Mosheh Oinounou
speaker
432 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Also there are the Apple CEO, Tim Cook, the Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, the TikTok boss, Shouze Chu, the OpenAI CEO, Sam Allman, again, sitting in the row in front of the cabinet, like Marco Rubio had a worse seat than Jeff Bezos, if you looked behind him. Also notable, a number of top donors, Mary Madelson, the casino magnate, wife of Sheldon Adelson, who passed away.
Mary Madelson, I think, gave more than $100 million, if not closer to $200 million, for the campaign here. So she had a very prominent seat there. Now, we've always seen sort of prominent CEOs and business leaders potentially attend inaugurations here, but never seated like this, this prominently.
In that cabinet row, you did see the number of cabinet nominees there, including those were still waiting for a hearing, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pam Bondi was nominated for AG, Kash Patel nominated for FBI director, Doug Burgum, among several others there.
And then there were like the overflow rooms in the Capitol where even governors and spouses of members of Congress, etc., were seated there. And then Trump went to go visit with them. But the fact that these tech CEOs, some of these donors, et cetera, were in the room where it happened, pretty remarkable given that there was just a couple hundred of them in there.
A reminder, we haven't seen an indoor ceremony like this since 1985, since the second Reagan inaugural. You noted the cold temps. Jill, you know, it was cold, but like, was it as cold as Obama was in 09? Sure. It is leading to questions as to whether crowd size was really the issue here, given that a number of hotels were not even fully booked here.
And so whether, you know, we had mentioned security is a potential issue. Haven't seen more on that. A crowd size weighing potentially here on Trump, even though he won't admit it openly, you know, especially given how cold it is. How many people were he going to have on the mall? We know how important crowd size is to him.
There were the comparisons between the Obama inaugural and the first Trump. This is now the second Trump. There wasn't that much buzz. The feeling even among Republicans and Trump supporters as I spoke to him was like, yeah, this is probably a crowd size thing.
Yeah, I mean, presidents have a choice to do wherever they want in the world. You know, like, you're the president. This is your inauguration. Where would you like to hold it? So he made the choice on Friday to move it inside, noting the weather. But certainly there are folks who believe weather wasn't the only issue as far as this. And Trump really had a unique day yesterday.
We haven't seen an inauguration like this again in 40 years. And then he went to the arena and addressed fans where he then signed executive orders in front of them. It was an interesting contrast, though, that ceremony. You know, Trump officially is the oldest person to be inaugurated as president. He's actually several months older than Biden was four years ago.
And then in contrast, you had a 40-year-old J.D. Vance, the third youngest ever VP in American history, behind Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon when Nixon was Eisenhower's VP before. So he was there, you know, he had his daughter behind him, adorably like sucking her thumb. Like he's got a very young family. He's only 40 years old. So a notable contrast there.
The man who's a heartbeat away from the presidency happens to be the third youngest, whereas the president technically the oldest to ever take the oath of office.
more power to Carrie Underwood there. Some artists might not have been willing to do it, but she knows her voice. She knows she has her voice and she did an incredible rendition.
None of them feel warmly about Trump. Some who literally, you know, Hillary snickered at times and some of the things Trump was saying in his speech. Now she's had to watch him get inaugurated twice after losing the presidency. But nonetheless, this feeling, despite everything that was said during the campaign trail, despite saying this guy's a fascist, he's going to ruin democracy.
They were all there, minus Michelle Obama, who stayed in Hawaii. As I mentioned, the camera would pan at times to Biden and former VP Kamala Harris a lot during the speech. They were cordial. They clapped at times. Smile stood when crowd stood. Nonetheless, got to be zoning at a time like that. Right. Just being like, oh, my God, I can't believe what I'm watching before.
You know, Kamala Harris thinking she could have beat him. I mean, Biden still said in interviews as recently as last week, I totally could have beaten this guy. and made part of his legacy, like, you know, ensuring that Trump would not return to the White House again. So a lot of probably complex thoughts happening in their mind as this goes on.
And then you do see like Trump's smile and the smiles of his family, the feeling from them that they're back. Watching George W. Bush sort of has that 10-year-old boy energy at a family event at times, like just making weird facial expressions, et cetera. It's like watching Prince Louis out in the U.K.,
He's W. He's W. As I mentioned, Hillary Clinton cracked up specifically when Trump announced he was renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. She could not help herself but to laugh to the point where I think Bill looked over at her. towards the end being like, all right, you know.
We knew this part was coming. We knew this part was coming. And then the revival of the tradition, the Bidens walking out of the Capitol, the Trumps and the Vance's waving at them as they flew off in the Marine One helicopter, though it was not called Marine One because he's the former president. It's like a special air mission something.
And then he got to take the presidential jet to California where they're staying out there. And it just so happens that Biden is staying at the estate of a billionaire Democratic donor out there in Santa Ynez, California. And that's all she wrote for Joe Biden for now.
So, Jill, I don't know what he's talking about, the crying. I've never seen Adam Kinzinger cry.
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