Donald Trump boasts of ending wars no one else has heard of while threatening to attack Venezuela.  In Ukraine, Gaza, and Somalia the bloodshed, death, and destruction continue unabated!

ABC’s Terry Moran, May 1, 2025, asked President Trump, “What does (the Declaration of Independence) mean to you?”  Donald responded, “It’s exactly what it is.  It is a declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot, and is something very special to our country.”

The Daily Show’s Desi Lydik pointed out that, on hearing this, Moran’s fascial expression reflected the concern of “a teacher about to call the school psychologist. 
. . .
But of course, he would have made that face.  Trump said that the Declaration of Independence meant unity.  Unity is the opposite of independence.  How did Trump find the one time that unity and love is the wrong answer?  What makes this even more sad is the Declaration of Independence is basically the colonies filing for divorce.  It’s the one thing that Trump should absolutely recognize.”

Curiously, this seventy-nine-year-old, whose words and acts derive from sixth-grade thinking, is ignorant of sixth-grade American History: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, Minute Men, Paul Revere, Lexington and Concord, George Washington, Revolutionary War, Constitution. 

The Declaration of Independence is The United States of America’s birth certificate!  

Seeming to conflate the Nov. 11, 1918 World War I armistice, the 1919-1920 Spanish Influence pandemic, and a quarter-century hence, the end of World War II, on Aug. 10, 2020 the “stable genius,” Donald J. Trump, said, “The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic  .  .  .  probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick.”

Ancient wisdom so astonishingly prescient in the era of Trump.

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A leader is best

When people barely know that he exists,

Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,

Worse when they despise him.

‘Fail to honor people, they failed to honor you;’

But for a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will all say, ‘we did this ourselves.’

   A leader is best  The Way of Life According to Lao Tsu

  Translated by Witter Bynner

Donald Trump assured us, July 31, that his ballroom,
“won’t interfere with the current building.  .  .  .  It will be near it but not touching it.  It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.  It’s my favorite place.  I love it.” On October 20, his demolitions crew set to work demolishing the East Wing of We-the-People’s White House.

Following the October 18 “No King” rally, King Trump reposted an AI of himself flying over, shitting on Americans.

Now, he schemes to shake-down taxpayers for $230 million.

Donald J. Trump is a cancer on the body of American Democracy.

I hope it’s not terminal.

“It’s all wrong.  By right we shouldn’t even be here.  But we are.  It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.  The ones that really mattered.  Full of darkness and danger they were…But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.  Even darkness must pass.”

Samwise “Sam” Gamgee
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

Donald Trump’s pronouncements call to mind settlers’ description of the Platte River.  “A mile wide and an inch deep.”

The man who covets the Nobel Peace Prize changed the Department of Defense into the Department of War, unilaterally destroys vessels in international water, threatens to Trump-up war against Venezuela, and schemes to impose martial law on the United States of America.

Nations claim the right to decide who enters their territory.  To monitor and police this claim, the United States Congress created the agency for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

So long as it operates within its mandate, transparently, ICE is appropriate and necessary.  When, in the dark hours of night, anonymous, masked, supposedly-ICE goon-squads kick-in doors and abduct people without indictment or probable cause, American citizens are at serious risk of being illegally detained and deported!

Tragically and increasingly, ICE resembles Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo!

Over 2 1/2 centuries, forty-five men have assumed the distinguished title and shouldered the awesome burden of a President of the United States of America.  Within the constraints of human foibles, forty-four held the best interests of our nation ahead of personal wealth, sacrifice, and suffering.  Donald J. Trump is the lone exception, the outlier.

A malignant narcissist and buffoon, America’s forty-fifth and forty-seventh President holds avarice and self-aggrandizement above all else.  Two words capture Donald’s sole domestic policy: self-professed “hate” and revenge

Donald J. Trump crossed the Rubicon.  If he has not stopped, as with Rome’s, America’s Democracy will be history!