A body language expert has broken down exactly what happened when Melania ‘turned her face’ from Trump as he failed to kiss her during his presidential inauguration.

Speaking inside the US Capitol building for his second inauguration today (January 20), Donald Trump revealed his plans for the future as the 47th president.

Before his grand speech, Trump was seen arriving with his wife and incoming first lady, Melania Trump, for a church service, the tradition which marks the start of the inauguration and the end of office for Joe Biden.

But before entering the chamber, Trump appeared to try and kiss Melania in what could’ve been a touching moment.

However, Melania, donning a huge hat, appeared to snub her husband, instead turning her face for a peck on the cheek.

After watching the moment, body language expert Judi James has shared her thoughts on what Melania’s dodge could be indicating.

Speaking to Paddy Power, James said Trump entered the inauguration event ‘with a slow alpha presence’ with a ‘mouth shrug smile to suggest a sombre, serious approach to the job.’

When he reached for Melania, James said he ‘tenderly’ took her hand ‘in a romantic, hand-linking gesture that would normally be seen at a wedding ceremony’.

The couple didn’t touch lips (Saul Loeb – Pool/Getty Images)

She continued: “He then leant in to plant a kiss on his wife and for a moment it looked as though he was going for a lip-to-lip kiss.

“Melania leant towards her husband to reciprocate but she also turned her face to instigate a cheek kiss rather than the mouth variety.”

James explained it was a ‘heart-stopping moment’ as it appeared ‘as though their synchronicity might be out of kilter’.

However, Trump apparently ‘settled for an air kiss’.

You can see what happened in the clip below:

Their lips never made contact but they made a small ‘mwa’ with their mouths, James continued, which made the gap between them ‘small enough to provide the appearance of contact’.

The pro concluded that Melania was happy with the interaction, adding: “Melania beamed at her husband for the moment of not just acknowledgment, thanks and recognition but the signal of her being a priority and them being more of a team in the White House.”

Body language experts have also pointed out Melania’s ‘strange’ outfit choice (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The microscopic analysis comes as another body language expert, Darren Stanton, commented on Melania’s unusual choice of dress.

Speaking on behalf of Betfair Casino, Stanton said she chose a ‘very statement look with the big fedora’, noting that it could’ve been chosen to ‘hide her face if she wants to’ while the navy blue fit was a ‘strange’ decision, considering ‘blue signifies the Democrats’.

Throughout the inauguration, Stanton said the pair also exhibited ‘little to no emotion’ with ‘no holding hands’.

He continued: “[I]t almost looks quite a solemn occasion, if we were to judge by their facial expressions. There’s no eye contact, no smiles, no emotion between the two of them.

“She gives off the sense she doesn’t want to be there, with no micro-expressions of happiness from Melania, it was quite a strange entrance.”

Everything Trump has pledged to do as 47th US president

Delaying the TikTok ban

After TikTok went dark yesterday (January 19), it was bought back after mere hours with a message reading: “Welcome back! Thank you for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the US!”

Trump will reportedly sign an executive order to delay the ban saying he wants to ‘make a deal to protect our national security.’

Immigration

In a statement during a rally at Madison Square Garden during his presidential race he said: “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.

“I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”

Donald Trump has radical plans for his second term (Bonnie Cash – Pool/Getty Images)

Planning over 100 executive orders

It’s been reported by AP that Trump plans on preparing over 100 executive orders on his first day in the White House. Trump’s allies have reportedly spent time preparing documents that Trump can sign quickly, on issues such as deportation, school gender policies and vaccine mandates, without input from congress.

“There will be a substantial number,” said Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Making hidden government files public

Including the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., Trump promised at his recent rally in Washington D.C that, in a bid to increase government transparency, he will be making these disclosures in ‘the coming days’.

“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

‘Make Greenland Great Again Act’

In a bid that has not gone down well with Greenlanders, taking to his social media platform Truth Social Trump said: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.

“Greenland is an incredible place. The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president (Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool/Getty Images)

January 6 pardons

Trump’s loss in the 2020 election led to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in turn resulting in the arrests of a number of Trump supporters.

In an interview with TIME, Trump said that looking into the cases of the rioters’ will take place in ‘the first nine minutes’ of his time in office.

In a post shared on his social media channel, Trump said: “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

Getting rid of birthright citizenship

Exactly as it sounds, Trump once declared he wanted to get rid of birthright citizenship, which immediately gives citizenship to anyone born in US. Noting that this may not be possible as it’s written into the constitution, he said he wants to achieve this by executive order – bypassing congress again – ‘if we can’.

