Esteemed poet Dr. Maya Angelou said when people tell you who they are, believe them. From the time Donald Trump came down the golden escalator in Trump Towers in 2015, he has told us exactly who he is.
He began by calling immigrants rapists and murderers. He calls them animals that are poisoning the blood of our country, asserting they have bad genes that predispose them to murder. He questioned why we can't get migrants from Sweden and suggested we should trade Puerto Rico for Greenland. During the presidential debate he stated legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating the cats and dogs of locals. He claims with no evidence that South American countries are emptying their prisons and insane asylums and sending them here. At his rally in California, he said if deported migrants return to the U.S., he would imprison or execute them. His immigration policy was to rip the children of South American immigrants from their mothersƵ arms and place them in wire cages. The cruel and barbaric image of all of those children treated like animals should be seared into the hearts and minds of all Americans. Understand what he means when he makes these derogatory remarks. He does not mean all immigrants, just those with brown or black skin. He married two white immigrants.
TrumpƵs attitude toward women is well documented by his own words. He bragged about getting away with grabbing women in their private parts because he is famous and of going into the dressing room of Miss Teen America when teen contestants were undressed. If anyone else exhibited this behavior, they would be labeled a pervert. The concept of an intelligent, successful woman evades him. The adjectives he reserves for women who disagree with him are stupid and nasty. When found liable in a civil trial for sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll, his defense was it could never happen because she was not his type. So if she or another woman were his type? More recently he vows women will no longer have fear or anxiety because he will be our protector. Ƶk his three wives how he honors vows. We donƵt want or need his patriarchal protection. We want respect, freedom to pursue the limits of our abilities, and the ability to make decisions about our own bodies.
TrumpƵs narcissistic personality makes him vulnerable to manipulation by our enemies who have learned to be in his good graces; one only has to flatter him. He proclaims he knows more about war than the generals, more about the COVID 19 virus than the scientists, more about the economy than economists, and brags about his large brain and proclaims he is a stable genius. He sells images of himself dressed as Superman, a cowboy, etc. and coins and other items with a flattering doctored image.
He is determined to revoke the Affordable Care Act because of his jealousy of Barack Obama, taking us back to the days when persons with a preexisting health issue could not get health insurance. Ƶ a private citizen, he continues to communicate with our enemy, Vladimir Putin, while our government and our allies fight against PutinƵs aggression in the world. This is a clear violation of the Logan Act. In his eyes, no rules or laws apply to him. He has demanded the FCC revoke the licenses of networks that use footage of his own remarks if he feels it reflects poorly on his image. He states he will use the army to arrest and prosecute private citizens he deems to be Ƶenemies withinƵ (translation: those who disagree with him). If he is reelected, he will twist federal law and claim it to be in the countryƵs interest to revoke licenses of networks, thereby controlling all news we hear.
Trump is now the oldest person to ever run for president of the United States. If elected in 2024, he would be 82 years old at the end of his term. He has not released his medical records as he promised and as all other presidential candidates have done. In 2016, Trump claimed he could not release his tax returns because he was under an audit. Nine years later, he still has not released them. He is reduced to incoherent ramblings about windmills, toilets, sharks, etc. revealing an angry, pathetic, rather comical declining old man who has lost any ability to distinguish between reality and his delusions.
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