Trump’s outrageousness gets worse by the day
Responsible people cannot bypass truth and facts because a self-righteous billionaire expects them to. Regardless of one’s political persuasion, truth and honesty are not up for debate, nor are they negotiable. Calling lies “alternate facts” does not wash away mistruth. It does not give dishonesty a sleeve of honesty. A lie is a lie, regardless of how one wishes to describe it.
These are traits parents teach their children to raise honest respectable souls to eventually govern themselves, their own families, and the country — which they should love because it is honourable gracious, and giving. The United States has three levels of government ensuring what are called checks and balances, so that one branch does not overreach or overpower another, creating a well-balanced democracy.
The legislative, judicial and executive do not have authority over the other. When the president claims he has authority over the judicial branch because he is the president (which sparks a memory of Richard Nixon saying with authority, “I am not a crook!”) indicates a breakdown in what Americans hail to be the greatest democracy in the world. The president has attacked three Appeal Court judges, calling them “so-called judges.”
They have considered the validity of his executive order banning citizens from seven selected countries from entering the United States (none of which have had any of their citizens commit terrorist attacks in the United States.
Isn’t it interesting that they are all Muslim majority nations?) They have ruled that the ban does not uphold the values America has based its fundamental rights upon.
Now, upon the court striking down the executive order, it seems he and his henchmen are redrafting the miserable decree. He also, prior to winning the electoral college votes, discredited another federal judge, whom he called a Mexican, saying he couldn’t give a fair judgment concerning his Trump University shenanigans, which was settled in a class-action lawsuit that awarded the complainants millions.
He claims to be defending the American people, yet the American people have never before been in as good a state in terms of criminal occurrences, including violent crime.
There is always a road to improvement, but to be screaming fire in a jam-packed theatre when there is none, has a stench to it, which again is the daily behaviour we expect of the newly elected president. When he claims that there are thousands of criminals streaming into the country with nothing but thought of creating havoc, raping, dealing drugs and stealing all the righteousness of America, it is outrageous behaviour by him. When he tries to frighten the citizens, telling them that he is the only one who can save them, it is puzzling at best, and disgustingly narcissist at worst, which is where the president is today.
Where will this lead him tomorrow? How long before he is responsible for the loss of citizens’ lives, or the lives of people in other countries? Paul Shea
St. John’s