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Trump’s Approval Rating Hits New Lows Just Before Taking Oath Of Office

Some people, not me, are saying he’s not getting great numbers since the election.

And this is a FOX NEWS poll, just saying…

Via The Hill:

Just over a third of Americans approve of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a new poll released hours before his inauguration.

The survey from Fox News showed that 37 percent of Americans approve of Trump ahead of his inauguration, while 54 percent do not.

Measuring the country’s mood just before Inauguration Day, 60 percent of Americans said “it’s everyone for themselves,” and 34 percent said “we’re all in this together.”

The poll comes at the tail end of a flurry of surveys that show Trump as having a historically low approval rating for a president-elect.

According to an ABC/Washington Post poll released earlier this week, 40 percent of Americans approved of Trump. In 2009, 80 percent of Americans approved of then-President-elect Barack Obama.

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Trump Inaugural Drew Roughly Half The Crowd Obama Did In 2009

Pics of the 2009 Obama inaugural (L) next to Trump’s event today (R)

A tale of two inaugurations.

Via Vox:

President Donald Trump boasted his inauguration would have an “unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout.”

But aerial shots of the National Mall from President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and today show that isn’t likely.

Federal and local agencies have estimated that anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 people will be in Washington, DC, today for Trump’s inauguration. That’s roughly half the number of people who attended Obama’s inauguration in 2009.

It’s also less than the turnout for Obama’s 2013 inauguration, which drew 1 million people.

Note the vacant spaces on the ground in the right side photo taken today.

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What’s Next For Barack & Michelle Obama?

Barack & Michelle Obama today announced The Obama Foundation:

The Obama Foundation will focus on developing the next generation of citizens — and what it means to be a good citizen in the 21st century. It will draw strength from the rich diversity and vitality of Chicago, where the President and First Lady met and raised their daughters, and it will have nonprofit programs across the city, the United States, and the world.

Whether you are looking for a role in your community or have been active on the field of democracy for years, we look forward to working with you and for you. Together, we will build programs to inspire us all to be better citizens and to help young leaders develop their ideas. This will be a design year for us, and we hope you’ll join in.

“More than a library or museum, it will be a living, working center for citizenship.”

In the video below, the Obamas ask you to tell them what you’d like to see their presidential center to focus on.

Make sure you now follow Barack Obama on his original Twitter account (over 80 million followers) here:

And follow Michelle Obama here:

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Trump Scrubs White House Website Of Civil Rights, Climate Change & Healthcare Sections

Obama White House LGBT webpage

Within minutes of being sworn in as president, civil rights, climate change, and healthcare were all scrubbed from the White House website.

From Esquire:

As part of the presidential transition, Trump’s team assumes control of WhiteHouse.gov. Before today, the “Issues” tab of the website had a section devoted to climate change, the existential threat posed to our species that a scientific consensus holds is caused by human activity. That section is completely gone with the website revamp, along with any mention of climate change whatsoever.

Trump’s new climate change plan: Act like it’s not there until it goes away!

Jackie Kucinich, Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast noticed the disappearance of the civil rights section of the website:

Here’s what you get if you search for “LGBT” on the new site:

Trump White House LGBT webpage
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Barack Obama’s Final Tweets As President

Barack Obama shared his final tweets as president to the American people this morning.

For those interested, Obama’s @POTUS account tweets will be transferred to @POTUS44 later today as an archive of his presidency, and the @POTUS account will begin anew for President-elect Trump to take over after he assumes the presidency.

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The Obamas Head To Palm Springs

President Obama with former Ambassador James Costos

Just another example that shows why the Obamas are my kind of people.

Following the inauguration, the Obamas will hop on a helicopter from DC heading for Andrews Air Force Base, where they’ll take a flight at 2:45PM to Palm Springs, CA.

The former First Couple will relax in Palm Springs with longtime friends, former U.S. ambassador to Spain James Costos and his husband Michael Smith, the interior designer for the White House since 2008.

The Costos/Smiths live in an enormous abode in the Thunderbird Heights gated community in Rancho Mirage.

According to reports, this will be the fifth stay for the Obamas at the California home.

My husband, Michael, and I love Palm Springs. Gorgeous weather and uber-gay community 🙂

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Trump Merchandise At The Inauguration

Dominic Holden of Buzzfeed News tweets this pic of Trump merchandise from the inauguration.

You’ll never guess where the stuff was made.

UPDATE: And then came this tweet from the newly sworn in president. How ironic…

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Kellyanne Conway: “There’s A New Sheriff In Town”

Donald Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway tells Good Morning America that Washington, D.C. is going to have “a new sheriff in town:”

“I feel like Washington, D.C. will have a shock to its system with President Trump. You’ll know almost immediately that there’s a new sheriff in town. He plans on upending some of the un-constitutional and job-killing regulations that have been put into place.”

What is she wearing???

Watch below: