What are the Republicans and Fox News saying about Donald Trump's inaugural speech?

Asked by JLeslie (65412) January 23rd, 2017 from iPhone

I’m curious if they saw it as a speech calling to unite the country.

Most of what I’ve seen on TV is that the media felt the speech was dark and nationalistic. I do think it had some nationalism in there, but I heard him say (I’m paraphrasing) America is first, but we don’t want to harm other countries. That he wants to unite democrats and republicans and be a leader for all Americans. I felt like his speech was aimed at his supporters who showed up for him in person and were tuning in on their TV’s.

I felt like the few minutes he spoke at the statuary hall was directed at the people in the room. Acknowledging Hillary and complimenting her, and the people in the room gave her a standing ovation. I’m pretty sure a lot of them were republicans.

I would not have characterized the speech as dark if you had asked me what I thought right after hearing it. I do wish it had not sounded so adversarial to other countries. I don’t think it did from my perspective as an American, but I saw right away how it would be interpreted that way, and so I thought that was a mistake, or more than a mistake, a bad idea.

He spoke a lot about giving power back to the people. I don’t hear the media talking about that.

Here is a link to the speech.