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Municipal Auditorium - Downtown Nashville, Tennessee
When President Donald Trump visited Nashville, I documented his visit. It was a cold sunny day in March, but I had a great time capturing the excitement and the protest surrounding his arrival. You can read about that day and see more pictures on my blog: 45 Visits Music City.
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On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore's Flickr photostream. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Pete Birkinshaw's Flickr photostream. The button was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from SunyDay76 on Wikimedia.
This caricature of Mitch McConnell was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the US Senate. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from See-ming Lee's Flickr photostream.
This caricature of Paul Ryan was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the House Website. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Hairy Jacques's Flickr photostream.
Anti-Donald Trump inaugural protests
Michigan Avenue Bridge
Chicago, IL
January 20th, 2017
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Signs on the highway near Ely, Minnesota. They reead:
"Don Trump The Con"
"Treason and prison!"
"Turn off Fox News Up Your IQ"
"Remove trump and cumps and violent radical right!"
painting by Illma Gore from Los Angeles,
censured in the US, on display in a Lon-
don gallery, published in "Der Spiegel".
On April 4, 2023, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted Donald Trump on thirty-four felony counts of falsifying business records to hide that he paid Stormy Daniels hush money to silence her about their alleged affair. This occurred in October 2016, just weeks before the presidential election. And Bragg claims Trump was part of an illegal conspiracy to undermine the election by suppressing this information because of its negative impact on his candidacy.
During his arraignment, Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan warned Trump not to make comments or engage in conduct that has the "potential to incite violence, create civil unrest, or jeopardize the safety or well-being of any individuals."
Yet a few hours later, in a speech the former president made at Mar-a-Lago, he attacked Judge Merchan and his family. He said, "I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter worked for [Vice President] Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign." Both conservative and liberal lawyers have stated this is not a conflict of interest.
Donald Trump just can't keep his mouth shut. His narcissism controls everything he says and does. His behavior incites divisions and drains the life out of the American people. He knows exactly what he's doing. It's been his action plan for decades. And it's time to pull the plug on his ability to do and say whatever he wants. It doesn't matter whether or not he's running for president. He gets his energy from media coverage antics like this bring him.
The First Amendment doesn't protect individuals who incite violence.
Donald Trump Motorcade In New York
Donald Trump attends The United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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Way back when, in 1989, I was a New Yorker (still am I guess), living in Brooklyn and this was my take on “the Donald.”
Herman and Betty had hoped Maria would finish their laundry before leaving the country
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Homage to Grant Wood's American Gothic ... and Donald Trump's America
MODELS - Il Gattopardo, Monica Cruz Rios and Sally Troy
Make up Jane Charlotte
Photo Sophie Merlo
Anti-Donald Trump inaugural protests
Michigan Avenue Bridge
Chicago, IL
January 20th, 2017
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
KLFI (Joint Base Langley-Eustis) - 02 MAR 2017
"Air Force One" on takeoff roll on RWY 26 en route to Joint Base Andrews (KADW) after a 3-hour stay in the area. The secret service is in the foreground in the back vehicles.
President Trump was here to visit the Newport News shipyard to tour the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier and to speak to over 4,000 Navy sailors and workers there about his plan to lift sequestration and increase the military budget.
The rapper Eminem struck out at President Trump in a video that played at the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday, accusing the president of racism, hypocrisy, disrespect of military veterans and more in almost five minutes of furious freestyle rap.
He also excoriated Mr. Trump for his responses to the recent violence in Charlottesville, the devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria and the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
The video, titled “The Storm", was filmed in Detroit as part of the BET Hip Hop Awards’ traditional cyphers, in which rappers typically aim to deliver showy verses in a group setting.
© 2017 The New York Times
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
This photo was taken in Whitehall during the anti-Trump ban march from the US embassy to Downing Street.
On Friday morning thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Grosvenor Square outside the American Embassy in London. They were rallying to demand that prime minister Theresa May repudiate Donald Trump's shameful blanket entry ban on all Syrian, Iraqi, Somali, Yemeni, Iranian, Sudanese and Libyan nationals for the next 90 days as well as the indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Some also demanded that his planned state visit as a guest of the queen be revoked and that the British government also take decisive action to help desparate refugees and ease the conditions within the UK for asylum seekers.
