Inauspicious Inauguration

While Life in the Boomer Lane was writing a blog post she intended to unveil on Monday that had nothing to do with DJT, a headline galloped across her screen informing her that, because of extreme cold, the upcoming inauguration would be held indoors. Wow, she said to herself, way cool. (Huge pun here, right?).

But, LBL, being a still-breathing relic of mid-twentieth century technology, has been witness to lots of inaugurations that were much colder. In 1960, JFK’s inauguration saw a wind chill of 7 degrees. That manly man didn’t even wear a coat. Other Presidents have been sworn in outside in far colder weather than the bordering-on-balmy-24-degrees that’s predicted for Inauguration Day.

Then, to make things even more bizarre, she learned that it’s NOT A LAW that the inauguration has to be in DC! The inauguration can be anywhere! It can be at Mar-A-Lago! The entire population of Florida could pack their heat-of-choice (This is not a pun) and show up in tee shirts, shorts and flip flops!

She is seriously stumped. Trump, after violating every single law and rule of etiquette ever devised in the history of the planet (as well as those laws and rules of etiquette planned for the forseeable future), for some reason agrees to stay in DC for the inauguration AND to move the ceremony inside.

This is inexplicable. No, this is seriously and shockingly inexplicable. How can he fit the expected 27 million people (a number predicted by both Truth Social and Mein Kamph ) inside the tiny Rotunda? What about the giant banners, proclaiming “The Son of God is Now the Father of Our Country!” And how will Elon Musk have one of his planes fly overhead and release millions of dollar bills, printed with his face next to Washington’s, over the salivating spectators?

Having MAGAMAN’s Inauguration hidden away like this seems like a sad little footnote to the memorable events that led up to this event. But wait! Could it possibly be that the expected crowds are not quite what his handlers had hoped for? Could the “record numbers of requests” actually mean “record low numbers?” Alas, we will never find out. We will simply have to wait until Fox declares that “there were even more millions, if possible, of patriots in the Rotunda on Inauguration Day than there were a year ago during the Great Patriot Swarming of the Capitol 2024!”

Happy January 20 to all, whatever that means to you.