Donald Trump is an admixture of an ignorant know-it-all, someone whose thinking process and ability to express himself has become more and more incoherent over the years. His love of hearing his own voice seems more like a self-pleasuring behavior on his part. And then, there is his pretend godfather like speech sing song cadence that attempts to seal his public persona.
He reminds me of the ten-year-old who constantly does things in public that are unpleasant for others to be around. And, when he is called out about his misbehavior, he denies doing what he has done, and when the adult world reinforces their displeasure with his behavior, cries out about being the victim of others always ‘picking on me.’ With Trump he is never the cause of others’ accusations about him, he is always the one who is treated unfairly. His whole idea about being the ‘retribution’ for his and others mistreatment, his identification with Jesus and Nelson Mandela are all about of his sense of being the one who is always treated unfairly and is the champion of retribution.
Trump has a scatter gun approach to saying things. There is often an incoherence in what he has said. Trump is unable to see the cause-and-effect relationship between what he says and the consequences that follow from what he has said and done. He likes tariffs, for example and fails to realize that ultimately a tariff is a tax to be paid by the citizen who is making a purchase. With Tariff’s, he fails to acknowledge that the price goes up for the customer.
His faulty reasoning was also on display during the COVID pandemic. In a speech, Trump implied that one way to cut back on so many people testing positively for the virus would be to do less testing. With less testing there would be fewer individuals who would be shown to be carrying the COVID virus. This was during the time that he also suggested that the injecting of bleach might also help those who have come down with the virus.
Trump also has strong biases against those who are not white. He claims that ‘immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country.’ His black and Latino prejudice was demonstrated in his calling out of the Central Park Five where four black fifteen-year-old males and one Latino male were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman while jogging in New York City, in April of 1989. Trump wrote in the New York Times demanding the execution of the Latino group member. In fact, all five of these young men were exonerated of violating the young woman.
His is an attempt to rid the United States of all but the whites. His support of the White Christian Nationalists sets the tone for his biases and prejudices. He wants to go back to a time when women were subservient to men. His is a regression on the course that we have been on as a nation where we have equal rights as citizens of the United States. Instead of making America great again, he, in fact wants to return America to the time when the rights of Americans were predicated on their skin color and the sexual distinction of being male or female. His role in reversing of a woman’s right to decide on her reproductive health issues is another example of his backward thinking and disregard of the feelings and needs of others.
Trump as a sociopathy is oblivious about causing others unneeded suffering. Cutting needed programs to provide food for the hungry children and medical care for the elderly, ill and infirmed are examples of his ruthless approach toward others. His mistreatment of veterans, whom he refers to as ‘losers and suckers’, cutting essential programs and ending jobs that provide veterans with a source of income are other examples of his disregard of the needs and feelings of others. He has cut departments and programs throughout government that number workers in the tens of thousands. While he is cutting such essential programs, the money he is saving from such acts are going to tax savings for the wealthy among us.
Trump is a pathological liar. He says one thing in the moment and will reverse what he has said in the next. He still maintains that he won the 2020 election. He also tried to reverse the 2020 Presidential vote in Georgia by calling the Secretary of State on an open line, and asking him to change the actual vote of the people. With such behavior how can any of us believe what we are being told by such a person or by any other member his government? And more poignantly how could such a person become our countries, President?
He believes in the use of violence against those who he resents and attempts to continually disregards the rule of law. He orchestrated the January 6th overthrow of the government and pardoned those who attacked the defenders of the Capitol and those who defended the orderly transition of power. His attitude toward the courts is ‘catch me if you can.’ In fact, this cognitively limited and emotionally ill person, should have been disqualified from running for the Oval Office. His involvement in the January 6th act of sedition and his continually threatening those who oppose him, should have landed him in jail.
And Trump wants to get rid of any program or educational avenue that would call attention to the fallacies that he is continually perpetuating. He wants to cut back on public education specifically and any program that promotes a citizens’ learning to read, write, or critically think. Improvement programs that have been implemented in government agencies that that facilitate an employee’s skills or grasp of a topic are being done away with. This is another expression of his racial biases, to keep nonwhite people on a lower rung of the employment latter.
So how do we relate to the reality that we are facing in our current political world? Do we turn our backs on what is standing before us, or do we do something to change what we are being presented with? Our situation reminds me of someone finding out that they have a life-threatening cancer. Do we pretend that it doesn’t exist? Is our fear of what we are facing turning us away from dealing with the reality that we are presented with? Or do we squarely face the facts of the matter and address what is needed to be dealt with? We have an illness within our body politic that is systematically destroying our very essence. Ours is the task of facing what is before us and returning America to a land of the free and the home of the brave.
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