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Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.og,

“Don’t Make Any Sudden Moves” is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.

Haass meant the president should bring his National Security Council together to anticipate the consequences before tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem or shooting down a missile being tested by Kim Jong Un.

Germany is sending hundreds of soldiers to the Baltic region near the Russian border as part of NATO’s anti-Russia force. The troops will form part of a NATO force to deter Russia by deploying combat battalions in the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as well as in Poland. Press TV reports: The 500-strong military contingent, including 450 troops from German armed forces and the rest from Belgium and the Netherlands, assembled in the Bavarian town of Oberviechtach on Thursday for deployment to Lithuania.

Trump's 16 minute, 12 second, 1455 word inaugural address is the shortest since President Carter in 1977 (and second shortest to Kennedy since the end of World War II). The brevity, however, did not hide the tone...

Carter and Kennedy were the closest in terms of brevity...

Source: The American Presidency Project

Butthe following word cloud makes it very clear what the focus of his speech was...

h/t @BBCBarbaraPlett

America, First!

President Trump’s economic plan will create 25 million new jobs in next decade, “return to 4 percent annual economic growth,” "lower rates for Americans in every tax bracket, simplify the tax code, and reduce the U.S. corporate tax rate” according to a statement just posted on the White House wesbite.

He has also proposed “a moratorium on new federal regulations and is ordering the heads of federal agencies and departments to identify job-killing regulations.”

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