When Donald Trump’s aides claimed he was writing his inauguration speech, many people scoffed. Then we heard the speech and the response shifted back toward the possibility that Trump had indeed written it, given how self-centered, bitter, and divisive it was. But no. As was generally assumed to begin with, the claim that Trump wrote the speech was false. One of its actual authors is an eyebrow-raiser, though:
President Trump’s inauguration speech was written by two of the president’s closest aides and not Trump himself, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
A White House official told the Journal that Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior advisor Stephen Miller penned the address.
Yup. The inaugural address of the 45th president of the United States was co-written by a white nationalist.