Nicolle Wallace: Who Gets What Pen Is the ‘Least of Our Worries’

‘They’re rookies at some of the logistics but I think who gets what pen is the least of our worries for anyone that sort of cares about norms and traditions’

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WILLIAMS: "Nicole, you went through this with a veteran of politics. This is all new for the new president."
WALLACE: "I did, and watching George W. Bush this is the third inauguration he’s attended that wasn’t his own. This idea of a former presidents club it struck me rereading the speech since I’ve been sitting here that something Steve Schmidt said on election night that Donald Trump didn’t just defeat the Democratic Party, he defeated the Republican Party. This is what it looks like. This is his speech that was basically I don’t belong to anyone, and the truth is Donald Trump does not owe this victory to anybody. The entire Republican establishment was against him, everyone except Bob Dole refused to attend his convention. It is fair for him to I don’t know if it’s a good use of his time, but it’s fair for him to say that the media largely accepted the establishment critique of his policies. He is an isolationist. He does believe in protectionism and a lot of people believe he’s sort of fomented the sense of nationalism that didn’t just border on racism but had overt racist undertones to it. He put off and put out a lot of people, so the speech today was exactly what we should have expected it to be, yet it’s still shocking to hear something like what he did today at the inaugural. So I think there’s going to be, they’re rookies at some of the logistics but I think who gets what pen is the least of our worries for anyone that sort of cares about norms and traditions."

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