I didn't watch it.
I'm sure the GOP establishment all looked like the cats who swallowed the canary....
I think they're nervous on a number of levels. I think everyone should be. This guy is a bit like Mystery Date. Well, the door is opening...
Okay, so I saw the speech. I want to go back and read it later. I mostly listened and looked at the tapes of what seemed to me a thinner crowd than I recalled from past ceremonies. My impression of the delivery was that it sounded notes of nationalism we haven't heard in generations and I suspect that will play poorly in most of Europe and well in other parts of the world, like Israel and Russia, if for different reasons.
They know Trump is a fraud, but they don't care, they know he's just a puppet.
I think he's himself, that on some abiding level he means to be a bit like Teddy Roosevelt or old Rockefeller to a lesser extent. A loose, ego driven cannon. I'm not suggesting he's Teddy Roosevelt in any particular sense, but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't think of himself in that way or desire to be something akin to that. . . And if that's true, we could be in for an interesting ride.