Cut federal funding for schools educating on ‘inappropriate’ topics

Speaking early last year, Trump addressed a crowd in Iowa and made plans to ‘save [the] country from destruction’.

“On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity,” he said, per NPR.

Trump also said he would target schools pushing ‘any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children’.

Making the US the ‘crypto capital’

Back in 2021, Trump called crypto a ‘scam against the dollar.’ But four years on, he’s pulled a u-turn as he vowed to make the US the ‘crypto capital of the planet’.

On social media, Trump claimed crypto would be ‘mined, minted and made in the US’.

Both he and wife Melania released their own memecoins ahead of the inauguration, while experts previously predicted Bitcoin could reach up to $250,000 this year.

Be a ‘dictator’

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last year, he referred to himself as a ‘dictator’ when asked if he was promising to ‘never abuse power as retribution against anybody’.

In response, Trump said: “Except for Day 1.

“I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling,” he continued.

“After that, I’m not a dictator.”

Trump has vowed to be a ‘dictator’ on day one (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

End Green Deals

Trump has spoken previously about his plan to ‘terminate the Green New Deal’, which he dubbed the ‘Green New Scam’.

The Green New Deal was pitched by Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, but it was never signed into law.

Addressing the policies in a speech in September, Trump said: “To further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam. Greatest scam in history, probably.

“We [will] rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”

“I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on Day 1.”

Arrange green cards for college graduates

Despite making his stance on migration clear, Trump has advocated for non-US citizens to receive green cards to stay in the country if they graduate from college.

During an episode of the ‘All In’ podcast recorded this year, Trump said: “Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years, if you graduate, or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country […]

“Somebody graduates at the top of the class, they can’t even make a deal with the company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country. That is going to end on Day 1.”

Scrap ‘electric vehicle mandates’

Trump plans to scrap Biden administration’s so-called electric vehicle mandate, referring to new pollution standards that incentivize auto manufacturers to increase production of electric and lower-emission vehicles.

Despite vowing to get rid of the policy on his first day, Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan the move could take ‘maybe two days, because it’s a little bit busy’.

Fire the man who indicted him

Trump faced two federal cases in relation to the 2020 election result from special counsel Jack Smith, and the future POTUS has no plans to work with him again.

Speaking on October 24, Trump told the Hugh Hewitt show he would fire Smith ‘within two seconds’.

“He’ll be one of the first things addressed,” he said.

Donald Trump has said the ‘golden age of America begins now’ as he’s sworn in as the 47th president.

The President is speaking inside the US Capitol building in Washington for his inauguration.

Trump arrived with his wife and incoming First Lady, Melania Trump, to St John’s Church, known as the ‘Church of the Presidents’, today (January 20) as he prepares to take on the role for the second time.

The President with wife, Melania, during his second inauguration (YouTube/ABC)

He has dubbed the day’s events as ‘liberation day’ for America, adding: “It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.”

In his speech, Trump also listed off figures including Vice President JD Vance and Justices of the US Supreme Court, as well as former presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Joe Biden, and announced that ‘the golden age of America begins right now’.

Trump continued that he is ‘confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success’.

“Sunlight is pouring over the entire world and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before,” he added.

During his inaugural address, the President said he will ‘rebalance’ the ‘scales of justice’ during his term.

“The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and government will end,” CNN reports.

He also slammed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for his policies at home and abroad.

Former President Biden during the inauguration (ABC/YouTube)

Trump said: “We now have a government that cannot manage a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumble into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.

“We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people.”

Trump also highlighted some of the executive orders he will sign and take on as president, including an end to the ‘Green New Deal’ and the ‘electric vehicle mandate’ while tackling inflation.

He claimed in his speech that the US is in a ‘national energy emergency’, promising to ‘drill, baby, drill’ as well as bring down rocketing costs and provide ‘tax cuts for American workers’.

The 78-year-old is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency and will be the oldest president in US history by the end of his term.

Touching his assassination attempt during the campaign trial, Trump claims his life was ‘saved by God’ to ‘make America great again’.

His speech comes as part of the age-old tradition, during which the president-elect recites an oath while the vice-president will also be sworn in by repeating the same oath of office that has been in use since 1884.

Elon Musk was spotted giving an enthusiastic thumbs up during Donald Trump’s inaugural speech, which massively contrasted Barron Trump’s reaction.

