Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1126 ｜ I’m in DC. The Post-Inauguration Atmosphere Is UNREAL

00:00:00.520 Trump is the 47th president of the United States, y'all.

00:00:04.500 We are so excited.

00:00:05.860 We are going to be looking back at the inauguration ceremony

00:00:08.840 as well as some of the executive orders that Trump is signing.

00:00:13.600 We will also be looking at some amazing fashion choices

00:00:17.400 over the past couple of days.

00:00:19.080 We've got a great, fun, exciting episode for you today

00:00:24.260 as we celebrate this historic moment.

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00:00:51.700 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:54.140 Happy Tuesday.

00:00:54.880 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:57.460 If you're watching this on YouTube,

00:00:58.640 you can see it's a little bit different than usual.

00:01:00.920 I've got the Washington Monument behind me

00:01:02.840 as well as the Capitol.

00:01:04.260 I am in Washington, D.C.

00:01:06.740 celebrating the first week of Trump's second presidency.

00:01:10.580 I am so excited.

00:01:12.600 If you are not in D.C.,

00:01:14.640 then just trust us when we say that this is a shift.

00:01:18.100 It's a shift in energy.

00:01:19.200 And I don't mean that in some weirdo new age spiritual sense.

00:01:23.060 I'm talking about a literal shift in energy.

00:01:26.220 You've got the people out here, whether it's in the streets or in the restaurant,

00:01:29.400 in the museums, and they are just so excited and enthusiastic about Trump and the new era that we are in now.

00:01:39.400 I wanted this episode today to come out a little bit early because I am recording it on Monday,

00:01:44.480 and there is a lot happening even right now as I am recording,

00:01:49.200 and I don't want to get too behind on the news.

00:01:51.420 So just know that, that I am recording this on Monday afternoon,

00:01:54.960 and President Trump is going to Capital One Arena to give his speech

00:02:00.080 and apparently to sign several executive orders in front of 20,000 Americans.

00:02:07.080 And so we may not be able to give you the most up-to-date stuff on that particular thing right now.

00:02:14.040 But don't worry, we will catch up by the end of the week.

00:02:16.800 If you listen to Relatable, you will know everything that you need to know.

00:02:19.780 But let me back up and talk about how this transition of power has looked over the past few days.

00:02:27.580 And we'll also talk about fun stuff like inaugural balls and outfits and all of those good things.

00:02:33.660 But first, let's start with Biden's farewell.

00:02:36.720 So this was before the inauguration.

00:02:42.560 Let's see, this was yesterday.

00:02:44.560 Is today?

00:02:45.420 Yes, this was yesterday.

00:02:46.580 He tweeted this, which I just found to be very odd.

00:02:49.780 He said, Scripture says, I have been young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken.

00:02:59.360 This is Psalm 3725.

00:03:01.840 Also, this is a small detail.

00:03:03.660 I do think it's weird that, like, why doesn't he just say what the reference is?

00:03:08.920 Why Scripture says, Psalm 3725.

00:03:11.960 By the way, it's one of my favorite chapters.

00:03:13.620 If you listen to Relatable, you have heard me quote it many, many times.

00:03:16.540 After all these years serving you, he said in this ex post, the American people, I have not seen the righteous forsaken.

00:03:24.060 I love you all.

00:03:25.160 May you keep the faith and may God bless you all.

00:03:28.380 The reason I think this is weird is because it is so vague.

00:03:31.520 I would love to know his expository explanation of this particular verse used.

00:03:38.160 Who is the righteous in this case?

00:03:41.700 And what is he saying that God is going to do on their behalf?

00:03:45.680 I don't want to slam this too much because I know that he's trying to give a message of hope.

00:03:50.900 And again, if this somehow directs people to read Psalm 37, which is a beautiful promise of hope for the chosen ones of God, those who have been adopted by him through Christ, but used in a political sense.

00:04:05.280 I'm not sure the context really works here.

00:04:08.920 Biden is gone.

00:04:10.320 He is now a private citizen.

00:04:11.740 And not to fast forward on our timeline too much, I'm trying to keep it chronological.

00:04:15.960 He is on vacation now in the state of California.

00:04:19.000 I don't think he's going to be stopping by the LA area to check on the wildfire damage.

00:04:23.900 I think he'll go somewhere else, but he is now on a trip.

00:04:27.120 He is on vacation.

00:04:28.160 He is no longer the president of the United States.

00:04:31.160 Thank the Lord.

00:04:33.040 So this was a historic inauguration for many reasons.

00:04:37.040 One of them was the location.

00:04:39.300 The location was in a different spot than it's been in most of our inaugurations.

00:04:44.740 It was moved inside.

00:04:46.840 So this is what president Trump said on truth social.

00:04:51.060 He said, it is my obligation to protect the people of our country.

