Georgian Politicians React to Trump's Inauguration
The leader of "Strategy Aghmashenebeli", Giorgi Vashadze, said in a live broadcast from Washington that the false expectations of the Georgian Dream in relation to January 20 will finally be shattered and they will have to account to the Georgian people, who will have the full support of the Trump administration.
As Giorgi Vashadze explained, the enemies of the USA and the groups friendly to them, including Georgian Dream, will have a "very bad time." "Russia, China, Iran, these are the states with which strategic cooperation is incompatible with cooperation with the US.
So I think there were very important messages," he said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated on platform X: "My heartfelt congratulations to President Trump on his second term as President of the USA. His leadership should promote global peace and strengthen Georgian-American relations. Wishing you every success on this pivotal journey."
The leader of the parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze, wrote that Donald Trump will achieve his ambitious goals of dismantling the power of the "deep state" in the US and Europe. "I congratulate President Donald Trump. I wish him every success in his presidency. I hope he will achieve his ambitious goals of dismantling the power of the deep state in the US and Europe. The world needs courageous leadership and it is time to implement it," wrote Mamuka Mdinaradze on X. In addition, Mdinaradze published a "post" on "Facebook" in which he argued that "what we have been told for the last three years, that these are your invented and air-drawn topics, Trump spoke about everything. "Among them, he also focused on peace, sovereignty, dignity and the fact that there are only two genders, topics we 'invented'.
Commenting on the inauguration of Donald Trump, Levan Makhashvili, head of the European Integration Committee in the Georgian parliament, said he hoped that common sense and consideration for each other's interests would return to US foreign policy.
As Makhashvili noted, the foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration over the past four years has been "somewhat strange".
"It would not be an exaggeration to say that this will end the post-Cold War transformation process and the world will enter a new era, which we can boldly call the era of realism. The main feature of this era will be that all states will be concerned with their own national interests and looking after their own national interests. This is both a threat and an opportunity. The threat and the challenge will be in the sense that, of course, large countries, based on their capabilities, will have more opportunities to protect their own interests, and here the interests of small states may be sacrificed, but on the other hand, this can be an opportunity for Georgia to define our role, needs and interests, given our strategic location, and to align them with the interests of the United States," Makhashvili said.
Commenting on the presence of Georgia's fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili, and a number of opposition figures at the inaugural events in Washington, Makhashvili said that the opposition was making useless noise and trying to cover up real events. "Only five foreign partners were officially invited to the inauguration of Donald Trump. From Europe, only the prime ministers of Hungary and Italy have been invited. We have to distinguish between noise and an important event - the opposition is creating useless noise and trying to cover up real events. Their goal is to undermine the Georgian government and tell their own voters that foreigners support the opposition, not the government," Makhashvili said.