ALL ABOUT DONALD UPDATE: THE PRESIDENT EXPOSES HIS INNER CORE

August 16, 2017

ALL ABOUT DONALD: IT IS NO LONGER WHAT THIS PRESIDENT SAYS, BUT IN WHAT IS LEFT UNSAID HIS NAKED TRUTH

UPDATE!

There is one optic that is becoming abundantly clear. This President does not comprehend that his role is not one written for reality TV, there are no re-takes and his words and actions cannot be snipped from the tape left to fall to the floor.

When I wrote and posted the original piece on Monday afternoon, little did I know that the President Trump would emerge from a Trump Tower elevator and began a verbal holocaust upon the press and the American people. 

When the President with a straight face stated that "both sides" were to blame. He explained how he now strayed from his first two statements ("one beautiful") and "waited to learn all of the facts" before issuing such an important statement. This is his biggest lie to date.

Tuesday's resulting rampage is the single most humiliating display of a President in our history. He took no prisoners and did not stand looking as a hostage forced to face the cameras in his White House reading from a text written and handed to him by the terrorists who kidnapped him. lashed out at the press and the new "Alt Left." I was unable to witness this despicable display of a Donald Trump standing naked to reveal his psychological core. The most incendiary moments are etched in our minds after seeing the video replay over and over again. The entire scene was surreal. One wonders if Elaine Chou mulled over in mind how she could escape. 

Then there is General John Kelly, the new Chief of Staff straying slowly as far away from the cameras so to hide his embarrassment and humiliation. It was as if he wanted to step forward, wave his arms and ask for a "video review" as if a baseball manager. It was as if he and others wished to stop the game, rewind the tape and give this matter an intentional walk (back).

At this moment, I wish to pause and ask you read my first post to determine if what I wrote then was in any way prophetic? I wrote based on my knowledge and experience and as these antics unfolded, I felt affirmation as well as sadness for our nation.

Did I go far enough in my condemnation of this President?

I take this pause to take a step back and examine, learn all the facts just as the President. I want to weigh all of the information, the statements of other government leaders and the cable news pundits. 

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August 14, 2017

  

It is Monday and by this time many Americans may feel they are on overload, first the skirmish at Charlottesville and secondly what many feel are undo overdone and unending condemnation of the initial statement by President Donald Trump when speaking of the weekend violence. Many are saying that predictable criticism by Liberals is unwarranted. To the Alt-Right the constant Media review seems way overblown as well as unending recycling of the President’s statement denouncing “hatred, violence and bigotry on many sides …many sides” as the liberal media diagramming a sentence and semantics.

However, the inevitable collision of two distinct direct opposite identity of ideology has exposed an ugly predisposition of a racist embedded in American life. “This has gone on too long” is the six words Donald Trump spoke that is in fact, not fake news.

And this President’s failure to condemn unequivocally and speak with clarity that the violence and murder is inherently racist perpetrated by groups that profess White Supremacy, Nationalism and Neo-Nazism is in an Act of Domestic Terrorism.    

FAILURE IN THE WORDS NOT SPOKEN IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY, BUT A WARNING

When the President took to the podium after the violence and murder on Saturday, there are some obvious signs of his overall unsuitability to lead.

• ·         A President must address the nation in a time of crisis and speak to the facts of the event and that event alone. Someone, a Chief of Staff should have recognized that whatever the day’s agenda, Charlottesville is a tragic event and should have preceded any other pomp and circumstance. This called for sobering words of solace by one man, the President. It was a grave event worthy of space and time to air on television.

• ·         A President does not give but a mere fraction of his time to address the Charlottesville murder and violence and then move on to proclaim his own perception of his achievements, his devotion to the health of Veterans and showplace his prominence at a table signing a bill.
• ·         A President does not seize upon every opportunity to air his off script self serving unending campaign of half truths or fake news. This conceit is witnessed throughout the world community not with respect or thoughtful introspection. The world is watching. The world is hearing what is spoken and what is not spoken. They did not hear a condemnation of white nationalism, supremacy or Neo-Nazism. 

By ignoring the obvious and most grave truth, this President gave a blink and a nod to a mob mentality and more dangerous it gave fascism legitimacy. This is what the world witnessed this past weekend and for those who survived the horrors a precursor of things to come.

Our Western Allies, NATO and every free nation across the globe will remember the words spoken and those words they counted on from an American President. Like previous foibles and follies, untruths and dressing down our most trusted allied leaders, it will never be forgotten. America’s standing among the free world is losing its standing. Worse, we are seen as a world power not to be trusted by even our allies.

Our true enemies across the globe see further erosion of credible strength and a weakness they can permeate to their advantage in every way. They hold more at the bargaining table and have a wider crack in our firewall and are almost given an “open invitation” ca rte blanche to undermine our elections and democracy.

And this weakness, this inability to recognize the blatant racist hatred, violence and murder by political factions within our borders will invite more of the same. This is not an administration with insight, but one that by ignorance, blunder or design means to “incite” those within to more tragedy. Read his fellow Republican’s own statement.

