Donald Trump lies, denies, deflects any
semblance of truth away from himself and ”gaslights” everything. When he talks
from his delusional world, he sounds like the guy who is rousing up his
base…when he talks about reality, he is incoherent, rambling, his thinking is
fragmented and on a level of a fourth grader with language processing issues. What’s the difference? When he is in his delusional world, he is at
one with himself and has his delusional reality mastered…when he is talking in
the world of reality, he is at a loss, stumbles all over the place and is an
embarrassment to himself, to the citizens of the United States and a joke to
citizens of the world. He makes claims that the tear gas we used on immigrants
at the Mexican border are “very safe.” He blamed immigrants with children “for
being in harm’s way.”
His past two years as President have been a time of destroying programs that were set up to assist and protect members
of our American Family. He has attempted
to undercut our national security agencies, our judicial institutions, he has
supported those who want to destroy public education, and reversed programs
that ensure clean water and clean air. His has attempted to dismantle those regulatory
efforts to make sure that when seniors seek information on their retirement programs,
they are assured to have their welfare
the center piece of their negotiations with their consultant, not the financial
welfare of the consultant or the company he represents. His insistence that
global climate change is not true despite the recently completed comprehensive
report on the negative impact on climate change and our economy because 'I’m
too intelligent to believe the climate change report.' At another point he
asserted “I don’t believe it, that if every other place on Earth is dirty, that’s
not so good.”
He has had
dealings with Russians to gain loans for his various business ventures. Both of
his sons have publically stated that the majority of their money has come from
the Russian Oligarchy and, yet, Trump denies having any business ties with the
Russians. He has receive loans from the Saudis that have bailed him our of two
bankruptcy situations, and he says he has no ties with the people who our CIA
have identified as having murdered Saudi Washington Post journalist, Jamal
Khashoggi.
Trump’s time in
the Oval Office is a freak show playing in front of our faces every day of the
week. Sadly, there are those who are ill
informed, unschooled in how government is suppose to work, poorly versed in the
writings of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and, as a
result, are easily influenced by the Fox News and other propaganda producing
sources.
Trump’s need to be
the center of attention runs his efforts to do away with bilateral
negotiations, people working together for the benefit of all and, instead,
wants to be the center piece for making a deal…he wants to be the big deal maker
that his delusional world says that he is. His ignorance about the facts and
history of addressing issues involved with negotiations is evident in everything
he touches. In addition, he was totally unaware that Putin mocked him in Helsinki when he offered to have his intelligence people join together with our CIA and FBI to
find out about our election problems. Before that he was manipulated by Kim
Jong Un to believe that North Korea was to be trusted to ‘denuclearize’ the
Korean Peninsula when, in fact, reports have indicated that their program has
expanded.
We deserve and can
do better than this as American Citizens.
Our job is to listen, to learn about issues and to participate in our electoral
process. If people are getting exercised
about some person or issue, use that conflicting energy as a warning that
someone wants you to believe something that might not be true. All of us are ignorant about something…ignorance
is overcome by becoming informed…that is something we can all achieve. Our form
of government depends on informed consent.
Without being informed, we are at the mercy of people like Donald Trump
and Fox News, Putin and Un. There are facts and we need to be able to separate
facts from opinions. Contrary to what Trump asserts, there is no such thing as
alternative facts. Alternative facts are
a lie. And, we need to know the difference.
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