President Donald Trump continues to dig himself deeper into his own hole.
His latest stupid decision is to exit the global-warming Paris Agreement. Science-deniers worldwide – those cave-age hold-outs – are probably toasting that ridiculous move. Trump’s diehard believers are probably thinking “He keeps his promises. Way to go! Yep, he’ll make America great again.”
Trump made promises alright, and after he delivers on them most of his supporters are going to be sorry sooner or later: millions of people losing health insurance, the withering away of jobs in hard-hit areas, international instability by bad-mouthing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, skewed tax policies to make the extravagantly rich even richer and the poor poorer, helter-skelter domestic and foreign policies that are as quickly fickle and changeable as the steely in a pin-ball machine.
What’s sadly ironic is Trump’s erratic behavior and decisions will mostly hurt the very people who voted for him in economically depressed areas. They are like those who believed the wizard in the Wizard of Oz, the fake manipulator behind the illusion.
Many say they voted Trump because they were disgusted by establishment politics, legislative deadlock, same-o same-o. Fair enough. And some reasoned, dumbly, that anybody is better than “crooked” Hillary Clinton.
Well, sorry, but the chickens are coming home to roost. It’s time for a serious national reckoning. A terrible mistake was made. Day by day, Trump is showing himself to be a reckless, feckless egomaniac out of control.
This newspaper has received (and published) letters to editor extremely critical of its opinion pieces against candidate and – later – President Trump. That’s well and fine. We welcome criticism. We relish lively debate.
However, we’ve been wondering why there is a lack of letters or guest columns praising Trump and his presidency. Just about the pro-Trump defenses heard these days are that it was time for change or at least he’s better than Hillary.
Well, be careful who you vote for. Those voters got change, that’s for sure, but probably not the change they bargained for. Sad to say, so did the rest of us who didn’t vote for him. Some Trump voters we know are thinking, “Oops. Big mistake.” Buyers’ remorse?
That was this editor’s opinion from the get-go, from the day he announced his candidacy, that Trump would prove to be a Big Mistake. And despite the excoriating criticism we’ve received from many readers, we stand by our conclusion that Trump was and is utterly unqualified to serve as president. Day after day, he is proving it. Never mind the “Russia Connection.” His emotional instability, his lack of know-how, his conflicts of interest, his nepotism, his pathological lying, his – let’s face it – self-centered stupidity are enough to make us all very, very worried about the future of our country, our world. Disasters loom . . .
But, hey, what do we know? If this editorial makes you angry, please by all means submit letters supporting Trump and his decisions. We will publish them, and that’s a promise.
