It's not
the problem of homelessness, nor its impudently proud reputation as a Sanctuary
City that riles Trump about San Francisco. No, Donald Trump is the only
President in history to openly malign American cities for no other reason than
the fact that they didn't vote for him.
An Open Letter to:
Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America
Re: San Francisco
Dear Mr. President:
During the entire time of your tenure, you have referred to yourself in superlative terms. You are the "greatest" President possessing "great unmatched wisdom". You have always placed your Presidency in the "best", "greatest", "smartest" categories. But after your denigration of my home, San Francisco, I feel you have earned another, less admirable, but notable superlative (hence the well-earned medal):
Yes, I think your comments about San Francisco ("Dangerous,
disgusting slum") are tantamount to treason, for they undermine with
intent to harm a beloved American city as much as any foreign
invasion. And for no other reason than San Francisco didn't vote for you in
2016.
Forget your lame excuses:
...it's a once-great city now in the hands of do-nothing liberals like Nancy
Pelosi,
...it's a Sanctuary City harboring killers and rapists
...it's a godless, drug-infested blight on America that needs me to clean it
up.
The real reason for your attacks is that even before your election, you
considered San Francisco (indeed most of California) to be "enemy territory" and should be treated as
such.
Ironically, it is are the enemy.
With your embarrassing demeanor, your divisive, violent rhetoric, your
impulsive approach to major issues, your total ignorance of those issues,
(indeed your overall ignorance) you have consistently and vindictively attacked citizens,
communities and entire states by stifling government support and even going so
far as to threaten to withhold disaster relief .
And above all, it is your unabashedly petty vindictiveness resulting from a
thin-skinned nature that makes you the most un-Presidential, the most
treasonous President.
I have been a proud resident of San Francisco for over 45 years* and while it
has had the problems which many cities face, it has always approached them with
intelligence, compassion and dignity; admirable human traits which you , in all
honesty, lack.
In abundance.
San Francisco is a city that has had its lowest crime rate in years. In terms of
pollution, it is a city that has been battling your administration's gutting of
the Clean Air Act(as well as your bogus claim
that needles are flowing into the ocean). It is a city that has weathered
the Age of AIDS with unparalleled compassion and continues to fight for human
rights.** It is a diverse city, immune to the kind of xenophobia you so
enthusiastically spread. It is a cultural city, having the most art institutions
per capita in the U.S. And above all, it is a proud city, a city that should
never be as maligned as a "dangerous, disgusting slum" by a man who knows
nothing about it, with one exception: it didn't vote for him.
Be it against a country, a state or a city, (as one writer put it) you,
are obsessed with revenge.
It's called "Get Even." Get even. This isn't your typical business speech. Get even. What this is a real business speech. You know in all fairness to Wharton, I love 'em, but they teach you some stuff that's a lot of bullshit. When you're in business, you get even with people that screw you. And you screw them 15 times harder. And the reason is, the reason is, the reason is, not only, not only, because of the person that you're after, but other people watch what's happening. Other people see you or see you or see and they see how you react. - Donald Trump, Toronto 2007
Mr. President, even as you face numerous charges against you, it seems tragic
that none of your most disgusting, treasonous traits are considered
impeachable. Yet even more tragic: some of your ardent followers have even
considered those traits admirable, or at least, electable.
But as you know, the citizens of San Francisco considered those traits
impeachable long ago.
I suppose I should pity a man so insecure and thin-skinned that he wildly
lashes out at the smallest criticisms, but when that insecurity manifests
itself in a petty vindictiveness followed by treasonous words and deeds, pity
is the last thing I can think of. And When it comes to your childish reactions
to any form of criticism, I can only offer this advice:
Mr President, grow a pair.
But you won't. You'll continue to berate your perceived enemies via your
rallies, your press conferences and Twitter ad nauseum. You'll continue to
demean American citizens, American cities, American institutions, as relentlessly
as you do entire ("shithole") countries.
So my question to you, Mr. President is:
With a President like you, who needs enemies?
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