It’s Christmas and that may solely imply one factor: The inauguration of Donald Trump we prayed would by no means occur once more is only a few weeks away. So as to add insult to harm, it’s on the MLK vacation.
Sure…we’re going through the truth of one other 4 years with Trump within the White Home regardless of our most honest hopes that we’d be rid of him without end. However since he’s coming again, we must always maintain our eyes and ears open as a result of we don’t know simply how spiteful he is perhaps. Listed below are 5 issues he’s mentioned thus far that we must always take critically.
“Our navy is aware of and our president is aware of. And for some cause, they wish to maintain folks in suspense.”
That is in reference to the drone sightings over New Jersey, together with his Bedminster residence. It’s weirding everyone out, and no person actually is aware of the place they’re coming from however Trump is insinuating a tinfoil hat conspiracy concept that the federal government is behind all of it. He’s already pledged to usurp regulation enforcement and it is a clue that he’ll use nutty issues like this as a cause.
“We’ve to straighten out the press.”
A president utilizing lawsuits towards a media that’s important of him most likely has no respect for the First Modification. It’s no secret that he’s spent eight years railing towards journalists, each liberal and conservative as “pretend information” and now feels he’s ready to intimidate the press. That ABC Information pledged $15 million to him in a lawsuit settlement probably leaves him pondering he can threaten the media at will.
“We’re going to cease the transgender lunacy”
That is particularly harmful. He’s focusing on a bunch of individuals primarily based on id and look and nothing else. That is basically no completely different than what Hitler did in Germany in his disdain of LGBTQ folks together with Jews and folks of shade. If he can scrutinize that group, you possibly can finest consider he’ll do it to others.
“The enemy from inside…must be…dealt with by the navy.”
Neither Trump nor his supporters minced phrases exhibiting how irritated they had been at demonstrators protesting police violence towards Black folks. He first used his “enemy inside” reference throughout his marketing campaign on the “radical left,” however left it obscure. Nevertheless it’s a reasonably good guess that he want to unleash the navy towards anybody the far proper doesn’t like together with civil rights activists, Democratic politicians and voting rights advocates.
“We’re gonna should get it (birthright citizenship) modified.”
Birthright citizenship is assured within the 14th Modification. So there’s no approach Trump may legally do something to somebody who’s born within the USA. However in his immigration coverage, he desires to haphazardly remove thousands and thousands of undocumented immigrants who he thinks are criminals. So he would simply goal folks of shade, having them assume they don’t have rights, and that features our West African, and Caribbean communities. Humorous factor is that none of this rhetoric is ever focused at individuals who descend from Europe.
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Madison J. Grey is a New York-based journalist. He blogs at www.starkravingmadison.com.