'One million percent total insane': Critics pan Trump’s second inaugural speech
Donald Trump's inauguration speech was an outright insult both to the American people and the English language, as critics online painted it.
CNN commentator Maria Cardona weighed in on Trump's claim that California's wildfires were being allowed to spread “without even a token of defense.”
"What an insult to all the amazing firefighters who put their lives on the line to bring the LA fires under control! Trump starts out with a speech filled with massive lies, deceit, insults as he trashes the country to uplift his own deviance," she said on X.
AFJustice editor Zack Ford, on the other hand, pointed out some of the speech's grammatical errors and observed that "I don't think you can be 'far more exceptional.'"
He also noted Trump's ongoing ignorance about what "asylum" means. Trump has long believed that those seeking asylum are also those who come from insane asylums and are being sent to the U.S. Applying for asylum is a legal distinction for those leaving their countries under fear of persecution and under fears of serious human rights violations. They are refugees before the international community has recognized them as such, explained Amnesty International.
"Even in his scripted inauguration speech (Stephen Miller-written?), Trump is pushing the inane idea that asylum-seekers are coming from mental asylums," commented former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush noted Trump is already preparing to take credit for former President Joe Biden's work, "Many of the crises Trump has vowed to address (taming inflation, ridding cities of violent crime, building the world's most formidable military...) are already well on the way to be solved..."
CNN's Jim Acosta mentioned Trump's announcement the United States would take back the Panama Canal, and he wondered if this meant a war with Panama.
Reporter James Fallows called this Panama obsession "one million percent total insane bull s--t."
Mother Jones' Washington Bureau chief David Corn referred to the irony of Trump invoking "law and order" while speaking "in the spot where his violent brownshirts, incited by his lies, brutally assaulted law enforcement officers and injured 140 cops. It’s nuts."
Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro saw one inaugural photo of Trump pointing to Chief Justice John Roberts while shaking his hand. “Thanks Judge for the permission to commit crimes," Shapiro imagined Trump saying.
