This editorial is addressed specifically to the numerical majority of American voters who did not choose the man inaugurated Friday as the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
The message to them is, get used to it. He is extremely likely to be in office for at least the next four years.
There was some thought at first that maybe he didn't really want to be president--he just wanted to win the election, to make a point. That turned out to be wrong.
Washington Post cartoonist Herbert Block, who had the habit of drawing Richard M. Nixon with a five o'clock shadow, drew a cartoon offering Nixon a free shave when Nixon was elected president for the first time in 1968. (That turned out to be misguided optimism, of course.) In spite of misgivings about Trump by many Americans, he deserves the same fresh start.
Editorial on 01/24/2017