Shortly after noon today Donald John Trump was sworn in, gave his acceptance speech, signed Presidential Orders, ate lunch and officially became the most controversial man entering the White House in American history.
I am sure many of you point to Lincoln or even Obama, being the first African American to assume the office, as more controversial. Issues and change were the issues of division that accompanied these men into office not their personal peccadillos or intellectual lack of curiosity. Donald Trump who has publicly scorned the NSA, CIA and FBI briefings is entering the White House with the literal weight of the world on his shoulders. In his acceptance speech, he signaled that the US will close its doors to the world, leave our allies to fend for themselves and cocoon the United States of America, cloaked by the security of the flag. Unfortunately, the flag is not Superman’s cape, it will not deflect bullets, racism or ignorance.
I have long contended that President Trump wanted the office not the job.
It may sound contrite or like a cliché but the world is a complicated place and a one page document does not always tell the story. Sometimes it takes long study and valued intelligence not to take us into war. The President wants to eschew years of proven wisdom and wing it abcnews.go.com/.... The idea of his off the cuff, “tell it like it is” style can either bring America to prosperity or disaster. You can avoid disaster with the intellect of an Obama but you can create chaos with Cowboy diplomacy. Having a mindset that reduces your friends [NATO] to mooching liabilities and elevating your enemy [Putin] to almost heroic heights is where we find ourselves.
The sadness I feel for America and the world was manifest in the speech by Mr. Trump today; a gloomy, crime ridden, isolationism that fueled his campaign and seems to be the catalyst for a new arising of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-people of color sentiment.
I was born in an America, where in some places, did not allow Black people to vote, or ride buses freely, sit anywhere you chose in movie theaters or drink from any public water fountain. My hopes always lay in the prospect of a better tomorrow. I saw the fall of Jim Crow laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voter Rights act of 1965. Progress has always been the victorious creed of America its failures have been authored by the advocates of the status quo. I watched Barack H. And Michelle L. Obama board a plane to Palm Springs, California this afternoon and carry with them the dignity I had hoped America would hold onto for a long time.
The world will survive as the fortunes of America change for either the good or bad. I hope for the good, but I am not immune to the bad I have experienced. God bless America and all its ships at sea- richardandmimi.com/....
Vote 2018, it’s not too late!