Trump 2.0

By Olivia Pierson
First published on the Goodoil 23/01/2025

I can’t get over the acute difference between Trump’s 2017 inauguration and what has just taken place in DC this week. To see a president, such as he is, so welcomed with full fanfare and proper respect was nothing but a high. This almost super-human man has been through hell in order to save the republic of his birth, and this time America gave him all his well-earned dues.
 
There remained a ton of handwringing and pearl clutching over on CNN’s coverage of events, especially concerning the pardons of the J6 hostages, and they will continue to hate much of what Trump sets about to do in this second term, but at least they now have respect for the fact that he is indeed the President and they are highly conscious of the overwhelming mandate the country has given him.
 
Within two minutes of Trump taking his oath, the Southern border points of entry began closing. The popular CBP One app, which migrants use to book appointments and gain entry, was cancelled immediately. Since 2023, the app has allowed for 1450 migrants per day to present themselves at a port of entry and seek asylum through the immigration courts. It was cancelled with 30,000 appointments in waiting, according to the New York Times. 

By nightfall, many of the J6 hostages had been freed from prison, including the chair of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, who was not even at the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, but was slapped with a “seditious conspiracy” charge for his “far-right activism”, resulting in a disgusting 22-year prison sentence from Biden’s justice department. Let it be forever said that the only threat to democracy never came from Trump, but from the outgoing Democrat administration, as close to a dictatorship in America that we’ve ever seen. But thankfully they’re history now and the party has suicided. They will have to soul search and learn a thing or two about decency to become a serious part of America’s future again.

Trump’s triumphant return to the White House proves that the people have rejected Banana Republicanism. What was particularly beautiful during his inaugural speech in the rotunda was that Trump got to totally sock it to them while Hillary, Bill, Obama, Kamala, Biden and George Bush had to sit there and just take the unvarnished truth, while the world watched on and listened.

Exceptionalism is back and with it comes a much-needed sense of romanticism, which is to say a sense of what is possible: an elegant First Lady with a jaw-dropping flair for aesthetics, to say nothing of a good heart, a First Family who clearly love each other and aren’t obsessed with base sexual depravity, paedophilia or smoking crack. The entire Trump family radiantly shone as their beloved patriarch was ceremoniously installed into power once more.

The overwhelming themes of the inauguration were serious competence, true justice and real joy – who could ever forget the priceless sight of the president dancing his trademark shuffle to “YMCA” and waving a sword around a giant cake while his gorgeous wife and handsome VEEP looked on with amusement at this powerful man’s victorious hijinx? I know I never will. 



Woke died. DEI died. Illegal immigration invasion died. Corruption got put on notice. Political weaponisation was exposed. The scales of justice were rebalanced.
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There’s still a long way to go to bring full sunlight to what has been a very dark time and I do not believe the last-minute pre-emptive pardons issued to Fauci, members of the Biden crime family and the J6 committee will be as impervious to justice as the Democrats hope they will be. The stench of corruption and guilt that they signify is just too foul to ignore.