The inauguration of a president every four years is strictly a G-rated event, but you might not get that idea about next week's swearing in of Donald Trump based on an unusual comment made by one of his aides.
During a meeting with reporters at Trump Tower in New York City, the president-elect's adviser Tom Barrack said at Trump had asked him to make his inauguration "about the people, not about him."
"Instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers, is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place," Barrack said, according to The Washington Post.
The comments quickly set off the alarm bells of Twitter users, who were struck by the word "sensuality" — which is defined by the Oxford dictionary as "of or arousing gratification of the senses and physical, especially sexual, pleasure."
The comments came fast and furious:
Aside from "soft sensuality," Barrack added the inauguration will have "a much more poetic cadence than having a circuslike celebration that's a coronation. It will be beautiful. The cadence of it is going to be, 'Let me get back to work.'"
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