The Hypocritical President

It should be amazing, to me and others, how hypocritical the so-called president and his GOP counterparts are with respect to everything they’ve stated when talking about the Democrats. But, in this new age of extreme dysfunction, it isn’t surprising nor amazing with the way they have accused Democrats of being wrong for invoking things like the filibuster and other tactics that they (the GOP) did in such excess during the Obama administration, which caused the senate Democrats to change the rules in order to allow former President Obama to get anything accomplished. During Obama’s presidency, the GOP (openly) stated that they would filibuster anything presented by Democrats in order to make President Obama’s presidency and agenda fail. In fact, the GOP in the senate held more filibusters during the Obama presidency than had ever before been seen. But, now that senate Democrats have proposed doing so it is suddenly the worst thing to have ever happened.

During so-called president trump’s campaign, he continually harped on Hillary Clinton as being “corrupt.” He and General Mike Flynn continually chanted, “Lock her up” and made accusations that the people receiving immunity (in connection with Hillary) must have done something illegal or they wouldn’t be seeking immunity. Now that Mike Flynn is in the hot seat, trump tweeted that Flynn should, “…seek immunity…” and it appears that Flynn is doing just that now that he was caught up in the Russia scandal and is going before Congress to testify.

I stated, all along, throughout trump’s campaign that, “Whenever trump speaks he is talking into a mirror.” That statement was made because it was so apparent that every time he was making accusations directed at Hillary Clinton those accusations were more applicable to trump himself. Unfortunately, that behavior exhibited by trump throughout his campaign hasn’t stopped now that the election is over and he is in the White House. He continues to make wild assertions about Democrats and the mainstream media that are more applicable to him, his administration and the “fake news” (Russian propaganda news sources and trolls as well as media outlets like Breitbart) that he, himself, has supported and promoted.

Every time Sean Spicer gives a news briefing, he (like his boss, so-called president trump) never takes responsibility for their mistakes. Rather, just like trump, he places blame on anyone and everyone other than their administration – the parties who are actually responsible. President Obama always took full responsibility for any mistakes made by those people or departments under the Executive Branch of government. Even when the mistakes made weren’t made by the president (Obama) – if they were made by anyone or any department that was within the Executive Branch, which he headed, he took full responsibility. That’s what grown-ups do. That’s what mentally stable and people fit for the enormous responsibility of being president of the United States do when mistakes happen within their branch of government. I (nor has anyone else) have yet to see so-called president trump take responsibility for anything other than things he views as success. He, even, takes credit for successes that were the result of the former president’s policies and work that would have happened regardless of who the next president (after Obama) would be.

When will so-called president trump grow-up and start acting like an adult? When will he start behaving like a sane and responsible individual? In this viewer’s opinion (from what has gone on and on and on so far) it would be easier to eliminate terrorism off the face of the earth than for Donald Trump to become a grown-up, responsible, sane individual who is capable of handling the awesome responsibility of being president of the most powerful country in the world. He, in the very short time he has been president, has alienated our closest allies, created a perception of the United States and the awesome power of the presidency as a “laughing stock” around the world – from our allies to our enemies – we are, now, the punch-line to every joke in every language around the world.

At this point in time, GW Bush would be a welcomed change to the irrevocably insane trump presidency. That statement should communicate, very clearly, the level of horror felt by most Americans at present. Most Americans, meaning all Americans with common sense, intelligence, sanity and an open and analytical mind. Those excluded from “most” are a small minority of Americans who are gullible, insane, closed-minded, opposed to facts, unable to tell the difference between legitimate, factual news and fake, propaganda, fictional stories that should never be referred to as “news.” But, unfortunately, because this so-called president and his staff creates and promotes such lies as news and his “base” gobbles it up like Thanksgiving dinner – the era of misinformation is likely to continue. And, if such an era continues, the division in this country is likely to follow suit.