Just imagine if this happened as the world responds
to America’s Buffoon-in-Chief.
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May called
Donald Trump’s tweets against U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar “completely unacceptable.” Incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson echoed May’s sentiment that this is not how
world leaders act with his own observation that “If you are the leader of a
great multiracial, multicultural society, you simply cannot use that kind of
language.” UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn brooked no semantic games and straight-up called Trump a racist.
Canada’s Justin Trudeau told reporters “That’s not how we do things in Canada.”
Many more voices were raised against Trump’s screed, from New Zealand Prime
Minister Jacinda Ardern, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and the
European Council. Every day more world leaders express their revulsion over Trump's remarks.
Now German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become
the latest to condemn Donald Trump for tweeting and then telling four
young Democratic Congresswomen to “go back to your country” while tacitly
approving of his sycophants at a Greenville, NC rally to chant “send her back”
for a full 15 seconds. Merkel revealed she opposed the sentiments…but for an entirely
different reason.
“No, this needs to stop,” Merkel said outside
the German Chancellory, “there should be no more of this sending them
back talk. Do you realize that if this spreads, those opposed to Trump will
demand he go back to where his family is from? I know he told reporters that
his father was from Germany, but this is Donald Trump. He lies. His father was
born in New York so that is where he should go back to. His grandfather
Friedrich Drumpf, however, was born in Kallstadt, Bavaria in 1869. That means people might start demanding that Trump be sent back here.”
At this point, a look of disgust swept
over Ms. Merkel’s face. She then shook violently, took a deep breath, and
almost hissed “We don’t want him here. The German people do not want to have any
association with Donald Trump. That would be an additional disaster for us to
have to contend with. Our past is tainted by tyrants. We have been bled to death by the decisions of those men. But now we are a peaceful country. We have
learned to live with others on this planet. We don’t need Trump’s divisiveness,
empty promises, and self-centeredness. Donald Trump is America’s problem.”
Just imagine if it was possible to
send Trump back to Germany like he thinks those four Congresswomen should go
back to the country their ancestors left. What kind of chaos would ensue? While I don’t know about conditions
in the various countries where the four women’s ancestors lived I would bet
that any of them would be welcomed by the people of that country as well as
they are welcomed by the constituents they represent in their home states. But the
Germans clearly no more want Trump in their country than a majority of Americans want him here. We have to get
him out of office, arrest him, try him for the crimes he has already admitted to, and see to it he spends the rest of his life in an orange jumpsuit behind bars. His wealth and power do not put him above the law and they are not "get out of jail free" cards.
Angela Merkel would be right. Only Americans
can do anything about a president who defies our courts, who replaces people
around him with only “yes-men” and “yes-women” to provide cover for him while
he enriches himself at our expense, who lies
about anything as he goes along, who approves of foreign leaders killing
Americans or legal residents of the U.S., who was having sex with an adult film
star and a Playboy model a year after marrying his third wife and just after
the birth of his fifth child then covered it up with Michael Cohen’s help in
order to get elected, and a man who is laughed at and denigrated by the rest of
the world as confirmed by the former UK ambassador’s private email exchanges,
and at the UN last September. That is why we have the 25th amendment, to remove a person who has proven to be morally and mentally unfit to hold the office of President of the United States.
George Washington weighs in on the Trump presidency
