In yet another sign of how corporate America is happy to be associated with Donald Trump as he takes office a second time, the CEO of Coca-Cola presented Trump a commemorative bottle of Diet Coke for his inauguration.

In his second inaugural address, the old/new President Trump decided to mostly turn from the dark side, displayed and disliked by many in his first address, to a more optimistic (for him) view of America’s future.

Right before his inauguration, Donald Trump issued a $TRUMP meme coin featuring a defiant him pumping his fist after an assassination attempt. Shortly after their release, the market capitalization for $TRUMP coins passed $5 billion.

As this year’s inauguration occurs on the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump might — if he has it within himself — pledge to honor the great civil rights leader’s statement about love: “Hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

The resistance has taken to its recliners with bags of popcorn. Its members expect grand opera as an administration run by billionaires for billionaires rolls over the working folk who put Trump in office.

The appalling Los Angeles fires illustrate a climate, terrain, vegetation and governmental vulnerability a clever enemy could exploit, especially enemies like Russia and China who practice hybrid warfare.

JFK’s speech turns 64 years old on Monday. Yet despite its age, and the radically different times in which we live, it reads with youthful vitality.

There should be an absolute ban on cutting old growth and mature forest on all public lands, effective immediately. All forestry operations should be based on maximizing carbon intake.

We saw all five living presidents happily seated together, while we observers speculated as to what Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama were joking about with each other. Peace at last?

If we don’t tell our own stories of greatness, who will?