WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . .

Donald T Rump’s daily delusional lies, empty vain boasting, and belittling of those who oppose, question, challenge, or disagree with him is a constant embarrassment, destroying the honor and credibility of the office of the President and the honor and credibility of America in the eyes of the world. 

But sadly, not only is America, and Congress, becoming numb to the constant unethical, unconstitutional, unpresidential, and unAmerican behavior of Trump, with new outrageous words and deeds daily, but we have forgotten about addressing some of the basic issues of the Trump presidency.

What has happened to action, including legislation, to –

(1) Repeal the Electoral College

Trump lost the election to Hillary Clinton by almost 3 Million votes, but was put in office by the Electoral College. One of the reasons the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College was because they feared a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power, in other words to keep a dangerous demagogue like Trump out of the White House, so it obviously does not work. What it can do is negate the actual “will of the people”, as it clearly did in 2016.

(2) Require Presidents to totally divest themselves of all business holdings before taking office

Trump’s actions as President are guided by personal financial interests, and his business investments clearly benefit from his being presidency. Every week-end he plays golf at one of the resorts he owns he is taking money out of the pockets of the American people and putting it into his own pocket. Trump’s ownership of active business assets violates Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution which prevents the President from accepting ‘presents’ or ‘emolument’ from foreign countries and interests.

(3) Require Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates to publicly release three years of tax returns

During the campaign Trump promised to release his tax returns, but once elected he decided to instead “just say no”. Since Trump’s only concern is about his perception, it is obvious that there is information on his tax returns that would at the very least embarrass him, indicating that he is not as rich and successful as he wants everyone to think he is. Or, as is suspected, information that would tie him to Russia.

We must vocally and aggressively express our outrage at each and every one of Trump’s past, current and ongoing unethical, unconstitutional, unpresidential, and unAmerican acts on a daily basis, and continue to express outrage at each new unethical, unconstitutional, unpresidential, and unAmerican act.

And we must continue to aggressively seek the changes necessary to correct the mistake that put Trump in office and require transparency and ethical behavior by Trump and all future Presidents.

TTFN