Donald Trump is the master of avoiding accountability and
shifting blame. Frankly, other than some
college girlfriends, I have never seen anything like it and I am fascinated by
such an ability. He claims to have the
largest crowd ever at his inauguration, an obvious lie, and blames the media
for depicting otherwise. He claims he
wins with a landslide, an obvious lie, and he blames fraudulent voters. He claims to be a stable genius and in no way
demonstrates either his stability or his genius. When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico Trump
argued that we did not respond because it was not as big a deal as Katrina,
that Puerto Rico was bankrupt, that we did not have enough money in the budget
to help, the island was in bad shape before the storm and that the military
mismanaged distributing food. Harvard
estimates 4,600 Americans died in the storm and as of March 11% of the island
was still without electricity. Once
again, Trump blames others.
His most recent maneuver was at the G7 meeting where he
stood firm on tariffs he has imposed on our allies, yes, our allies. Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Poland, Sweden, Greece, Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, Romania,
Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic now have tariffs on imported steel and aluminum
by Presidential order. Congress did not
approve this. Trump did. And every time one of those nations makes a
public statement against the imposition of the tariffs, Trump refers to them as
weak, or back-stabbers, or worse. Worse,
while insulting our allies he spends time promoting Russia’s entry into the
G-7. He leaves the summit early and he
refused to sign a document endorsed by the other 6 nations. Amazing.
Fox news backs him up. No one
else on the world stage does. In fact,
Fox News is banned in most European nations because it repeatedly broadcasts
lies in the name of news.
Trump can walk into a room and intentionally step on
everyone’s toes. When they complain he
simply says it happened because their feet were too big. The Bigfoot Maneuver. It is not Trump’s fault. It is the fault of the people in the
room. His position is clear, if you do
not like what Trump has said or done it is your fault and you must be a traitor,
or weak. Fake news to him is anything
that is critical of him.
Most amazing of all is that there is a solid 30 to 40% of Americans
who believe this man despite the fact he has told a documented 3,000+ lies in
the year and half he has been in office.
The following events this week help reveal the warped
reality in Trump land. The Supreme Court
confirms it is OK to discriminate based on religious beliefs. Really?
My faith is anti-some groups of people and it is OK that I practice
that? No one challenges the nature of
such a faith? Nope. Conservative judges allow conservative
Christians to discriminate. Wonder what
would happen if I owned a business and refused to serve Christians because I believe
they are harming the fabric of America?
Net neutrality is dead.
Now the big media and communications can charge the lowly consumer more
and increase their profits. We now have
a government that is for big business, by big business and of big business.
Trump faked the celebration of the Eagle’s Super Bowl
victory because the Eagle players did not want to go. His staffers were on the lawn of the White
House pretending to be Eagle fans. And
while he was at it, Trump forgot the words to “God Bless America” while he was
on camera. If ever there was a man
willing to bend reality to his false reality, Trump is that man.
Fox News runs a special on “The Truth About UFO’s.” Really.
Seven states, guess where, are suing the federal government
over DACA, or the Dreamers Act. This is
currently federal law. It has not been
overturned by the courts nor has it been replaced by new legislation. It is the law of the land. The Trump Department of Justice has announced
they will not defend the DACA act against this suit because they think the act
is illegal. Whoa. That is not for the DOJ to decide, that is
for the courts to decide. Simply put, if
Trump does not like the federal law even though it is the law, his department
of justice will not defend the law making the department of justice violate the
law. It is a new reality. Good thing this DOJ was not in office when
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
And on and on. Trump
is rewriting American values and seems oblivious to reality, the law, the Constitution,
etc. He has passed no legislation other
than a tax reform bill that rewards the rich and punishes everyone else and
dramatically increases the federal debt.
He cannot afford to help Puerto Rico, but he can afford millions of
dollars of tax payer money playing golf at his resort and millions of dollars
for a military parade. His reality is
not reality.
He only survives because he is a master of the Bigfoot
Maneuver. Or the blame the victim
maneuver. Or the pass the buck maneuver. Or the right-hand of god syndrome, or
whatever. And he survives because a
small percentage of Americans are aligned with his version of reality. To have such a man as the President of the United
States is totally unacceptable. To find
fellow Americans who support such a man is more than sad, it is tragic.
