Just days before Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, Congressional Black Caucus members called for impeachment proceedings to begin against the controversial POTUS, and reality show personality Donald Trump. In a 355-66 vote for Trump’s removal from office, CBC members led by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), vowed to protest the SOTU with several making the decision not to attend the address. So as Trump took the podium on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday night, the stark contrasts between the current administration and that of his predecessor loomed over the crowd assembled at the House of Representatives like a tempest ready to unleash its fury on everyone and everything in its wake.
And not one founding member of the CBC was in the room to hear him. Noticeably absent, the legendary and well respected statesman from Georgia, Congressman John Lewis, who chose to boycott the president’s address to the nation. “In good conscience, I cannot and will not sit there and listen at him as he gives the State of the Union address,” said Lewis. Both Black Americans in the room and those gathered in protest at venues around the nation, were particularly apprehensive about this president’s tendency to cause division and incite violence in an increasingly unstable political landscape. Weeks after Donald Trump called Haiti, El Salvador and the continent of Africa “shit hole countries” during a meeting on immigration with members of Congress in the Oval Office, blacks, Latinos, Muslims and a host of other minority populations are re-examining life in the U.S. and what the president’s promise of making “America great again,” means.
A review of the president’s accomplishments during his turbulent year-long tenure (feels so much longer), underscores his contempt for people of color and his unabashed propensity to trod on the U.S. constitution and the rule of law. Under his remarkably short list of accomplishments, he’s managed to insult just about everybody in the world with his Stalinesque approach to destroy burgeoning and long-standing relationships with allies in debasing taunts and ill-conceived flaunting of power.
In the Foreign Affairs and National Security arena … Under Trump, America has retreated from its global and moral leadership roles, alienated its democratic allies, and abandoned those liberal ideals that did make America great. The country is more isolated, less respected and ultimately less safe under President Trump’s leadership. He continues to draw the ire of international friends and foe and appears to be hell bent on creating conflict with world leaders. Think United Kingdom, North Korea, Russia, the Middle East and even Canada. And although Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on the global environment issues, that action was not so much an environment or foreign affairs issue, as it was a lynchpin master plan and life long objective; to eliminate Obama-era policies in a push to erase the Obama legacy. That detrimental and ill-guided decision, was ironically followed by a series of climate-related disasters in the United States, from devastating hurricanes to wildfires.
On Healthcare … The most recent sign of Trump’s political and philosophical devolution are marked by a nearly almost incomprehensible lack of caring for Americans in need. The success of the Affordable Care Act has been a hard pill for him to swallow, so much so that he ran amuck of party protocol and in a theatrical scene worthy of a reality tv show personality, he signed an executive order to repeal the ACA after a number of failed attempts to come up with at least a comparable healthcare plan. Instead Trump chose to ignore the mandate of the people and requests from GOP officials to drop it and focus on battles he could win. Even with the signing of the executive order to repeal the ACA, to date that has not happened.
Trump is such a victim of his own self-induced paranoia about the Obama
Stalinesque approach to destroy burgeoning and long-standing relationships with allies in his dangerously haphazard quest for world domination.
In the Foreign Affairs and National Security arena …
Under Trump, America has retreated from its global and moral leadership roles, alienated its democratic allies, and abandoned the bipartisan defense of liberal ideals that did make America great. The country is more isolated, less respected and ultimately less safe under President Trump’s leadership. He continues to draw the ire of international friends and foe and appears to be hell bent on creating conflict with world leaders. (Think United Kingdom, North Korea, Russia, the Middle East and even Canada on the growing list of nation’s outraged by Trump’s blatant disregard for their sovereignty and his insistence on poking the bear. And although Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on the global environment issues, was not so much an environment or foreign affairs issue to begin with, as it was a lynchpin in his master plan and life long objective; to eliminate Obama-era policies in a push to erase the Obama legacy. That detrimental and ill-guided decision, was ironically followed by a series of climate-related disasters in the United States, from devastating hurricanes to wildfires.
On Healthcare …
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