not go to arguers or defenders, but to the hard-working, no matter what their politics.
PHOTOS, STORY, SPEECH: Trump gets to work | Daily Mail
Donald Trump and the New American Patriotism | Free Beacon
PHOTO CORRECTION: Crowds at inauguration were bigger for Trump | Occupy Democrats Logic
PHOTO UPDATE: During event, not 6 hours before | Jimmy Reno
The changes Donald Trump has already made since he was sworn in as President | Independent
Here’s Everything Donald Trump Did During His First Day as President | TIME
On Day Two, Trump prayed, met the CIA and attacked the press | CNN
Trump Inspires Cheers, and Alarm, Around the World | NY Times
PHOTOS: One last lecture as he waves goodbye | Daily Mail
Obama’s final ride into a wet, foggy California night | WA Post
Trump 56%: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll | Rasmussen
Flashback
Obama, the loner president | WA Post
Before Inauguration
Democrats in the Wilderness | Politico
Flashback: Journalists Mocked Trump’s Announcement as a Joke | Newsbusters
Unprecedented threats drive Secret Service inauguration security | W Top
Ads in two dozen cities offer protesters up to $2,500 to agitate at Trump inaugural | WA Times
Obama’s first stop after Trump’s inauguration: Palm Springs | LA Times
After a war on leaks, Obama makes a U-turn, commutes Chelsea Manning’s sentence | McClatchy
Assange would agree to extradition if Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks says | Fox
Hungary set to turn screws on Soros-backed NGOs | Yahoo – AFP
Liberal Preppers Stock Up On Guns, Food As Trumpocalypse Looms | Vocativ
Obama rushes to fill dozens of federal jobs before leaving office | NY Post
Putin Defends Trump, Extols Russia’s Sex Workers As ‘Best in the World’ | NY Magazine
Florida man charged with making online threat against Trump | Miami Herald
Exit stage left: Lights go out on Biden as he talks of US ‘leadership’ in Davos speech (VIDEO) | RT
Obama scores the worst legislative record in history | WA Times
‘Justice has been served’: Obama defies storm of criticism over freeing Chelsea Manning | Daily Mail