'Trump inaugural speech hyper-nationalistic, warlike'
US President Donald Trump delivered a warlike and hyper-nationalist speech during his inauguration, a break with past inaugural addresses that may set the US on a dangerous path, political analysts say.
“His speech was basically exact same red meat bluster, hyper-partisan, hyper-nationalistic, hyper-populist, hyper-xenophobic speech that he gave from the very beginning of his campaign; it was not an inaugural address,” said Rodney Martin, a former congressional staffer based in Los Angeles.
Former American presidents “made an effort to give statesman-like inaugural addresses to reach across partisan lines and to attempt to bring the country together,” Martin told Press TV on Friday.
“It appears that Donald Trump going to approach his administration as always in fight mode and his inaugural address has set that tone; that’s a great disappointment to the country,” he added.
“The country will probably fracture more than it already has….and a fractured United States will be very dangerous because of the military might of the United States and the very dangerous people in the form of Zionist Jewish neocons and generals that Donald Trump has encircled himself with.”
Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on the steps of the US Capitol on Friday noon, during a momentous event that was marred by massive protests against his divisive rhetoric.
Even before Trump took the oath of office, thousands of protesters descended on Washington with a message for him: "You’re not my president."
Thousands also rallied in cities across the US to protest against Trump's presidency, condemning his presidential campaign rhetoric against Muslims, immigrants, women and other groups.
Trump said in recent days that he was inspired by the inaugural addresses of former presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. But there were few echoes of their poetic, uniting rhetoric in Trump’s address.
“This was not the speech of a conservative ideologue or of a Republican in any traditional sense,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. “It was a nativist and at times jingoistic speech.
William Kristol, a Jewish neoconservative political commentator, blasted Trump's inauguration speech in a Twitter rant Friday, labeling it as a "faux-tough guy performance" and attacking his declaration of "America first" as "depressing and vulgar."
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