DONALD J. TRUMP: BIGOT-IN-CHIEF

Words fail me. I know, as we all do, that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States (POTUS), is a bizarre man with faults almost too numerous to list (I won't even try in this post). Every day he tweets or says or does something that makes us think: "OK, this one is truly the worst so far, and something will finally be done about him." But it always turns out that he does even more horrendous things in subsequent days.

And now there is Shitholegate. The media have had a grand time with this one, and we now hear the word "shithole" on radio and television. Hopefully, the vast majority of us understand the underlying reality of the remarks that included that now-famous expletive - pure, unadulterated bigotry. The POTUS wondered aloud why we (the United States) accept so many people from Haiti and Africa - those "shithole countries" - instead of more people from, say, Norway. Translation: why are we accepting so many black people instead of blond-haired, blue-eyed Scandinavians?

I have written before about Trump's white supremacy (Make America Great White Again). The media has written about his many bigoted speeches and utterances during the campaign and as POTUS, leaving no room for any other interpretation than deep-rooted bigotry. He has demonstrated time after time that he does not like "Mexicans" (i.e. anyone from south of the US border), Muslims, immigrants and refugees who are not white, and black people from the crime-ridden cities he talks about. There is no question about it; Donald J. Trump is a bigot.

And there is more we need to understand, and that is the complicity of all the Republican members of Congress - House and Senate - in this bigotry. Where is the outrage from Republicans about Trump's bigoted statements? Where are the leaders of the Republican Party, you know, the Mitch McConnells and the Paul Ryans, when the Trump opens his bigoted mouth? Oh, they are sometimes a bit concerned, but we need to understand, President Trump is not like other Presidents, he has his own style and his own ways. We can't take what he says literally; he doesn't mean it the way it sounds.

And so they pooh-pooh our outrage, and the official Whitehouse mouthpiece, Scary Huckleberry Sandbagger, tells us that: a) the President didn't really say what it is said he said; and b) fake news - fake news - fake news. Ask any Republican in the room at the time, and they will tell you that he didn't say what he said. In other words, the Democrats in the room at the time are a big bunch of liars!

Donald J. Trump, Bigot-in-Chief. He is a bigot. Every Republican in Congress, by not challenging the President, by not calling out the President's bigotry for what it is, is therefore also a bigot, if only by association and silence. THIS is now the United States of America, land of the free (white folks), home of the brave (white folks), with liberty and justice for all (white folks).

I...will...not...rest...until...Donald J. Trump...is...driven...out...of...our...government! 

And neither should you.

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