Everyone, even most of the Republican Party, knows President Trump lies about most everything including the 2020 election results. Let’s talk bigger picture.
President Trump is destroying the credibility of the United States among our long-time allies, among our citizenry and, importantly, of the presidency. And, an entire generation of voters is being taught not to listen to what a President says because, in advance, we know it won't be the truth.
The fact that a President of the United States can announce an address to the nation and no one – except his most loyal of cable channels – covered it is destroying, too, the ability of the President to say, “this is important. Pay attention. I have important news about the United States – be it war or the state of the economy.”
And no one can listen to what he says because the networks and cable news, in advance, said: since we know he’s going to lie, we won’t broadcast it live, but we will cover anything newsworthy.
Sensible news coverage? I think so. If a president, any president, is not making news, why cover it?
What does that generation think, then, when they are older? The presidency is just another office, not one they should pay attention to?
The only legacy this President cares about is putting his name on anything and everything – from savings accounts for children to the Kennedy Center, to a gold coin and almost anything else. He can’t wait patiently to win that recognition based on what he does because he knows it likely won’t happen, so he’ll do it himself. As he did with Trump Vodka, Trump University, Trump Airlines and other failed products.
He had every right to do that when he was in the private sector. He doesn’t now.
It truly all is about him, not us.
What does the next President – and there will be a next President – do to regain that credibility? Who is that man or woman who not only is capable of running this country and its foreign policy but also can talk, with credibility, about our daily lives? About the legitimate threats we face?
He talked last night (apparently, because I couldn’t find a place to listen to him) election security. His spokesperson announced in advance that he had “shocking” things to say about it.
He didn’t.
He released information that mostly we all knew before, putting on it his “spin” that it threatens the legitimacy of our elections. It hasn’t and it doesn’t.
He provided no proof that any election was affected by any tampering. Because that proof doesn’t exist. Why doesn’t it exist? Because it has never happened.
It wasn’t enough that he called the Georgia Secretary of State a few years ago demanding he find enough votes for him to win Georgia, now he is using, at best, innuendo to damn our election process that had made the United States the envy of the world, insulting every elected official responsible - Democrat and Republican for overseeing free and fair elections.
If our elections are so manipulated by cheaters – how did he win?
How did the Republican Party gain control of both the House and Senate?
If the evil Deep State, the media and others conspired to screw the GOP, wouldn’t the GOP be screwed? But it isn’t. The GOP controls every lever of government, including the Supreme Court. Where are the fruits of this “cheating?”
In doing so, he never mentioned that as President, as The New York Times reported, he has: “…(dismantled) the election protections built up over previous years. The FBI’s task force on foreign influence was shut down, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sharply cut back a task force that warned against foreign meddling and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gutted. And, Mr. Trump has appointed an heir to a housing fortune with no relevant experience as the interim director of national intelligence.”
If there is evidence of foreign meddling, why gut the agencies responsible for uncovering and protecting against that meddling?
Do other countries try to influence our elections?
Duh, yes.
But not by invading our voting machines, or adding votes to their favored candidate. They do it by gaining access to publicly available information to target their disinformation efforts at our voters.
My friends, that’s what the major political parties do, too.
This isn’t all Mr. Trump’s fault, though much of the responsibility can be laid at his door.
Former President Joe Biden contributed to our political world by not doing what he said he’d do – serve as a President who will get us back to “normal” and then not seek reelection. He promised to be a transition president, a one-term president. But he didn’t keep that promise. He, too, convinced himself only he could beat Trump. Even he, he thought, was above our system.
Mr. Trump was elected President because he had the good fortune of running against a flawed candidate (Hillary Clinton) and by Biden deciding too late that he was too old to run. A decision he was only forced into.
The only candidate Donald Trump could have defeated in 2016 was Hillary Clinton. The only way he won in 2024 was because President Biden created the political environment for him to win.
Has Mr. Trump done some good things? Probably. Illegal immigration is down, though one can certainly question the tactics he’s using. One can mourn the lives of those immigrants who did everything the right way, but still were gunned down by thugs hired to supposedly protect us from the “worst of the worst.”
You may not agree with every policy he’s brought to our country but he won the election(s) and that’s how our system works. It’s the tactics that he has introduced to our country, the damage he has done to the United States’ credibility that is the problem. It is the conspiracy theories he foments and spreads.
And that we, in a couple of years, must deal with, with whoever the next President is.
He does not look at legacy as, am I leaving our citizens in better shape than they I found them? His legacy is how that we must correct all the damage he has done to our country, internationally and domestically. To our system.
His approval rating is down to, basically, his base of voters, people who want their lives made better not more violent, people who want their children to be better off than they were. But who for some reason support the very man in the way of that progress. Who for some reason believe he is telling the truth.
That’s the measure, the legacy, of a President. We’ve had some succeed at that, some fail.
He’s failing. And because of his failures, our system is being undermined by a man who cares only about “Me, the Trump.”
