Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
11.19.2016
The
Second Week of Trump
There are appointments
being made, and policies being rolled out. Everything I am hearing or reading
about in the news seems typical of what I would expect from the same Donald Trump
who ran for President on the Republican ticket.
There were not any big
rallies, but they have been scheduled to return. The President Elect promises a
victory tour.
We are hearing from the
media that he may not plan on living in the White House, preferring the
opulence of his penthouse apartment in New York City, the gilded halls, painted
in gold.
He gave an interview to 60 Minutes, his children accompanied
him, and sat behind him in a row. His daughter’s PR firm live Tweeted to her
followers during the airing, that they could buy the clothes and jewelry Ivanka
was wearing “right now” from her website.
The presidency has merged
with a shop at home channel. Hurry, buy it now!
The President Elect
settled his class action lawsuit for twenty-five million dollars. Putting the
civil complaint to rest, and avoiding an admission of any wrongdoing. He will
not have to admit to being fraud, to racketeering or anything else in this
case. But there are dozens of more law suits he is embroiled in at the moment,
including a case in which it is alleged that he raped a twelve-year old girl.
The President Elect is
seeking ways around the laws against nepotism, laws which prevent the president
from hiring members of his family to work on his staff. One of his arguments
suggests that he could appointment them if they were not paid, another of his
arguments suggests that the presidency is not in reality the executive branch.
It is sophistry, it is
all lies.
He wants his children to
whom he says he will turn over the management of his business, he wants them to
have security clearances, and to sit in on meetings with the heads of state of
other nations, as he did this week with the Prime Minister of Japan. Ivanka
joined him, and in the official photos of the event, Trump branded water was
prominently on display.
These are the least disturbing
developments happening in the burgeoning Trump administration.
He has named an outspoken
White Supremecist to be his principle strategic advisor. Steve Bannon of
Britebart News.
He named Alabama senator
Jeff Sessions to be the Attorney General, a man who once said that he didn’t
have a problem with the KKK until he learned that they smoked pot.
He named retired General Mike
Flynn to be his National Security Advisor, a man who has said that the Islamic Faith
was merely a political ideology disguised as a religion.
It is a sad day for most
Americans, as the votes keep being counted and Hillary Clinton’s lead in the
popular vote continues to grow, approaching two million.
There is a dramatic spike
in the incidences of hate crimes, and intimidation against Jews, against Muslims,
against African-Americans and other minorities in the days after the election.
The hypocrisy of the
Trump campaign appears to be limitless. They ignore it. They claim that
liberals and progressive are staging the events to make Trump look bad. They
claim that the hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the street in
protest are merely paid actors. They are living in denial, and they would like
their followers to be in denial as well.
What is for me a trivial
matter, will probably get no play among the right wing Christians who supported
Trump, is the fact that White Supremecist Steve Bannon said just yesterday that
operating from the darkness is good, he invoked the figures of Darth Vader and
even Satan as examples of the kind of power he would seek to wield from the
oval office.
Did you hear that
Christian conservatives?
President Elect Trump’s
chief Strategist has openly invoked the name of Satan, and the powers of
darkness to guide him in his advice to the President of the United States.
Are you comfortable with
that?
Did you get what you paid
for?
Do you still think you
will?
