The Many Faces of Donald Trump
When I
worked in Manhattan about a million years ago, Donald Trump’s egotistical
personality and rampant commercialism offended my conservative, three-piece
suit professionalism. I considered the
“Trump” name all over my New York City buildings and infrastructure as being offensive
and “over the top”.
So, “The
Donald” was not one of my favorite people back then. What were his politics? One day he seemed to be a democrat. The next
day, republican. The third day, almost
libertarian. No one could pin him
down. His marriages and romantic foibles
were almost daily fare in the city’s gossip rags. As he sold himself nationally with his very
popular reality shows, I could have cared less, and I lost interest in all
things Trump.
Then, back
he came, down that escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, accompanied by a very
classy Melania, and espousing a “love America”, flag hugging, conservative
theme. What patriotic American wouldn’t
wake up and get interested in someone who wanted to “make America great again”,
and stop its slide toward a godless secular dystopia? The inveterate left-wing, trained in Marxism
in many of our universities over the past 50 years, wouldn’t respond positively,
but to many other Americans, this new Donald Trump was like breath of fresh
air.
Trump was
like nothing ever seen in the political world.
He told it like it was, sometimes in a plain hard-nosed manner learned
on the streets of the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan, and tempered by the
criticism of the toughest critics in the world, the businesses and people of
those streets.
Not given
an inkling of a chance to win, first he won the republican nomination, and then
the presidency. He decimated the republican political machine, and then the
vaunted Clinton/Obama cabal, to win the 2016 election.
Left-wing
knives were out for him from the day of his announcement that he was running
for president on that escalator in 2015 onward. He was not a politician and not
well versed in all of the dirty tricks of Washington DC, so he got slammed by a
slanderous claim of Russian collusion that adversely affected two years of his
presidency. After attaining a house
majority in 2018, Nancy Pelosi and the democrats frivolously impeached
President Trump twice.
In spite
of continuous persecution by his left-wing enemies, the first three years of
Trump’s presidency was marked by growth and prosperity from his
administration’s business-like approach to government. A strong foreign policy resulted in increased
contributions to NATO by our European allies, and kept international bad actors
like Iran, Russia, China and North Korea at bay. Innovative policies, including a wall,
normalized unwanted illegal immigration across the southern border. The Abraham Accords brought peace to much of
the Middle East. All of this while he
was constantly under attack by his political opponents, most of the media, the entertainment
industry, and big tech.
And during
his presidency, Trump continued being Trump, and gave as good as he got. He ranted and tweeted and railed at his
continuing tormenters, sometimes to the detriment of his character and
personality as president. He didn’t
care. He was a fighter from the New York
City real estate wars, and he was not about to take any crap from the leftist
machine in Washington.
Then came
the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2021, and the world’s economies,
including the U.S. “went to hell in a hand basket”. What to do to save lives? There was no precedent. So, he essentially shut down the country like
the rest of the world, and destroyed one of the best economies that we ever
had. Having no guidelines, he fumbled
and made some early mistakes, but he rammed through an unprecedented program
named “warp speed” to develop vaccines against Covid-19 in nine short months.
Trump was
starting to bring the country back from its Corona Virus torpor, and eager to
revive the country completely by applying the sound business acumen of the
first three years of his presidency. But
the “fix was in”. Using the pandemic as
an excuse to bypass constitutional election laws, democrat operative in several
swing states changed the rules to favor unverified mail-in voting, ballot
harvesting, and other aberrations favoring democrats. The pro-left media colluded by censoring or
burying news that would have changed the electorate’s votes, such as the news
about the contents of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell”.
Trump did
not accept the election, claiming fraud and that the election was stolen. Mountains of anecdotal evidence was produced
which promptly was relegated to the dust bin of history, primarily by courts
and judges who had been installed by the democrats. Similarly, the many whistleblower witnesses
of election anomalies were not taken at all seriously, not like the
whistleblower who was a key to a presidential impeachment.
Backers of
President Trump demonstrated at the capitol on January 6, 2021, and it got out
of hand. Several violent, but unarmed
individuals broke into the capitol building and threatened members of
government. One demonstrator was killed
by capitol police, and 4 others died of drug and medical issues. Trump was blamed for inciting the riot, and
impeached again by Nancy Pelosi’s kangaroo house court.
The biased
media and all of the organs affecting public opinion seized on the January 6th
demonstration at the capitol as an example of the whole resistance to the
questionable 2020 election. The whole
world accepted that the election was fair and legal, and that Joe Biden had
been elected out of his Delaware basement.
Our
descent into Biden’s dystopia and the ruination of our country, thus began.
Ray
Gruszecki
June 15,
2022
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