00:04:54.660 But before we even begin, we have to think of the inauguration itself.

00:04:58.600 The weather forecast for Washington DC with a wind chill factor could take temperatures into severe record lows.

00:05:05.140 There is an Arctic blast sweeping the country.

00:05:07.820 I don't want to see people hurt or injured in any way.

00:05:11.780 Therefore, I have ordered the inauguration address in addition to prayers and other speeches to be delivered in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985.

00:05:22.220 Also, because of very cold weather.

00:05:26.220 It is very cold.

00:05:27.680 If you look behind me, the water is all frozen.

00:05:30.980 It is very cold.

00:05:32.120 There's still a lot of people out and about.

00:05:33.920 This was unfortunate for people who had tickets to the inauguration.

00:05:38.260 They were hoping to brave the weather and sit outside and watch this because the number of people who were able to attend was reduced by a lot, by thousands and thousands.

00:05:50.440 Obviously, you can see the picture of this rotunda.

00:05:52.780 It's a lot smaller than outside.

00:05:54.320 So this was a very intimate setting.

00:05:57.320 Reportedly, some people who attended, like Congress people, weren't even able to bring their spouses.

00:06:03.180 And so very few people.

00:06:04.680 And then the Capital One arena is where tens of thousands of people will be attending.

00:06:10.320 I say will as I'm recording this on Monday to see President Trump give yet another speech.

00:06:17.420 I actually thought that it was beautiful.

00:06:19.620 We'll get more into that in a second.

00:06:21.060 I felt that maybe inauguration ceremonies should always be in the rotunda.

00:06:26.740 It just seemed very official.

00:06:28.480 I was also very impressed just logistically how staff was able to do this turnaround so quickly, not only clean up the area where the inauguration ceremony was going to be, but to turn this into the beautiful ceremonial place that it was.

00:06:46.680 I was very amazed by that.

00:06:48.820 Let's back up a little bit, though, because I do want to talk about outfits.

00:06:53.140 And to talk about outfits, I can't start at the inauguration.

00:06:56.320 I have to start the night before the inauguration.

00:06:59.140 Then we'll get in to the stunning outfit choices of the women of this administration. 1.00

00:07:06.380 So if we back up to Saturday, January 18th, this was when I when I saw this post on X, I was like, this is the vibe shift.

00:07:14.760 This is the shift in culture.

00:07:17.120 This is a perfect signifier of that.

00:07:19.180 You had the Oscar de la Renta X account post two pictures of Usha Vance, the incoming second lady.

00:07:26.480 Now she is the second lady. 1.00

00:07:27.520 But at the time, incoming second lady. 1.00

00:07:30.160 Oscar de la Renta account said this incoming second lady, Usha Vance, wears a custom noir velvet gown with asymmetric floral accents and a sweetheart neckline for the vice president's dinner. 1.00

00:07:41.260 Uh, she looks amazing. 0.63

00:07:43.880 She looks incredible.

00:07:46.060 But the reason why I find this so significant is because just a few years ago, you had these major fashion houses, these sophisticated brands wanting nothing to do with Melania Trump, a literal supermodel first lady.

00:08:00.940 That was a big complaint while she was first lady that she was snubbed by Vogue and by all of these other magazines that have always glamorized and glorified first ladies like Michelle Obama or Jill Biden. 0.98

00:08:16.580 But we have this supermodel and you're not going to put her on the cover of your magazine. 1.00

00:08:22.120 It's very strange.

00:08:23.220 So the fact that Oscar de la Renta, that this brand was willing to not only make this custom gown for Usha Vance, but also to post about it.

00:08:32.420 So they didn't even just do it secretly or quietly.

00:08:34.980 They wanted everyone to know they were proud of that.

00:08:37.760 That is very different than eight years ago.

00:08:41.040 I would say different than even four years ago.

00:08:43.900 And then on Sunday, people were talking about what Melania was wearing at the wreathling ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier that Trump and Vance were participating in.

00:08:52.700 And she wore a black Dior cape coat, black gloves, black Christian Louboutin boots.

00:08:56.940 That's kind of her staple.

00:08:58.600 And people were remarking how chic she looked.

00:09:03.780 And then, okay, we got to get into the outfits at the actual inauguration.

00:09:09.820 And some of you are thinking, does this really matter?

00:09:12.180 And the answer is no.

00:09:13.700 In the grand scheme of things, this does not really matter.

00:09:16.440 This is not consequential.

00:09:17.980 It's not really going to have an effect on your life, but it's fun.

00:09:21.660 It's fun.

00:09:22.220 And for the past four years, we've had nothing fun to look at when it comes to Joe and Jill Biden and the things that they wear.

00:09:27.780 And so I think it matters.

