Whenever the incumbent president
of the United States faces the voters for reelection, the election is a
referendum on what that president has done and not done during his first term. The
voters take a look at what happened during the first term and how the president
improved their lives and improved the country, or not.
There is plenty to be
said for Joe Biden’s candidacy but it would be boring to write things like “He
won’t separate families and put the kids in cages” or “He will make a token
effort to prevent a pandemic” or “He will govern competently.” No, it’s much
more instructive to take a look at President Trump’s record during the last
four years.
It’s not pretty. America
was great before Trump took office but he hasn’t made it better and in many
ways, he’s made it worse. All of the things that have been happening just
during 2020—COVID-19, unrest over police shooting Black people, the cratering
economy—have happened on his watch. The first term has been an out-of-control
firehose of pig-ignorant incompetence, nihilistic malignance, ethical
bankruptcy, and the degradation of important parts of our democratic institutions.
The damage is so great, and the risks of a second term so severe, that the
number one electoral priority for America is to vote him out. Trump puts
himself—not America—first.
We’ve given Trump a
chance, like people urged in 2016, and he’s failed in so many ways. Here are
just a few:
President Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been FUBAR.
The administration has given up
on trying to contain the spread. Wearing a small strip of cloth over your mouth
and nose can prevent a respiratory disease, but the people in the White House
didn’t feel like doing that, and it got half of the government sick,
including the president, first lady, several senators, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and numerous aides. If we can’t trust the Trump administration to keep
its own people healthy and safe in the White House, then we can’t trust them to
keep the country healthy and safe. Even after Trump got airlifted to the
hospital after needing oxygen at the White House, employees in the West Wing
still were not required to wear masks. This is irresponsible and idiotic. Then
Trump returned to the White House with great fanfare,
declaring he had beaten COVID-19 while obviously having trouble breathing and wincing in pain, telling people not to let it rule their lives
after over 200,000 people have died. Trump went for a ride without a mask in a
hermetically sealed car, endangering his Secret Service protection so he could satisfy his ego. Even his
rallies have gotten people infected
(when they’re not freezing
half to death).
Early in the pandemic,
Trump told Bob Woodward he knew how dangerous the coronavirus was but deliberately downplayed it so as not to
cause panic. There was a happy medium between causing panic and blowing off the
threat and Trump, tragically, chose the latter. He wasted precious time lying to the public that
there was nothing to see here. That the virus was a hoax.
That it was no deadlier than the flu.
That it would soon disappear. That we’d have a beautiful Easter
Sunday together. The president knew none of this was true, and knew how much weight
his words would have carried with his followers if he’d advised caution or told
people to wear masks, but instead he chose to lie
to our faces day after day in those masturbatory press conferences. And what
did that “downplaying” get us? We’re heading toward a quarter of a million
Americans dead.
Trump’s response to
COVID-19 was a toxic brew of denial, magical thinking, and oppositional defiant
disorder. His administration disbanded the pandemic task force, because why hold onto that fire
extinguisher when you never seem to need it? He imposed partial travel
restrictions from China but the virus got here anyway as the ban did not apply
to Americans coming from China. He knows his words carry weight with his voters
but instead of urging people to wear masks, he did stupid shit like promote the
scientifically unproven hydroxychloroquine as a cure and speculated that people might
inject disinfectants to combat the infection. Trump got into slap-fights with governors who didn’t praise him enough so that we had not effective national
response. He wanted testing slowed
down. Trump’s administration fired
or sidelined experts whose accurate information on the pandemic conflicted with
the administration’s rosy picture. The administration suppressed or altered scientific reports. The administration exerted political
pressure
to produce a vaccine before election day. The administration diverted $265
million from the CDC and FDA for some dumb ad campaign
to “defeat despair and inspire hope” (something that Trump could have done for
free if he were competent). He inflamed,
rather than calmed, tensions when those yahoos brought their guns to state
capitals to defend their God-given rights to spread the virus to other people. Son-in-law
Jared Kushner, a deeply-in-debt real estate investor, bragged that Trump was
taking the country back from the doctors.
