Saturday, January 18, 2025

On Now & Then

On the way, in one of those once in a life time moments where dream, vision and hard work turn into a physical, tangible reality, as Trump, Melania and Barron ascend the stairs together to stand, wave and enter the door of Air Force One again.  

Below is their last wave as they left Washington four years ago, on Jan 20, 2021, with no clue as to what was yet to come, the humiliations, validations, horrors and vindications, and a "lot of rallies, can you imagine, over 900 rallies?"  That's a lot of adversity and walking up and down plane stairs while holding onto hope and a vision for change.

And now, four years later, this! Hard to imagine, yet here they are, going up them and walking into Air Force One with Trump on his way back to DC, the White House and the Presidency.  

Update:  The assigned plane they boarded today is Air Force 2, with that flight designated as "Special Air Mission 47".

2 comments:

edutcher said...

First, Mama, you are on fire today.

Second, compare that with the last official view of Brandon leaving the White House, the bald head with the hair in back longer than most men his age because that's where they took the plugs so he'd look like he wasn't bald.

Pathetic, and angry, to the end.

MamaM said...

On seeing him walk up those stairs again, I was surprised to find myself feeing overwhelmed with a huge sense of gratitude and relief. Strong enough to make me wonder if that scene/moment might be serving as the antidote to what I felt four years ago as I watched the counting for the Nov 2020 election abruptly and unexpectedly come to a halt Trump in the lead in MI, and then resume four hours later with the decrepit Biden somehow just enough ahead to win the election. I was in disbelief then, and now am feeling another kind of amazed disbelief at the Beyond Imagination way things unfolded to return Trump to the presidency.