Shame On You For Shaming Trump Supporters

On a recent shopping trip, while waiting in the check-out line, I happened to overhear a ten-minute conversation between two older white males who voted for Trump, and their view of the world and of the man they wanted in office says a lot about these Trump supporters. Fox News had also recently aired a series of interviews their reporters had conducted at restaurants and other gatherings in the Southwest U.S. where they specifically spoke with people who identified themselves as Trump supporters, and they echoed almost exactly what these two shoppers were complaining about. 
        What these people think is that any assault on Trump is an effort to make them feel bad about voting for him. And they can’t stand it. They focus the whole thing on themselves; the hell with the country, the presidency, and the Constitution. All they hear about is the bad stuff Trump does and it’s not fair to hold them accountable. They want people to let “Trump be Trump” but stop reporting all the negative stuff that happens as a result of that. It wasn’t Trump’s programs that bothered them; it’s that those news organizations and people who don’t support Trump talk about them. And it revealed the core of what upset them.

Trump supporters are tired of being shamed.

        So what if Trump is not a role model, if he’s vulgar, if he’s crass, if he cheats on his beautiful wife, if he can only express himself with the vocabulary of a sixth grader, if he threw his support to Putin over his own intelligence agents, if he’s an amoral dummy. Stop shaming them because they chose him.

See, all that callousness, that racism, that sexism and xenophobia Trump expresses is not reflected in his supporters, they say. So turn down the volume and the indignation over Trump’s raising the White House US flag back to full staff as a final dishonor to Senator John McCain before his burial. Trump had that presidential right and could legally do it, so stop fussing about it. McCain was already dead, anyway.

        Stop trying to make them feel guilty over the Trump administration’s terror tactic of grabbing kids from immigrant parents and asylum seekers and throwing the kids in cages inside detention centers. Stop showing those revolting pictures of kids locked inside a cage. Boo-hoo. (Or as Corey Lewandowski said on TV in response to the comment “I read today about a ten-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was taken from her mother and put in a cage,” Zac Petkanas said, to which Lewandowski responded: “Womp womp.” Clearly, Lewandowski didn’t care.) They are sick of being shamed over not giving a damn about innocent children. It's those immigrant parent's fault, who cares about the kids. Remember, all that callousness, racism, sexism and xenophobia Trump expresses is not...NOT… reflected in his supporters…they maintain. 

        And stop shaming them for Trump saying the government did a ‘fantastic job’ during and after Hurricane Maria which killed almost 3000 Americans. It’s not their fault the Trump administration didn’t take the threat to Puerto Rico seriously and that the lack of response from FEMA was because Trump didn’t consider it a high priority because he barely recognized it as U.S. territory. So what if Trump went and played golf while Puerto Ricans were screaming for help? He has a right to relax. His job is hard. Yeah, they remember how Trump said he wouldn’t have time for golf once he got into office, but going back on his word is kind of what they expected from his unorthodox leadership style. “He’s his own man” is how one of them put it. Stop shaming them because Trump acts like a five-year-old and changes his mind like one. They know it. What are they supposed to do? Spank him?

Trump points to who he'll try to screw again

        Stormy Daniels did and she only got $130,000 for it. They aren’t ashamed that Trump paid off an adult film star, and a Playboy Bunny, and maybe a former housekeeper who bore him an illegitimate child, and maybe others, admitted on tape to forcing himself on women and even implying he grabbed them by the genitals, all while married to his third wife. Why should they feel shame for Trump’s infidelity, vulgarity, denial of payments and then confirming them, and hushing it up in order to sway voters to support him as the more ‘moral’ candidate? So what? At least Hillary isn’t president.

They are sick and tired of hearing about Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Mike Flynn, Carter Page…etc. As far as they are concerned, those people have nothing to do with Trump. To hear one person tell it, they are the best people Trump talked about. They’re just being unfairly persecuted because they used to be part of Trump’s campaign or administration. The Democrats were out to get them. Those people were just associates of Trump anyway, and so are thousands of other people. Are they going to arrest everybody?

And don’t get them started about Charlottesville. If people couldn’t see Trump was right, that there were bad people on both sides, then they just weren’t paying attention. Trump called that one correctly. [Translation: Protesting Nazis = Being Nazis.]