And look what it got us.
Trump has shown no
empathy for those who have suffered and died. He looked at the six-figure death
toll and said, “It is what it is.” Early on, he said, “I don’t take responsibility at all,” a convenient motto for both his pandemic
response and his presidency in general. This is not what a competent leader
does. The COVID-19 response was a disgraceful failure
and for that reason alone, Trump does not deserve a second term, and should be
run out of Washington on a rail. (But read on anyway for more reasons against
his reelection.)
President Trump is racist as hell. This history goes back
decades, like a radio station that plays the greatest hits of the ‘70s,
‘80s,
‘90s
and today.
But let’s take a look at just what he’s done in the last four years. During the
unrest over police shooting Black people, such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor
and Jacob Blake (the list goes on), he scoffed
at the idea that Black lives matter, not even being able to see Black people’s
worth after a summer of pain. Trump has done nothing but fan the flames of violence
and division (and also hide
in a bunker with the White House lights turned off). He declared “when the
looting starts, the shooting
starts” after Minneapolis protests, and defended the 17-year-old who is charged
with crossing a state line and murdering two people and shooting a third person during the protests in
Kenosha, directing the Department of Homeland Security to make sympathetic statements about this kid. Does any of that sound like someone who wants to
turn down the temperature of the unrest? Trump will never try to solve any of
this because he relishes the chaos.
He’s already president, so if he wanted to solve any of this, he could try to
do so at any time. This is happening under his watch.
After white supremacists
marched in Charlottesville in 2017 and one of them intentionally ran over protestor
Heather Heyer, Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” and blamed “both sides”—neo-Nazis and those opposing them—for the confrontation. This is a man who
calls Black athletes protesting police brutality “sons of bitches” but then has a nuanced reaction
to a group chanting “Jews will not replace us” (they’re talking about his
grandchildren!). Asked again during the presidential debates to condemn
white supremacist groups, Trump just couldn’t bring himself to do it. He told
the Proud Boys to “stand back, stand by.”
The Proud Boys loved this and took it as a call to arms. This was the president
of the United States using a national form to activate violence in his white
supremacist followers. What a disgrace. Trump has consistently received praise
and endorsements from David Duke, the KKK and the rest of the white nationalist
clown car. Yet he and his administration have never had any self-reflection
about why so many racists support his policies.
The man slurs everybody.
During an immigration meeting, Trump called a number of majority Black
countries “shitholes.” Trump told four congresswomen—two black women, a Puerto Rican
woman, and a Palestinian woman, to “go back
where you came from.” Making non-white people seem “foreign” is a classic thing
racists do. These are American citizens and all but one was born in the United
States. Since he has the maturity of a second-grader, Trump repeatedly calls
Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” and once hauled out the same slur
during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II codebreakers. Trump retweeted a supporter who yelled “White power!” Like the Nazis in
Charlottesville, Trump found “great people” in that crowd.
Trump’s entire
reelection campaign is a replay of the “Southern Strategy”
that the Republican Party has been using since 1968, whipping up racial
grievances to make white people resent and fear Black people. He’s playing on fears
of low-income housing, filled with Black people, moving into the suburbs to
terrorize white people (led by Scary Black Man Cory Booker), and advocates
revoking the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Act, which protects against racist
housing practices. Add all this up and he’s clearly, virulently racist.
President Trump separated kids from their parents at the border
and held those children in prison-like conditions in cages.
This reportedly happened in over 5,500
families. This caused predictably terrible
effects
on the children. There is a recording of these children wailing
for their parents. Some of these children were forcibly medicated and there are lawsuits alleging sexual abuse
against thousands of kids in these facilities. Now we know the Department of
Justice lied to the public and knew the “zero tolerance” policy would result in
kids being separated from their parents. U.S. attorneys pushed back against the
policy, out of concern for the welfare of the kids, but former Attorney General
Jeff Sessions told them, “We need to take away children.” They were hurting kids as a deterrent against
their parents’ misdemeanor offenses, and it brings shame upon America.
