Part of being a good parent is preparing your child to be a good adult.
You teach your kids not to lie, not to steal, not to cheat, not to bully.
Donald Trump’s parents apparently skipped all those lessons.
Most of all, they never taught him how to say, “I’m sorry.”
Not only does he not know how to say it, he doesn’t know how to feel it.
It seems there has never been a time in his life when Trump has been able to admit to a wrongdoing, a mistake, an error. It is always someone else’s fault, someone else’s misstep, someone else’s job to take the blame.
But we’ve all seen the video timeline of his lies. Yes, let’s call them lies. Unlike the media that has tiptoed around his perfidy by calling it factual errors or misstatements, I am willing to call him out for what he is — Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.
It was frustrating to hear the constant lies. It was infuriating to hear him call my profession “The Fake Media.” It was painful to see him cozy up to international bullies and killers.
But watching him punish government workers with a needless government shutdown is the last straw. He doesn’t care about the unjust pain he is inflicting simply because some FOX hack tells him he needs to keep fighting for the wall.
Trump needs to be taken to the woodshed and given a good political beating. I hope the Democrats, with the help of any decent Republican still holding office, will finally teach him what his parents never did.
It’s likely too late to hope for any decency out of this most indecent of presidents. But maybe he can be forced to do the right thing when circumstances leave him with no other choice.
I hope that happens soon.
Simply put, anymore I don’t know how to put this but to describe our (president…funny!!) simply as a dope.