“Donald Trump’s guest list for his Jan. 20 inauguration as U.S. president is shaping up to be a global Who’s Who of right-wing populists.”
“Inaugurations tend to be traditional, flag-waving affairs, an important democratic rite for the home crowd. The ceremony and the proceedings are really entirely a domestic matter. U.S. State Department data show no examples of foreign leaders attending the ceremony”
“There is a common ideological thread to his invitees: Many hail from the right or even the far-right of the political spectrum, or are leaders whom Trump has previously praised. In that sense, the inauguration reveals plenty about the political trajectory of his administration”
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Shocker, Trump breaks tradition by summoning not only foreigners to an event intended as an American spectacle but also purposely inviting neo Nazis and autocrats, but, but, but, Trump doesn’t represent any threat to democracy
“Inaugurations tend to be traditional, flag-waving affairs, an important democratic rite for the home crowd. The ceremony and the proceedings are really entirely a domestic matter. U.S. State Department data show no examples of foreign leaders attending the ceremony”
“There is a common ideological thread to his invitees: Many hail from the right or even the far-right of the political spectrum, or are leaders whom Trump has previously praised. In that sense, the inauguration reveals plenty about the political trajectory of his administration”
Who’s been invited? World’s far-right populists pack guest list for Trump’s inauguration
The U.S. president-elect lays down a clear ideological marker with his unusual invitees from across the globe.
www.politico.eu
Shocker, Trump breaks tradition by summoning not only foreigners to an event intended as an American spectacle but also purposely inviting neo Nazis and autocrats, but, but, but, Trump doesn’t represent any threat to democracy