They are still
trying to reunite 545 children with their deported parents two years later. At the second debate,
Trump couldn’t show any empathy
for these kids. Our trashbag first lady doesn’t care either. The people who did this—Trump, Sessions, Rod Rosenstein,
Kirstjen Nielsen, John Kelly and Stephen Miller—belong in Hell or at the very
least, The Hague.
President Trump tear-gassed a group of peaceful
protestors across from the White House, including a priest, so he could walk
across the street to a church and hold up a Bible for a photo op. He did not
speak to protestors to hear their concerns. People got hurt so this man could take
a stupid photo to prop up his reelection campaign. It should go without saying
that this is not Christian, or humane, behavior.
President Trump was impeached for soliciting help from a foreign government to aid in his
reelection, which is illegal. Specifically, he held up taxpayer-funded aid to
Ukraine so they could dig up dirt on Biden, which violates the Impoundments
Control Act. Only a craven Republican Senate saved him from leaving office. Trump
has since asked China to intervene in the election. It is telling that Trump has done so many
reprehensible things in the last four years that his impeachment is just one
more item on this list.
President Trump has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of
the election and has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he
loses. In September, he said if we “get rid of the ballots,”
there would not be a transfer but a continuation. When asked in July if he
would abide by the election results,
Trump said “I have to see,” like a parent whose kids have been nagging him to
go to Itchy and Scratchy Land. There is a report that Trump’s legal team has
already made plans for swing states to bypass
the election results and have state legislatures appoint their own electors if
it looks like Biden has won. That the commander in chief was sowing doubt about
our election before a single vote was cast is an undemocratic disgrace. It
crosses a Rubicon usually only crossed by dictators. If this happened in another
country, we’d send over election monitors.
President Trump and the Republican Party have encouraged
voter suppression at all levels throughout the country. After his supporters in
Texas tried to run a Biden campaign bus off the road, Trump tweeted his implicit support. The GOP is trying to throw out 127,000 curbside ballots in Texas the day
before the election. They tried to deny Pennsylvania voters an extension to count the votes
that arrived three days after today, and also tried something similar in North Carolina. The Republican Party always comes down
on the side of restricting the right to vote, and it has for at least the last
50 or 60 years. It’s who they are.
President Trump paid $750 a year in income taxes
in 2016 and 2017 because he’s poor—to the tune of $421 million in debt—from
losing tremendous amounts of money on his businesses. This debt is a massive
security risk, since he likely owes it to a foreign bank. He likes to puff
himself up as a business genius but he’s broke and living on the public dime. What
a loser. Trump probably ran for president just to keep from having to pay his
debts. Oh, but he says the facts will come up soon after that audit is done.
Sure, buddy—and you have a girlfriend but she totally lives in Canada so that’s
why nobody can meet her. He has a bank account in China and paid $188,000 in taxes
to that country. This means the president of the United States paid more in
taxes to China than to his own country.
President Trump had no response to the report that the Russians
put out bounties
for the Taliban to kill American soldiers. (Whatever happened to that story?)
He didn’t even raise the issue in a call with Putin. Way to stand by our
people, commander-in-chief.
President Trump has been in complete denial about the fact,
confirmed by the intelligence community, that Russia interfered in the 2016
election. He disgracefully believed Putin over our own
intelligence agencies. When told by the House that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election, Trump replaced the Director of National Intelligence
with a loyalist, because he doesn’t want to hear it. Trump’s own former
national security adviser has said Trump is “aiding
and abetting Putin’s efforts” to intervene in our election. This is not how a
patriot behaves. This is how a traitor behaves.
