DONALD TRUMP HAS DECLARED HE”S STOPPING OVER 30 TERRIBLE ACTIVITIES IN THE US

….Some of the toppled Jewish tomb stones

 

Mike Pence is once more being more presidential than his boss, the president.

 

I just had to agree with Dana Milbank at the Washington Post when he wrote:

 

“We have seen two responses from the Trump administration to the spike in anti-Semitism that has accompanied Donald Trump’s rise to power.

 

One was presidential: moving and admirable.

 

The other response was by our president. 

 

The two responses tell us much about President Trump and about the man who would allow millions of Americans to sleep more soundly at night if he were in charge: Vice President Pence.”

 

All of the noise this time was about Trump’s first month in office.  A month that came with slews of bomb threats to Jewish organizations, a major unleashing of anti-Semitism over all the social medias and then in St. Louis, the toppling of some 200 tombstones at a Jewish cemetery.

 

Vice president Pence visited that same Jewish cemetery and he stated: “There is no place in America for hatred’

 

But the vice president must be aware that during the campaign, it was Trump that fanned anti-Semitism throughout his campaign’s well-documented use of anti-Jewish imagery and stereotypes.  Then he hired  someone to sit in the office in the White House near the Oval Office, an ally of the white-nationalist alt-right movement, Stephen Bannon.  And this man is on the same level as his Chief of Staff as a senior adviser and chief strategist.  It is obvious that it was this man that made the White House decision to edit out any reference to the Jews in its recent statement recalling the Holocaust.

 

Pence had done exactly what the president should have done. On the Pence visit to Europe over the weekend, he had stopped at Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp, and he heard of “the nightmarish existence” there from an Israeli survivor. Yes, Pence had visited Dachau before, but, he told NATO ministers in Brussels, “I wanted my daughter to see it.”

 

Then, in St. Louis on Wednesday, while he was giving a speech about the economy, he paused to condemn the “vile act of vandalism” he had seen on the news from the cemetery.  He then praised Missourians for rallying around the Jewish community.

 

Finally, Pence made an unannounced stop at the cemetery, symbolically joining in the cleanup and grabbing a bullhorn to proclaim: “There is no place in America for hatred, prejudice or acts of violence or anti-Semitism.”

 

But then, what did we hear from Pence’s boss, the president?

 

Twice at news conferences, he was invited to condemn the surge in anti-Semitism, but twice he failed to do so.

 

Instead, as usual, what we heard was his boasts about his electoral victory and in the second instance, he said it was an “insulting” question.

 

Finally, Trump managed to denounce the ugliness. “Anti-Semitism is horrible, and it’s going to stop, and it has to stop,” he told MSNBC’s Craig Melvin.

 

Trump later added, but without mentioning the St. Louis cemetery incident, he could only say that threats against Jewish targets “are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done.” When asked about complaints that Trump hadn’t gone far enough, White House press secretary Sean Spicer retorted: “No matter how many times he talks about this, it’s never good enough.”

 

Once again, Sean Spicer was off the mark.  Trump’s belated and weak response to the threats and violence against Jews, was the same useless formula he has used to condemn a long list of ills, from currency manipulation to the decline in coal miner employment…..?

 

The new president’s controversial executive orders and conflicts with the media have now become epic disasters.

 

According to Trump, “Anti-Semitism is horrible, and it’s going to stop, and it has to stop,” he said.

 

Then he declared” “We are going to stop the drugs from pouring in.”

 

He followed that with: “We’re going to stop crime.”

 

Trump later said about an immediate and total end to violence against police: “That’s going to stop as of today.”

 

A database search shows that in the last months Trump has announced that all of the following are “going to stop”: Foreign interventions. Ridiculous trade deals. Terrorism. Nation building. Outsourcing. Illegal immigration. Drugs (all of them). Refugees. Dumping. Subsidies. Currency manipulation. Corruption. Cheating. Gangs. Tax havens. Tax loopholes. The media. Pay ­bonuses. Globalists. The decline of coal. Foreign aid. Trade deficits. Regime change. Job loss. Heroin deaths. Old people working two jobs. Terrorists killing gay people. Repatriating terrorists. Executive overreach. Bullying. Lobbying. Unspecified “things.”

 

“We’re going to stop that crap from coming into our country,” he has ordered.

 

And he added: “We are going to stop all of the silliness, all of the games, all of the dishonesty.”

 

And furthermore: “We are going to stop all of the problems that you have because you have them and we’re going to stop them, okay?”

 

But anti-Semitism isn’t going to “stop” on Trump’s say-so, any more than crime or drugs will cease because Trump decrees it.   Especially since the surge in anti-Semitism is partly Trump’s doing. If he were really concerned, he could do something about it, like by getting rid of Steve Bannon.

 

In St. Louis, Pence spoke of his Dachau tour with the 93-year-old Israeli who as a boy endured the “hellish life” in that camp. “By the grace of God, he survived, and now he tells his story so that the world will never forget,” Pence said.

 

As it has been happening, Mike Pence is once more being more presidential than his boss.  And it will take Pence’s approach to help the healing of the anti-Semitism occurring in America.

 

Perhaps this is the reason why the first political pundit that had predicted that Trump would win the election, he now predicts that Trump will be impeached by a Republican congress because the Republicans in Congress trust Pence more than Trump.

 

I’m just sayin……..

 

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