Completely ignorant of etiquette and protocol, Trump has actually saluted a military leader of a foreign country after verbally insulting our own military leaders. He has claimed to know more about anything that matters than his own generals know. His understanding of constitutional governance is so poor that he expects personal pledges of loyalty to him rather than to the constitution. He is the first and only president to be an active conspiracy theorist, promoting completely debunked and literally impossible fairy tales such as those pushed by QAnon and the Pizzagate debacle.
Trump has a long history of racism. He was sued over not renting to Black people. At one of his casinos, he reportedly pulled Black casino dealers from tables where racists wanted to play. He labeled Mexican immigrants "rapists," A Mexican-American judge unqualified, and set up a blanket ban on all Muslim immigrants. He displays his admiration by re-tweeting Neo-Nazi and white supremacist tweets. And, of course, there is the infamous "very fine people on both sides" quote. According to Trump, Haitian immigrants "all have AIDS," and Nigerian immigrants "would never go back to their huts" if they got a taste of America. The nation's first Black president presented ample opportunity for Trump's dog whistles and outright racist attacks. Trump created the Birtherism narrative well before becoming president, and he continues to try to undo everything Obama accomplished or stood for.
Trump's illegal and unconstitutional behaviors, for which he will be held accountable after leaving office, include witness tampering, pardon dangling, encouraging foreign election interference, foreign as well as domestic emoluments clause violations, paying off a porn star to influence a presidential election, felony lying to Congress in written testimony, tax evasion, and voter fraud, encouraging his base to vote more than once in the upcoming election. Voting more than once is a felony. Encouraging that is also a felony. The Mueller Report outlined ten cases of obstruction of justice that can and will be prosecuted as soon as he leaves office. Then there was the attempted bribery of Ukraine with taxpayer dollars. Bribery is one of the high crimes specifically mentioned in the Constitution, stating that a sitting president "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
In summary, we must include in Donald Trump's list of faults and deficiencies all of the following. Certainly, there is much more, but we will stick with just this "for now. He is incompetent and corrupt. He is ill-equipped for the job and brings onboard people almost as ill-equipped and corrupt as himself. Multiple people who have known him pretty well have written books about him, all of which seem remarkably consistent in their condemnation. He is all about himself and has very little empathy for others. He is ignorant, insecure, unreliable, and deliberately misleading, and he may well be the world's most notable wannabe dictator. He has a particularly disgusting lack of morality and respect for others, revealed in multiple examples of vulgar and anti-social behaviors, reaching all the way to paranoid xenophobia. And that reach is a longer one than that from Yo-Semite to Thigh-land.
Donald Trump has a glaring disrespect for the mechanics of government in a democratic republic and an ugly ignorance of his own duties in that government. He has the impulsiveness of a very young child, and he lies with a consistency rarely if ever seen, even in politicians. Thus his relationships to truth and honor are exceedingly weak, as are his relationships to decorum, and protocol. He is the nation's first conspiracy theorist misplaced into the Oval Office. And he is imminently prosecutable on a laundry list of offenses as soon as he leaves office. January 20th is now under 16 weeks away. The election is in seven.
It appears that we have run some kind of a bizarre spectrum, from an Obama to an abomination. Yet somehow, after all of this, you believe re-electing THIS A***OLE would be a good idea....
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