President Trump may or may not be working on behalf of the
Russians. We cannot be sure because the FBI did not conduct a counterintelligence investigation into this matter. The Mueller
Report focused only on criminal activity, not counterintelligence, leaving the
huge question of whether the president of the United States is compromised by a
foreign power unresolved. While Robert Mueller conducted his report under the
impression that he could not indict the president, there are nevertheless 10
instances of Trump obstructing justice around events such as his firing FBI Director James Comey
and obstructing the special counsel investigation. But Bill Barr lied about the
report to the public so many people never actually understood that the report
is not an exoneration.
President Trump does not respect the military. He has called
veterans who were killed in war “losers”
and “suckers” and asked to keep wounded veterans out of parades. This was when
he was in France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of
World War I, where he couldn’t be bothered to show up to a ceremony honoring
the 1,800 American soldiers dead at Belleau Wood, saying “Why should I go to
that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” Plus, it was raining and he didn’t
want to get his hair mussed. Trump accompanied John Kelly to Arlington to visit
Kelly’s son’s grave
and said “I don’t get it. What’s in it for them?” as they stood at the grave.
This disrespect for
veterans is nothing new for Trump. In 2016, he showed contempt
for Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam POW, saying he liked people who weren’t
captured. Even after McCain died, Trump said “We’re not going to support that
loser’s funeral” and after flags were lowered to half-staff, said, “What the
fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser.” In 2017, Trump met with
top military brass at the Pentagon and had the unmitigated gall
to look these veterans in the eye and call them “a bunch of dopes and babies.”
President Trump’s idea of governance is “I have an Article II
that lets me do what I want,” his dimwitted version of “l'état, c'est moi.” It’s an immature, incorrect, dangerous
attitude, and the Department of Justice, under Attorney General Bill Barr, is
helping him get away with it. Barr is doing extraordinary political favors for
Trump’s cronies. Despite former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn
pleading guilty
twice to lying to the FBI, Barr ordered the DOJ to drop the charges. Despite
former Trump advisor Roger Stone’s conviction on witness tampering and other charges, Barr recommended a lighter
prison sentence, a recommendation that came—in a complete coincidence—after
Trump tweeted that Stone should receive a lighter sentence. Barr tried to fire
the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is investigating
Trump, so Trump could put one of his cronies
in the role.
In contrast to going
easy on Trump’s friends, Barr goes after the president’s enemies with relish. Jowly
Fred Flintstone wanted Black Lives Matter protestors charged with sedition.
Not only does the nation’s top law enforcement office see thousands of
protesters crying out not to get murdered by the police and tell them there’s
no systemic
racism, but he wants to charge anyone who disagrees with overthrowing the
government. Asking people to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is to
Barr one the worst violation of our civil liberties since slavery. FBI agents
do not serve the Constitution, according to Bill Barr—they serve Barr. Barr is also having the
DOJ conduct several bullshit
investigations to help Trump win the election. It is illegal under the Hatch
Act for federal employees to participate in electoral politics. Barr is
politicizing the DOJ and that damages the rule of law. He is bringing the
United States right up to the edge of fascism.
President Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria was inadequate,
slow and passive-aggressive. He threw paper towels to people who were worried about survival and bitched about the money
the government was spending to help Puerto Rico. He disputed the death
toll, saying Democrats were making it up to make him look bad, because a
destructive hurricane is all about him. Trump even wanted to look into selling
Puerto Rico. The people of Puerto Rico, who are American citizens,
deserved better.
President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh,
was unable to conduct himself like an adult
during his Senate hearing. His partisan hissy fit against the Clintons by itself should have disqualified him for the
job. Now he and his colleagues are clearly telegraphing that they will steal
the election for Trump if the results are close. Trump has already stacked the
courts with 29-year-olds from the Republic of Gilead. If Trump is allowed to
appoint any more judges in the mold of Amy Coney Barrett, we can probably say goodbye
to the Affordable Care Act and marriage equality, and hello to back-alley
abortions.