00:09:29.440 You can fast forward to the part about the executive orders if you only want to focus on that.

00:09:34.180 But we've got to get into Melania's hat.

00:09:37.020 And I have something maybe controversial to say about that in just a second.

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00:11:13.560 Okay, so before the inauguration, Biden greeted Trump at the White House.

00:11:18.700 So this is before we get into the fashion, saying, welcome home.

00:11:23.720 So this was Biden's warm greeting to Donald Trump in this transfer of power.

00:11:28.860 Here's that one.

00:11:29.440 Okay, welcome home.

00:11:57.500 Great handshake there.

00:11:59.520 Very friendly, very neighborly. 0.89

00:12:01.920 I just think that it's strange that for the past four years plus we have been hearing Biden say that Trump is a fascist, that he is very similar to Hitler,

00:12:12.500 and that if he wins, that is going to be the end of American democracy, that's going to be the end of freedom.

00:12:18.960 Women are not going to have rights anymore. 1.00

00:12:20.840 He is going to trample upon equality and that we basically have no future with Donald Trump.

00:12:27.240 You'll remember when he gave that speech against the blood red soaked wall behind him that was lit up red,

00:12:38.040 and he was flanked by members of our military, and he gave this very dark speech while he was president,

00:12:45.380 talking about MAGA extremists that are led by Donald Trump, and that this is the biggest threat to Western democracy and freedom that our world had ever seen,

00:12:58.640 the biggest threat that our country had ever seen.

00:13:02.220 And, like, we have a very riddled history with lots of different kinds of injustice.

00:13:08.220 So, like, worse than the Ku Klux Klan, worse than those who were fighting for slavery, MAGA extremists who vote for Donald Trump.

00:13:19.180 That's who Donald Trump, who we were told that he was.

00:13:23.640 And now we get this very warm greeting by the former president saying, welcome home.

00:13:30.480 So I know a lot of people have said this, but I really do want to know which one is it.

00:13:35.780 Is it that Trump was never really Hitler and you just wanted to get people really angry so they'll try to assassinate him?

00:13:42.760 Because that worked, that happened a couple times.

00:13:45.140 You just needed people to tune in to MSNBC.

00:13:48.000 You were hoping that garnering that kind of anger by this mischaracterization of Trump,

00:13:54.420 that it would get you the votes that you needed and you knew all along that it wasn't true.

00:13:59.140 Like, you knew that you were putting not only Trump's life at risk, but all of his voters' life at risk by calling him Hitler,

00:14:07.000 and you knew that it wasn't true.

00:14:09.380 Or you think that it is true, that he really is Hitler, and you're fine with him taking office. 0.82

00:14:14.600 But that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:14:16.480 All right, here we see the introduction of Melania's inaugural outfit. 0.82

00:14:22.960 I mean, she looks amazing.

00:14:24.560 She's got this navy coat on.

00:14:26.120 She's got this navy hat on. 1.00

00:14:28.280 And the hat kind of comes over her eyes. 0.99

00:14:31.840 You really can't see half her face.

00:14:33.740 I mean, she looks extremely slick, I would say.

00:14:36.920 She looks chic, absolutely.

00:14:39.120 She's got amazing shoes on.

00:14:41.260 Looks amazing.

00:14:42.020 But I've got more to say about her hat in a second.

00:14:44.860 But let us look at second lady, Usha Vance. 1.00

00:14:47.840 She looks beautiful, bright.

00:14:49.780 She seems like a very cheerful, joyful, joyous person.

00:14:54.700 She's got her pink on.

00:14:55.900 This is a great color for her.

00:14:57.400 I feel like she must have gotten her colors done.

00:15:00.200 I got my colors done last week.

00:15:02.000 I still haven't announced what they are because I'm trying to put together this video for you.

00:15:06.700 But anyway, Usha looks like she knows what her colors are because that powder pink looks absolutely amazing on her. 1.00

00:15:13.820 So she's got fashion sense. 1.00

00:15:17.880 This is also, I think, incredible.

00:15:20.020 Speaking of fashion, and this is from Yashar Ali.

00:15:23.300 He posted, he said,

00:15:25.560 Just noticed that Bernard Delphine and Alexandra Arnault have seats in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda for the inauguration.

00:15:32.920 The Arnault Family Control, LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi, and then many other high-end brands.

00:15:43.820 And Yashar remarks a remarkable turnaround from eight years ago when all the major fashion houses and luxury brands shunned the Trumps.

00:15:53.440 Now the family who controls the most prominent fashion houses has better seats than many members of Congress.

00:15:59.680 I'm telling you, like, it is a big change.

00:16:03.440 It is a big shift.

00:16:04.540 And it's not just the fashion houses, as we'll talk about in a minute.

00:16:07.420 I mean, it's the tech giants.

