America is being run by an irresponsible, intellectually-lazy, belligerent child.
It’s sad that this needs to be pointed out. This once great nation has been led by intellectuals, humanitarians, Constitutional scholars and celebrated military officers, however, it is now being led by an intellectually-lazy child who isn’t even capable of PRETENDING to be a functional adult.
Adults understand the importance of keeping their promises. People who give their word and constantly break it, lose all credibility. Functioning adults wish to be viewed as credible and will go to great lengths to keep their word and maintain their credibility.
Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be willing to expend ANY effort to keep his word or maintain his credibility.
Did he even HAVE any credibility? I can’t remember a time when he had credibility.
Remember Trump’s “foolproof” plan to defeat ISIS “quickly and effectively”?
During the 2016 election campaign, he said that he understood ISIS better than America’s generals and that he had a secret plan to defeat ISIS, but he couldn’t tell us what it was during the campaign. He could only reveal this secret plan if he became president.
Then, Trump became president, but instead of revealing a foolproof plan to quickly and effectively defeat ISIS, he sat down with America’s generals and told THEM to come up with a plan!
As a candidate, Trump promised to raise taxes on the rich.
As president, Trump has given the very rich, MASSIVE TAX BREAKS, while raising the tax burden of working-class Americans.
Donald Trump also swore that he would release his tax returns if he became president.
Now, Trump is refusing to release his tax returns and he even says that if the Democrats subpoena his tax records, he will fight the subpoena.
And Donald Trump promised that he would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with a healthcare law that would make certain “everybody” had insurance coverage and that healthcare will be a “lot less expensive for everyone”.
However, under Trump millions of Americans have lost their health insurance coverage, and healthcare has become MORE expensive!
Trump also claimed that he would reduce America’s national debt to zero within 8 years.
Instead, Trump is following a path of fiscal irresponsibility that will add $8.3 TRILLION to the national debt, and INCREASE the national debt to a total of $28 TRILLION!
He also promised that you’d never see him on the golf course because he’d be so busy, working at the White House. I'm going to be working for you," he promised, "I'm not going to have time to play golf."
So, has Trump been too busy at the White House to play golf?
Nope! Since Trump was sworn into office, he’s spent nearly twenty-five percent of his time on the golf course. Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2017, Mr. Trump has reportedly been on the grounds of his golf courses or played golf elsewhere ONE-HUNDRED-SEVENTY times since becoming President, and that's as of Feb. 16, 2019. By the time you read this, that number will have gone up even higher.
Trump's chronic golf habit has cost the American taxpayer tens of millions of dollars.
Trump also promised that he would give up tweeting. “Don’t worry, I’ll give it up after I’m president. We won’t tweet anymore,” he said.
This, of course, was a shameless lie. Trump refuses to go a single day without tweeting. Tweeting is Trump’s preferred method of communication.
In addition to Trump’s chronic failure to keep his promises, he is also incredibly lazy and irresponsible and refuses to do even the bare minimum of the work that he’s supposed to do.
One of the most simple and basic responsibilities of the President of the United States is to read his daily intelligence briefings, however, Trump refuses to do even THAT MUCH work!
When Trump found the normal intelligence briefings too tedious and difficult to read, they tried to make it easier on him. The briefings were slimmed down in length, chopped up into easy-to-digest bullet points, and decorated with lots of graphs and pictures. But even THIS dumbed-down version was too difficult for Trump to read, and he STILL refuses to read his intelligence briefings!
All of this would be bad enough, however, it gets WORSE when you realize that our disruptive, intellectually-lazy child has no respect for the laws of the United States. Trump is utterly contemptuous of the rule of law. He's proven that time and time again.
Trump refused to impose new sanctions on Russia even though Congress passed a law that legally obligates him to impose new sanctions.
When a bipartisan group of senators invoked the Global Magnitsky Act and gave the White House 120 days to investigate and report on Jamal Khashoggi's brutal killing, Trump refused to investigate Khashoggi's murder, and he refused to report to Congress.
And of course, there's all those times Trump has obstructed FBI investigations.
And NOW Trump has just thrown a childish temper tantrum because Congress wouldn’t fund his unnecessary, exceedingly expensive, racist border wall.
Trump has declared Congress’s resistance to fund his foolish project a “National Emergency”.
Illegal border crossings at the American/Mexican border are the lowest they’ve been in DECADES! And Latinos who enter this country help the U.S. economy AND they commit crimes at a far lower rate than Donald Trump and Trump’s accomplices (like Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, Maria Butina and Michael Flynn).
And America’s mass-shootings all seem to be committed by white people (like Michael McClendon, Dylann Roof, Robert Lewis Dear, George Jo Hennard, Adam Lanza, and Stephen Paddock).
Illegal border crossings are down, and white-people commit more crimes than Latino immigrants, so, where’s the national emergency?
The emergency is that TRUMP DIDN’T GET WHAT HE WANTED!!
If Trump doesn’t get his way, he throws a temper tantrum and declares an emergency. This is exactly the sort of stunt you would expect of an irresponsible, intellectually-lazy, belligerent child.
What we need right now are some responsible adults to hold Trump accountable for his actions.