LETTER A few questions for President Trump
In response to the dastardly chemical gas attack on innocent Syrian civilians, Donald Trump asked Iran and Russia, “What kind of nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?”
The president is to be applauded for asking this question, but it leads to questions for him:
What kind of nation, Mr. Trump, wishes to be associated with a president who lies on a daily basis, who perpetrated a five-year-long racist birther hoax against his predecessor, who uses the bully pulpit to engage in bombastic Twitter attacks rather than being willing to address the media, who denigrates war heroes and the survivors of those who gave their lives for their country, who is coarse, crude, and base, publicly using profanity, who is well-established as having no moral compass and no character, who judges women based on their appearance, who boasted about perpetrating sexual assault, who vilifies the media, asserting that its members are “the enemies of the people,” who changes positions with the wind, who has sought to impose a religious test for entry into the United States, who maligns immigrants, racial and sexual minorities, who suggests that criminal suspects should be roughed up by police, who alienates allies while expressing admiration for ruthless, murderous dictators who have usurped the rights of their people, who finds moral equivalency between white supremacists bearing torches and those who protested their offensive presence, who ignores instances of police officers killing African-American men, who fails to recognize homegrown terrorists but who is quick to characterize as “Islamic terror” any instance of a man of Arab descent who kills innocent people, who refers to those he does not like or agree with as “slimeball,” “Little,” “Crooked,” and “fat slob,” who believes that Justice Department officials work for him rather than for the people, and who sees the presidency as a path to further vast wealth?
The hypocrite-in-chief is blissful in his willful blindness.
Oren Spiegler
South Strabane Township