NO EXCUSE

In her book, Mary Trump’s account of her grandfather- uncle Donald’s father- Fred Sr. was domineering and a “high-functioning sociopath,” and was “emotionally and physically absent”. This left Donald without empathy and “fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others”. Another emotional scar could have been the traumatic effect of all this, along with being sent to a military academy. Donald just does not care about anyone but himself. Lacking love and acceptance, he is driven to attempt to be relevant to his adoring crowds for the attention and love lacking in his childhood.

Does Donald care about anyone? Does he care about the children he separated from their parents at the border?  He was using misery as a deterrent and made sure everyone knew of his cruelty. After he was chastised for the policy, he obscured the same activity and the separation is still going on now only for the cruelty.

Does he care that Russian GRU had put a bounty on their heads American soldiers’ heads in Afghanistan?  Below is a quote from a Stop Trump Pact message I received: “Almost two weeks ago, the New York times broke a story that Russia was offering bounties for the killing of American soldiers—and that Donald Trump had known this since February and has failed to take action to stop it.

Donald Trump’s failure to take swift and firm action against Russia while Americans are being killed is nothing short of treason.

Instead of taking action he instructed his team to focus on locating the source of the leak to the New York Times.  And while members of our military fear for their safety—and military families worry about the safety of their loved ones—Donald Trump plays golf. He tweets. He continues his campaign.”

As always, he’s putting his own interests ahead of the American people. Time and time again, Donald Trump shows how unfit he is for the job of president.  He is unable and unwilling to protect the American people from harm.”

Does he care about public health over the economy?  He does not care when he insists schools open while the pandemic is raging out of control. The CDC published guidelines for schools to open and Trump wants them rewritten to loosen the requirements. He tweeted “May cut funding if not open” in regard to school remaining closed. His motivation is tainted with political BS, insisting the democrats want to keep the schools closed to keep people from going back to work and hurt the economy. 

He has insisted Red states open prematurely. They complied with his direction and now there is a wave of new cases with record numbers of cases in the southern states and new records are broken daily.  Blue states that resisted had pro-Trump supporters demonstrate to push governors to open prematurely.

Are the schools re-opening so everyone is exposed to the virus …students, parents, grandparents, administrators and so on? Will this pandemic soar out of control for the November election and have the effect of suppressing the vote as he wants? This is a smoke screen to make a political statement and show they are for opening the economy, when he has no power to do so. Again, it’s the optics of Trump trying to do something he has no ability to control. 

Trump insisted in his tweet that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany had planned to and have opened schools. Trump used these countries, and being either ill informed or again not caring about the truth or the facts, he still does not realize that the numbers of new cases for all these countries combined were 601 on July 7^th  vs. our 58,238 new cases.  This shows he does not care about public health or anyone for that matter.

Mary Trump goes on in her book saying, “Donald today as much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in any synthesize information. This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak; his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.  He knows he has never been loved.”

None of the above is an excuse for his advisors and enablers in the legislature to allow his behavior to be normalized without objection. His racism, xenophobia, narcissism, and propaganda are being enabled by his minions daily.  The only salvation is the obvious leaks from his administration when his actions are totally disgusting enough for someone to come forward.