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BumRushDaShow

(150,972 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:58 PM Jan 2025

GOP Governors Booted From Trump Inauguration, Making Room For Billionaire CEOs and Fox News Hosts

Source: MEDIAite

Jan 20th, 2025, 1:26 pm


President Donald Trump was inaugurated inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday surrounded by former presidents, mega-donors, tech billionaires, and Fox News hosts, but noticeably kept out of the room were some of the country’s top Republican leaders.

“Governors have also been relegated to the Emancipation Hall overflow viewing space, including Republicans Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, Florida Gov. and former presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat. Kari Lake, a former candidate for senator and governor of Arizona, is also here,” noted the press pool report.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Patricia Murphy shared the pool report and noted that Georgia’s Gov. Kemp (R) was “sent to the overflow room, while Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech CEOs and inaugural donors get the seats inside.”

Kemp, as well as Youngkin and DeSantis, is generally seen as a star in the Republican Party and a key ally for Trump in a state he narrowly lost in 2020.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/gop-governors-booted-from-trump-inauguration-making-room-for-billionaire-ceos-and-fox-news-hosts/

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GOP Governors Booted From Trump Inauguration, Making Room For Billionaire CEOs and Fox News Hosts (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 OP
LOL.... Lovie777 Jan 2025 #1
Yeah - he won't need them anymore, so... dchill Jan 2025 #2
Bwaa haa haa! Bo Zarts Jan 2025 #3
sucks to suck, governors ck4829 Jan 2025 #4
LMAO!!! Did they round em up like they were illegals?? Bengus81 Jan 2025 #5
ROFL! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2025 #7
Good. 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2025 #6
Did Greg Abbott get sent to the overflow room? LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2025 #8
Paxton, Patrick? LeftInTX Jan 2025 #13
They will find no sympathy from me! IzzaNuDay Jan 2025 #9
The way I heard it JoseBalow Jan 2025 #16
And Youngkin changed the flag status for him underpants Jan 2025 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Jan 2025 #15
WHOA! no_hypocrisy Jan 2025 #11
They'll accept it and grovel more. "Thank you Sir, may I have another?" SunSeeker Jan 2025 #12
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) got a seat for the Inaugural FakeNoose Jan 2025 #14
I'd almost bet Linda ladeewolf Jan 21 #17

Bengus81

(8,699 posts)
5. LMAO!!! Did they round em up like they were illegals??
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 04:12 PM
Jan 2025

Damn...that would have been must see TV.

IzzaNuDay

(944 posts)
9. They will find no sympathy from me!
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 04:22 PM
Jan 2025

find sympathy in the dictionary between suckers and too bad!

Response to underpants (Reply #10)

Linda ladeewolf

(830 posts)
17. I'd almost bet
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:07 AM
Jan 21

That even republican governors have trouble getting disaster aid out of trumps this time around! He is there for one reason and one reason only and it isn’t to govern!

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