        Oh, and stop shaming them because of Trump calling out NFL players who kneel as a quiet protest against the murders of black people by certain cops. You’re just supposed to focus on honoring the flag. Even though the protests are non-violent, the protesters have a First Amendment right, plus kneeling is respectful to the flag (look at what soldiers do honoring fallen comrades), Trump must be right, that the players shouldn’t be allowed to kneel in protest and “get away with it.” The other one felt Trump was, maybe, wrapping himself in the flag to get revenge. It’s that “eye for an eye” thing that Trump considers the most important lesson from the bible. You see, in 1990 when Trump was a part of the United States Football League, he sued the NFL for $1.2 billion…and lost. He was awarded three dollars and 76 cents and a lifetime ban from the NFL.

Now do you understand why he attacks NFL players?

It has nothing to do with patriotism or honoring the military. He’s getting even with being banned from the NFL. Nobody does that to Trump! Stop shaming his supporters for his pettiness. Besides, they’re sick of wealthy NFL players trying to draw attention to something most Trump supporters don’t care about at all...dead African Americans - no matter who killed them. If Trump can make people want to stop going to the games because they don’t want to be subjected to the sight of a person kneeling during the anthem, and maybe even punish all those players by forcing the demise of the NFL, THEN, HURRAY…MORE POWER TO HIM. Trump is getting retribution for that NFL ban by belittling NFL players. So stop shaming his supporters because of what Trump does. It’s what they’d like to do, too, but they aren’t the president. So we have become pawns to a snowflake trying to force standing at attention on everyone in the name of his false patriotism that masks a deep-seated hostility to the organization that banned him...the NFL.

Trump supporters need to explain why they find all these traits in Trump to be desirable. Is it really to hide behind his failings and shortcomings in order to conceal their own? Then shame on them for supporting a bully, a bigot, an adulterer, a traitor, and a man who is teaching our children that dishonesty, arrogance, and narcissism can get you the presidency. So what if it’s turning our democracy into a third-rate reality TV show? Leave Trump's supporters alone. They have a right to be wrong regardless of their choice and to throw their support behind a man unfit to be president!

As I listened to them I wondered when did ignorance become admirable?

        How dare Obama be a decent man? Vote Trump!

What Trump’s supporters don’t seem to get is that the people who elected him, or who knowingly elect anyone they KNEW was a corrupt person, are not victims, but accomplices. Long after Trump is gone, history will remember all his supporters as enablers and cowards who kept quiet and let this travesty go on and on. It’s no longer about whether Trump has any decency, but if his supporters still do.
So own it Trump supporters, YOU are responsible for what Trump does. All these negative stories you hear can be laid directly at your feet because you helped put him in office.

What Might Happen when Kim Jong-Un Meets Trump at the very first meeting

It was hoped the unprecedented, ground-breaking meeting set up by new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un would distract the world's news organizations from the looming threat of obstruction of justice charges against the president, the deepening Russian collusion scandal, the lawsuit brought by adult film actress Stephanie Clifford a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, the criminal charges stemming from incriminating information found in Michael Cohen's confiscated material, a lawsuit 19 women brought against Trump for serial sexual assault, 26 plaintiffs suing Trump regarding his golf courses over non payment of labor, personal injuries, and unannounced changes to membership fees, and several other cases making their way through federal courts regarding Trump's Emoluments violations, Oath of Office violations, and even overcharging the government when secret service agents had to rent his golf carts in order to protect him at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Instead, what did happen caught everyone off guard.

If the Trump Administration was a railroad train...

          In a startling development, just as the meeting with Kim Jong-Un got under way, President Trump asked for, and was granted, political asylum in North Korea. 
          Trump was accompanied to the meeting by his entire cabinet and several aides, most of whom waited just outside the hall. Trump had deliberately excluded the U.S. press from the summit meeting so it was left to North and South Korean journalists and photographers to report on what happened. They said at the very opening Mr.Trump entered the room and walked over to the table as Kim Jong-Un entered from the opposite side of the room. Breaking protocol, Trump moved around to Kim’s side of the table and kept going toward Kim and his group of advisers. The journalists were expecting Trump’s usual power-handshake when he reached Kim. But instead, Trump put his hand on Kim’s shoulder and leaned down to his ear. The North Korean security men started to close in to protect Kim when Kim’s interpreter Chun Kei-Ryong, who had walked rapidly up behind Kim, spoke quickly and then turned to the gathered officials.

Chun Kei-Ryong (left) and Kim Jong-Un moments before meeting President Trump

          “Mr. Trump says he would like to come and stay in North Korea permanently,” Kei-Ryong said. “He has asked for asylum.”

