Trump’s unforgivable response to the pandemic cost 420,000 American lives; on Day 1 he lied about the size of his inaugural crowd; on his last day in office, he lied about an election stolen from him

I wish to offer a rebuttal to the Webb County Republican Chair who assures Laredo that his twice-impeached President will be remembered as “something good” for the country. Mr. Kraus is still using his party’s talking points to defend the worst President in U.S. history. He laments the media for bashing his boy constantly. I don’t remember Fox News, OANN, or News Max ever criticizing his fascist actions. Instead they propped him up and told their audience that he was God’s chosen one. 

Starting on Day 1, the President lied about the size of his inauguration crowd and lied about having had his election stolen on his last day in his office, four years later. The Washington Post kept a running count of his lies and misleading statements and wound up with 30,580 lies — a record for any U.S. President that I am sure will never be broken. 

He blames China for the Pandemic, but fails to mention that his hero dismantled President Obama’s Pandemic Response Team. Our country was caught totally unprepared. He is on tape in March, 2020 telling Bob Woodward about the severe danger of the virus, but lied to the Country so as to not to “create a panic.” That unforgiveable response has cost us 420,000 American lives and counting. How is it that China, the perennial bogeyman, has only suffered 4,500 deaths in that same time period?  So much winning from a self-described war-time President. His “prison reform” included 12 federal executions in just the past few months, the most in over 100 years for a lame duck president. He promised for four years to overturn the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a fantastic Trump Care Act. In every interview he promised he would have one two weeks from now. 

He promised Mexico would pay for an abominable wall and instead wound up borrowing a few billion dollars from the defense budget. He lowered taxes for the top 1% of his billionaire donors, and it has yet to trickle down to Webb County. Presidents should not expect to “catch a break” from the media, when he called them the “enemy of the people” for four years. As  Harry Truman famously said:  “the buck stops here.”  Your hero was famous for passing the buck and for never taking responsibility for anything. Yet he found time to go golfing at his own resorts over 300 times at $3,000,000.00 a trip. His rabid followers were willing to forgive all his past crimes and sexual indiscretions because they wanted an outsider with no political experience to “shake things up.” They got what they wished for. 

I am not surprised that our illustrious Mayor chose not to judge this sorry excuse for a president and instead remain neutral. The great agnostic Robert Green Ingersoll once said, “The American people do not like neutrality, they would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.” Let me review what I believe will be the low points of the Trump legacy:

1. Over 3,000,000 American jobs lost;
2. 545 refugee children who may never see their parents again;
3. It is possible that he and members of his administration may be facing Crimes against Humanity charges;
4. A record 91% turn-over rate of senior advisors;
5. 9 federal judges with a lifetime appointment deemed unqualified by the ABA;
6. Only 5 actual new miles of border wall;
7. 5 dead in the Capitol Riot that he incited;
8. 25,000,000 U.S. positive cases of the Trump virus and counting.

Are we ready for a Benghazi style committee to investigate the culprits? He skipped his successor’s inauguration — something not done in over 150 years. A two-time popular vote loser. His aborted coup attempt failed because the U.S. military backed off at the last minute. He insisted for two months that he had actually won by a landslide.  

The man never conceded and never congratulated nor mentioned President Biden by name.  He literally left Washington with his tail tucked between his legs.  He fired the White House ushers on the last day so that no one would officially greet the Biden’s or open the door for them. He showed an utter disrespect to the office that he besmirched for 1,460 days. Qualified historians are hard at work documenting how James Buchanan has been taken down one notch from his previous position as worst U.S. President. The January 6^th, storming of the Capitol was the end result of a daily calculated attack on our democracy. I was astounded how some of my former acquaintances told me very seriously that while they did not particularly like the man, their business was making a lot of money in his administration. That was the bottom line for them.

In parting, I would ask his defenders to remember some gallows humor:  “Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”