Fox News Analyst Throws Cold Water on Trump’s ‘Big Promises’

Brit Hume
Fox News

Fox News’ chief political analyst Brit Hume suggested President Donald Trump may have overpromised in his inaugural address Monday.

While the first part of the address was, as Hume put it, a “down-to-business speech,” Trump made “some rhetorical flourishes at the end.”

Some of the “quite extravagant promises,” according to Hume, had to do with what Trump described as the “golden age of America.”

“And he said the greatest four years in American history are about to begin,” Hume recalled. “Well, one certainly hopes that turns out to be true. But it’s quite a big promise.”

Hume explained that some political realities may have given Trump the reason to speak as he did.

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“I think the speech was full of quite big promises. I think he feels he has a tailwind because of the decisive nature of the election, narrow though the margin ended up being. And because, you know, he has Congress under Republican control, albeit narrowly there as well,” Hume said.

Not only that, but the simple act of signing executive orders reversing some of Biden’s factored in too.

“I think he has high hopes that he can bring a lot of this to bear, and a great deal of it, I think—or at least a large piece of it—is represented in the executive orders he is issuing today to cover a multitude of topics which are available to him because the previous president relied on so many executive orders which can be revoked,” Hume said.

Trump signed several of those orders at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. after being sworn in, and more later Monday evening in the Oval Office.