President Donald Trump’s inauguration was a strange one: the crowd was tiny, the celebrities were missing, and Donald Trump’s own address after being sworn in sounded anything but traditional. Even still, during Trump’s speech, he did say a lot of things that most people could support. Provided you believe Trump will follow through on his promises, something that, time and time again, has proven to be nearly impossible to do.
One example of something Trump has based a lot of his campaign rhetoric around is supporting a domestic work force. Trump has brought it up several times during his campaign that supporting American workers and American jobs will be a top priority of his administration. He made sure to remind the crowd of this promise during his inauguration speech and also tweeted it out this morning:
We will follow two simple rules: BUY AMERICAN & HIRE AMERICAN!#InaugurationDay #MAGA??
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2017
Despite all of Trump’s bluster, one of his new colleagues noticed something peculiar about Trump’s arguments and the merchandise people where hawking for his campaign during the inauguration celebration. Here’s what Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) tweeted out not long after Trump’s “rules” came out:
GOP colleague let me see his Trump hat. It was made in China. Awkward given Trump's #BuyAmerican pledge. All talk no action? #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/dIfHNHwYap
— Rep. Cheri Bustos (@RepCheri) January 20, 2017
The “all talk no action” line from Bustos is an especially clever pick, throwing Trump’s comments from a week ago back into his face:
Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2017
mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2017
Those two tweets were directed at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) after Lewis claimed he would not attend Trump’s inauguration because he did not see him as our legitimate president. Eventually, over 50 Democrats joined Lewis in boycotting the inauguration, many doing so only after Trump threw his childish insults at the civil rights hero.
This is not the first time that Trump has been called out for claiming to support American business and workers despite evidence to the contrary. Maybe now that he is President, Trump can start to follow through on his promises?
Probably not.
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