President Trump’s administration’s ICE detainee facility has
given many of its women detainees involuntary, unnecessary hysterectomies. One woman had the wrong ovary removed. People at the facility
called this doctor the “uterus collector,” and there isn’t enough vomit or fire
and brimstone in the world to respond to that. They’re forcibly sterilizing
women.
President Trump has demanded Bill Barr “arrest
somebody” and is livid that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden remain
free. For what crime he would arrest them is unclear. This is dictator
behavior. Trump has had the Department of Justice investigate his rivals and
they’ve come up empty, because there was nothing
there in the first place. He’s considering firing FBI Director Christopher Wray
because Wray hasn’t done his bidding and investigated the Bidens.
President Trump’s administration will next week argue before the
Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act should be struck down, which would
result in people with pre-existing conditions losing
healthcare coverage.
President Trump has been terrible to the LGBTQ community.
Transgender people have been hit particularly hard, being banned from the military
in a fit of presidential pique. They are people who have served their country
faithfully and to ban them or keep them in limbo over their status,
particularly soon after they had gained the right to serve openly, is
particularly cruel. The administration also implemented a HUD rule that would
place transgender women in homeless
facilities for men, because why not screw with some vulnerable adults? The
administration also reversed a ruling permitting students
to use the bathroom that corresponded to their gender identity, because why not
screw with some vulnerable kids? The administration tried to argue that
employers should be able to fire
employees for being LGBTQ. The administration has also ruled back healthcare
protections for LGBTQ people—the only purpose of which is to strip people of
their dignity.
Vice President Mike Pence and signed a law (later amended) that let
in-their-feelings business owners discriminate
against LGBT customers. Pence is clearly and virulently anti-LGBT.
As in 2016, it is still
the official platform of the Republican Party to end marriage equality through the courts or a constitutional
amendment, and to support conversion therapy. This is because the party was too
lazy to come up with a new platform in 2020, leaving the 2016 platform in
effect. With Trump installing a third conservative nominee on the Supreme
Court, the justices are already signaling they will overturn
marriage equality. (The official Republican platform, to the extent that they
have any, is literally just to support Donald Trump.) Why would an LGBTQ person vote
Republican when the GOP’s official position is to curtail your rights?
President Trump has not fulfilled several major campaign
promises he made to his voters despite controlling two branches of the
government for two years. The Republicans screamed for almost a decade that
they were going to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and replace it with
something better but they failed.
No healthcare plan was ever forthcoming from Trump or the Republicans, which
means this was an empty promise to begin with. Oh, but Trump says a healthcare
plan is coming “in two weeks.” It’s been coming in two weeks for the last few months. That
healthcare plan is like the horizon: You can race toward it but you’ll never
catch it.
Trump was also unable to
build much of his stupid wall at the Mexican border. As of last August, a whole
5 miles
of wall had been completed. The human chain in Hands Across America was longer
than that. What has been built of the wall is starting to erode
already. Shockingly, the Mexican
government has yet to write us a check for the nonexistent wall. Steve Bannon
and his fellow grifters grifted
the public out of money to finance the wall, didn’t build the wall, and got
arrested. Trump shut down the government over the wall, furloughing hundreds of thousands of
people for a month.
With two years of
controlling the government, Trump couldn’t even manage the improvements to
infrastructure that are supported by both parties. When is infrastructure week again? Trump also certainly didn’t “drain the
swamp” as he promised, as his kakistocracy Cabinet is a cesspool
of corruption and conflicts of interest.
President Trump treats women like shit. Twenty-six women have so
far accused
him of sexual assault. How does he respond? E. Jean Carroll accused him of raping
her in a changing room in the ‘90s and when she recently sued him, he said
she’s “not his type.” Because it’s all a joke to him. He has a decades-long history
of mocking women’s appearances by calling them “fat” and “slobs” and “pigs,”
denigrating them in professional situations, and just generally being
demeaning. He can’t
handle
women journalists challenging him. He called VP candidate Sen. Kamala Harris a “monster.”
