Still above my paygrade
I’m watching the Trump inaugural. My doctors would not have advised this.
He’s just declared war on Panama, near as I can tell.
He’s also used the line about the Alien Enemies Act which I may have suggested in my previous post. I really hope I didn’t orginate that idea.
Oh, and the Star & Stripes on the planet Mars. Good grief.
Another speaker could make the terrible cliches work but not Trump. He could be reading Shakespeare or Rudyard Kipling and his voice would kill it.
Oh, the horrendous vanity of the man.
Oh, the hatred and contempt he expresses just by standing there.
“Our golden age has just begun.”
Oh, and he’s going ahead with The Gulf Of America idea.
Bow and tremble before the might of (the President of) America, you cartographers and geographers!
Asleep in Room3b 
Oddly, although I switched off at “Drill, baby, drill” I could see why he has such a big fan base. And, whatever else you can say, he was elected by popular vote and that is democracy for you, though it kills me…
There is a debate to be had about the manipulated nature of American votes, it’s inconsistency and the mess that is first-past-the-post but yes, as far as American Democracy goes, he had a victory if a slim and perhaps unstable one given the thin margin the Party has in the House.
I find his rhetorical skills lacking and the cliched and vengeful nature of his speech, nauseating. I also note that, just as in his campaigning, he never gives reasons for anything he says just asserts it and expects his faithful to know what he means.
So no, I don’t get the appeal.