00:16:09.360 It's the people who really made our lives miserable for the past several years.

00:16:13.720 Those who hated Donald Trump, who hoisted up the most malicious voices against Donald Trump and suppressed the voices supporting Donald Trump and conservatism for the past few years.

00:16:26.480 They also now have a prominent seat at the table.

00:16:29.720 And there's some goods and some bads to that.

00:16:31.280 We'll get into that in a second.

00:16:33.000 Okay.

00:16:33.520 So, Melania's hat.

00:16:35.280 Obviously, she looks beautiful.

00:16:37.560 Obviously, she looks classy. 0.97

00:16:39.140 She's a very fashionable person.

00:16:41.680 However, I did not think that this was a good pick.

00:16:46.720 Now, maybe, I'm sure, she didn't think about this.

00:16:49.580 She was just thinking, okay, like, what is going to look best?

00:16:53.220 I think at some point the hat should have been removed because it created this awkward situation.

00:16:59.160 Here's top seven.

00:16:59.840 So, Trump handled that totally fine and it ended up being okay, but he wasn't actually able, if you're just listening to this, Trump, like, tried to go in for the kiss, but he couldn't because her hat was in the way.

00:17:19.000 Like, you see the picture, like, the brim of her hat is literally, like, hitting his forehead.

00:17:24.740 And so, he was attempting to give her a kiss and he couldn't and it just made it weird.

00:17:30.060 And I do think at some point I would have liked to see her eyes.

00:17:33.840 It made her, especially, like, later on when he was signing some executive orders and she was standing behind him, like, looking over his shoulder.

00:17:42.380 She looks very austere.

00:17:44.480 So, while she has impeccable fashion sense, I'm not sure that the hat was the best pick for this particular event.

00:17:51.820 And then we've got some other far more questionable fashion choices that a lot of people are talking about on X.

00:17:58.060 We've got Jeff Bezos' future wife, Lauren Sanchez.

00:18:03.120 Okay.

00:18:04.060 So, she's wearing this blazer.

00:18:06.340 She's wearing a white blazer.

00:18:08.400 And the blazer would be fine, although I will say the blazer doesn't really fit.

00:18:13.260 It's too tight.

00:18:14.520 But underneath the blazer, she's just wearing lingerie, y'all. 0.96

00:18:18.560 It's not even just, like, a low-cut shirt.

00:18:21.140 Like, she's literally to the inauguration of the President of the United States wearing white lingerie under a white blazer.

00:18:31.400 It's just weird.

00:18:32.520 And, like, it's these nerdy guys like Jeff Bezos.

00:18:35.700 They get some money, and they finally realize, after years and years of being a nerd, they can finally get the hot girl.

00:18:44.480 And so, they get someone that looks as much like Lauren Sanchez as they can possibly get.

00:18:49.880 They bring him to the inauguration, and she wears a bra to the inauguration.

00:18:55.140 My grandma would say, act like you've been somewhere.

00:18:57.200 She's not acting like she's been somewhere.

00:18:58.700 Okay, and we also have this very, this picture of Mark Zuckerberg.

00:19:04.720 I don't even know if we should put it up.

00:19:07.060 I don't know.

00:19:08.120 I think he was a little distracted, too, by her outfit.

00:19:11.980 He was sitting next to Lauren Sanchez, and he, maybe he was just thinking, okay, why is she wearing that?

00:19:19.440 It's inappropriate.

00:19:20.280 Maybe there was nothing untoward going on as he was staring down at her lingerie during this inaugural ceremony.

00:19:29.520 And then we've got John Fetterman.

00:19:32.380 John Fetterman decided that he was just going to continue defending his brand.

00:19:38.560 And his brand is wearing basketball shorts and sneakers to everything, anything and everything.

00:19:46.640 Honestly, I don't know, maybe you disagree with me.

00:19:50.180 There's part of me that just, again, Grandma Dot, her refrain rings in my ears.

00:19:55.400 Act like you've been somewhere.

00:19:56.500 You need to dress appropriately for the weather, appropriately for the occasion.

00:20:00.480 Some of these people just weren't taught that.

00:20:02.960 But at the same time, at the same time, I almost have to applaud the commitment to the brand.

00:20:11.000 Because he has decided he's not going to dress up for anyone.

00:20:14.800 It doesn't matter what it is.

00:20:16.640 He is going comfort all the way.

00:20:19.200 And I can kind of respect that.

00:20:21.360 Like, it is so drab that I can kind of respect it.

00:20:24.940 I think if he was wearing, like, an ill-fitting suit, I would almost hate that more.

00:20:29.880 He didn't even try.

00:20:31.440 The lack of effort is almost admirable.

00:20:34.820 As much as I would rather see everyone dressed modestly and appropriately and in a classy manner at the inauguration.

