WE NEED TO KEEP DONALD TRUMP AT HOME

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

WE NEED TO KEEP DONALD TRUMP AT HOME
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HE HAS NEITHER THE CHARACTER NOR INTELLIGENCE
TO ENGAGE IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY 

Every time Donald Trump leaves home he manages to embarrass the United States. He’s so self-absorbed, narcissistic, and delusional that he thinks the world and our allies are looking up to him with admiration, but actually, the world looks upon him with disgust. He’s seen as a crude, primitive, and unsophisticated hick. Yet, he struts about the world like he’s an emperor. That makes all of America look stupid. After all, “What kind of nation would elect such an ignorant buffoon?”
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All of America’s longtime allies are beginning to line up against him, because we’re, literally, sending a thin-skinned, sociopathic Hillbilly all over the world to represent us, and he’s doing tremendous and long-term damage to the standing of the United States all over the world.

How can our allies have any faith at all in a nation capable of electing such an unqualified ‘buffoon?’ And how can the world have any confidence in any agreements entered into with a man who routinely reneges on agreements simply because he got up on the wrong side of the bed, or he thinks it would serve to titillate his undereducated supporters at home?
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And his judgment has also proven to be atrocious. Even as he was trying to negotiate a nuclear arms agreement with Kim Jong-Un of North Korea, he unilaterally reneged on a carefully thought-out international agreement identical to it with Iran, and that was in spite of the fact that all of our allies agreed that Iran was in strict compliance with its terms. But all that was meaningless to Trump - all he was concerned with was the agreement reflected too well on the competence of his Black predecessor who embarrassed him once at a White House dinner. In addition, a clear example of the depth in which Trump contemplates world affairs was reported by nymag.com. The report indicates that a European diplomat said that "Trump will ask: ‘Did Obama approve this?’ And if the answer is affirmative, he will say: ‘We don’t,'" (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia -collusion.html).
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Trump is also completely ignorant of the significance of American history. During his recent trip to France in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the end of WWI, Trump failed to attend the ceremony honoring our fallen troops. That’s a prime example of just how ignorant and self-absorbed he is. In spite of all of his claims to love our troops, and all his attempts to present himself as some sort of super-patriot, just that one snub was a slap in the face of every veteran who ever served this country. No other president in the history of this nation would have missed that ceremony - even if they had to be rolled out on their deathbed.  Yet, Trump dishonored those fallen troops on just a whim. The reason for that is, he’s so ignorant and self-absorbed that he has absolutely no sense of history. Trump is completely incapable of seeing anything beyond himself as having any importance.
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As a former Marine, I, along with hundreds of thousands of other former Marines have a USMC

“Devil Dog” tattooed on our forearm. That tattoo is in honor of those very fallen marines that Donald Trump so casually dishonored due to rain. The reason that marines so proudly sport that tattoo and are referred to as Devil Dogs is because of the ferocity in which the Marines at Belleau Wood fought and died for this country.  The name, “Devil Dogs” was given to those brave men by German soldiers to describe the United States Marines who fought in the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918. The Germans said those Marines fought with the ferocity of  "Dogs from Hell." 
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So the very first thing a marine learns when he enters Marine Corps boot camp is about the battle of Belleau Wood, because these brave men set the standard for what it means to be a marine. Yet, Donald Trump, a goddamn draft-dodger, casually dismissed them on the ONE-HUNDREDTH anniversary of their sacrifice due to rain. But in response to his unconscionable snub of our fallen troops Trump got immediate blowback:
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Nicholas Soames, a member of Britain’s Parliament and grandson of Winston Churchill, tweeted, "They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen.” 
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And former Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted, "President @realDonaldTrump a no-show because of raindrops? Those veterans the president didn’t bother to honor fought in the rain, in the mud, in the snow - & many died in trenches for the cause of freedom. Rain didn’t stop them & it shouldn’t have stopped an American president.”
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LT. ROBERT MUELLER
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

So America should never forgive Trump for dishonoring our fallen warriors, because to do so would be to dishonor them ourselves. They stood up and died for us in the face of the enemy, so we must stand up for them in the face of Trump. And it goes beyond just these fallen heroes. If what Trump did in Europe wasn’t bad enough, when he returned to the United States he also failed to make the two-mile trip to attend the Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington Cemetery. That’s a tradition that every president in recent history has adhered to, but not Trump - “To hell with ‘em; I got my own problems.” 
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Thus, it’ll be interesting to see the response of Trump’s flag-waving supporters to his snub of some of the most heroic warriors in America history. Is it really patriotism that motivates these supporters, or something much more sinister?  We'll see. It’s easy to wrap yourself in the flag and claim to be a patriot to promote your political ambitions, but what’s not so easy is living up to the hypocrisy in your daily life while under pressure, and Donald Trump has clearly failed to meet that test. 
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What’s actually going on here is quite clear. In spite of Trump’s claim that the recent midterm elections were a Republican success, the blue wave in the House represents a disaster for him, and a clear repudiation of his presidency by the American people.  In addition, with Democrats in control of the House, every facet of his alleged criminality is going to be thoroughly investigated, and just the thought of that prospect is causing him to implode.
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The Los Angeles Times reported in its article, Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties, “[Trump’s] mood apparently has changed as he has taken measure of the electoral backlash that voters delivered Nov. 6. With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment, according to multiple administration sources.”
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That explains why Trump was so sullen in Europe and missing in action with respect to his presidential duties. The pressure’s on, and he’s personally under the gun so the flaws in his character are coming to the fore. And what that means when it comes to Donald Trump is, “To hell with the fallen troops, they’re already dead. My ass is on the line now, and that’s all that’s important.” So Draft-Dodgin’ Donnie is back, and in full, and self-serving effect. It's just too bad that Trump wasn't as fixated on our fallen vets as he is the Mueller investigation. If he'd thought there was someone at that cemetery who could block the Mueller investigation, a hurricane wouldn't have kept him away - even if he had to fly the helicopter himself. 
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Our founding fathers are undoubtedly turning over in their graves over this guy, and American history will never forgive the GOP for propping him up, and neither should we. Republicans have done many unpatriotic things in the past in pursuit of their greed and narrow interests, but after this stunt the GOP has revealed itself for exactly what it is - a party of greedy, bigoted, and misogynist pigs who couldn’t care less about America - so we should leave no stone unturned to send the entire party, along with Trump, to the waste bin of history. 

TELL ME,

HOW IS THIS GUY EITHER PRESIDENTIAL, A LEADER, OR QUALIFIED TO ENGAGE IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY?
HE’S AN IGNORANT BUFFOON WHO DOESN’T EVEN HAVE THE CLASS
TO RESPECT THE VERY WOMB OF OUR SOCIETY.

Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.