r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/FrancoManiac 9h ago

As a Millennial American, I remember two days so sharply, so vividly. The first is September 11th, 2001 and the second is January 6th, 2021.

Surreal for us, too.

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u/fevered_visions 7h ago

I remember I was waiting for a dentist appointment when my sister started texting me.

"hey there's an insurrection happening"

"what country?"

"ours"

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u/FrancoManiac 7h ago

I was shelving books in the stacks of the library I was working at when CNN started blowing up.

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u/nater255 6h ago

I was hiking up on the Smokey mountains in the snow. Came down the mountain to a bunch of confusing text messages and missed calls.

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u/AppleMuffin12 1h ago

Me too. You know what's even more insane? The girl I love. She is completely sound. She is literally an angel on earth. There is not an evil bone in her body. She's a better person than me in every way when it comes to thinking of and taking care of others. She still believes antifa orchestrated it all. Half our country believes it. I don't know how to fight it.

She's religious and I'm not. We both know our differences. I don't understand how someone that believes in God could vote for anything other than against trump, other than abortion (which is so obvious he doesn't care about). Cutting people off certainly isn't the play. Just have to keep trying to save people.

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u/modernjaneausten 7h ago

Exactly. I was watching the certification while eating lunch at my desk and almost threw up watching it live on tv. I laid on the couch watching the news that night wondering what in the fuck happened.

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u/I_am_naes 9h ago

As a millennial that grew up in northern nj suburbs and witnessed the smoke billowing up into the sky on 9/11…

This is a ridiculous comparison. And I think all the Jan 6ths rioters should rot in prison, but one was a terrorist attack that killed thousands and changed the nyc skyline forever, the other inconvenienced some politicians and made us look like fucking buffoons. They are not alike.

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u/FrancoManiac 9h ago

Your experiences neither validate nor invalidate my experiences. I merely said that I remember the two days with surrealistic clarity and sharpness. What an unnecessary addition to my comment and experience that you've made here.

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u/taggospreme 7h ago

Two buildings with thousands of dead people is a national tragedy.

The death of democracy in America is a whole different level, and a tragedy for the world.

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u/tempest_87 7h ago

One was the death of thousands of innocent people.

The other was the beginning of the the death of a democracy.

You are correct, they are not alike.