1] “The country deserves a president who cares about the truth.” “There’s no longer any escaping from the reality of what the past two years have produced: a president who is facing multiple investigations…….a president who has further divided the country; a president who has not sought in any serious way to reach beyond his base; a president whose policies have left allies overseas worried about the absence of U.S. leadership.” [Dan Balz; Washington Post; 12/23/2018; “Mattis Pushes Others To Step Up”}: “Republicans continue to act as if nothing much has changed…The response to Mattis’ resignation was telling..not just one of shock but also one of alarm, as if the last line of defense had broken down.” [read the article – & remember, this is said in 2018 – NOT. 2025!!!!!]
***. “Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes.” [Isaiah 5:21]
2] “Earlier this month, Tillerson described Trump as “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, “This is what I believe.” [Julie Pace, Zeke Miller: “As advisors leave, the guardrails come off.”; Asoc. Press; 12/22/2018]: “Last year, during one particularly frenetic stretch of Donald Trump’s presidency, a top GOP senator said there were three men guarding the country from chaos..Mattis..Kelly..Tillerson. Within weeks, not one will be left in the administration…marks the end of the “contain and control” phase of Trump’s administration – one where generals, business leaders and establishment Republicans struggled to guide the president and curb his most disruptive impulses.” [READ THIS ARTICLE!]
***. “Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is
consistently challenged.” [Ted Sorenson – JFK advisor]
3] “He’s dynamited the institution of the presidency,” said Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian at Rice University.” [Jonathan Lemire: “In 2 Years, Norms Vanish”; Assoc. Press; 12/29/2018]: “In Trump’s Washington, facts are less relevant. Insults and highly personal attacks are increasingly employed… The White House press briefing is all but gone, international summits are optional… and everything – including inherently nonpartisan institutions and investigations – is suddenly political.”
“Taking a wrecking ball to decorum and institutions, Trump has changed..how Washington works and how it is viewed by the rest of the nation and the world.”…….
“From his first days in office, Trump pushed falsehoods… The inaccuracies have been big and small… The cumulative effect has been to diminish the authority with which White House pronouncements are received.”….
” and he has eschewed sweeping diplomacy in favor of transactional relationships. He has strained longtime alliances – including with Canada, of all places – and befriended global strongmen.” [read the article!!!!]
******. “No change in circumstances can repair a defect in character.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
4] “He does not own anything that goes wrong. The problem is, he’ll blame anybody. Obviously, it’s the Democrats in this situation.” [David Nakamura: “President Tries To Divert Blame”; Washington Post; 12/22/2018]: “For Trump, the rhetorical Kabuki offered another example of a president who routinely contradicts himself without regard for consequences…. a chief executive who had brought Washington, D.C. to the brink of a self-inflicted governance crisis with no clear strategy of how to manage the shut-down – or win it.”
“It’s really indicative of how we all know he thinks so in-the-moment and so off-the-cuff that it winds up being dangerous..” [read the article!!!]
***** “The principle source of erroneous judgment [is] viewing things partially and
only on one side.” [Samuel Johnson}
!!!!!*****!!!!!*****!!!!!***** REMEMBER – these were written in 2018!!! Absolutely, NOTHING HAS CHANGED in Trump – accept, as “some people are saying” – perhaps his mental abilities. BUT – something critical HAS changed. #1 – “PROJECT 2025”. and its authors in crucial Trump II administration jobs; #2 – the people who DID try to “contain and control” Trump’s worst tendencies. ARE. GONE – replaced by. ‘LOYALISTS” and other types of “Yes Men,” or people trying to. USE. this presidency to achieve the 90-year FAR RIGHT. wish list. YOU can read about their successes in daily headlines. SPEAK UP AND PROTEST – or – what is left of “YOUR’ democracy WILL be destroyed.
With Justice For All 