A travesty of a leader

Trumpsters and Trumpettes repeatedly refer to anyone who criticizes their anointed one as a sore loser. I’m not a sore loser; I’m an angry American who wants his country back. It seems Trump’s travesty of an administration consists primarily of business cronies and right-wing Republicans who detest the agencies they are to lead. If this is running the country like a business, then this business needs help from the Small Business Administration, or have they already eliminated it?

It appears that Trump’s tax plan is exactly as characterized by the Democrats who opposed him—a windfall for wealthy individuals and large corporations, and a fist to the gut of the little guy. The ballyhooed border tax will hurt Wal-Mart, Target and other retailers who will pass the cost on to their customers. It is equivalent to a regressive sales tax that hurts those in the middle and lower end of the income spectrum.

Did you hear the one about the president who has no personal business conflicts? Seems Trump was recently awarded a trademark for the Trump brand in China—one he was denied for the last 10 years. How lucky is that? And about 40 percent of the steel in the Keystone pipeline is from a Russian-owned company, what a coincidence. Nostrovia, comrade!

When Republicans talk about cutting entitlements, they mean Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the social programs that I believe form the fabric of our civil society. I believe their plan is simple: protect corporate donors and the very rich and stick it to the middle class under the guise of health-care reform.

DAVID ELI COCKCROFT

Little Rock