The Guardian (January 24)
“Waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was like watching a tsunami gather force. Everyone could see the threat approaching. But its scale was still shocking as it hit land, and what damage it wreaks will ultimately take months and years to determine.”
Tags: Damage, Determine, Force, Inauguration, Months, Scale, Shocking, Threat, Trump, Tsunami, Waiting, Wreaks, Years
Motley Fool (January 21)
“While Wall Street has been given plenty of reason to be excited about President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s also making ominous stock market history—and it should have investors concerned.” Prior to his inauguration, the S&P 500’s Shiller P/E was at 38.11, marking “the highest reading for an incoming president dating back to January 1871,” the earliest comparable data point. During that same 154-year timeframe, the average Shiller P/E was 17.19. “Inheriting one of the priciest stock markets in history might pave the way for a bear market or short-lived crash during his second term.”
Tags: 1871, Bear market, Crash, Inauguration, Investors, Ominous, Priciest, S&P 500, Second term, Shiller P/E, Stock market, Trump
Washington Post (January 20)
“Big Tech’s power surge” was on clear display at Donald Trump’s inauguration. The event was also “an inauguration of the oligarchs, the billionaires’ ball come to Washington. Donald Trump did everything but invite the tech moguls to join him in taking the oath.” In a “revealing” scene, the moguls had “prime dais seating inside the cozy Rotunda while lawmakers and governors and other luminaries were relegated to watching on screens.”
Tags: Big tech, Billionaires, Governors, Inauguration, Lawmakers, Luminaries, Moguls, Oath, Oligarchs, Power surge, Relegated, Rotunda, Trump, Washington
New York Times (January 22)
“Donald Trump’s inauguration heralds a new age of arrogance and says something sad and scary.” Trump is “a preening cartoon. He brags like he breathes. It’s autonomic. And he gloats the way our parents and teachers always told us not to.” His inauguration marks nothing less than the death of humility.
Washington Post (January 22)
On Monday, President Obama’s second inauguration ceremony was held, coinciding with Martin Luther King Day. The crowds were smaller than four years ago, but this deeply significant event was still one of the best attended second inaugurations. “It’s easy for Americans to take for granted their quadrennial renewal of democracy, the peaceful acceptance by the losing side that knows, for certain, it will have another chance. Monday’s ritual reminds us to celebrate this inevitability, which people in many other countries can only envy.”
Tags: Democracy, Inauguration, Martin Luther King Day, Obama, U.S.