By 11 am an estimated ten thousand had gathered outside the US Embassy for a march on Downing Street organized by the Stop the War Coalition, Stand Up to Racism and the Muslim Association of Britain
Among the most frequent chants heard were "May shame on you", "dump Trump", "build bridges not walls" and "refugees are welcome here". Protesters pointed out that all the countries effected were Muslim majority nations and yet none of the countries targeted had any nationals implicated in any recent terrorist attack within the United States.
Ironically it is US foreign policy in the Middle East, including years of bombing and support for regional dictators that is one of the main causes of the current refugee crisis.
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
It’s extraordinary that every irrational and questionable thing Donald Trump has done up to this point has bounced off him. Mr. Teflon Man's misogyny, narcissism, racism, impeachment, and his failed promise of being president for every American have had little effect on his approval ratings. His base remains true to him. But, with 5 months to go before the election, suddenly multiple threats to our lives have coalesced. Together, his mishandling of the pandemic and of the public outrage caused by the death of George Floyd is becoming his Waterloo. All the negatives of Trump's tenure are reaching a critical mass.
His self-interest is crystallizing in a way his call to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to do. His denial of the COVID-19's danger to our lives and his gross negligence in handling the pandemic, even ceding presidential and federal responsibility, leaving states to fend for themselves, have cost people's lives. It has been estimated that over 36,000 people died because of his 70 day delay in acknowledging the threat. On March 9, Trump tweeted, "Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus [sic], with 22 deaths. Think about that!" The President suggested the flu was worse than the coronavirus. And now, over 127,000 Americans are dead.
Trump was worried the resulting stock market crash would adversely affect his chances for re-election. So it was in his best interest to deny the seriousness of the virus. The economy, he thought, was his crowning achievement and would be the foundation of his re-election campaign. Yet, the stock market and low unemployment did not accurately convey the real health of our economy when many were living paycheck-to-paycheck. And workers are becoming disenchanted with the failure of companies to make them partners in their success.
Then the country (and the world) erupted when the video of George Floyd's death surfaced. Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while he pleaded for his life. The event was not only shocking, it tore the scab off of the systematic racism that African Americans and other minorities had suffered for hundreds of years.
But President Trump mishandled the largely peaceful protests. On June 1, in a White House Rose Garden press conference, he stated, "I am your President of law and order... we are entering the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. We will end it now. Today, I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets." While the vast majority of protests were peaceful, the President continually reiterated the necessity for showing overwhelming force. In a call with governors, Trump told them, "We're strongly looking for arrests. You have to get much tougher.... You have to dominate. If you don't dominate, you're wasting your time. They're going to run all over you, you'll look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate, and you have to arrest people, and you have to try people and they have to go to jail for long periods of time." And then there was his infamous PR stunt, strutting to St. John's Episcopal Church, a block away from the White House, where he simply stood there holding up a Bible. To do so, the US Park Police cleared his path through peaceful protesters with pepper balls and smoke canisters.
Calls to remove racist signifiers throughout the country crescendoed. Confederate statues on government grounds were removed. Some protesters took it upon themselves to bring them down. While many organizations decided to do the same. The American Museum of Natural History decided to remove James Earle Fraser's Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt from their entrance. The statue commemorates Roosevelt, a naturalist, but it also "communicates a racial hierarchy," according to the museum's website, with the former president on horseback, followed by an African American and an Indian. Mississippi's Republican legislature voted to redesign the state flag, removing the Confederate battle emblem. And both country music groups Lady Antebellum and the Dixie Chicks removed words in their names that reflected the 19th century South. They are now Lady A and The Chicks, respectively. We are reaching a collective and bipartisan tipping point. Except for the President.
Every day, it seems his actions become more abhorrent. On Sunday, June 28, Trump tweeted a video of a parade in Florida where people repeatedly yelled "white power" from golf carts festooned with Trump campaign posters. Trump tweeted "fine people," but claims he didn't hear the phrase in the video (it's easy to hear).
Finally, the New York Times reported US intelligence knew Vladimir Putin had offered the Taliban a bounty for each American service person killed in Afghanistan. The Times stated Trump had been briefed in March but took no immediate action. He denied reading the brief. Joy Behar of The View reacted by saying, "If he didn't see the brief then he's incompetent; if he did see the brief, he's a traitor." The Washington Post's David Ignatius wrote, "Through this agonizing period, Trump kept up a buzz of happy talk about improving relations with Putin, including the possibility of inviting Russia back into the Group of Seven. Were Trump's commanders too afraid to warn him of this folly?" Given the President's temperament, it wouldn't be surprising. So, add to the already overflowing incompetence of Trump's presidency the notion of systematic ignorance.
