Donald Trump has been President for 8 days and the speed at which he has shamed this country is astounding. While I have obviously never been a supporter, I'm finding it almost beyond belief that he is on such a record setting pace to tear apart so many of our core values in this country.
His crazy preoccupation with the crowd size at the inauguration was the first glimpse into what was important to President Trump. I cannot fathom why in heavens name this mattered enough to send his press secretary out on the day after the ceremony to completely dress down the media. This smacked of a child throwing a tantrum and tattling. This is embarrassing behavior in our leader.
The President remains fixated on the size of his victory. He continues to allege that there were 3-5 million illegal votes cast (all of which for Clinton) and that his margin of victory is under reported. There is of course no evidence of this but he is promising to launch an investigation. There go wasted tax dollars.
He is pressing forward with plans to build his damn wall. This is to the tune of 10-15 billion dollars. What a waste of money. An article from thehill.com quotes Texas Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) as saying "Building a wall is the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border." Thehill.com picked up this quote from the Washington Post. Will the wall have big gold letters spelling out T-R-U-M-P every 500 feet? Great Wall of TRUMP? More wasted taxpayer money. Mid week also saw a pissing contest between President Trump and the President of Mexico. A planned meeting was cancelled. Mexico still maintains they won't pay for a wall and Trump says they will. You do realize that any costs will ultimately be paid for by us, right? Those costs will be added in one way or another to goods that we all purchase.
He continues to say that he is pro-torture. His caveat is that he will defer to General Mattis who has stated he is against torture. I NEVER thought I would live to hear a President of the United States advocating torture. This is something I expect to hear from dictators in third world countries. How can you tweet that the Pro-life movement is so important and in the next breath be advocating torture? These are despicable words from the leader of the free world.
The speech that President Trump gave at the CIA headquarters was another embarrassing outing. He spent just a few minutes saying he supported the intelligence community (the ones he has formerly compared to Nazi's) and then proceeded to talk about his inauguration crowd size and the usual rant about the media. The ego of this man is so continually embarrassing.
Finally, on the same day as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day he announced that the United States was banning acceptance of refugees from a number of Muslim countries. His Holocaust pronouncement stated. "In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good. Together we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world." How can he even sign is name to this statement and in the next minute ban refugees seeking a new life? I cannot even fathom such heartless behavior.
I have repeatedly tried to see something good in this President. I have seen nothing even close to resembling mature, adult, intelligent, thoughtful or compassionate behavior from this man. This is a shameful era for the United States.
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