As you can imagine, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times fixture Paul Krugman is very excited about President Joe Biden.
American Kamalage.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021
Manhattan is cheering.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021
Surprised myself. Watching the Bidens and Harris/Emhoff entering the Capitol, I teared up. America may make it.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021
That was like a vision of America as it should be — decent, truthful, committed to justice, unified in diversity. Eloquence at every point. Reality will set in, as it must. But wow.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021
But there was one aspect of the inauguration that he found somewhat disturbing:
Band playing God Save the King? Not exactly appropriate.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021
Yeah.
Wait, what?
My God, is this a real tweet?
— Doctor of Education-Elect (@belize042) January 20, 2021
Or is it some kind of bit?
https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1351910139381444610
HRH Queen Elizabeth, the United Kingdom, @nytimes, and the citizens of the US all shaking their heads at this for various reasons. 🤦♀️
— Heather McCoy (@HeatherMcCoy27) January 20, 2021
They were playing "America" which has the same melody. I remember it from grade schoolhttps://t.co/Ju0vstMW0R
— ptdecker (@ptdecker) January 20, 2021
Well, to be fair, grade school was, like, 200 years ago for Paul Krugman.
Aha. Forgot there are Americanized lyrics. I guess I've spent too much time Over There over the years.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021
Is “Over There” code for “Up My Own Backside”? Because Krugman’s definitely spent a lot of time there.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1351957363943682050
That's what I thought at first too.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) January 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1351957767968477184
Well, the joke’s on you, Becket. Paul Krugman’s not nearly self-aware enough to do a gag like that on purpose.
My dude out here not knowing about My Country 'Tis of Thee. https://t.co/xWIhH3KieV
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 20, 2021
***The Star-Spangled Banner plays***
Paul Krugman: Band playing a British bar song? Not exactly appropriate.
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 20, 2021
Snort.