God, the back-again US president and pliant princes from Silicon Valley are the new Trumpian trinity.
According to Washington folklore, it was Ronald Reagan, that one-time master of political stagecraft, who altered the location of the inaugural ceremony from the east portico of the US Capitol to the west so that he could look out towards his beloved California. The truth is less romantic. Months before Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election, a congressional committee made the switch.
Never should we forget – though US allies, such as the traditionally deferential Australia, are turning a blind eye – that the returning president, as he calls them, convicted or charged in connection with January 6 instantly became a defining act. With a flourish of his Sharpie pen, he defamed both the US criminal justice system and American democracy.
Unlike his first administration, the White House will be packed with true believers. So far, the most attention-grabbing voice of resistance has come from a woman of God, the right, who implored Trump from her pulpit to show mercy and who seemed to be suggesting Jesus was not a MAGA blowhard.His second inaugural address was fractionally less dark than his first, when he painted a graffiti-strewn picture of “American carnage”. Our ears have become more attuned to his bombast.
It is precisely the fusion of Trump’s disruptive politics and the tech bros’ disruptive algorithms that make this moment feel so unsettling and epoch-making. At a Trump rally held after the inauguration, Musk jumped around the stage as if attending his own Silicon Valley product launch, and ominously made what some thought looked. With Musk earmarked for West Wing office space, Trump might well end up being a moderating influence within his own administration, a startling prospect.
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