This is the warning.

60 years ago today, in a very different speech, on a colder day, standing outside,

the 43-year-old President of the United States, John Kennedy, said this.

So, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

There are millions of Americans who are stunned right now. They are terrified, heartbroken,

angry, saddened. And today, the 47th president of the United States uttered the most chilling

words that have ever been spoken by an American leader. I was saved by God to make America great.

It is delusional. It is messianic. These are the words of a Jim Jones wannabe, not an American president.

This speech was a threat to the American way of life. Dressed up as a commitment to law and order,

Donald Trump has promised to use a law written in 1798 to deploy the American military into America's cities to wage war.

He talked about peace in his speech, but it was a war speech. Make no doubt about that. Donald Trump

talked about manifest destiny deliberately. He talked about an expansionist America. What country is it, Donald,

that you proposed to invade beyond Panama? And that was the point of the speech in the end.

There were words, of course, and there were promises and commitments, none of which will come true.

What will be remembered from this speech are the faces of the people

smiling in celebration, the owner of the Washington Post next to the Princess Sanchez,

Elon Musk, the CEO of Google and Mark Zuckerberg, the Titans of America's technological power, the leaders of the

most powerful companies in the history of the world, all gathered together not to celebrate

democracy, not because they share a commitment to justice or to the American people,

but out of fear and entitlement and opportunity,

because they realize what is gathered in that room are their fellow takers.

It is the greatest gathering of takers the American people have ever seen.

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