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Just watched the inauguration - It's now official, watch out 
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/20/510629447/watch-live-president-trumps-inauguration-ceremony
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Theresa May is meeting him next week. She will be the first leader he has met since becoming president.
All I can say is ....she needs to put personal feelings to the back of her mind. She is working on behalf of our country and hopefully knows how to 'play the game'. 
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Anyone with an ounce of decency in their body knows that Trump is a charlatan who is only in this for his own personal gain. There are many things he says he's going to do but can't. In particular, repeal Obamacare. It is law, and it will take an act of Congress to repeal it. It cannot be repealed by a swoop of Trump's pen. In the same way, he cannot withdraw from NATO. He can talk about doing that, but he really doesn't understand the intricacies of government. He hasn't studied it, and he's extremely ignorant, so he will now have to learn that being President doesn't mean you can do whatever you want to do. Being the game show host that he is, he's concerned about 'ratings', and if he took a look out his window yesterday, or turned the television on, he would have seen that there are a lot of people who are extremely unhappy that he is President. If what he said in his speech was true about giving the country back to the people, then the people will take whatever power he thinks he has away from him. If the Republicans in Congress want to keep their jobs, and there are many who face re-election in two year's time and are not all on Trump's side, they will not allow him to railroad our democracy.
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Sir Ian McKellen (an actor I admire greatly) was at one of the rallies in London He found this banner and had a lot to say.
"The Women’s March in London was the longest I have been on. Unlike most demonstrations it was not commandeered by any one group with its identical posters.
The Women and their allies had devised their own visual protests, hand-written and improvised at home, expressing their personal reaction to the new president, whose name in schoolyard English means “to break wind” appropriately.
The placard of Sir Patrick, by the way, was not my own – I found it at the end of the March in Trafalgar Square. There were hundreds of others.
President Breaking Wind has impacted us all; and personally. Some like him, think they can identify with him, believe him because they’ve seen him on television perhaps and think the billionaire and his billionaire team are truly their friends. The rest of us, including the majority of voters in USA, see through the charade: after all, the schtick is not exactly subtle. But he’s riled us, got under our skin, making us angry and despairing that he should have got through to the final of his show and turned democracy into a TV/Twitter spectacular.
What will happen? No doubt his believers will be soon disillusioned. The rest of us cannot let him reign unchallenged. The Marches worldwide were a good beginning. Some who fear him say “give the man a chance”. OK – he’s started by removing LGBTQ people, climate change and state funding of the arts from POTUS’s website. He’s had his chance"
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An out and out buffoon who has surrounded himself with people who are equally stupid, who pamper to his beliefs and back him until they either impeach or assassinate him. The latest stupid comments that the press will be held accountable has quite possibly alienated the very people who he needs on his side. Not one of his staff have a clue how things work in American politics. I just hope the real people with power, the Senate, will step in very quickly to rid us of this evil little man.
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2 days in and still fighting with the media. If this continues they will destroy him. Good.
His press secretary Sean Spicer arguing inauguration figures.... After saying there were no official figures.
In other words he is saying everyone must be blind (and stupid)
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Yes @Cleoriff the Trump administration think everyone is blind and stupid. They take their lead from Trump who thinks he can hoodwink his supporters into thinking he is a man of the people. Oh are they in for a rude awakening.
Of course, there are official figures of the inauguration crowd. Trump doesn't want to admit just how hated he is. And as for his Press Secretary Sean Spicer what a bufoon. You don't treat the White House Press with the contempt he did and live long in the job.
Of course, there are official figures of the inauguration crowd. Trump doesn't want to admit just how hated he is. And as for his Press Secretary Sean Spicer what a bufoon. You don't treat the White House Press with the contempt he did and live long in the job.
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I have a better picture than the one I posted above. Taken from the Bohemian Rhapsody website.....