People tuning into Donald Trump‘s inaugural speech were left gasping for air with laughter after the cameras showed Elon Musk and Barron Trump during the speech.

As Trump commented on America‘s goal of putting a person on Mars, Musk is seen giving a super enthusiastic thumbs up, while stood next to Barron Trump and applauding.

Barron on the other hand, looked pretty unfazed by the whole thing and doesn’t so much as give a smile. Take a look:

As you can imagine the clip of the moment has already started spreading on social media with many delighted by the night and day difference between the two men.

One user commented: “Barron Trump looked like he feared being the first person sent to Mars.”

While another wrote: “Barron Trump giving zero f**ks about Mars while standing next to Elon Muck.”

A third wrote: “Tuned into the Trump inauguration speech for literally less than a minute and was just in time to get this screen shot of Barron Trump looking like he wants to k*ll himself being stuck next to Elon Musk.”

With another adding: “I’m gonna assume Baron Trump is Not a fan of Elon Musk by what I just saw on cam lol.”

The only acceptable face to make when Mars is mentioned (YouTube/AFP)

Now, it does make sense why Musk would be spotted applauding and beaming ear to ear based on what Trump said.

The now sworn-in-president said: “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.”

This is something Musk has publicly spoken about for years and a man on Mars is one of the goals he wishes to see achieved in his lifetime – despite the planet recently being deemed as ‘unsafe for humans to live’ by experts.

Despite the hopes of Musk, experts have also been clear of the many difficulties that starting a civilization on Mars could expect.

Last year David Kipping, the Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy at Columbia University, spoke to Valuetainment and explained how some people have their doubts regarding Musk’s plans to put civilizations on the red planet.

He said: “Yeah, some of my colleague’s kind of think it’s ridiculous and think it’s just totally crazy that we’ll ever do this.”

Humanity getting to mars has long been a dream (Getty Stock Image)

However he did note that he had no issue with Musk putting his money into projects that could lead to Mars’ colonization.

He continued: “I get the philosophy. The philosophy is, as long as we’re all on planet Earth we’re at risk because all it takes is one giant meteor or one nuclear war or whatever cataclysm you want, and we’re all gone.

“So, if your objective is to preserve the species then it totally makes sense that you would want to have a second base and whether that base be on the moon or Mars, I don’t really have a strong opinion.”

Today has been coming for a long time, if you’re a Republican you’ll be delighted but if you’re not then it’s a bitter pill to swallow.

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th US President will take place in Washington DC, beginning at 11.30am Eastern Time and around half-an-hour into it the 78-year-old will be sworn in for his second time in charge.

But during the President-elect’s final ‘MAGA’ rally before he is sworn in, he spoke about vote counting computers in Pennsylvania and people on Twitter think he might have incriminated himself and Elon Musk in ‘odd’ confession at the rally.

President-elect Donald Trump came out with a weird statement about vote-counting computers during his final speech before being sworn in as President (NewsMax TV)

Speaking of Musk at the rally, Trump said: “And then he journeyed to Pennslyvania where he spent a month and a half campaigning for me and he’s a popular guy.

“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.

“So, it was pretty good, it was pretty good. So, thank you to Elon.”

Taking to the social media platform, one user posted: “This is called a confession.”

“What an odd thing to say,” another typed.

While a third was shocked at what the soon-to-be president said. They said: “Did he just……..”

With a fourth adding: “Now, Trump suggests that Elon Musk rigged the PA vote-counting computers in his favor.

“Surely the GOP will be demanding a full investigation into Trump and his oligarch wannabe-dictator buddies. Right?”

However, not everyone saw it this way, and suggested that people are grasping at straws.

They tweeted: “I literally just watched it and he never said any of that…”

Elon Musk, who spoke during Trump’s victory rally, apparently knows vote-counting computers better than anybody (NewsMax TV)

While another explained: “‘Depending on which county a resident lives in, they may vote by voting machine, or they may vote with a paper ballot that is scanned in.

“Pennsylvania uses different systems to count mail-in ballots in some parts of the state that are used to count the same-day vote, and every vote in the state leaves a paper trail.’

“Therefore it would be technically impossible to hack voting machines since the paper trail would not match up. Wishful thinking though.”

Could that be all it was? I’m no expert but there’s too much conspiracy around vote-counting in the US, I personally believe Trump won fair and square – as did President Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.

“Now I’m convinced the inauguration will be inside due to protests,” commented one person, and by the outrage his comments have struck on Musk’s own social media platform… moving it indoors might be best.