00:20:42.400 I don't know.

00:20:43.860 Again, it's the dedication that he has to his own comfort that you just kind of have to say, okay, respect.

00:20:51.520 I respect that.

00:20:53.000 All right.

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00:22:12.420 Okay, lots of beautiful ceremonial traditions that went on before Trump was actually sworn in.

00:22:23.820 President Trump, he stood in front of the Bible with Melania by his side, and he went through the swearing-in ceremony.

00:22:33.700 But there was a little bit of a controversy.

00:22:35.700 Before I say what it was, see if you can catch it when you watch this video.

00:22:39.620 Go to SOT2.

00:22:40.240 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:22:44.640 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:22:47.560 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:22:50.480 That I will faithfully execute.

00:22:52.900 That I will faithfully execute.

00:22:54.940 The office of President of the United States.

00:22:57.740 The office of President of the United States.

00:23:00.780 And will, to the best of my ability.

00:23:03.080 And will, to the best of my ability.

00:23:05.380 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:23:07.940 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:23:09.600 The Constitution of the United States.

00:23:11.520 The Constitution of the United States.

00:23:13.640 So help me God.

00:23:14.540 So help me God.

00:23:15.820 Congratulations, Mr. Trump.

00:23:16.820 Also, Ivanka looking great back there in the green looking amazing.

00:23:23.540 Okay, so let's take a, let's take a look at this picture of President Trump being sworn in.

00:23:30.880 You'll see Melania.

00:23:32.440 She's holding two Bibles.

00:23:33.660 According to the New York Times, the Bibles were a family Bible.

00:23:36.660 So one family Bible and then a Lincoln Bible.

00:23:39.640 It was sworn on by the 16th president in 1861.

00:23:44.040 As well as Barack Obama in 2009 and 2013.

00:23:48.440 And people were pressed because Trump's hand was not on the Bibles.

00:23:54.720 His hand was by his side.

00:23:56.860 His other hand was raised.

00:23:59.500 And people were saying, oh, this must mean something.

00:24:02.240 This is bad.

00:24:03.160 But in reality, it is not required for you to put your hand on the Bible.

00:24:10.180 I don't think he's signifying anything, actually.

00:24:12.360 Like, if you watch the video of this happening, it was a little rushed.

00:24:15.920 You could tell Melania was trying to get up by him. 0.89

00:24:18.620 And Chief Justice Roberts started reading the oath before Melania was right there.

00:24:24.260 And so I think it was just, I think it was just a rushed situation.

00:24:27.800 And maybe he wasn't going to do it anyway.

00:24:29.700 I didn't go back to look to see if he put his hand on the Bible last time.

00:24:34.260 I don't think that there's any significance there.

00:24:37.200 Because again, it's not necessarily a rule.

00:24:39.980 And the fact that they provided their own family Bible means that they did care about that.

00:24:44.980 That it was important to them, even if it was just symbolic.

00:24:48.340 I mean, they thought about that.

00:24:49.740 They brought the Bible.

00:24:51.160 If they didn't care at all, they wouldn't have provided a family Bible.

00:24:56.020 Also, I bet that I was just thinking about J.D. Vance becoming vice president today, watching him in the ceremony, his wife on the brink of tears the whole time.

00:25:08.980 Obviously, so meaningful to her.

00:25:12.420 I mean, obviously, this is your husband that you love, but seeing his journey.

00:25:16.080 But I was also thinking about J.D. Vance's mom.

00:25:20.580 And most of you have probably read, or maybe you've watched the movie Hillbilly Elegy.

00:25:25.780 It's a great book.

00:25:26.960 We read it several years ago before he entered politics.

00:25:30.920 And just an amazing life story.

00:25:35.260 And an amazing look at a very forgotten class of Americans.

00:25:40.200 But he's had a really hard life.

00:25:42.140 Most of you know that who know his story and his mom has had a really hard life and has had a really rough, difficult past.

00:25:50.640 And he basically came from nothing and worked very hard to get where he is.

00:25:55.180 And he really epitomizes the American dream in so many ways.

00:25:58.300 And so for him to go from that fatherless and chaotic home growing up, from poverty to being raised by a grandmother, but also a drug-addicted mother, to being where he is now as vice president of the United States, that is really remarkable and beautiful.

00:26:19.380 When you think about the providence and the grace of God, but also just what America is and what is possible here, that the circumstances of your birth, or even going back in a more pro-life sense, the circumstances surrounding your conception do not determine your destiny.

00:26:37.260 Also, there were other beautiful parts of the inauguration.

00:26:40.380 There were several hymns that were played, instrumental versions, For the Beauty of the Earth was one of them.

00:26:47.480 And then they also played Great is Thy Faithfulness.

