Here it is bit modified and extended.
The controversial businessman
and President-elect Donald Trump is US President now with the White House as
his official and residential address for at least the next four years, a
distinction that makes him unarguably the most powerful person on the Earth.
But true to his controversial
past, his tryst with controversies has continued unabated and has, in fact,
seen two major controversies in just two days after his inaugural on January 20,
2017.
Donald Trump has had a bad
reputation when it comes to respecting women. He has made several gaudy, bitter
in taste sexist remarks against women with women even accusing him of sexual
assault. His reputation on this front is sullied to the extent that news
outfits run even 'Donald Trump sexism tracker'.
It was natural then that
millions of women protested against Trump, not just in Washington but in many
cities in America and across the world. According to an ABC news report, 'more
than than 600 rallies in 60 countries around the world' were held. Reuters
headlined the worldwide women protests as 'unprecedented'. They were all there,
mocking and denouncing the new US President, as the Reuters report put it.
But Donald Trump, in his
trademark style, a hangover from his past, chose to berate women again.
Tweeting from his personal Twitter handle (@realDonaldTrump), Trump mocked
women protesters, "Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression
that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause
badly." Though he later tweeted to say that even if didn't agree, 'he
recognized the rights of people to express their views', he left an impression
that protests didn't matter for him.
And it seems Trump has chosen
people like him to represent his administration. After the inauguration
ceremony, Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed that it was the most
watched inauguration ever of any US President, a false claim that fell flat
with contradictory figures. According to Nielsen data, Trump's inauguration
with 30.6 million eyeballs ranked behind Ronald Reagan (1981-41.8 million), Barack
Obama (2009-37.7 million), Jimmy Carter (1977-34.1 million) and Richard Nixon
(1973-33 million).
But Trump, in his familiar
style, tried to belittle his predecessor Barack Obama again tweeting "Wow,
television ratings just out: 31 million people watched the Inauguration, 11
million more than the very good ratings from 4 years ago!". Clearly, he
was trying to shield behind a selective set of information, picking up what
suited his purpose.
Both Trump and his Press
Secretary have slammed the media for being preferential and biased for showing
truth behind the numbers. Trump thinks media is dishonest when it says that Barack
Obama's inaugural in 2009 had more people in attendance. Going a step further,
his Press Secretary Spicer threatened to 'hold the press accountable' blaming
that 'some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting'.
If it is the beginning, let's
see what happens next. If Trump and his administration can't handle media
coverage on his inauguration, imagine what would happen when it comes to media
carrying in-depth policy analysis of Donald Trump's stated priorities where he
said he would go against the established norms, be it Obamacare repeal or nuclear
proliferation and military expansion or climate change protocols or trade
protectionism or the US intervention in the geopolitical affairs.
©SantoshChaubey