New First Lady, Melania Trump nearly “broke the internet” as the kids say with her pitch perfect look at the Inauguration. From the moment she stepped out in the baby blue cashmere frock from Ralph Lauren, America was smitten. Jackie O references, were everywhere. Justifiably so.
The anticipation for her choice of gowns for the Inaugural Balls, started to build almost immediately. Mrs. Trump did not disappoint. Wearing an off the shoulder cream gown reported to be designed by Carolina Herrera. The First Lady stole the show again, as she danced to “My Way” with President Donald Trump.
At the ball on Inauguration eve, Melania was statuesque in the truest sense, stunning in a champagne colored gown by Reem Acra.
I have a feeling once the pain subsides, the same artists will be lining up to have her wear their frocks on the world stage. Here’s to our new First Lady of Fashion, Melania Trump.
Bonus video: Bill Clinton is checking out First Lady Melania?
The look on Hillary's face says (women will agree here), Yes!
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden chenge" - Mary Shelley "People in general are hateful; they hate you for everything; they are untrustworthy and cheat you over anything; I treat everyone as hateful and untrustworthy until they prove otherwise, which is very rare" -Maven Stark
Thousands of New Yorkers — led by a star-studded roster of speakers and performers — gathered outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City Thursday evening to protest Donald Trump on the eve of his inauguration.
“This is the beginning of the 100 days of resistance,” declared filmmaker Michael Moore, who led the pre-inauguration rally along with other outspoken Trump critics, including Alec Baldwin, Mark Ruffalo, Rosie Perez and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Actor Robert de Niro speaks to thousands of protesters at a pre-inauguration rally against Donald Trump in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017.
For about two hours, the relatively subdued crowd that had assembled between Trump’s Columbus Circle property and Central Park West, listened and applauded as a lengthy lineup of A-listers, joined by local activists and officials, took turns denouncing the president-elect. Robert de Nero, Sally Field, Julianne Moore and Cher shared the dais with Reverend Al Sharpton, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the AFL-CIO’s Stuart Applebaum.
“[Trump] is a bad example of this country, this city,” said De Niro, before reading several mock tweets that he predicted Trump might write about him later that night.
From healthcare to immigration to islamophobia and LGBT rights, there were almost as many issues addressed at the rally as there were speakers who took the stage. However, the overarching message of the evening was one of unity — and the power in numbers.
“We are the majority,” said Michael Moore, referring to the millions of Americans who voted against Trump. “There’s more of us than there are of them.”
Yet as the parade of public figures on stage vowed one by one to stand up to Trump, it seemed the president-elect had already begun to have an effect on many of the non-famous New Yorkers in the crowd.
The majority of rally-goers who spoke to Yahoo News declined to provide their full names. Asked why, 27-year-old Carol from Queens answered, “paranoia about the incoming administration.”
“Just a general fear based on type of people he’s putting in power and how insecure he is about any criticism,” she continued. “It gives you pause.”
Nearby, a group of New York City public school teachers — with the exception of one man, who identified himself as Jeffrey Ellis-Lee — were equally hesitant to share their names.
Pinned to each of their jackets was a yellow piece of paper with a lowercase letter “i” which, Ellis-Lee explained, “represents that Trump is an illegitimate president.”
One of the teachers, a young woman who declined to give her first or last name, said that beyond their own opposition to Trump and “the things that he said on the campaign trail,” she and her colleagues were motivated to attend Thursday night’s rally because of the fear and concern expressed by many of their immigrant students in the wake of the election.
“We had a number of students crying, freaked out that they would be picked up by somebody because what they understood from the news was that they were not wanted,” she said.
Another teacher, who identified herself only as Emily, chimed in: “If it hasn’t been bad enough nationally, having a population of kids who are directly affected by everything he’s been saying and everything he’s been proposing is very hard to experience.”
Protecting New York City’s immigrants against potential attempts at widespread deportations by the incoming Trump administration was among the ways Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed that he will “stand up against hate” as part of his “pledge for the next 100 days of action.”
But while the celebrity calls to action and resistance were met with cheers and applause from the crowd, for many in attendance the event was more of a comforting farewell to the pre-Trump era than anything else.
“I don’t know how much good this is gonna do on a practical level,” said Carol. “I just feel like I can’t do nothing.”
Carol’s friend Claire, a 26-year-old who works in publishing and also declined to give her last name, agreed, citing her “own personal moral compass” as motivation for participating in Thursday night’s rally.
“You don’t want to go into the abyss having done nothing in the face of it,” she said.
"Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
live coverage of the 2016 inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States.
Washington’s Trump International Hotel is closed tonight to non-guests. But, the lobby bar is full of deplorables in tuxedos and evening gowns.
(Photo: Neil McCabe, Breitbart)
US President-elect Donald Trump and family pose at the end of a welcome celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on January
(Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US President-elect Donald Trump and family make their way up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the end of a welcome celebration in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2017. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
6:33 PM: The concert closed with a moving rendition of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” accompanied by a display of fireworks. The Trump family then viewed the inscriptions over Lincoln’s towering figure. Watch the moment below:
6:18 PM: Watch Sam Moore’s amazing rendition of “America the Beautiful” her6:43 PM: Wire image from earlier of President-elect Trump and Melania Trump arriving at the Lincoln Memorial Concert…
(Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Other wire images from the concert…
A military band performs during a welcome celebration for US President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on January 19,
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 19: Members of the Emerald Society, Washington, DC Fire Department band, walk on their way to perform at the Voices for the People inaugural musical event on January 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
From there, Trump shuttled to a celebratory welcome concert on the steps of Lincoln Memorial that was to end with fireworks.