00:26:50.380 And here's what that sounded like.

00:26:51.540 Top three.

00:26:51.920 If you are a Christian and you do not know your hymns, I encourage you to buy yourself a good old-fashioned Baptist hymnal. 0.97

00:27:18.840 My mom sang hymns to me almost every night growing up, and I do the same thing with my daughters.

00:27:26.100 I have this three-ring binder of hymns, and I let them pick out which ones we sing.

00:27:33.600 And obviously, they're not inerrant like the Bible, but they are such a beautiful way to memorize biblical truths, and they really are foundational to America.

00:27:46.200 So go back and read some of the lyrics of the hymns, like, Great is Thy Faithfulness, How Great Thou Art, This is My Father's World, That's My Favorite One, Be Thou My Vision, all such beautiful illustrations of the faithfulness and the power and the goodness of God and the role that we get to play in all of this.

00:28:05.780 And I was just so grateful for God's faithfulness and His grace that is being shown to all of us as we watch this transition of a really wicked administration to one whose policies are going to be really good for the flourishing of the United States.

00:28:25.180 Trump's inauguration speech was, it was very fiery, it was more of a state of the union kind of speech than what you would expect from an inauguration speech.

00:28:37.500 And if I remember correctly, maybe my memory fails me, but if I remember correctly, Biden's speech four years ago and Trump's speech eight years ago was not this specific.

00:28:52.980 I mean, Trump out of out the gates was very specific in his condemnation of bad governance, of the corruption that exists in the government and what he plans to do executive order wise, policy wise, to make sure that he is putting America first.

00:29:09.700 And I was surprised by how explicit he was in the promises that he was making.

00:29:15.940 Again, this sounded more like a rally speech or a state of the union, less like an inaugural speech simply because inaugural speeches are usually pretty vague.

00:29:27.340 They don't focus on specific policy promises quite as much, but I will say I appreciated it.

00:29:35.600 I felt like that's what we needed.

00:29:37.000 We didn't need a bunch of flowery language, a bunch of euphemisms, pretending like all Americans are on the same page.

00:29:43.560 Trump understood the mandate that the American people gave him, and that's what he articulated in this speech.

00:29:49.040 So I'll give you some highlights of that.

00:29:51.140 So he opened his speech with this, and this is what we all want to feel.

00:29:54.340 He said, the golden age of America begins right now.

00:29:58.520 From this day forward, our country will flourish.

00:30:01.640 He said, I will very simply put America first.

00:30:04.800 He continued with an indictment on the previous administration.

00:30:10.860 He said he indicted Biden's immigration policies, the overspending of money that was sent to Ukraine, the administration's failure to properly address the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, the wildfires in Los Angeles.

00:30:28.580 I thought that that was very pointed.

00:30:33.060 He said the people in North Carolina had been abandoned, that they had been betrayed.

00:30:36.620 That was obviously Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who betrayed them.

00:30:40.640 And also under FEMA, which is under their general direction, FEMA said, look, we're not going to stop by these houses in this flooded area that have Trump signs.

00:30:54.040 We're going to let them remain destitute.

00:30:57.920 And so he was right to call that betrayal.

00:30:59.900 And then on immigration, he condemned the policies that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

00:31:05.140 Later in his speech, Trump said that he intends to reinstate the remain in Mexico policy that Biden ended.

00:31:11.480 He would end catch and release.

00:31:13.140 He would send troops to the southern border to, quote, repel the disastrous invasion of the country.

00:31:18.780 He also stated that he would designate the Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

00:31:26.800 About halfway through the speech, Trump referenced the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:31:32.660 And here's what he said.

00:31:33.600 It's up for.

00:31:33.980 Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life.

00:31:43.960 Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.

00:31:51.840 But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.

00:31:58.740 I was saved by God to make America great again.

00:32:03.980 All right.

00:32:07.980 So people took issue with that, as I knew they would.

00:32:11.800 But it is true. 0.90

00:32:13.960 It's a true statement.

00:32:15.780 I mean, he was saved by God's providence.

00:32:19.040 All of us are breathing right now because of God's providence.

00:32:23.740 God is an all-powerful, sovereign God.

00:32:26.840 He doesn't sit back and say, huh, I wonder how that's going to go.

00:32:31.120 Huh, I wonder when that person's going to die.

00:32:34.160 Let me just sit back and observe.

00:32:36.720 He exists outside of time and nothing can thwart his will.

00:32:41.800 That's Job 42.2.

00:32:43.620 And so Trump, as any of us would be if we were saved, was saved by God's providence.

00:32:50.120 We don't know all of the reasons God chose to do what he did.

00:32:55.220 We can never know all of the reasons that God chooses to do what he does.

00:32:59.780 But it was absolutely, we can say without a doubt, if our theology is in check, that it was God's providence and his mercy that spared Trump's life.

