1961: 86-year-old Robert Frost recites a poem from memory at JFK's inauguration... in 22 degree weather.
2025: 78-year-old Trump moves his inauguration indoors... because 22 degree temperatures are expected.
No one loves "big strong guys" as much as Donald Trump.
He would love to be as tough as Vladimir Putin, known for taking shirtless dips in icy Russian lakes in -22 F weather.
But, for all his psychopathic tendencies and mob boss ways, Trump is not a big, strong guy.
He's a weak, spineless coward.
In 1968, he faked bone spurs to avoid combat in Vietnam.
In 2024, he ran scared from a second debate with Kamala Harris.
At 78, he's old and frail.
He's not even man enough to bundle up and go outside in +22 F weather.
Monday's inauguration will be indoors because of the cold. Temperatures are expected to fall to 22 F, the same temperature recorded at JFK's 1961 inauguration.
At that event, Robert Frost, 86 years old and hatless, appeared in the frigid temperature intending to read a new poem, "Dedication."
In the bright sunlight, the poet couldn't see the printed words so he recited instead another poem, "The Gift Outright," entirely from memory.
On Monday, Teleprompter Trump will be keeping cozy inside as he gets sworn in for the second time.
It's the kind of namby-pamby decision that doesn't sit well with many MAGA supporters who, more than ready to brave the elements after traveling from places as far away as Oklahoma, are now told their tickets are worthless.
MAGA in DC just being told that Trump just said the inauguration will now be inside: “So we’re not gonna see it in person? I don’t like it. We came all the way from OK. We might as well stayed home & watched it on TV. It sucks. We have farms. We don’t get to not feed the cows cause it’s cold.”
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T22:33:54.130Z
But if moving the inauguration inside will make Trump seem more fragile than an elderly poet, at least it prevents the one emasculation he fears most.
After the humiliation of his teeny-tiny inauguration crowd size in 2017 (especially when compared to Obama's), Trump knew that cold weather had the potential to dramatically shrink Monday's attendance.
At least this way he won't have to endure the same kind of embarrassment he's lived with since 2017.
The inauguration will be a tiny affair for Trump and his billionaire buddies.
For the MAGA voters he's leaving out in the cold, the most excitement they can expect is the sight of a Trump-branded garbage truck.
Which is probably the best way to prepare them for the dumpster fire that lies ahead.
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