President Trump falls for a lot of crackpot theories and Russian
disinformation. He retweeted the looney tunes idea that Biden tried to have members of Seal Team 6 killed to
cover up the fact that Osama bin Laden had not been killed. During the town
hall, he wouldn’t disavow the wackjobs at QAnon
and implied some of their ideas might be true. What kind of president gives
even a sliver of legitimacy to a group that believes Wayfair is selling
cabinets with trafficked children inside them? He had Rudy “Nosferatu” Giuliani
dream up some bullshit
scandal about Hunter Biden and the prosecutor or Ukraine and Burizzzzzzz …
(Sorry, nodded off) but it was just more disinformation from Russia, now under
FBI investigation, and it went over like a lead balloon.
President Trump, in a possible violation of campaign finance
laws, paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money to cover up his affair
with her while he was a married man. Truly the Republican Party is the party of
traditional family values.
President Trump picked an unnecessary trade war with China and lost. Our trade deficit is its highest since 2008.
The trade war has also cost America about 300,000 jobs,
even before the pandemic.
President Trump pulled us out of the Paris Climate Agreement,
loosed restrictions against air pollution, and committed all sorts of abuses
against the environment. He’s ignoring climate change. Meanwhile, the West Coast is on fire
and we’ve had so many hurricanes and tropical storms this year that we ran out
of names for them.
President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is a
sentient mop. She’s useless. When the parents and teachers were wrestling with
whether and how to restart in-person learning this fall, she offered no
guidance other than to state that schools should open—like she’s some detached
observer rather than in charge of the department. She redirected coronavirus funding from public schools to charter and religious
schools. She downplayed the risk of returning to schools, while several teachers have died.
The coronavirus section on the department’s website is useless. DeVos once
tried to cut funding
for the Special Olympics. DeVos also declined to help transgender kids. What kind of heartless asshole looks at a vulnerable
population of children and comes down on the side of not protecting
them? Betsy DeVos.
President Trump caused chaos by banning
Muslim-majority countries from travel to the United States. He tried to end
the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and kick immigrants out of the
country. These people were trying to make a better life for themselves in the
United States and deserved better. Luckily, the Supreme Court overruled Trump’s
repeal, but DACA is still endangered.
President Trump’s tax cut, his only real legislative accomplishment,
disproportionately delivered benefits to people in the top 20
percent. His payroll tax deferral would hurt Social Security.
President Trump, instead of divesting himself from his
businesses, has used the presidency to make a buck by having domestic and
foreign allies use his golf clubs and properties to curry favor
with him. He even the Secret Service to stay at his hotels.
This is taxpayer money flowing right into his grubby hands and it’s nakedly corrupt.
He made in about $73 million from foreign sources in the first two years in
office, a violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which is a
safeguard against foreign interference in our policies.
President Trump withdrew our forces from northern Syria,
paving the way for Turkey to invade Syria, betraying our supposed allies the
Kurds once again.
President Trump issued an executive order that gives strips
job security from civil service employees. These are the non-partisan employees
who provide important continuity to our government through changing
administrations, and Trump’s action makes it easier to fill these positions
with sycophants.
President Trump’s foundation was dissolved by a court
order due to “a shocking pattern of illegality.”
The Trump Foundation mishandled
$6 million in funds that were supposed to go to veterans’ charities, mishandled
money that was earmarked for 9/11 victims, and misused funds for a lengthy list
of improper purposes.
President Trump wanted to include a citizenship
question on the 2020 Census. This is in violation of the Constitution, which
plainly directs a count of all people, not just citizens. He’s continuing to
screw around with the Census deadlines to manipulate
the accurate representation of the people of the United States.
