Many Republicans, at long last, including many former members of the Trump Administration, are warning Americans not to vote for him.
Here are just a few among many remarks made by former enablers of the president who have finally “seen the light.”
John Bolton, former United Nations ambassador and Republican advisor: “He is wholly unfit to be in office.”
Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president: “He is not consistent with our national security objectives.”
Maryanne Trump Barry, a judge and Trump’s sister who died in 2023: “He’s a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully.”
Here are just seven of many reasons why I and at least half of all Americans won’t vote for Trump:
One: He incited an insurrection at the nation’s Capitol, then sat down in the White House to watch it gloatingly for hours on live TV. An aide rushed in to tell him Vice President Pence was in danger. Trump glanced at the aide and said, “So what?” He has called that assault a “Day of Love,” praising those who brutalized cops as “patriots.” Will he incite yet another attempt to overturn an election if Harris-Walz happen to win by a slight or even hefty margin? That possibility (probability!) is terrifying.
Two: Trump’s flirtations with dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung-Un betray his own life-long burning ambition to be a wannabe authoritarian (let’s call a spade a spade – dictator!). And those two tyrants cynically toy with Trump as their stooge, their chump.
Three: Trump’s signature achievement? Cutting taxes for the “Very Rich” (hobnobbing fellow millionaires, billionaires), causing an estimated national deficit of nearly $8 trillion. His new economic “miracle?” He wants to raise import tariffs by 200 percent. In one of his many raving-crazy rants, he shouted “maybe 2,000 percent!” Get ready for prices to rise through the roof!
Four: Trump is a blatant racist, sexist, xenophobic hater of anybody who doesn’t bow down to his rampant nonsense. He often crows he alone “can fix it.” LOL! His misogynistic insults aimed at Kamala Harris and others are beyond disgusting. His demonization of ALL immigrants recalls Adolf Hitler’s blaming Jews for every problem.
Five: The arch-conservative Heritage Foundation, with input from hundreds of Trump acolytes, has cobbled together a 920-page manifesto (“Project 2025”) about how to dismantle democracy step by step, including revenge strategies on those “traitors” who dared to accuse Trump of alleged crimes. Guess who wrote the fawning intro to that manifesto. Yup, Trump’s V.P pick. Smarmy dysfunctional family victim JD Vance.
Six: Riddled with insecurities, Trump was always mentally unhinged because he always “got his way,” like a raging neighborhood bully (thanks to his coddling unethical father and crooked lawyer Roy Cohn) who taught him how to LOUDLY lie, double down and deny. What’s worse is how gullible rally-goers cheer loudly his lies.
Seven: Trump is not a great businessman. He was and is for the most part a crook, a grifter, who often stiffs his contractors. He has increasingly shown alarming evidence of mental decline: rambling, repetitious, disjointed word jumbles. He calls his verbal messes “The Weave.” Yes, weaving strands of nonsense into a tapestry of utter incoherence, if not outright lunacy. His long-time maniacal obsession with “crowd size” (a burning need to be worshipped by one and all) is enough to land him in the nearest mental institution. He’s not fit for neighborhood dog-walker, much less U.S. president.
Be careful what you wish for, careful what you vote for; you just might get what you want. And after this election the rest of us might have to endure what your votes made possible.
Paul Ryan, former Republican Speaker of the House: “He (Trump) built a wall of lies.”
In grade school, our teachers would say to us: “Please, children, put on your thinking caps!”
Isn’t it time for voters to put on their “thinking caps?” Not the old tiresome red “MAGA” ones, but new bright-green ones that proclaim “MAKA” – Make America Kind Again!
