How ashamed all American citizens must be of our President
who addressed the World as a school yard bully (“our military will soon be the
strongest it has ever been”). Providing taunting nicknames; threatening to
destroy North Korea; and espousing demeaning descriptions (parts of the world
are “going to hell”) that are only some of the tawdry highlights of his blustery address to
the United Nations. The thoughtfully engaging use of our language to describe “rogue
regimes”, “loser terrorists” and “Rocket Man on a suicide mission” must have
really pained the hearts and sensibility of the American people while losing
the respect of the members of the United Nations and the World.
To quote from a September 20, 2017 LA Times editorial, “In a
way, Trumpism is the polar opposite of the U.N.’s spirit of shared responsibility
and its belief in multilateral solutions to the planet’s problems”.
Seriously, we are
losing stature as a world leader and pioneer in a democratic system that works
by the rhetoric and actions of Donald Trump. When will the American citizens rise
with one voice to demand changes in the approach this man brings to the
international stage that will ultimately affect every aspect of our lives. Donald
Trump is diminishing our international stature with his childish thuggery and blustery
rhetoric. He needs to answer to the American citizens for his actions and
either conform to presentations that represent the American national mores or
be taken out of the leadership role he clearly can’t perform with the dignity
required to be an international leader.
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