this should have been the US version of a Coronation. Months of planning, fanfare. There should have been time magazine specials in grocery lines and breathless 24-7 coverage. A true national event. Instead it just happened, no notice, right in the middle of the 250 and the WC.
I assume this was intentional on their part and if so should be treated as Treason per Art. III sec 3 (immediate execution).