Donald J. Trump – the man we elected President

 

The thoughts expressed here are solely my own.

A few people have pointed out on social media that we should stop attacking his policies and give them time to work their “magic.” Fair enough. (Although nearly every economist, with any credibility at all, is saying the results are going to be terrible. And that’s just on the economic actions! How about that foreign policy?)

Let’s focus on Trump, the man, then.

What do we know about him?

He was born into wealth and yet claims that he built his entire fortune himself, pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He says he was an incredible student at Fordham University and then at Wharton Business school where he graduated with a BS in economics in 1968. His grades have never been seen by the public and for someone who leans heavily to the vainglorious, I can only imagine how awful they must have been, or he would have been waving them around for all to see. (He claims to have won his golf club “championship” 18 times over the years. Does everyone else just not show up?)

He claims that his track record as a businessman gives him incredible insight into how the economy works and is best maximized. For the record, his various enterprises have filed for bankruptcy six times, including a casino. Casinos are among the most lucrative businesses in the world because the house always wins. The only way to bankrupt one is through horrible mismanagement.

He claims to be a devout Christian yet in one interview was unable to name a single Bible verse by which he likes to live. He has been married four times and has proved to be a serial philanderer during each of those. He has been adjudicated as a sexual abuser and ordered to pay millions to E. Jean Carroll. He has lied over 30,000 times in public and each has been documented by the press. His actions clearly don’t match up to the common definition of a Christian. They also don’t line up well with commonly accepted moral standards, for that matter.

He claims to be a patriot and yet he managed to receive five deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam war, the first four for education and the fifth for a medical condition of bone spurs. (The details surrounding this are murky and unclear.) He has been quoted as not wanting to attend veteran funerals because “those guys are all losers!” Unlike other Presidents, he has been unwilling to spend time welcoming injured veterans home from overseas. (He allegedly attended one ceremony early in his first term and said he’d never do it again.)

He claims that our country needs to abolish its DEI efforts, and signed executive orders to do so, because they’re biased against some people (white folks) and that merit and competence will rule the way people are promoted in all government roles. He then appointed administration officials based on their loyalty to him instead of their merit, background, and competence. The Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services are just two glaring examples. He has fired many people in top positions of the government, simply because he sees them as disloyal to him and his cause.

With these examples, I believe it is possible to define Donald Trump. He is a lying, philandering, ignorant, immoral, narcissistic, racist, megalomaniac.

That’s who we’ve elected to the most powerful position in the world.

No wonder the world is wondering what happened to the United States. I wonder that, myself.

You call this Unifying? It’s Round 2 of the Bullsh*tter-in-Chief!

Are you kidding me??? 

Admittedly, I was disappointed that Kamala Harris didn’t win the presidential election in November. She had a long climb to make in just over 3 months’ time. And while she did a terrific job across the country about letting people know what she stood for and what her presidency would be about, a large percentage of the voting public was not moved to go and vote for her. Many said they “just didn’t know her” and that stopped them. (Heaven forbid they should do their own research and read her website which was very clear about all of this.)

The result was that a lot of potential voters stayed home, thus electing the 45^th POTUS as the 47^th POTUS – the second time in our history that a President served non-consecutive terms. As of 2 days ago, Donald J. Trump was the President of the United States.

His first administration was something of a disaster and ranked by many presidential scholars as the worst in history. (Having watched them live for the last 60+ years, that’s saying something!) In any case, he promised while campaigning that he would be a great unifier and would get America out of it’s “perilous decline of the disastrous past 4 years.”

It’s important to note that the past 4 years have seen the largest growth in our economy in history, the lowest unemployment rate of the past 50 years, more new businesses started than in the past 50 years, more jobs created than the past 50 years, and a constant reduction in the crime rate during the last 4 years, too. Was there inflation? Yep and while it was painful for many Americans, it was also the lowest of any of the major countries of the world; in other words, it was handled effectively, more so than anywhere else in the world. (If you’re looking at that last paragraph, and wondering where the decline is, your confusion is based in logic and reality. If you disagree with any of it, feel free to do your own research. Each of those statements is a fact.)

Shortly after being sworn in on January 20^th, 2025, which was also MLK Day for the ultimate irony, Trump signed a huge pile of Executive Orders. Some were pure fantasy (removing the citizenry birthright? It’s in the Constitution, dude) and others were just mean (There are only 2 genders, according to the new POTUS, flying in the face of science, of course.) and one was downright sinister. That’s the one that really pisses me off.

With the sweeping of Sharpie, TFG has pardoned or commuted the sentence of every one of the January 6^th insurrectionists; 1506 of them to be exact. Calling them patriots or proud Americans, he has basically said that what they did on that fateful day was just fine!

While he had said he was going to do it while campaigning, I am astonished at this outrageous act. There isn’t a single second of video that shows that group as being anything other than riotous, treasonous, racist, anti-American, anti-Democracy assholes. Their actions that day caused deaths, disabilities, and shook the very pillars of our country. By taking this action, TFG has made it clear that the only Americans he will honor and protect are the ones that are totally loyal to him. If this doesn’t frighten you, you are either not paying attention or are too MAGAfied to understand the ramifications.

The GOP has long described itself as the party of law and order. I have yet to hear a single member of the party stand up and say, “This is wrong!”

Jesus Christ, people he’s just said that police don’t have to uphold the law and people who break it in his name are welcome to do so!

Despite my not voting for him, I had decided that I would support our new President as long as what he was doing was good for all Americans. Based on these actions on the first day in office, he’s lost any support from me for anything he does in record time.

No one will ever convince me that he is anything but an ignorant, racist, narcissistic, bully. The only way to deal with a bully, in my experience, is to punch them in the nose as many times as it takes for them to get the message.

I hope it isn’t too late to save America.