American presidential inaugurations traditionally nurture a sense of unity, pride and aspiration – drawing on that American quality of oratory John Kennedy and Barack Obama come to mind – which causes emotions to soar.
Not so in 2017. The speech by then-incoming president Trump provoked former president George W. Bush to remark: “That was some weird shit.”
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John McCarthy is a former ambassador to Vietnam, the United States, Indonesia and Japan, a high commissioner to India, and a senior adviser to Asialink.