The two-hour concert, open to the public, promised headliners including country star Toby Keith, soul’s Sam Moore and The Piano Guys. But not singer Jennifer Holliday: She backed out after an outcry from Trump critics.
“This is some day, dear friends,” actor Jon Voight told the crowd, casting Trump’s impending inauguration as evidence of divine intervention after “a parade of propaganda that left us all breathless with anticipation, not knowing if God could reverse all the negative lies against Mr. Trump.”
Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said the president-elect was still making “edits and additions” to the inaugural address he’ll deliver at Friday’s swearing-in.
5:09 PM:Exclusive videoshot by Breitbart’s Brandon Darby of the bomb squad in action earlier today.
4:54 PM:
President-elect Trump and Melania Trump have arrived at the Lincoln Memorial for the “Make America Great Again” concert. Watch the live-stream video coverage of the concert here. Appropriately, Trump arrives to the music of The Rolling Stones, whose song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” was the Trump campaign theme song. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak wrote about the significance of the song to Trump’s campaign message.
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4:31 PM: More crowd members’ portraits from Breitbart reporter Charlie Spetisbury 4:26 PM: Watch live — the “Make America Great Again” celebration concert, where Trump and Pence will be addressing supporters.4:13 PM: Wire photos of the Arlington wreath laying ceremony:
Family member watch as US President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on January 19, 2017. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,Virginia, on January 19, 2017. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
3:57 PM:
The United States Marine Corps Band practices in front of the podium where US President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office and be sworn in as the 45th US president in Washington, DC on January 19, 2017. (Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
3:26 PM: More Deplorables. Photos: Matthew Boyle/Breitbart
3:43 PM:
Two deplorables in leprechaun gear and beards make their way to the National Mall Thursday. All streets around the mall and Capitol Hill are closed to regular traffic in anticipation of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Friday inauguration.
2:37 PM: Street is now reopened. The cause for the alarm was a backpack left on the street corner behind a newspaper machine. The bomb squad appears to have X-rayed the bag and now they are removing police tape and packing up.
2:32 PM: Bomb squad in action. Man in bomb suit appears to be using a device to analyze a newspaper dispenser. Photos: Brandon Darby/Breitbart
2:31 PM: Roger Stone spotted. Photo: Joel Pollak/Breitbart
2:23 PM: Amanda House reports: DEVELOPING: street closure outside the Hilton Garden Inn for what appears to be a bomb threat (14th and I street NW). Breitbart’s Brandon Darby is on the scene.
The CODEPINK left-wing activist organization is planning “audacious and creative, colorful protests” targeting the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, Ariel Gold, CODEPINK’s campaign director, told Breitbart News in an interview.
1:43 PM: Jerry Falwell Jr. with other Deplorables outside Trump International Hotel. Photo: Neil W. McCabe/Breitbart
1:42 PM: From the Voices of the People Concert. Photo: Amanda House/Breitbart
1:40 PM: Big tent.
Bruce Springsteen performed a secret concert for President Barack Obama and his staff as they leave the White House, urging optimism in uncertain times, the rock legend’s fanzine reported.
Backstreets, a long-running magazine and website that methodically documents Springsteen’s shows, said The Boss played a 15-song acoustic set in the White House’s East Room on January 10.
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1:15 PM: Crowd forming outside Trump’s hotel. Photos via Breitbart’s Neil W. McCabe:
1:13 PM: Trump, in remarks at his hotel’s luncheon, says Jeff Sessions “will be one of the outstanding stars of this country.” Quips “We will have, by far, the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled.”
Pop mega-star Beyoncé encouraged her 64 million fans on Facebook to turn out and support the Women’s March on Washington to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
“We raise our voices as mothers, as artists, and as activists. As #GlobalCitizens, we can make our voices heard and turn awareness into meaningful action and positive change. #WomensMarch.,” the “Lemonade” singer wrote Wednesday.
12:51 PM: Photos from Trump International, waiting on the arrival of the president-elect. Via Breitbart’s Neil W. McCabe:
12:48 PM: Some of the Trump swag available in town:
12:46 PM: Congressman Filemon Vela claims Trump supporters spat on a “migrant student” from his district while visiting DC:
12:29 PM: More egg on NeverTrump-ers’ faces, via The Hill:
Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending.
Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.
12:25 PM: Yes, we really need to know if they hit all green lights along the way.
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12:17 PM: This morning, Vice President-elect Mike Pence surprised reporters at a press conference to comment on the Transition Team’s wrapup. Breitbart’s Alex Swoyer reports:
“We’re wrapping up this transition on schedule and under budget,” Pence declared. “We will actually return some 20 percent of taxpayer funding.” Pence added that this is in keeping with Trump’s expectations going forward as President of the United States.
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“We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. It will be a very humbling and moving day,” he added ahead of Friday’s inauguration. “We are all ready to go to work.”
Spicer spoke after Pence, telling reporters that Trump is continuing to edit his inaugural address for Friday’s speech.
According to Jewish law, driving or riding in cars is prohibited on Sabbath. But a principal in Jewish law called “pikuach nefesh” mandates that the rule can only be broken in life-threatening situations.
In an interview with Kol Barama radio, Mark Zell, the chair of the Republican Party in Israel, said the couple have been granted special permission by a rabbi to use a vehicle because of “safety” concerns.
