TRUMP GOES BEZERK

…Doesn’t look like a peaceful group to me.

If he wasn’t supporting the far right’s ideals, why would the KKK’s David Duke send the president a thank you Tweet for his comments?

Boy, where do you go with what we all heard from our president in what was supposed to be his “Day for supporting US Infrastructure”.

One thing is for sure.  We had thought that perhaps Donald Trump seemed uncomfortable when he made his speech about the riots in Charlottesville via a tteleprompter on Monday.  More than one individual has said that they didn’t think that President Trump actually believed what he was saying against white supremacist, neo-nazi’s, and the Alt-Rights that had caused the deaths in Charlottesville, VA.

He made the statement that those on the far right had a permit to demonstrate, and those that were in the opposition did not have a permit.  But, those on the right with the permit has shown up armed with AR 15’s and AK 47’s, they held lit Tiki torches and were waving Nazi and Confederate flags while carrying some very offensive signs.  All of this while they yelled things that had been previously only been used by the real Nazi’s in WWII and by the KKK.

No one, including the president, should stand up for those that participated in the violence that ensued in Charlottesville.  But those on the far right had not come with the idea of it being a “peaceful demonstration”.

What we learned is that Trump really did believe what he had first said, that it was “problems on both sides”, not just an issue against the white supremacist and nationalist demonstrators.  Some reporter then made the comment to the president that it wasn’t someone from the far left that murdered a young woman with a car, but that comment went without any reaction from President Trump.

As to the taking down of Confederate hero’s statues, Trump was asking, “George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.  Should we take down statues of those two?”  He totally ignored the idea that yes these Americans had also owned slaves, but they later came up with the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and the idea that all men were created equal.  It was the Robert E. Lee’s and the other Confederates that believed in continuing slavery and that it should always be that way in America.  And as with Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington would not have supported seceding from the Union while and starting a war on the basis of maintaining the status quo of slavery.

In this narcissistic megalomaniacs head, he showed throughout his two years of presidential campaigning how he  supported the Alt-Right and how he would wink at them from time to time in showing his support.  For anyone today to be shocked by Trump’s statements saying that “there was terrible issues on both side in Charlottesville”, where were these shocked individuals for all of Trump's time as the “Chief Birther” and what about all his bigotry during the election campaign?

Why would anyone be surprised that David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, had sent the president a Tweet saying “Thank you” for say that those on the left fighting in Charlottesville were the terrorists?…..That is totally amazing!

Even when it was made clear in Charlottesville that it was the Alt-Right, neo-Nazi’s, the white nationalists and white supremacists that showed up shouting WWII German slogans, anti-Jewish slogans from Hitler’s time.  All this while giving Hitler salutes as they were carrying weapons and lit torches.  Even the Chicago Tribune‘s next day headline was:  “TRUMP SINKS TO NEW DEPTHS OF DEGRADATION”.  The Los Angeles Times headline to the president was “RACISM IS EVIL, SO STOP BEING RACIST”.  Major newspapers across the nation had similar or worse headlines against the president and what he had said yesterday.  

There were interviews also shown that had been taken the day before with white nationalists and they admitted that they were coming to cause trouble and that they came to fight.  That was outwardly stated in the interview.  A young black man was later found beaten by a group of white nationalists in a local parking lot.  Sorry Mr. President, this wasn’t an issue on both sides of the equation.  Only one group came wanting to fight.

Does anyone think that this was not eventually going to happen when there are three Alt-Right advisors associated with the president?  Some are in the White House that are admitted white nationalists such as Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller?

There is supposed to be another Alt-Right demonstration this week in Boston.  But the local police are putting limitations on the crowds that might cause them to even withdraw their permit application.  But then, they might just ignore the “no weapons, no pepper spray, no baseball bats, no signs and no torches” requirements and instead come armed to the teeth.

The staunch Republican’s Steve Schmidt and the former Chairman of the RNC, Michael Steel, they both have been on TV giving statements against what the president had said in this off-the-cuff press conference.

Arizona Republican Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake have both said there is no equivalency between the racist nationalists and those American that were standing up against the bigots and racists.  Similar statements came from other Republican lawmakers such as Senator’s Marko Rubio and Lindsay Graham and even the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

The reality is that President Trump was just very angry that his team in the White House had “forced” him to make the statements on Monday via teleprompter against the white nationalists and the neo-Nazi and white supremacists, without saying that there was fault as well on the other side.

Many cities in the south such as Memphis, Little Rock and Huntsville are having problems with people that want to remove statues and monuments of Confederate hero’s,.  Many in those towns say that they want to retain their long-time southern heritage.  But the heritage of supporting Slavery?

I was born in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, but I have no desire of having any monuments to those that fought to preserve the state of slavery in America.  I can read all I need for knowing about what happen in the war in this country that took the lives of 620,000 Americans.  But I don’t need an expensive statue or a community park named as a tribute to the men that headed up those that seceded in order to maintain the horrible tradition of enslaving men because of the color of their skin.

This issue with the president isn’t going away anytime soon.  Is the president a racist or a bigot?  I don’t know for sure, but it’s hard to refer to him as a president of "ALL Americans."

I wonder about this man that was the “Birther-in-Chief”, the man that thinks that those Americans that stand up against racists are as bad as the racists themselves, and the man that the former head of the KKK was thanking for what he said on national TV that really upset about two thirds of America.  

That man is not my president, regardless of what he does or says.

Copyright G.Ater  2017