Georgie Swinerton asks in her Jan. 12 “My Turn” if it would “be possible for this newspaper (The Recorder) to give those who voted for Trump a break?” She continues, “Almost every day, this paper has something negative about Trump…”
I ‘fess up to being the author of my “repurposed” and “politically biased “Twas’ the night before Christmas” which Swinerton disliked. I have created this annual satire for the past five years regardless of who is in the White House.
Saying something negative about Trump is not about attacking those who voted for him. They will soon learn that he has swindled them into believing he will help them.
I do agree with Swinerton that some (not all) of the anti-Trump comments are over-the-top and inflammatory. That said, it would take four “My Turn” columns to chronicle his continuing and callous contradictions, his absolute refusal to make his tax returns public as has every previous president, and his collection of cabinet nominees with proven records of sociopolitical and environmental abuses.
Donald Trump is not a well man. We are reminded in daily Tweets of his 24/7 addictive need for approval.
How about, for example, Donald Trump’s own Christmas satire? Christmas Eve in particular? In an 8-minute video on Huffington Post, Keith Oberman says that Trump’s Tweet that night was a plug for a documentary, a documentary about him; not even a new documentary; a repeat.
“Who does this on Christmas Eve?” Oberman asks. “His Christmas greeting on Twitter was just a photo of himself — not with the family? Not with the wife, the kids, not even the Vice President, not Santa, not Jesus — just him! — Who does this??”
I believe the president-elect is too removed from rationality to serve as the president of our country. I also believe that sooner or later the Republican Party will find it necessary to remove Trump from office.
John Bos
Shelburne Falls