No Confidence

The pretend president has been at it again and again. Actually, it appears he has always been ‘at it’ and never doing what he says he is doing. That is the basis for today’s title – No Confidence.

Here are some immediate examples:

·        State of the Union Address

·        Fake Negotiations to Re-Open the Government

·        Evil news coverage of High School students at Lincoln Memorial meeting a Native American

·        Border Security Emergency

I wrote about the border security issue Tuesday. Nothing has happened to change that report. There is no border security emergency no matter what the president claims. Incontrovertible proof is plentiful to make this point. The bad is on him, not the democrats or any other scape goat.

The State of the Union Address is also not a snub. The Capitol building is shut down due to presidential order. To use it for the State of the Union Address would be highly dangerous and impractical. A written report would suffice, or an address to the nation from the Oval Office as was suggested by Speaker Polosi. Besides, the Speaker invited his address in good faith that the shutdown would be short-lived. The president did not accept the invitation, nor does he recognize the reality of the consequence of shutting down the government. Alternate speech delivery is on him.

Fake Negotiations to re-open the government is clear for all to see. The House and Senate agreed to a bill before Christmas granting everything the president said he wanted in it. But he changed his mind and did not sign the legislation. That’s his problem. Then he shut down the government unless he got exactly what he wanted. Other leaders negotiated with him and his staff. Still no agreement from the president. He made a big PR stunt announcement of his newest offer and it was not new at all. This was pure propaganda. He knows it. He does this sort of thing all the time. By now we all understand his modus operandi.

Labeling the confrontation between high school students and the Native American at the Lincoln Memorial an evil twist by the media is totally erroneous. The story had gone viral on social media, was hyped by a known Twitter twister. News outlets covered the social media aspect, then qualified their reporting with ifs. When more details became known, all those outlets corrected their earlier reports. Yes, this was an interesting happening; but the reporting uncovered other dimensions of the event that were even more puzzling. There are many layers to the story that continue to be of interest, however, fake news and evil coverage by the media is not one of those layers. A misuse of the incident by the president to attempt to attack the media yet again, is the primary outcome of his misrepresentations.

There are other instances where the president has claimed fake news when he is the creator of the news items himself. A propagandist is his profession. A deal maker? Hardly.

How disappointing. That underscores the reality a majority of the American public has no confidence in this president. His resignation from office would solve many problems. 

Sooner rather than later, please.

January 24, 2019