Reactions to beginning of Trump era

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States in Washington DC early on Friday.

According to the UK-based Daily Mail, as thousands of people descended on Washington to see Donald Trump get sworn in as president, thousands more were protesting right across the United States.

Protests escalated into violence and destruction just blocks away from the White House on Friday as black-clad activists clashed with police following Trump's inauguration.

More than 200 people were arrested and six police officers injured during the violent clashes.

But other rallies and marches were simultaneously held in most major cities - including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Austin - and carried on well into the night.

Thousand of people also participated in a women against Trump demonstration in the US major cities.

Several anti-Trump protesters held placards reading 'Trump is hate, resistance is love'. An LGBT flag and several red flags, a symbol of far left socialism, were also displayed.

**Markets waiting for change

CNBC in a report titled, 'Markets look for lots of action in President Trump's first week' wrote that Trump is expected to make the repeal of Obamacare a priority. He is also seen moving quickly on the topics of trade with Mexico, immigration and regulations in areas like energy.

Trump focused on the theme of putting America first in a speech that had a strong protectionist ring.

One of Trump's most important comments in the past week was that the dollar is too strong. A strong dollar hurts corporate profits and hurts emerging markets.

Trump is expected to open talks with Mexico and Canada on the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has been in place since the 1990s.

Meanwhile, CNN in an article titled, 'Trump stakes out inward, protectionist vision for America' wrote that President Donald Trump, in his first address as the 45th US president, struck a protectionist, isolationist chord as he vowed to upend the way America relates to and does business with the rest of the world.

'We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first,' Trump told the crowd as a light rain fell.

'We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs,' Trump said.

'Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength,' he added.

Trump's election rhetoric rattled many allies, and there was little in his inaugural address to reassure US partners or to put foes on notice that the US intends to stand up for its friends and democratic values.

He made no reference to America's traditional role as a global leader and shaper of international norms. Instead, he pointed at withdrawal -- a prospect that many foreign policy analysts warn could create a vacuum that China or Russia will move to fill.

'We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow,' Trump said.

'For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military,' Trump said.

'We've defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own and spent trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay,' he added.

'We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.'

The speech echoed his campaign stances, in which Trump blamed China for stealing American jobs, accused allies such as NATO and Persian Gulf countries of taking advantage of US largesse and called for building a wall along the border with Mexico.

As a candidate, Trump had proposed rewriting international trade deals and reconsidering alliances that have underpinned the international security order since World War II.

The phrase 'America First' is a loaded one, rooted in the years leading up to World War II when a group of that name urged Congress to stay out of the conflict. Historians today see the group that first used that name as isolationist, defeatist and anti-Semitic.

**Donald Trump's First Two Cabinet Nominees Confirmed

According to Slate magazine website, a whole two confirmed appointees will now be able to join Donald Trump on his wacky presidential adventure.

The Senate on Friday afternoon confirmed two of the many military men Donald Trump has nominated to serve in his Cabinet.

The third nominee that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hoped to confirm, would-be CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a congressman from Kansas, will have to wait until next week, despite McConnell’s warning that the terrorists were going to spend all weekend doing terrorism if Pompeo wasn’t around to give them nasty looks.

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