On Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. After being sworn in, he gave his inauguration speech which has been dissected and analyzed by millions of people. One thing that a lot of people are noticing, though, is that he actually quoted super-villain Bane from "The Dark Knight Rises."
On a rainy and gloomy day in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump stood in front of the world and delivered his first words as the new POTUS. While there were many things that some may find questionable in his speech, there was one line that stood out to everyone, and it was from Bane.
How close were Trump's words to that of Bane?
Actually, it was pretty close to being spot on to what Bane said in "The Dark Knight Rises." Yes, that was a script and Bane isn't a real person as he was played by actor Tom Hardy, but it is hard not to notice the similarities in the words.
“Today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people,” Trump said on Friday.
While the whole speech doesn't come from Bane, that last part most certainly did. At one point in the movie, Bane is out front and speaking to the citizens of Gotham City and states that they will take the city away from the corrupt and the rich.
He then says that they will take it from "the oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you, the people."
Donald Trump and Batman villains are no strangers
This isn't the first time that Donald Trump has been compared to villains from the world of Batman comic books. Most recently, actor Mark Hamill started likening the new president to that of the iconic villain, the Joker.
Fans will know Hamill as Luke Skywalker from "Star Wars" and also as the voice of the Joker from "Batman: The Animated Series." Hamill recently started taking some of Trump's tweets and reading them in the voice of the Joker and putting the soundbites up online for the world to hear.
