03 April 2017

Dishonest

The Los Angeles Times published an excellent editorial yesterday that apparently is the first of four parts. The initial installment is titled "Our Dishonest President" (link here).

This excerpt speaks for itself:

"It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a 'catastrophe.'

"Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.

"Instead, seventy-some days in -- and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed -- it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced... What is most worrisome about Trump is Trump himself. He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation."

The only fault I find with this piece can be summed up in the following question: what made anyone think Trump would settle down and mellow out once he was in office?

He has been a loud, self-adoring buffoon his entire adult life, something he has had on public display since the 1980s. He was a preening, vain, trash-talking, ignorant blowhard then and he remains one to this day. He also has had a long history of spewing lies indiscriminately and never admitting he was wrong or deceptive.

That's why I find it so sadly laughable that people still believe his campaign promises to this day. He has been caught in so many lies, so many flip-flops, so many deceptions, that he makes the boy who cried wolf seem credible and honest.

The rainbow flag incident was a scam. He'll wipe his feet on the LGBT community every chance he can get if he thinks he can milk evangelical votes out of knifing us in the back.

Read the Times piece in the link and pass it on. Trump's support has dropped to its lowest level yet, and more people are waking up every day. Help them see the light.

2 comments:

  1. What can I add as a Canadian.....?

    From this side of the border, as you almost said, this «fake president» makes us laugh and cry at the same time.

    His «hilarious» republican campain and reality show rallies as much as his way to sign all those presidential orders were so much made as a BIG SHOW OFF.
    But on another point of view, we are so scared of all the sad effects of his narrow views of international politics with him not really consulting the ones that are suppositivly conceling him on the White House.
    The same when we, Canadians, see how he is treating the refugies, latinos, black people, muslims and LGBT Americans. Insulting lot of people on his way to the presidency to mention how he did treat women in his past life.

    He is such a jerk by sweeping off many laws or policies that Obama did put in like anti-polution rules, right for women to have an abortion and his Obama Care to help the poorest of your poeple.

    For sure, your LGBT people have to be also scared that it'll be your turn to go back in the closet because it'll be so hard to remain in the sun because those so called «Christians» will crucify you on the public place.
    They've already do in some states by not serving gays in many restaurant and shops etc...

    USA is now in a very sad and bad position and is returning back in the 60s time.

    Friendly yours from Canada (Montreal)

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  2. Anonymous04:24

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