It's all coming together. Donald Trump claims to be a patriot, a forceful advocate of law and order. But our democracy is at risk with "patriots" who act like dictators. If Trump were a statue, it would be time to haul him away. We might say the same about the President himself.
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This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo by Michael Vadon's Flickr photostream.
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This magazine captivated the man that was reading it....he sat across from me for close to an hour without putting it down or looking away from it...compelling!
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Way before Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, President Trump sowed the seeds for a rigged election should he be defeated. In his tweets and interviews, he attempted to discredit the election process. Mail-in balloting was ripe for fraud, he said, even though this practice has been in use since the Civil War (and Trump has mailed in his ballots for years). As he often has done throughout his presidency, he admitted what he was really thinking when he said, making it easier to vote would insure “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” He was setting the stage for his objections should Biden defeat him.
After losing by 7 million votes and by a margin of 74 Electoral College votes to Biden, the president and his personal lawyers filed and lost or withdrew over 50 voter fraud lawsuits in the five battleground states and the Supreme Court to overturn the election. He lost every case but one. As his path narrowed, he’s become more desperate. After multiple recounts and court challenges, each state’s vote was certified and on December 14, electors once again reminded Donald Trump he had lost. After four years, Trump’s “alternative facts” finally met their match. But it wasn’t without an uncertainty that has divided the country. Despite his loss, we are still hostages to his rhetoric.
The president has his ardent followers both in and out of office. Pro-Trump supporters marched in Washington chanting “Stop the Steal.” Trump conducted an ongoing propaganda war on Twitter, claiming (without evidence) there were massive vote dumps and rigged voting machines. He even attacked his Justice Department and the FBI: “The FBI and Department of Justice — I don’t know, maybe they are involved,” Trump said. “But how people are allowed to get away … with this stuff is unbelievable.”
While this was happening, the president was numero rerum, missing in action, from his critical presidential duties: dealing with the pandemic, the economy, and unemployment. As Americans celebrated Christmas at a distance, he played golf. The Russians hacked into critical government data systems, including those at the Pentagon and Homeland Security, and the COVID-19 death count surpassed 300,000 Americans. Trump’s only focus since November 6 has been to overturn the election.
As things look dire for the President’s efforts, he is turning on his own, those in the Republican Party who are brave enough to put the country ahead of their party and leader, by refusing to take part in his sedition. He fired Republican Chris Krebs, head of the country’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, after Krebs stated the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.” He berated GOP Georgia governor, Brian Kemp and his Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, after they supported the will of Georgia voters. And now he’s blasting Vice President Pence, after a Lincoln Project ad claimed Pence was backing away from Trump’s “last stand,” the January 6 Congressional approval of each state’s certified electoral votes.
As many of Trump’s party allies are backing away from this farce (even Attorney General Bill Barr is jumping ship and resigning after stating there is no cause for a special prosecutor to investigate voter fraud), the president is turning to conspiracy advocates for support. As The Washington Post wrote, “Trump’s unofficial election advisory council now includes a pardoned felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover.” Pardoned felon, Michael Flynn, has suggested Trump declare martial law to rerun the election. Former federal prosecutor and attorney for Flynn, Sidney Powell, has said Venezuela is behind hacking of voting machines. Her secret “intelligent contractor” witness, pro-Trump podcaster Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman, has a questionable past. Former Overstock chief executive and conspiracy theory adherent, Patrick Byrne, along with Flynn, Powell, and Republicans from the House Freedom Caucus, including QAnon supporter Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), are now the president’s closest advisors. Considering Trump seems hellbent on slashing and burning the federal government on his way out, this is alarming.
This isn’t the first time America has found itself on this precipice. The elasticity of the Constitution and rule of law have been tested before. In the 1950s, Joseph McCarthy’s rhetoric and communist witch hunt mirrored Trump’s autocratic behavior in many ways. On June 1, 1950, Maine’s Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith was one of the first to stand up to McCarthy’s tyranny when she delivered a speech before Congress: Declaration of Conscience. Smith was the first woman to hold office as both a Congressperson and a Senator and the first women to be put forward by any party for President. Like today, the Senator spoke of the wretched air of “fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear” that hung over the country.
