A DERANGED MADMAN AND A DISGRACE TO THIS COUNTRY
Dr. Common Good
This is going to be a brief post. Donald Trump is absolutely deranged, period. Combine this with ignorance, child-like petulance, greed, and malice, and you have a dangerous recipe. His proposal to take over Gaza, turn it in to a “Riviera,” and just push the Palestinians out is so flat-out crazy that it shouldn’t deserve a response. Except, alas, he is president. It is ethnic cleansing in pursuit of a real estate deal. A complete disgrace to this country and to the global community. A boot-kick in the face to generations of Palestinians who have made Gaza their home, after being kicked out of their first home in Palestine by the Israelis. Oh, and the hardline right-wing Israelis love this, because they can appear even less crazy and inhumane than Trump.
The 25th amendment needs to be invoked. Trump is too unhinged to carry out the duties of president.
Add to this the actions of his manic sidekick Elon Musk, and his band of junior data crunchers. Musk knows nothing about what federal agencies do, and yet he is out there slashing and eliminating thousands of employees who provide essential government services. His contemptuous treatment of USAID is an outrage. Calling USAID a criminal organization? He knows nothing. This is an agency that has been the bedrock of our foreign assistance programs since 1961, and a key player in spreading goodwill and forming relationships with countries worldwide — which, by the way, is in the US national interest, especially in the current environment of competition with China and others. Those who work for USAID are not in it for the money, but to do something positive for people in the world who are poor, starving, disenfranchised, and in the midst of humanitarian and public health crises. And they do so in the name of the United States, which sends a strong message of good. That is a helluva lot more than I could say for the likes of Trump and Musk, who are in it for themselves and have no concept of public service.
Making America great? Not in any way, shape or form. Making America a disgrace.