President Trump tried to block funding
for the United States Post Office to make it harder for people to vote by mail
in a pandemic. He admitted this.
President Trump bragged that he “saved (Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman’s) ass,” getting Congress to back off on MBS, who the CIA
confirmed as having ordered the murder
of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This is the president of the United States
bragging about defending the man who dismembered Khashoggi with a bone saw. But
law and order, right?
President Trump is inciting domestic terrorism against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In the spring, Trump used
irresponsible rhetoric to encourage yahoos in Michigan to protest the state
capitol while armed, as it was just too onerous to wear a small strip of cloth
over their faces. After some of those yahoos
were charged with plans to kidnap and execute Whitmer, Trump called for her to
be locked up—I guess for the crime of nearly being kidnapped?
President Trump has visited golf clubs at least 283 times since his inauguration.
It has cost taxpayers over $141 million. So much for being too busy working for
the American people to play golf. (Compare this to President Obama, who in
eight years played golf 306 times.) Trump is lazy
as hell. He spends “executive time” watching Fox News and tweeting about the
things that bother him. Last month, with a pandemic sweeping across America and
a campaign in full swing, he had nothing better to do than call into Rush
Limbaugh’s show to yap
for two hours. Must be nice. Half the time he governs like a septuagenarian who
spends all day watching Fox News, is horrified by what the government is doing,
and tweets what a disgrace it is—unaware that he actually has the power to do
something.
President Trump’s adult kids are a bunch of grifters. Ivanka and
Don Jr. misled
real estate investors, which could have resulted in criminal charges if the
investigation was not squashed by their father’s Department of Justice cronies.
Trump paid $747,000 in consulting fees to Ivanka, which is double-dipping, since she works for his Trump Organization. Ivanka used her
father’s influence to net several trademarks in China, meaning she is making money off her position in
government. Eric has had to testify
in investigations into whether the Trump Organization lied about its real
estate assets. Son-in-law Jared got a shady
bailout from Qatar to pay his massive real estate debts, and has so much
general shadiness about him that he should never have received a security clearance. These people are corrupt and have no
qualifications to be involved in government.
President Trump eats his well-done steak with ketchup.
President Trump’s first national security advisor;
three
of his four
2016 campaign managers;
his first 2020 campaign manager;
his lawyer;
and his longtime advisor
all have been arrested or are in jail. He can pick ‘em, huh?
President Trump’s administration has repeatedly violated
the Hatch Act, which bars most federal officials from using their offices to
participate in political activities. At least 14 from his administration have
violated the Hatch Act. Kellyanne Conway violated it dozens of times and faced
no consequences for breaking this law. They also violated it by having the convention
speech at the White House. This is one more way this administration says, “Law
and order for thee, not for me.”
President Trump is pig-ignorant. He does have a certain
intelligence for spectacle and manipulating the public, but has been generally
stupid about so many basic things that it’s really ruined his ability to
govern. He won’t read
so his staff has to present him with charts and pictures in briefings. He
looked directly at an eclipse.
He thought you could fight coronavirus by injecting disinfectant. He thought forest fires were caused by not raking
the forest floor, and that it would get cooler after the West Coast basically
burned down a few months ago. He bragged about acing a dementia
test that has people identify animals and draw clocks.
President Trump is an asshole. He’s not a “counterpuncher.” He’s
not “unfiltered.” He’s not “unorthodox.” He doesn’t “tell it like it is.” He’s
not “politically incorrect.” He’s just an asshole (and calling someone
“politically incorrect” is ironically just a politically correct way of calling
him an asshole). He really only cares about himself, rather than the country,
and shits all over anyone who gets in the way of his self-interest. Trump libeled
a 75-year-old protestor who got pushed down by police and ended up with bleeding from his
ears, in the hospital with a head injury. What kind of person does this? An
asshole.
In 2020, we need an
Electoral College victory, not a moral victory. VOTE!
