Kent Nelson, Sartell
At the recent G-20 Summit, Trump said the United States would support NATO., but European Union President Tusk responded, ” . . . the real question is whether it was a one-time incident or a new policy” to which Trump said, “. . . words are easy, but it’s actions that matter.”
In her recent novel, Gilead, Marilynne Robinson describes a deceptive, unsavory and lying character: “He treats words as if they were actions. He doesn’t listen to the meaning of words, the way other people do. He just decides whether they are hostile, and how hostile they are. He decides whether they threaten him or injure him, and he reacts at that level . . . ”
Back to Donald. There is no reality in his concepts or words. Examples: 1. Lock her up (won’t happen); 2. more people at my inauguration than at Obama’s (not true); 3. I would have won the popular vote if 3 million illegals hadn’t voted (won’t be proved despite the committee); 4. Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower (total lie); 5. Russia colluded in the election (fake news); 6. Republicans elected in special elections because they love me (no, they don’t); 7. I’ll release my tax returns after the election (don’t hold your breath); 8. I’ll build the wall and Mexico will pay (tee-hee); 9. sexual harassment of women (locker-room talk); 10. Ted Cruz’s father conspired with Oswald to kill Kennedy; they were together in a National Enquirer photo (real whopper); 11. National Enquirer is credible and needs to be taken seriously (Trump believes if it’s sold in grocery stores to the general public, it has to be relevant and its stories worth quoting and repeating); 12. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc. all report fake news (if Trump thinks so, it must be true); 12. the only credible news station and news reporter is Fox and Sean Hannity (if Trump thinks so, this also must be true).
Chris Uhlmann, political editor for Australian Broadcasting, said this of Trump after the G-20 Summit: “To be constantly talking and talked about is all that really matters, and there is no value placed on the meaning of words, so what’s said one day can be discarded the next.”
SAD