00:33:09.660 And that he did so for his glory because God does everything for his glory and that the sparing of Trump's life has benefited us through the policies that he advocates for.

00:33:22.100 So I said it was absolutely, this is what I said on Acts and someone said, this is heresy.

00:33:27.100 It was absolutely God's providence and mercy that he spared Trump's life for his glory and our good.

00:33:33.020 I would love to know exactly what is heretical about that because it is objectively true when we understand the character, the sovereignty of God.

00:33:43.540 He also said a few more things.

00:33:45.220 He said that we were going to expand our territories.

00:33:49.220 We're not totally clear on what that means.

00:33:51.720 We're going to take back the Panama Canal from the control of the Chinese Communist Party, which is important. 1.00

00:33:57.040 He said that we're going to plant the U.S. flag on the surface of Mars.

00:34:00.380 He was, he had Elon Musk cheering behind him on that.

00:34:04.700 He also said, I thought this was very important.

00:34:07.460 There are only two genders. 0.99

00:34:10.780 He went in on this.

00:34:11.960 Here is top five.

00:34:12.600 As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

00:34:32.120 Okay, he didn't have to do that for us, but he did.

00:34:34.820 He did.

00:34:35.740 He decided to go in on the culture war in his inaugural speech, and he got an applause for that. 0.97

00:34:41.280 It is unfortunate that that has to be specified, that that has to be clearly explained today, but it does, and it was a total W, and as we will talk about when we talk about his executive orders, it is an indication of what he is about to do policy-wise.

00:34:59.020 Thank the Lord.

00:34:59.660 All right, we've got a couple more things on the inauguration ceremony.

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00:36:28.480 Trump finished his speech by saying, I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.

00:36:33.040 We are going to win like never before, and I believe it.

00:36:36.960 You know, Chief Related Bro texted me when this speech was happening.

00:36:40.220 He was like, I just feel like a cloud is lifted, and I agree with that, and it doesn't mean that the president determines everything.

00:36:48.460 Certainly, like, the fate of this country is in God's hands.

00:36:51.900 It's not solely in President Trump's hands, but again, I think we can thank the Lord for his mercy and his providence here.

00:37:00.180 Carrie Underwood, she sang America the Beautiful, but there were some tech issues that went on, and she had to pull it off a cappella, and she did that beautifully.

00:37:13.480 Here's how six.

00:37:14.140 You know the words, help me out here.

00:37:21.480 For purple mountain majesties above the fruitful plain, America, America, God shed his grace on thee.

00:37:49.260 Oh, so beautiful.

00:37:53.360 I could listen to her sing all day, and actually, her hymn album, I'd forgotten about this, but her album of hymns, if you want to get into learning hymns, go listen to Carrie Underwood's album of hymns.

00:38:04.460 It's really amazing.

00:38:05.100 The other day, we talked about her and how she has just stood strong because she got so much blowback when it was announced that she was going to sing at the inauguration, all these people saying that she is, you know, some kind of, like, rapist, apologist, horrible things about her, and she really stood her ground.

00:38:21.700 Some of you reached out to me and told me that, actually, she doesn't go to a progressive church anymore like she used to, but now she goes to a biblically solid church, and I don't know her personally, and I don't know a lot about her background, but I love to hear that.

00:38:38.040 And I have seen a few things over the years that signify that maybe she has also moved in a conservative direction.

00:38:43.860 So, praise God.

00:38:45.500 Well, Chief Related Bro and I, we went to a pre-inauguration ball that was hosted by Turning Point USA, and this is a picture of Chief Related Bro and me in my ball gown and CR's tux, and so that was really fun.

00:39:01.300 There were a ton of people there, and it was just great to be able to celebrate with everyone.

00:39:07.780 Again, feeling like a cloud is lifted.

00:39:10.300 There is just a shift in the air, and I know it's going to be a hard few years because it's not like the opposition has gone away, but it's definitely different.

00:39:19.240 Like, when you have, just looking at the inauguration ceremony, when you have Mark Zuckerberg, when you have Jeff Bezos, when you have Elon Musk, when you have Tim Cook,

00:39:28.680 and when you have these bigwigs at fashion houses and these corporations and these tech giants now publicly saying, like, yeah, I'm on the side of Trump, things are different.

00:39:40.480 Now, do I think that all of these people are now conservative politically?

00:39:46.440 No, I don't.

00:39:47.280 I think it's for themselves.

00:39:49.200 Like, I think that it's better for their business if they are on the side of Donald Trump rather than against his administration.

00:39:57.160 Maybe not entirely, but of course, in some ways, I think that it is self-serving, self-enriching for these tech giants who have made their ideology very clear over the past few years to now be on board with Trump.

