“Say, this Trump is a fast worker. Even on a Monday Holiday… this President called Congress in extra session, and that’s not all he is going to call ’em either if they don’t get something done.”
That quote (with a couple of substitutions) was written by Will Rogers right after Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1933 (DT #2055, March 6).
We talk about the first 100 days of a presidency. For Trump, it’s more like 100 hours. Pardons, deporting dangerous illegal immigrants, changing names on maps, tariffs, eliminating DEI, AI infrastructure, visits to North Carolina and Los Angeles, and at least 100 of other Executive orders.
Speaking of pardons, both Biden and Trump are getting hammered. Biden pardoned his whole family, apparently including 6 (or 7) grandchildren, plus a few murderers. His “pre-pardon” of a few other politicians has people wondering what they are guilty of and if we need some restrictions on presidential pardons.
Trump quickly pardoned everyone convicted in the January 6, 2021, charge into the Capitol, and a lot of old folks who were jailed for protesting at abortion clinics. I think he should have been more selective with the J-6 riot leaders; a few probably deserved to still be in jail. My advice to everyone who has received a “controversial pardon” is to go home, be thankful, and stay quiet.
I got an update from my friend with the four fancy gowns and patriotic boots. She got to wear three of the gowns as she and her husband danced at the All-American Ball on Saturday night, the Texas Ball on Sunday, and the Military Ball with Rally4Vets after the Inauguration on Monday night. The Texas Ball drew 6000 and she said, “The sparkling cowboy boots fit right in with the sparkle and shine and the patriotic theme. It was a night where Democrats and Republicans celebrated ‘Patriotism before Politics.’” Say, that’s a good theme for all of us.
Fires are still burning in California. And the ears of a few political leaders are burning after being grilled by President Trump. To paraphrase an exchange, Mayor Bass said, Red tape has been cut, and residents in Pacific Palisades can start to clean up their house sites in a week. Trump replied, A week? Let ‘em start tomorrow! (See the two quotes below about California water and calamities.)
The Kansas City Chiefs will play in the Super Bowl for the third straight time, on Feb. 9. Their opponent is the Philadelphia Eagles (or as the Mayor spells it, E-G-S-E-S).
Historic quotes by Will Rogers:
“We’re up here taking scenes on the river [for the movie, Steamboat Round the Bend]. We’re working on the Sacramento River. And we could have worked on the Los Angeles River, but they’d have had to haul the water too far.” Radio, May 19, 1935
“We had an earthquake… You see the Lord in his justice works everything on a handicap basis. California having the best of everything else must take a slice of the calamities. Even my native Oklahoma — the Garden of Eden of the West — has a cyclone… New York with its splendors has its Wall Street, and Washington, the world’s most beautiful city, has a lobbyist crawling out to attack you from every manhole. So every human and every place is equal after all.” DT #2060, March 12, 1933