I admit it. I’ve reached a point of deep frustration with President Trump’s actions. I definitely believe there are likely many Americans who feel similarly.
The litany of transgressions is long.
Trump arbitrarily added his name to the Kennedy Center (even while some of his followers are making plans to add it back after a court has ordered it removed), and proposed to build an oversized commemorative arch in Washington D. C.
He wants to spend American tax dollars to upgrade the D.C. golf courses (which, ultimately no doubt would eventually be adorned with his name).
He accepted a 400 million dollar airplane from a foreign country and claims it to be his.
He has filled his administration with individuals selected more for loyalty than expertise, solely to advance his own narrow visions.
He proposed to create a $1.6 billion fund to pay off convicted vandals who trashed the seat of government.
He took this country into an unwarranted and unnecessary war.
He is in the process of spending $600 million to make over the White House in his own image.
Some of his closest allies have suggested that the newest aircraft carrier soon set to join the fleet be named after Trump instead of the recognized war hero, Doris Miller, after whom the carrier was scheduled to be named. Miller was awarded the Navy Cross — the second highest merit award to be given by the U.S. Navy — for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Imagine changing the name of a U.S. Navy ship from someone who has been deemed a hero to the name of an individual who dodged the draft, not once but five times, and one who has described veterans as “chumps” and “losers.”
This is the ultimate outrage!
It’s difficult to see how many service members or veterans could support a leader whose comments have been widely interpreted as dismissive of military service and who continually debases the roles of military service members.
One may recall his response to a reporter’s question about the length of the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln following voluminous reports of low crew morale and failing performance standards when he commented that the deployment wasn’t “nearly long enough.”
Genius?
Abraham Lincoln, in an 1838 address, said, “Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us? And if such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs. Distinction will be his paramount object . . . ”
Lincoln was obviously using the word “genius” in its most quintessential form — a person who influences another for good or evil — not as most understand the word today as someone of great knowledge or intellectual ability.
And so, under the original usage, President Trump can surely be considered a genius, but my definition of him would simply be avaricious.
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Every day, it seems, some new outrage is perpetrated by the Trump administration, something that should so inflame the American people that they would rise as one and demand of a flatulent Congress that it exercise even a modicum of its rightful authority and stop the excesses of this president.
As this is being written, President Trump has just re-imposed a 50% tariff on Canadian goods coming to the United States, a tariff which will undoubtedly be reciprocated and which, as in the past, will result in many U.S. and Kentucky businesses suffering. Nor should we forget that the previous tariffs were ruled unconstitutional by the courts and huge refunds ordered to businesses. All this in addition to the ill will created with allies and long-time trading partners.
So, yes, I’m fed up with this current administration and the non compos mentis individual running the whole thing.
The best one could hope for is that, after the upcoming mid-term elections, Trump will no longer have the overwhelming control over Congress that he now has and that, perhaps, his rapacious appetite for self-aggrandizement will be summarily reined in.
