Donald Trump has failed as President.\u00a0\u00a0We Americans were lucky that we didn\u2019t have a \u201cserious\u201d crisis for the first three years of his Administration.\u00a0\u00a0By the way, don\u2019t tell hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico there wasn\u2019t a serious crisis. Or the folks who live in the burning forests of California.\u00a0\u00a0And please don\u2019t tell our \u201callies\u201d the Kurds that it wasn\u2019t serious. We pulled out and left them to face the Russians and Syrians all by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as most Americans aren\u2019t Puerto Rican (though all Puerto Ricans are Americans), and California is a \u201cDemocrat\u201d (sic<\/em>) state anyway, and the Kurds \u2013 well to Trump they are just Kurds; it didn\u2019t matter. It wasn\u2019t until a national crisis that impacted us all, the COVID-19 crisis that has taken 210,000 lives in seven months, that we found out how impotent the President really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We already knew he was a liar. He lied to America about COVID, and now we know he lied about his finances. The New York Times <\/em>revealed his financial position to the world Sunday. He\u2019s paid less in Federal income taxes that almost any American in the past ten years. Two of those years he paid $750. Several more he paid none, zero, nothing. And before someone says, \u201cwell he was just a smart finance guy\u201d, that\u2019s Bull. We know from others that he consistently has lied about the value of his properties, higher when he wants them for collateral, lower when he has to pay taxes on them. And that tax audit he keeps talking about? He may have cheated to get $72 million in tax refunds. He seems to be the tax-cheat-in-chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump not only lied to the American people about the seriousness of COVID in the beginning. He intentionally misled us to protect Wall Street from financial impact and himself from the political repercussions.\u00a0\u00a0 He refused to take responsibility, passing the \u201cbuck\u201d to the state Governors. Then almost immediately he began to publicly undercut those same Governors\u2019 efforts.\u00a0\u00a0It shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that Governors who listened to Trump instead of the science, have some of the highest infection rates in their states today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The closing argument is that Donald Trump failed Americans as President, and should be replaced. It seems more than obvious, a real political \u201cno-brainer\u201d. He is incompetent. So why are there still so many Trump signs out along the roads, so many banners waving from the back of pickup trucks, and so many lining up to participate in Trump (super-spreader) rallies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, there is the obvious \u201cflaw\u201d of our times.\u00a0\u00a0There is an entire cable news network that spends twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week trying to convince America that Trump is great.\u00a0\u00a0And there is social media, so penetrated with doubt and false stories that people are struggling to decide between truth and falsehood.\u00a0\u00a0But I don\u2019t think Fox, or Breitbart, or the false memes on Facebook fools most Trump supporters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think there are two reasons why Trump continues to get the support of some forty percent of Americans.\u00a0\u00a0The first is that he offers them an outlet for the fear and anguish they already feel about the changes in our nation.\u00a0\u00a0In less than twenty years we went from banning gay marriage to enshrining it in law.\u00a0\u00a0We went from a nation that struggled to consider a Black person as a corporate CEO or an NFL head coach, to one that elected Barack Obama as President.\u00a0\u00a0And we went from a nation that put marijuana users in jail, to one where only eight states still make it fully illegal. (In nine states it\u2019s fully legal, thirty-three have some mix of medicinal use and\/or decriminalization).<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have changed as a nation, and we\u2019ve done it fast. There are many who feel \u201cleft behind\u201d, and Donald Trump has given full voice to their internal worries. Some of those voices include racist and fascist views as well, something that Donald Trump has intentionally and repeatedly refused to condemn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the biggest lie of all is that Donald Trump is somehow protecting \u201cyour\u201d retirement.\u00a0\u00a0The argument that Donald Trump is the \u201conly\u201d one who has kept pension funds and 401-k\u2019s \u201cup\u201d is simply not true.\u00a0\u00a0When Barack Obama took office the Dow Jones Industrial average was at 7000.\u00a0\u00a0When he left office it was just under 20000, almost a 200% increase.\u00a0\u00a0Under Donald Trump, the Dow Jones went from 20000, up to 28000, or a gain of about 40%.\u00a0\u00a0Which one was better for your money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you look into a future of even more changes, particularly climate changes, the best protection for our investments is to make our nation a leader in the technology to improve the environment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump is looking backwards on that issue, talking about \u201cclean coal\u201d (whatever that is) and oil independence.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That won’t move the nation or the world forward, and it won’t protect our investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we discovered (again) Sunday, Donald Trump is a fraud.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s an actor, a \u201cbrand\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Like the fake-doctor on the commercial who \u201cplays one on TV\u201d, Donald Trump has finagled enough money to \u201clook like a billionaire\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0He can\u2019t even fire his own employees; he has to get someone else to do it.\u00a0\u00a0Trump deducted $70000 in one year for getting his hair-styled.\u00a0\u00a0And he paid his children a salary, then paid them for the same work again and called it \u201cconsulting\u201d so he could deduct more money from his taxes.\u00a0\u00a0He has to re-finance or pay over $400,000,000 in loans in the next couple of years.\u00a0\u00a0He is financially \u201ccompromised\u201d and vulnerable, not just to bankers, but also to foreign intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let him go.\u00a0\u00a0Let him find a way to \u201ccash-in\u201d as the ex-President.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s time for America to move forward, into the Twenty-First Century, rather than wishing for the \u201cgood old days\u201d that weren\u2019t so great in the Twentieth Century.\u00a0\u00a0Tell Donald Trump the words he could only “act” on TV \u2013 YOU\u2019RE FIRED!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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