At the time, she believe the Democrats in power had “lost the confidence of the American people by its complacency to the threat of communism here at home and the leak of vital secrets to Russia." And she believed a Republican victory would restore the country’s focus and place on the world stage. However, she said, “Yet to displace [the Democrats] with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation…. I don’t believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren’t that desperate for victory.”
Unfortunately, the GOP in 2020 doesn’t seem as concerned with our national interest, only their party’s hold on power and politicians personal interests. After Joe Biden was declared the President-Elect, Trump refused to concede. Many senators and congresspeople, not only refused to acknowledge the will of the people, our most important and cherished right to vote, but they supported Trump’s false claims of a rigged election.
Margaret Chase Smith embodied the true nature of public service. She believed in the tenets of her party, but not without acknowledging they had gone astray. “Those of us," she said, "who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; [and] the right of independent thought.”
As Peter Whener, contributing writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote:
Given Trump’s psychological profile, it was inevitable that when he felt the walls of reality close in on him—in 2020, it was the pandemic, the cratering economy, and his election defeat—he would detach himself even further from reality. It was predictable that the president would assert even more bizarre conspiracy theories. That he would become more enraged and embittered, more desperate and despondent, more consumed by his grievances. That he would go against past supplicants, like Attorney General Bill Barr and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and become more aggressive toward his perceived enemies. That his wits would begin to turn, in the words of King Lear. That he would begin to lose his mind.
Donald Trump may have less than 30 days left in office, but he has and can do a lot more damage to the country’s institutions and its people. Within a week, he pardoned 60 convicted criminals who are the president’s close associates and loyalists. His clear message: he will reward loyalty when he’s at the center of questionable or illegal behavior. Over the last four years, Trump has shown he was never our president. He was always their president.
It’s time to consider invoking the 25th Amendment’s Section 4, which allows for removal of a president who is incapacitated by any kind of illness—including mental illness—or injury. The Constitution has always stated the Vice President would become Acting President should the President die, resign, or become unable to carry out his or her duties. However, it never stated who may make that evaluation. The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, makes that clear.
We have never had a president like Donald Trump, and clearer heads should come forward to insure the safety of the country, its people, and its institutions. In continuing his efforts to undermine the legitimacy of our election, the President and his supporters, both in and out of government, are partaking in sedition. This has critical ramifications both in the next month and into the next administration. Who in the Republican Party will now stand up for the pillars of the country Senator Smith laid out because it’s the right thing to do and the future of the country depends on it?
What good is a constitutional amendment if you don’t use it when necessary? Oh, and voter fraud? Why yes, there was voter fraud in the 2020 election. By a Republican.
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Donald Trump attends The United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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Holly Holm and Ronda Rousey’s UFC fight for Women’s Bantamweight title will always go down history as a memorable and tear-breaking one especially because the crowd favorite Rousey was sent spiralling down the mat by Holm’s severe blow in a terrific knockout.
Ronda’s antics and attitude on and of...
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KLFI (Joint Base Langley-Eustis) - 02 MAR 2017
"Air Force One" back-taxiing on RWY 8/26 to full length for departure to Joint Base Andrews (KADW) after a 3-hour stay in the area.
President Trump was here to visit the Newport News shipyard to tour the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier and to speak to workers there.
Note the two windows aft of the cockpit. The left side of the aircraft does not have any windows aft of the cockpit on the hump.
Robert De Niro wdrv.it/c1ccc6fd1
Here are De Niro's full thoughts on Trump:
"He's so blatantly stupid. He's a punk, he's a dog, he's a pig, he's a con, a bulls*** artist, a mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about, doesn't do his homework, doesn't care, thinks he's gaming society, doesn't pay his taxes. He's an idiot. Colin Powell said it best: He's a national disaster. He's an embarrassment to this country. It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point that this fool, this bozo, has wound up where he has. He talks how he'd like to punch people in the face? Well, I'd like to punch him in the face. This is somebody that we want for president? I don't think so. What I care about is the direction of this country, and what I'm very, very worried about is that it might go in the wrong direction with someone like Donald Trump. If you care about your future, vote for it."
Image from 2004, 5th Avenue.
The Minnesota State Patrol estimates 25,000 gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol this afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.