“Here is a man with his name on their hats” and he cannot see or say it is a “domestic terror attack.” –Rev. Al Sharpton

“These groups feel they have a friend in the White House” – Sen. Lindsey Graham

What is absolute and critical, the abhorrent tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia is but a microcosm. A peaceful, planned demonstration was met by a counter demonstration orchestrated to provoke violence is not theory but fact. The White Nationalists, KKK and Neo-Nazi may have been organized to counter the former group, but FBI, DOJ, ATF and every Law Enforcement will conclude the resulting violence and death was planned by a few and carried out by one or two follower of questionable intellect, judgment and independent free will.

In the aftermath of all the condemnations by our political and religious leaders is what is yet to come. These events can play out again and again before our eyes anywhere in America. We can demand a national dialogue but we know this is likely to happen again. It can happen and it may incur more violence, bloodshed and death. It is morbidly ironic that the film “Detroit” a shocking story behind the ’67 riots recently premiered. Those of that era and still around know how these “incidents” happen.

After all the rallies, protests, counter demonstrations and calculated outcomes of political conventions has now so blatantly revealed to the world is the flaws within a broken system and how one team seized upon strains of hatred, disdain, intolerance to amass a core base to espouse nationalism. It is propagated in that label but leans ever so near fascism as so many got aboard, a majority stood fast to the right, tipping a delicate balance on a great American ocean liner to list far too right. The American ship of Liberty and Equality is dangerously close to capsizing.

While concerned crew and passengers scramble to move right motivated by individual conviction that they act to uphold American ideals inherent and propagated by what they believe is truth born in the past. What they fail to see is manipulation of fact over decades. As a united core, they are rendered vulnerable to falsehood, distraction and outright lies.

Those at the helm espouse a brand of propaganda baseless in fact, misinformation, and denial of obvious truth, plain and simple. The methodology only serves to instill “fear” to engage a crowd to act as a mob, whereas a leader with a steady hand brings calm, confidence and courage. Not to shout “fire” and then leave the room.  

Our American ship has a pretender at the helm. This captain has lost the confidence of those under his command. His selfish actions only further disrupt those who are faithful public servants performing with due diligence, support their commander and serve to uphold the Constitution. By the grace of God they remain steady to balance and keep this ship afloat in spite of the demoralizing even humiliating criticism hurled in epithet by an ill equipped and ill mannered leader.  

All that is Donald Trump Now Threatens the US Dollar and Economy to levels far worse than 2008

Our biggest fear is in what damage this President has caused to America in what we see covered daily in the media. They are the numerous bombastic pronouncements, the deterioration of our standing as the World’s greatest power and a Nation that leads and upholds Freedom throughout. Our United States is in downward spiral for the fact is all that is Donald Trump is contradiction, hyperbole, falsehood and misdirection that continues to erode the trust of all of our allies. They see us as confused as a President who cannot grasp facts. They cannot believe in our leadership when a President invites Russia’s top spies into the Oval Office where once Churchill met with FDR to garner the wit and the will to defeat Hitler and the Nazis. Western and Eastern Europe have every good reason to doubt our resolve when a President refuses to publicly admit our Intelligence Agencies are once and for all, correct. Russia remains the largest threat to our democracy and to any other fledgling democracy throughout the world.

This President all but gives a free pass, so to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the minds of our European allies (and would be allies) if “political collusion” did not exist during  the 2016 election, the resultant President is now in some covert way colluding with the Russia, a common enemy. This behavior, this thinking or lack of it is soon to be unpalatable to the United Kingdom, France and Germany. It is a joke to those in Australia, Sweden, Finland and Norway. But, it is not a joke to those who remain pro-democracy in Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine. What this President gives no serious study, thought and the input of experts is more than a tweet, but an alarm to those who lived behind an iron curtain.

What is at risk is the American dollar.* This President and the leaders of his Party are by their negligence, exhibiting a measured pressure to replace the global “currency of reserve” –the U.S. Dollar. Perhaps when, not if the dollar is replaced by a “new world currency” not Euro, Pound or Franc, the “depressive recession” of 2008 will pale in comparison in the failure of this economy and further a plunge of middle class into poverty.

*The United States dollar is the most widely held currency in the Allocated Reserves today. Throughout the last decade, an average of two thirds of the total Allocated foreign exchange reserves of countries have been in US dollars. For this reason, the US dollar is said to have "reserve-currency status", making it somewhat easier for the United States to run higher trade deficits with greatly postponed economic impact or even postponing a currency crisis. Central bank reserves held in dollar-denominated debt, however, are small compared to private holdings of such debt. In the event that non-United States holders of dollar-denominated assets decided to shift holdings to assets denominated in other currencies, there could be serious consequences for the US economy. Changes of this kind are rare, and typically change takes place gradually over time; the markets involved adjust accordingly.

 "The Retirement of Sterling as a Reserve Currency after 1945: Lessons for the US Dollar?", Catherine R. Schenk, Canadian Network for Economic History conference, October 2009.