The Admitted Sexual Predator Names His Inauguration the "National Day of Patriotic Devotion"...

On Monday, the paperwork was filed with the federal government declaring officially that Jan. 20, 2017 — the day of Trump's inauguration — would officially be known as the “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.”

“Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Jan. 20, 2017, as National Day of Patriotic Devotion".

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

I'm waiting on our resident republicans to chime in with "yeah.. but Obama (insert what Obama did here)"...

DWags wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

I'm waiting on our resident republicans to chime in with "yeah.. but Obama (insert what Obama did here)"...

Not what he did, what he didn't.  I didn't see an American flag pin on his jacket during Trumps inauguration.  .  It's the Muslim way.   A secret signal that the guns and bibles will soon be gone from our homes.  

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

I'm waiting on our resident republicans to chime in with "yeah.. but Obama (insert what Obama did here)"...

OF course you knew what Obama did when you posted this.....thus the setup but I'll bite anyway.

From the leftists preferred fact checker - Snopes.

The proclamation (reproduced in full below) was often framed as an atypical, worrisome, or unique action, and Klippenstein's article contended that the National Day of Patriotic Devotion declaration was one of more "troubling signs from the new administration":

The proclamation abounds with religious language, stating that, “we must maintain faith in our sacred values and heritage” and that there can be “no peace where people do not pray for it.” It denotes the date as “the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen.”

The document also includes assertions of American exceptionalism, stating, “There are no greater people than the American citizenry.”

But as The Hill pointed out, President Barack Obama declared his first inauguration day (20 January 2009) a "National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation," and an archived copy of that proclamation shows it described the occasion in a similarly religious language:

As I take the sacred oath of the highest office in the land, I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon my shoulders, renewed by the courage and decency of the American people, and fortified by my faith in an awesome God ... On this Inauguration Day, we are reminded that we are heirs to over two centuries of American democracy, and that this legacy is not simply a birthright — it is a glorious burden. Now it falls to us to come together as a people to carry it forward once more.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2009, a National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation, and call upon all of our citizens to serve one another and the common purpose of remaking this Nation for our new century.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

By comparison, President Trump's proclamation stated:

A new national pride stirs the American soul and inspires the American heart. We are one people, united by a common destiny and a shared purpose.

Freedom is the birthright of all Americans, and to preserve that freedom we must maintain faith in our sacred values and heritage.

Our Constitution is written on parchment, but it lives in the hearts of the American people.

There is no freedom where the people do not believe in it; no law where the people do not follow it; and no peace where the people do not pray for it. There are no greater people than the American citizenry, and as long as we believe in ourselves, and our country, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2017, as National Day of Patriotic Devotion, in order to strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country -- and to renew the duties of Government to the people.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.

President Trump's "National Day of Patriotic Devotion" (formally entered into the Federal Register on 24 January 2017) didn't differ all that much from President Obama's 20 January 2009 "National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation" in as much as it mentioned faith, was issued concurrently with a first-term inauguration, used heavily patriotic language, and bore primarily symbolic weight.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/23/trump-patriotic-devotion-day/