00:40:12.480 I don't really mean that about Elon Musk because he was on board early on, but when people like Mark Zuckerberg are like, oh, yeah, we're going to start rolling back the fact checkers that are very subjective and arbitrary and obviously politically biased at Meta, and we're going to take away our DEI programs.

00:40:31.280 It's hard for me to believe that this is like a worldview shift for them, but we can hope that.

00:40:36.120 And it is better for us.

00:40:38.500 Like, it's better for us not to be in this, like, tiny minority that everyone hates over here.

00:40:44.400 And it's certainly better for, like, conservative media, conservative social media.

00:40:48.740 I do think that we could be entering a golden era for that.

00:40:53.580 Okay, let's talk about some of these executive orders before we close out.

00:40:59.660 President Trump signed his first executive orders in a ceremony at the Capitol.

00:41:03.940 These orders established the nominations for his administration.

00:41:07.560 He also signed an order mandating that the flag be flown at full staff today and for all future inauguration days.

00:41:14.300 And so it's been at half-mast for a really long time because Jimmy Carter died, and so the flag will be at full-mast, which is exciting.

00:41:22.860 So he is expected to sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day, a massive wave of policy priorities focused on border security energy, reducing the cost of living for Americans.

00:41:36.220 He will also sign multiple omnibus executive orders that each contain dozens of major executive actions.

00:41:45.540 I think, like, in principle, it's not that great to have to rule by executive action, but, like, each president has to undo what the previous president has done.

00:41:56.480 And, again, I think when they feel that they've got a mandate, a responsibility to the American people, they want to get things done as quickly and as decisively as they possibly can.

00:42:05.660 When it comes to border security, as he said in his speech, he's going to declare a national border emergency.

00:42:12.240 This will direct the U.S. military to work with the Department of Homeland Security to fully secure the southern border.

00:42:17.760 Praise God for that.

00:42:19.060 He will also create task forces for the protection of homeland security with officers from various intelligence agencies.

00:42:26.500 He wants to fully eradicate the presence of criminal cartels that should be so obvious how important that is.

00:42:34.880 Trump will reinstitute the remain in Mexico policy.

00:42:37.760 That means if you're coming over here to claim asylum, then you got to wait in Mexico until you get your court date, until your court date comes around.

00:42:46.640 And then you can we can figure out if you are going to be able to be and find asylum in the United States.

00:42:54.380 He's also expected to sign an executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens in the United States.

00:43:02.720 The order will direct federal agencies not to recognize these children as U.S. citizens on a perspective basis, meaning it would not affect those already granted citizenship under the previous interpretation.

00:43:14.800 And then when it comes to trans ideology, as we already alluded to, the executive order that he it looks like he's going to sign establishes government wide the biology biological reality of two sexes and clearly defines male and female.

00:43:30.980 So this means the agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.

00:43:39.040 They define women, for example, as an adult human female.

00:43:44.940 OK, it's really sad that we have to define that what anyone for all of time from any culture could have told you. 0.79

00:43:52.040 We actually have to write it explicitly because we have people like AOC who will stand on the house floor and say something ridiculous like trans girls are girls or girls.

00:44:00.340 The executive order ends the practice of housing men and women's prisons, praise God. 0.71

00:44:05.240 I mean, the save so many vulnerable women and taxpayer funded transition for male prisoners, something that Kamala was heartily for. 0.97

00:44:12.940 The executive order ends the forest recitation of preferred pronouns.

00:44:18.520 D.E.I. Trump will also end all diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government.

00:44:24.400 That's something that he promised in his speech that he would ensure that we live in a merit based society or at least in the government, that it will be as merit based as possible.

00:44:37.960 All right.

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00:45:45.260 All right, guys, that's all we've got time for today.

00:45:48.180 I just want to thank America First Policy Institute.

00:45:50.500 They have allowed Blaze TV to use their offices to film today.

00:45:55.840 And they have been totally gracious in allowing us that gift.

00:45:59.380 They've got such an amazing, amazing view.

00:46:01.920 We've got so much more to talk about this week.

00:46:05.180 And guess what, guys?

00:46:06.620 Guess what?

00:46:07.220 My dad is going to be guest hosting Relatable on Thursday.

00:46:13.040 Isn't that fun?

00:46:13.840 I've never had a guest host before.

00:46:15.880 But we are going to be in D.C.

00:46:18.180 And so my dad is going to take over the mic from the Relatable studio on Thursday.

00:46:23.860 And so make sure that you send in your questions for him that you want him to address.

00:46:29.820 And he will get to those on Thursday.

00:46:31.960 All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning in today.

00:46:34.660 We will be back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 21, 2025

Ep 1126 ｜ I’m in DC. The Post-Inauguration Atmosphere Is UNREAL

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