Trump says his inaugural will be about unity. It might be a tough sell.
In what would be a political makeover for the ages, Donald Trump says that moments after taking the oath of office next month, he'll cast himself as something notably off-brand: a unifier.
WASHINGTON — In what would be a political makeover for the ages, Donald Trump says that moments after he takes the oath of office next month, he’ll cast himself as something notably off-brand: a unifier.
The theme of his inaugural address? "Unity," he told Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC News' “Meet the Press,” in a recent interview.
“It will make you happy: unity,” he said. “It’s going to be a message of unity.”
What that means in practice is, for now, anyone's guess. Trump rose to power in 2016 by dint of a divided electorate. He lost the White House four years later and won it back last month by delivering much the same hard-line message in much the same blunt terms.
At 78, Trump isn’t about to reinvent himself, nor has he given any sign that he’s rethinking the polarizing positions he has taken on mass deportations or pardoning those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress counted the electoral votes certifying Joe Biden's victory.
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