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Today January 20^th, 2025 is significant in America for two important reasons. One of it being the Martin Luther King Day, which is a public holiday set aside for the remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. It is a day to reflect on King’s contributions to equality, justice, and peace, and to recommit to his vision of nonviolent activism. The other reason is being a day for the swearing-in of the former President Donald J. Trump, in his second-coming as the 47^th President of the United States of America. His second-coming, though a milestone achievement, is however not unprecedented, for America had Grover Cleveland as the first American President with a nonconsecutive two terms presidency in the United States of America, who was in the saddle between 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897. However, what makes the presidency of Donald Trump, especially his second-coming unprecedented and unique, is his record as the first former and serving American President convicted with a criminal offense, making him to wear the toga of a felon. Interestingly, the conviction of Donald Trump, after his first tenure in office, serves as the only saving grace for the American democracy, which has its pillar in the rule of law. Had the Judiciary missed the opportunity of meting out the deserved conviction and sentence, which although carries an unconditional discharge on President Donald Trump, America would have completely lost its respect among the Committee of Nations, as a beacon of light and the true champion of democracy.

Regardless of the criminal record of President Donald Trump, Americans went to the poll on November 5^th 2024, and spoke loudly, though not clearly you may wish to say, by electing Donald Trump to return to the White House, as the 47^th President of the United States of America. The peaceful conduct of the elections was also a credit to America and Americans, and this further cements the foundation of the American democracy. However, the incontrovertible truth that this development of the choice of President Donald Trump by Americans to be their 47^th President, with all his baggage of atrocities, is that of the dearth of character.

“We say we want a renewal of character in our day, but we don’t really know what we ask for. To have a renewal of character is to have a renewal of a creedal order that constraints, limits, binds, obligates, and compels. This price is too high for us to pay. We want character but without conviction. We want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame. We want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend. We want good without having to name evil. We want decency without the authority to insist upon it. We want moral community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”- James Davison Hunter

Noteworthy are the manifestations of the hands of God in this development as demonstrated by fearful acts that only the hands of God can bring to bear in the world of men. The passage to glory of the 39^th President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter, who also is the longest-lived President of the United States, making it to 100 years, at a time when it was possible for the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to administer his funeral, wasn’t an accidental coincidence, especially going by the enviable and unprecedented legacy that he left behind and as a democrat. The sad event of the wildfire that came upon a prominent part of Los Angeles in California, which was unprecedented and was described as the kind that no any water system in the world can quench, serving to herald, the second-coming of Donald Trump, also deserves a special place in our hearts.

The last but not the least is the unfriendly weather of below zero negative degree, which makes it impossible for the swearing-in ceremony of Donald Trump to be held outside for maximum visibility, which no power of man can prevail on, is also very significant for those who are perceptive, and only those who observe these things will be wise and appreciate the place of the rule of God in the affairs of men. God uses the foolish things to confound the wise, but for as many as are perceptive and discerning, these are a divine invitation to President Donald J. Trump, to be cautious and not to lean on his own understanding. He should not mind what the sycophants are whispering in his ears, for God alone is the one who gives power and power is transient.

In conclusion, the best questions are those that are asked and no matter how good the ideas that one may have may be, as long as they need clarifications for perfection, until relevant questions are asked, the ideas may not see the light of the day, and the questions not asked, turn out as bad questions. Recall that the question that President Donald Trump posed to Americans during his campaigns and which gave him the needed support was “Were you (Americans) better off economically this year (2024), than you were 4 years ago?” The answer to his question was a capital No. However, the only question which Americans failed to ask in return was about what has changed in the character of President Donald Trump between when he was kicked out of office in 2020, and 2024 when he was seeking a re-election. Americans also failed to ask him why he could not build the wall that he promised to build to separate America from Mexico, in his first tenure of 4 years. Without gainsaying the fact, the second-coming of President Donald Trump also presents the opportunity to Americans, this last time, to observe and tinker with the missed opportunity, in relation to the important question they failed to ask and as at when due, for what is bad about making a mistake, is to keep making it.

Prayer for America: “Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves as people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the Spirit of wisdom, those to whom in thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail. All which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.” – Father Tim

God bless the United States of America.

By Samuel Tunji Adeyanju

GMN Chief Executive Officer, USA