To the Editor:
Trump heads to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping, without the promised peace settlement with Iran, without allied support, after being embarrassed in the tariff war, and having lost the status contest on the world stage. I am very afraid the meeting will not go well, as Trump has dug a massive hole for America. In only 19 months. Two and a half years to go.
He seems to be “not all there” much of the time, either napping or devoting his interests to slapping his name on every structure he can (Kennedy Center, Palm Beach Airport, a class of battleship, etc.) raising a 22-foot gold-leafed statue of himself at Doral Golf Club, making plans for Arc d’Trump which he confirmed will honor, “Me.” And, of course, the now-estimated 1 billion-dollar “ballroom” and now not-so-secret bunker beneath it, the “donations” for which Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered “could be spent on place settings and table linens.” It didn’t surprise anyone that Trump misrepresented the whole undertaking, tore down the East Wing without any Congressional authorization or environmental analysis for asbestos or other toxic chemicals, and illegally dumped the detritus on a public Washington, DC, golf club. When discovered, he “unnecessarily closed” the club for “renovations.”
Todd Blanche, Trump’s DOJ hand-puppet, hoping to be the next AG, has turbo-charged attacks on the press, individually and wholly, for reporting things the administration does not want known, be it the ever-increasing cost of the “ballroom or the state of the War. Hegseth has barred the press from the Pentagon. Trump is the same guy that the dearly departed Pam Bondi said is, “the most transparent president in history.”
His War has apparently become boring as he can’t get the upper hand with Iran, particularly since the regime change he wanted has resulted in even more militancy at the hands of the Iranian Guard. In all of this, the Republica Congress has been happy to ignore its Constitutional duties to balance the powers of the president. They are just as responsible for what is happening to our country, nationally and internationally, as is Trump.
I am slugging through the SCOTUS murder of the Voting Rights Act and subsequent state actions on gerrymandering, trying to translate the legalese into real language. It is disingenuous and heartbreaking what the Republican majority on the Court has done.
And what the Republican Congress has not done.
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca