BILL HILLMAN'S
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIALS COLLECTION 261
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AGENT ORANGE No. 45: PLAGUE OF THE MAGATS
THE TRUMP LEGACY XIV
THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA
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Question in Quora: Donald Trump claimed that, during his UK visit, there was ‘automatic chemistry’ with Queen Elizabeth and that the Queen had never had a ‘better time’. What do you think?
Reply: Part of my job brings me into frequent contact with Royal aides and occasionally with members of the family itself. For example, I have chatted and joked with the Princess Royal, I have met the then Prince Charles and Prince William as well as a whole host of “minor Royals”.I can tell you that it is universally held that the Queen absolutely detested Donald trump. She was very much a conservative British woman (note the small ‘c’) who held good manners and protocol above all things and being “manhandled” as Trump did was not the done thing and an anathema to her. She hated everything he stood for, his right wing views, his loudness and his bragging seemed to her to be all that was wrong with the US encapsulated into one person.
This does not come across in her public “face” because she was a sheer professional as is her son.
~ Tara Martel
Is Trump the closest thing America has had to Hitler?
1. His vice president, Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”
2. His second attorney general, Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
3. His first secretary of defense, James Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”
4. His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”
5. His second chief of staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
6. His former acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”
7. One of his many former communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
8. His first secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer: "The president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”
9. His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert: “The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”
QUORA: What is your honest opinion on Trump?
Cathy Cooper:
In the ‘80’s, I thought he was a classless, self-promoting buffoon who wrote the ‘Art of the Deal’, which some people (not me) thought made him a business success.I paid little attention to him from 1990 until 2004, when he first appeared as the Judge on ‘The Apprentice’ T.V. show. I did not watch the show because the trailers for the show proved to me that he got a charge out of being mean and rude to the contestants. Not my kind of human being.
Then I watched the White House Correspondence Dinner in 2011 when Barack Obama referred to Trump, taking some hilarious jabs at his ridiculous ‘birtherism’ movement. Trump was sitting in the audience, and I saw him freeze, his jaw was jutting out in hostility and anger as the attendees all had a great laugh at his expense. His false theories about Obama’s birth were not only put to bed that night, but Trump was humiliated for posing them in the first place= he looked the fool.
For a number of years, I heard the odd report about his shocking failures in business, including going bankrupt as a casino-owner, his rip-off university, Trump steaks, the charity he raided etc. I was more convinced than ever that he was more conman than business guru.
I was not surprised when he announced that he was running for the Presidency, although I was shocked that he won. But as he bumbled his way through the pandemic, an economic crisis, natural disasters, and alienated most of America’s NATO allies, I became aware that he was a danger to the U.S. and to my country (Canada) and others.
Now here we are in 2024, and I view Trump as an existential threat to the peaceful world order which the U.S, through the creation of NATO, has enjoyed ever since World War II. He tried to take over the U.S through lawless conspiracies and violence, contemplated using the Armed Forces to help in his attempted coup, and now he is running for the Presidency once again.
He is being very clear about his intentions. If Donald J. Trump is re-elected, he will end democracy, reverse many rights that the American public now enjoy, pull out of NATO, allow bully-like countries like Russia and China to invade other countries and take what they want. He will lower taxes for the rich and increase them for everyone else, while reducing the budgets for any social aides from FEMA to Medicare. He will raid the piggy bank of the RNC, and of his donors to pay for his legal fees, and he will pardon himself and other criminals, all while he eliminates various rights- to abortion, to voters who are colored, to free speech. He will lock up his political opponents and enemies- maybe even order them executed. He will politicize every aspect of the federal government and have all departments working for him, not “we the people”. He will look the other way when China takes over Tiawan, or Russia takes over Poland. He may even decide to take over Canada to expropriate our water, mineral and lumber resources. He is only getting started.
Most hideously- he won’t leave at the end of his second term.
