Enough: It’s time for Trump to go
To my growing dismay, each morning’s front page of The New Mexican invariably reveals a new “crisis of the day” news story involving President Donald Trump. Of course, no story about Trump would be complete without quoting one or more of his tweets on the issue-at-hand. For example, on May 10, the day after Trump fired FBI director James Comey, members of the press could pick and choose from at least 10 Trump tweets as they unleashed an avalanche of articles on this blockbuster of a new story.
Sadly (to use a form of one of Trump’s favorite tweet words), the vast majority of Trump’s tweets are putdowns of people, policies or groups — President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the mainstream press, global warming and so on. This pattern has become so predictable that a website called Trump Twitter Archive has been created to document and categorize over 30,000 of the president’s tweets.
By any reasonable norm, this behavior is not only excessive, it is pathological. Besides wasting his time sending up to 10 tweets a day, is it really presidential to describe himself as the “best,” “greatest,” “smartest,” while referring to his adversaries as “sad,” “loser,” “dumb,” “stupid,” “crooked,” “pathetic,” “moron,” “clown”? No president has ever comported himself in this manner. Quite frankly, I am having to pinch myself very hard each day to realized that this is all happening in real time, and he is not simply some mean-spirited Pee Wee Herman character.
It is way beyond disgraceful that the president of the United States persistently and obsessively resorts to these juvenile sorts of slam-book tweets to retaliate against someone or some group who, in his twisted mind, represents a threat to his power and authority. This behavior not only demeans the office of the presidency, it is downright scary because it is depriving the American people of the time, attention, and diligence that it’s elected leader should be devoting to the proper execution of his duties.
Our country cannot continue to function indefinitely in this crisis-of-the-day mode, and the world is becoming too dangerous a place to have such a dysfunction person in the White House. There are provisions in the U.S. Constitution for remedying this situation before it’s too late.