Richard Warnica: Donald Trump was a joke, a fluke, a loser and a convict. Now he is the American mainstream

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump is the new American mainstream.
65% : Trump wanted an indoor ceremony, so he got one.
63% : Trump raised $107 million for his inaugural committee that year, more than doubling the existing record.
63% : It was hard not to wonder, wandering around Washington D.C. last week, what Trump was going to do with all his inaugural cash this time around.
62% : " Marritz and the other reporters he was working with documented, with deep rigour and exactitude, how Trump used his very first act in office to get himself paid.
55% : The American majority, silent no more, is all in for Trump.
53% : " When the day itself arrived, the weather was chilly, even coldish, at least for D.C. But walking around the city that afternoon it was impossible to escape the feeling that Trump moved the ceremony, stranding tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands of his most loyal supporters, and upending security and logistical plans that were years in the making, just because he could.
50% : Hours later, Musk delivered what looked like two Nazi salutes on stage at the arena where Trump was holding his parade.
49% : Trump didn't change anything about himself to earn all this establishment buy-in.
44% : The American people saw who Trump was, on day one.
41% : When Trump vowed to plant the American flag on Mars, Elon Musk, his biggest financial backer, gave two thumbs up and slack-jawed grin.
41% : I don't just mean people who were willing to vote for Trump.
37% : I don't want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way," Trump wrote.
29% : When Trump was first inaugurated, he seemed like an accidental president and the American establishment treated him that way.
14% : Trump seemed like a weird fluke in 2016.

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