24, October 2020 Trump resembles world’s worst dictators
Anne Rimoin, an
epidemiologist at U.C.L.A. astutely observed that DJT closely resembles the
former President of South Africa Mbeki who surrounded himself with sycophants
and cost his country hundreds of thousands of lives by ignoring science.
Kim Jong-un of North Korea and former President of Uganda,
Idi Amin closely match Trump’s self-adulation.
Trump’s
entourage and fellow Republicans follow him in silent submission refusing to
challenge their “naked leader” when he heaps immodest claims that he deserves
an A plus for his “phenomenal job” handling the coronavirus. In a recent editorial
the highly respected New England Journal of Medicine was fiercely critical of
the Trump administration and Republicans for “recklessly squandering American
lives.”
David
Cutler, a software developer and President Clinton’s former Treasury Secretary,
Larry Summers, estimated the economic cost of the pandemic will be $16T or
about $125,000 per American household – far exceeding the median family’s net
worth. Devi
Sridhar professor of global heath at the University of Edinburgh
commented that it was “sad to the U.S. presidency fall from being the champion
of global health to being the laughingstock of the world.” We are witnessing America’s rapid decline as
the richest country in the world to a quagmire of political malpractice of
infectious disease, poverty, mental illness, addiction, obesity and hunger.
Homeless enclaves in major U.S. cities more closely resemble slums of third
world countries.
As
Madeleine Albright,
former
Secretary of State under President Clinton commented “Trump is an international disgrace
-- and our country is in desperate need of a leader whose word can be trusted,
whose ideals lift people up, and whose actions bring people together rather than
driving them apart.”
Since the day he took office, Trump has abandoned vital
diplomatic agreements, insulted our allies, and hurt our ability to work with
other nations to address common threats, like the coronavirus pandemic and
climate change.
His presidency has been such a five-alarm
fire that many people are
desperately trying to douse the
flames
understandably consumed with trying to put
out the flames or simply survive it. But there will come a day, hopefully in
the not too distant future, when people have the breathing room to investigate
how the fire got started.
The mess the nation faces is bigger than
Donald Trump. If he is voted out in November, the people who cast ballots for
him will remain, pining for the policies he promoted. About 40 percent of American
voters want tariffs and a border wall. More than half say it’s
important to deport more undocumented immigrants.