There was a loud gasp from the South Koreans lining the southern and eastern walls and many rushed outside, while two American aides who had accompanied President Trump into the room stopped in their tracks at the table and stared at Trump’s back.

          Trump again leaned down to Kim’s ear and spoke for several seconds, then reach down for Kim’s hand. Jong-Un, looking uncomfortable, hesitatingly held up his hand and Trump grasped it, shaking it in a rapid, piston-like movement and smiled as North Korean cameras began clicking away.

          “Mr. Trump says he can bring much to the North Korean people. He has offered to show how a Trump Tower can be built in Pyongyang. He would only ask to have the top five floors for himself when finished.”

          One of the Americans called out several times to the President but Mr. Trump never acknowledged him.

Still furiously pumping Kim’s hand Trump spoke more loudly. “I think this is a great day for the people of North Korea, a great, great day, and Mr. President, I will help make North Korea Great Again, that I can tell you…that I can tell you.”

Kim and Trump fist-bump to cement their bromance

          Still looking baffled and uncomfortable, Kim stared at Trump for several moments and then turned to whisper to Chun. Kei-Ryong nodded several times as four of Kim’s highest ranking generals also drew closer. Kim’s hand was still being held and shaken by the president as Kim occasionally looked back and smiled at Trump. One of the generals spoke loud enough for a South Korean news anchor to overhear. The anchor blurted out to others nearby, “He just asked if Trump is willing to supply them with the U.S. missile codes.”

          There was a distinct rise in panic of the voices of the South Koreans near the news anchor and they all noted that Trump, smiling at the generals, appeared to nod his head yes to the question, then spoke softly to Kim and his entourage.

"What are you hiding in there?" Trump and Kim enjoy an intimate train ride to Pyongyang

          “President Kim Jong-Un is pleased to offer Mr. Trump freedom in the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. We know Mr. Trump had been the target of many unfair investigations in his country. He has been accused of breaking many laws, having sex with many women who were not his wife, and enriching himself with millions of dollars from American taxpayers by signing a GOP tax plan last December. Here, he will be free to live his life without such annoyances, distractions, and threats to his freedom. He said his wealth has already been transferred to a Swiss bank. He will be able to access it through our connections in Pyongyang.” 
                    Mr. Trump handed a folded piece of paper to Chun, walked over to and through the door Kim had originally entered the room from. He never looked back and never offered an explanation. It was later reported he did stop long enough out in a portico to say goodbye to Melania before leaving.

Trump and Kim upon leaving his armored rail car 

          
          Chun Kei-Ryong glanced at the paper and continued “We will make arrangements once a week to operate a flight down to Seoul to buy McDonalds and KFC food for Mr. Trump, as well as purchase however many boxes of golf balls he needs. We do not allow Fox News in Pyongyang so President Kim will have to address that issue if Mr. Trump still wants to watch Fox and Friends before he twitters when he gets up."

          Kei-Ryong then read the rest of the sheet and shook his head in disbelief. “These actions granting asylum apply only to him. This says it is specifically not to extend to Don Junior, Eric, Ivanka, Melania, Barron, Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, John Kelly, Sarah Huckaboo Sanders, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, or any other member of his administration past or present. They will be responsible for whatever is left to do in Washington DC.

Before he left, Trump stopped to shake Melania's hand in a farewell gesture. Aides say she had never looked happier.

          Shocked and saddened aides to Trump grabbed their cell phones and called home. But when they reported what the Korean press said had happened at the meeting, they were stunned to hear a party broke out all across the nation. Congress immediately recessed, called it a day of thanksgiving, and gave federal employees the day off. Bars stayed open all night and fireworks were shot off continuously for the impromptu three day celebration.

          A strange glitch occurred later that got little news coverage. When Air Force One and Two returned from the aborted summit, they were diverted from landing in Hawaii due to heavy fog and were sent far to the north to a small airfield just outside Unalaska in the Aleutians. There the 747s were refueled but everyone was told the weather was getting so poor they would have to stay for the night. Next day the aircraft engines could not be started and all communications on the island were inexplicably cut off. 
          No one noticed any of them missing in Washington DC for several weeks until people realized the government was working correctly again. When an inquiry was made, the press was told a temp staff had been hired and was handling government business from a small office in the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building and that the remaining administration members who had been on the planes had not returned. They had been encouraged to take a long vacation after Trump defected and they asked not to be contacted in any way. To date, no one has heard from any of them.