Will the next President of the United States enjoy a honeymoon?

Election 2016

Traditionally, Presidents enjoy a brief period following their election and inauguration during which they get a pass. No one complains. Criticism is held in abeyance. Why? Probably because we're exhausted. The campaigns are over. Everyone is tired of arguing. The loser has conceded. We give politics a rest. Not for long. Just a while. When has any honeymoon lasted more than a couple of weeks?

Normally, that happens. Sadly George W. Bush didn't get one. Instead of throwing rice, the opposition threw hanging chads and went to court (and I don't mean courtship). The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and even their wisdom couldn't put the conflict to rest. Indeed, the wrath of the opposition fell on their heads as Candidate Gore and his followers accused the Justices of playing politics. Thus, even before his inauguration, Bush was named the “President-Select”, and the acrimony never ended, even after he was sworn in.

Some might have expected that the Republicans would seek revenge against President Obama and deny him a honeymoon but that no, he had one. Indeed, the inaugural celebration even found a seat for me. Although I, and many like me, despaired at the election of one so remarkably devoid of qualifications for the office, we celebrated his election as a symbolic end to racial injustice. We looked forward with great anticipation to an age in which discrimination and bigotry would fade into the past. Boy, were we disappointed. Of course, we were realists. We knew that racial bigots still existed. They always would. But, since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1967, they no longer had to force of law to inflict their peculiar idiocy on others. Sadly, that was not to be. Racial tensions have risen during Obama's Administration. After the Attorney General announced that he would not enforce the law on black offenders with the same alacrity as others, we could have renamed the Department of Justice the Department of Revenge. But that's another story...

I cannot remember another President in my lifetime who was denied their honeymoon. Indeed, in my study of history I can think of only one other, Abraham Lincoln. He had to sneak through Baltimore on his way to his inauguration because mobs were waiting to lynch him, and the Southern States abandoned the Union. That reminds me of some weddings I attended during less tolerant times.
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If you had asked me last year and we had known that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were going to be the presumptive candidates of the two major parties, I would have speculated a honeymoon for Hillary, but none for the Donald. After all, the news media in America is largely the Fifth Column generating propaganda for the progressive Left that Hillary represents. However, her scandals have become so egregious in recent days that even they are abandoning her. Although I have never proven prescient, especially regarding politics, I feel safe predicting that the Republicans will attack her beginning day one if she's elected and the news media may just pile on. Given the level of vitriol regarding Donald Trump, I can't imagine he we'll enjoy any honeymoon, not even with his own party.