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Seething and coping from the left took on an added dimension when one corporate media outlet highlighted which federal holiday coincided with President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“I hate to be a Debbie Downer…”

Rather than seek a constructive path forward after the American people had afforded the GOP leader a mandate with his sweeping Electoral College victory, taking control of both chambers of Congress with him on his return to the White House, demagoguery remained the order of the day on the left.

As such, a look ahead at the constitutionally mandated calendar day of Trump’s second inauguration found Margaret Hartmann, senior editor of New York magazine’s Intelligencer, kvetching over its coincidence with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“When Will Trump Take Office? On MLK Day, Unfortunately,” Hartmann titled her piece Friday that sought to answer questions for her readers as they “process this information.”

“If you’re not a big fan of Donald Trump, you’ve probably gotten used to hearing a lot of stupid and/or depressing political news in recent months. I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but as the Biden administration comes to a close, there’s another unpleasant fact that may not have dawned on you,” she began. “The second Trump inauguration will take place on January 20, 2025, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.”

Detailing that it had happened twice before — first with the second inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1997 and then with the second inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2013 when Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday — she reminded that Trump had no say in the timing and it had nothing to do with an attempt to “own the libs.”

On matters of timing, it was previously reported that Jacob Chansley, otherwise known as the “QAnon Shaman,” had found great amusement in the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris would have to certify her own loss on the four-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol breach, referring to it as “Evidence that God has a sense of humor.”

Chansley’s suggestion that “God loves poetic justice,” appeared to further play out as Hartmann pointed out that Harris, who ran a divisive campaign rather than attempting to unify the country, would have been inaugurated president as the first black woman on Martin Luther King Jr. Day had she, in fact, won.

“So if Kamala Harris had become the first Black woman elected president … Yup. But instead … Yes, we’ll be swearing in the guy who spent the first MLK Day of his presidency golfing, and who recently bragged that his pre-insurrection speech on January 6, 2021, drew a bigger crowd than King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech (which isn’t true),” contended the senior editor.

Despite the frustrations expressed by Hartmann, reactions were pleased that Trump, who had signed into law the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park Act in 2018 alongside members of King’s family, would return to the White House and “bring back MLK’s dream of not judging people based on the color of their skin.”

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