Not We, the People.
President Trump is destroying the credibility of the United States among our long-time allies, among our citizenry and, importantly, of the presidency. And, an entire generation of voters is being taught not to listen to what a President says because, in advance, we know it won't be the truth.
The fact that a President of the United States can announce an address to the nation and no one – except his most loyal of cable channels – covered it is destroying, too, the ability of the President to say, “this is important. Pay attention. I have important news about the United States – be it war or the state of the economy.”
And no one can listen to what he says because the networks and cable news, in advance, said: since we know he’s going to lie, we won’t broadcast it live, but we will cover anything newsworthy.
Sensible news coverage? I think so. If a president, any president, is not making news, why cover it?
What does that generation think, then, when they are older? The presidency is just another office, not one they should pay attention to?
The only legacy this President cares about is putting his name on anything and everything – from savings accounts for children to the Kennedy Center, to a gold coin and almost anything else. He can’t wait patiently to win that recognition based on what he does because he knows it likely won’t happen, so he’ll do it himself. As he did with Trump Vodka, Trump University, Trump Airlines and other failed products.
He had every right to do that when he was in the private sector. He doesn’t now.
It truly all is about him, not us.
What does the next President – and there will be a next President – do to regain that credibility? Who is that man or woman who not only is capable of running this country and its foreign policy but also can talk, with credibility, about our daily lives? About the legitimate threats we face?
He talked last night (apparently, because I couldn’t find a place to listen to him) election security. His spokesperson announced in advance that he had “shocking” things to say about it.
He didn’t.
He released information that mostly we all knew before, putting on it his “spin” that it threatens the legitimacy of our elections. It hasn’t and it doesn’t.
He provided no proof that any election was affected by any tampering. Because that proof doesn’t exist. Why doesn’t it exist? Because it has never happened.
It wasn’t enough that he called the Georgia Secretary of State a few years ago demanding he find enough votes for him to win Georgia, now he is using, at best, innuendo to damn our election process that had made the United States the envy of the world, insulting every elected official responsible - Democrat and Republican for overseeing free and fair elections.
If our elections are so manipulated by cheaters – how did he win?
How did the Republican Party gain control of both the House and Senate?
If the evil Deep State, the media and others conspired to screw the GOP, wouldn’t the GOP be screwed? But it isn’t. The GOP controls every lever of government, including the Supreme Court. Where are the fruits of this “cheating?”
In doing so, he never mentioned that as President, as The New York Times reported, he has: “…(dismantled) the election protections built up over previous years. The FBI’s task force on foreign influence was shut down, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sharply cut back a task force that warned against foreign meddling and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gutted. And, Mr. Trump has appointed an heir to a housing fortune with no relevant experience as the interim director of national intelligence.”
If there is evidence of foreign meddling, why gut the agencies responsible for uncovering and protecting against that meddling?
Do other countries try to influence our elections?
Duh, yes.
But not by invading our voting machines, or adding votes to their favored candidate. They do it by gaining access to publicly available information to target their disinformation efforts at our voters.
My friends, that’s what the major political parties do, too.
This isn’t all Mr. Trump’s fault, though much of the responsibility can be laid at his door.
Former President Joe Biden contributed to our political world by not doing what he said he’d do – serve as a President who will get us back to “normal” and then not seek reelection. He promised to be a transition president, a one-term president. But he didn’t keep that promise. He, too, convinced himself only he could beat Trump. Even he, he thought, was above our system.
Mr. Trump was elected President because he had the good fortune of running against a flawed candidate (Hillary Clinton) and by Biden deciding too late that he was too old to run. A decision he was only forced into.
The only candidate Donald Trump could have defeated in 2016 was Hillary Clinton. The only way he won in 2024 was because President Biden created the political environment for him to win.
Has Mr. Trump done some good things? Probably. Illegal immigration is down, though one can certainly question the tactics he’s using. One can mourn the lives of those immigrants who did everything the right way, but still were gunned down by thugs hired to supposedly protect us from the “worst of the worst.”
You may not agree with every policy he’s brought to our country but he won the election(s) and that’s how our system works. It’s the tactics that he has introduced to our country, the damage he has done to the United States’ credibility that is the problem. It is the conspiracy theories he foments and spreads.
And that we, in a couple of years, must deal with, with whoever the next President is.
He does not look at legacy as, am I leaving our citizens in better shape than they I found them? His legacy is how that we must correct all the damage he has done to our country, internationally and domestically. To our system.
His approval rating is down to, basically, his base of voters, people who want their lives made better not more violent, people who want their children to be better off than they were. But who for some reason support the very man in the way of that progress. Who for some reason believe he is telling the truth.
That’s the measure, the legacy, of a President. We’ve had some succeed at that, some fail.
He’s failing. And because of his failures, our system is being undermined by a man who cares only about “Me, the Trump.”
Not We, the People.
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