Donald Trump inaugurated.

January 6 defendants pardoned and Joe Biden's family, pardoned.

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always, by the right Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, Noah, Noah, Rothman, and the sage of authenticity woods.

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If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So Jim Garrity, we got an inaugural

address that was very trump. My take on it basically is if you took the Madison Square

Garden Rally speech and honed it down from, I assume it was more than an hour,

it was long to 20 minutes or so. This was the inaugural address. Not a lot of poetry or music

in it, but exactly the same thing he said on the campaign trail and exactly the way he intends to govern.

Well, that's sort of the problem. Now isn't it, Rich. I think in a perfect world or even in a

better world, if you're a major presidential candidate, your stump speech, your convention speech,

your election night speech, and your inaugural address would all sound

at least some differences. And with Trump, they're really, he's got one setting. And that's what he does.

I suppose we should be thankful that he kept all of the stream of consciousness stuff for his

remarks to the overflow crowd afterwards. I seriously thought he was going to start doing some of it

in the address.

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