Your Trump Checklist

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Still on the fence concerning Trump? Here’s a list that checks all the boxes! In no particular order, here we go!

Ranked near the bottom of all U.S. presidents by a group of historians, with the lowest grades for leadership of any president in the past 150 years – YES

Doesn’t think Hitler was such a bad guy – YES

Thinks military members who were seriously hurt or tortured as prisoners of war were “suckers” – YES

Thinks those killed in combat were “losers” – YES

Misogynist – YES

Unfaithful husband – YES

Can’t stay on message or follow a script for the life of him – YES

Golf cheat – YES

Autocrat wannabe – YES

Putin butt boy – YES

Doesn’t care about NATO and thinks Russia should do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO members who miss defense spending targets – YES

Loves to watch TV a lot during the workday – YES

Doesn’t know or care much about history – YES

Bad landlord – YES

Doesn’t pay his bills – YES

Thinks it’s neat to have Russians in the oval office – YES

Isolationist – YES

Loves tariffs – YES

Doesn’t care about the safety of his vice president – YES

Racist – YES

Pals around with antisemite and traffics antisemitic troupes – YES

Obsessed with male body parts – YES

For someone that claims to be loaded, he doesn’t like to pick up the tab – YES

Multiple bankruptcies – YES

Has a strange fixation with dogs and cats – YES

Known to be a fascist – YES

Convicted felon – YES

Intellectually lazy at best – YES

Ignorant – YES

Convicted sexual abuser – YES

Sore loser and election denier – YES

Failed bromance with Kim Jong-un – YES

Impeached twice – YES

Conspiracy trafficker  – YES

Narcissist – YES

Requires employees and advisors to be sycophants – YES

National security risk – YES

Serial liar – YES

Hangs out and listens to strange rangers – YES

A proven threat to our democratic institutions and our democracy – YES

Takes care of the rich – YES

Doesn’t care much about women’s personal rights – YES

Lacks empathy – YES

Thinks banning Muslims was a terrific idea – YES

Liked separating children from their parents and keeping them in cages – YES

Immature and a cruel name caller – YES

Demands loyalty but doesn’t have it for others – YES

Likes to play the victim and does it often – YES

Bad hair – YES

Thinks and says that January 6th, 2021 was a “day of love” – YES

Etc., etc., etc. – YES

Stay well,

Michael

6 thoughts on “Your Trump Checklist”

  1. Paul J Genin

    Yes, to most. But as to fascism, I would put him closer to outright Nazism. Because in his own words he has essentially inferred that a kind of “Night of the Long Knives” is coming soon after he wins. He could be worse than the the current bunch of European dictators. And what is “the enemy within redolent of”?

    From the Washington Post:

    “The first is that the most immediate round of comparisons to Hitler was driven not by left-wing paranoia about a second Trump term. It was driven, instead, by Trump’s own words, as relayed by his former chief of staff. It’s Trump who praised Hitler’s control over his generals and Trump who said Hitler did good things, according to Kelly, a retired four-star general. Those were comments he offered reluctantly, apparently doing so only after Trump suggested that the military should be used against any of the “enemy within” should there be unrest on Election Day.

    The second is that one of the first people to compare Trump to Hitler was Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), now Trump’s running mate. What changed since Vance offered that comparison in 2016 isn’t how Trump approaches politics. It’s how willing Vance has become to acquiesce to that approach.

    So it is with the right writ large.”

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  2. Michael Marks Post author

    Paul,

    Good to hear from you and thanks for your thoughts!

    I hope sanity prevails.

    Best,

    Michael

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    1. Paul J Genin

      Sanity is seems didn’t prevail. But let us never forget that America does indeed know how to go insane. It went insane in the Vietnam War, this particular instance, the creme de la creme of US insanity. And let us not forget that America, with its mightiest technology LOST THE VIETNAM WAR. It wasn’t the peaceniks, the hippies, or even Middle America which eventually turned against the war that caused this loss. America LOST. LOST. Because the Best and the Brightest were out of their depth. The North Vietnamese were a determined enemy wanting to rid the the country of foreign domination. The French had lost and the French implored the Americans to get out. (Let’s also remember that Eisenhower refused to sign the Geneva Accords, even though Anthony Eden and others implored him to do so) As the southern insurgency grows, America goes crazy, as in Speedy Express in the Mekong Delta, with a “kill anything that moves” policy. But it doesn’t work. And this kind of thing doesn’t win many hearts and minds. Yet after Nixon’s election the war actually widens to Cambodia, the tonnage dropped on Laos to interdict the Ho Chi Minh trail may have been more than that dropped on Vietnam itself. This bespeaks America’s “paranoid style,” as articulated by historiqn Richard Hofstadter. And so it seems not the forward looking but the ugly backward paranoid style has won yet again. But it’s not going to make America great. It’s going to make America perhaps weaker than it has ever been. Sorry for this but Vietnam has been on my mind for a few years now and Fridrik Logevall and others have written some important and quite interesting volumes. And then there’s Nick Turse’s “Kill Anything That Moves, Mark Bowden’s Hue: 1968, etc.

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  3. Jeff

    A convicted rapist YES
    Gives top secret information about embedded Israeli agents in Syria to Russian spies which resulted in their deaths YES
    Laundered illegal money from Russian sex traffickers and weapons dealers through his casinos YES (his own sons told us that they get all their money from Russia). Gee, there is so much more but….
    So still undecided?

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