Trump has only been president for a week and I am already
starting to lose focus amid his blitzkrieg of insane policy decisions and
ludicrous lies. You tell me, what’s worse:
Close Trump advisor Steve Bannon, an avowed racist, Nazi
sympathizer and anarchist, has been added to the National Security Council,
while the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff were essentially demoted.
Trump’s Muslim immigration ban includes seven Middle East
and African countries, but does not include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and
Azerbaijan where, coincidentally, Trump has business interests. And in case
you’ve forgotten, 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has pushed the minute hand
of the “Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight (11:57) and to the
possibility of a civilization-ending catastrophe.
Pope Francis has condemned Trump’s immigration ban on
Muslims.
The Trump administration is moving forward with building a
wall across America’s southwest border even though a) Mexico will not help pay
for it like Trump promised, b) experts agree that a wall is impractical and
will be ineffective and c) there are major issues of property rights involved
with the project.
The president and his minions continue to lie about,
threaten and belittle the news media, with a recent Trump tweet accusing the
New York Times and Washington Post of delivering fake news and being dishonest.
Once again, no proof of these allegations has been produced.
Leaders of France, Germany, Canada, Italy, The Netherlands,
Mexico, Iran, Scotland and many other counties (as well as the U.N. and the
Pope) have denounced and condemned Trump’s immigration ban on Muslims.
Trump continues to insist there were 3 to 5 million illegal
voters in the last election, but has yet to provide a shred of evidence to back
up his claim and appears to be basing this assertion on a single tweet.
The president adamantly maintains that waterboarding, and
other universally condemned forms of torture “absolutely work,” without
providing any proof and despite volumes of studies that arrive at just the
opposite conclusion.
On a number of occasions, Trump has stated that violent
crime in America has been increasing, but statistics from the FBI show that
violent crime in the U.S. is near historic lows and that citizens today are
safer than at any time in the past 45 years.
And that’s just one week, folks. God help us all.
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