This is the Guardian.
Today.
Village People admirers from the tech world, and some notable absences, the inauguration and the starting gun on Donald Trump's second presidency.
What a great honor to be able to introduce for the first time ever anywhere, the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J.
Trump.
Do you remember this day exactly eight years ago, when Donald Trump was inaugurated as US President?
The first time, January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
The stands were half empty across the country.
Hundreds of thousands of women were preparing to come into Washington, D.C.
for one of the biggest protests in American history.
The national anthem was sung by a musician called Jackie Avancho.
Yeah, I haven't heard of her either.
In Trump's speech, the Guardians Washington correspondent David Smith remembers.
It felt pretty bleak.
I remember two words, American carnage.
And that was the most memorable phrase of Donald Trump's inaugural address.
This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
It was a strange inauguration.
Here was this TV celebrity with no prior political experience, the circus master taking the oath of office, watched by former presidents.
Former first lady Michelle Obama.