Trying, In Vain, To Come to Terms With Trump

WE HAVE LONG SINCE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO, and outraged by President Trump's shocking and appalling preference for prevarication. People who have known him for decades might attest to Trump's viciousness, dishonesty, and pathological narcissism and belief in his own immunity from the consequences of his actions, the constraints imposed on us all by our system of justice, and fundamental universal moral imperatives. Many of us had harbored some faint hope that his vicious assaults of good people, which began during the presidential campaign, and his incessant pattern of dismissively uttering outrageous, demonstrably false statements, would mellow into better behavior once he entered office, got his feet wet, and began getting some good advice. Such hopes have long since been dashed into dust. I have long since fulfilled my inauguration day promise to give him a fair chance. he has run out of chances, and i cannot respect or support this president, or respect the judgment and moral integrity of anyone who voted for him or still supports him. Now, for some relevant specific facts. Donald Trump clearly guaranteed that Mexico wold pay for the wall, at the very beginning of his campaign for president. Tens of millions of American heard him say this; it is well documented. If he would now simply concede this point, and honestly admit to having altered his payment plan, he would earn some measure of my respect, and that of others. His current assertion that he in fact never made the Mexican payment promise defied belief, destroys credibility, and proves, yet again, his pathology. In front of millions, in the oval office with Schumer and Pelosi, Trump clearly took full responsibility for the impending government shutdown. Now, as we all know, he blames the Democrats. President Trump actually had the audacity to tell us that the federal employees who have been laid off and nave not been paid since the shutdown began are glad to forego their paychecks, due to their unflagging commitment to the wall, at any cost. To make this ludicrous claim is beyond immoral. Tens of thousands of hard working Americans are late on their mortgage payments, late on their rent, and unable to pay utility bills or feed their children because of Trump's pathological stubborn resistance to any sort of reasonable compromise, compromise which could easily be achieved with a single phone call. it would be the simplest of solutions to simply separate government funding from the wall debate, and restart the government while sensible people sensibly decide on a sensible solution to border security, which everyone wants and understands to be necessary. the final straw was Trump's recent televised speech in which he attempted to proved an argument in favor of his ridiculous wall, hoping to gain the support of a majority of Americans. Predictably, the speech contained numerous outright lies, lies which can and have been clearly, and irrefutably exposed an debunked, lies which he has told repeatedly, as if so doing would make them true, as if the fact that he uttered them might make them true. And that has bee Trump's tendency since he began running for president; his obvious inability or refusal to understand that his incessant lies are easily exposed, and easily repudiated. The sheer audacity with which he evidently believes his lies will be accepted is not only evidence, but proof of mental pathology, pathology which warrants medical attention, and clearly reveals Trump to be a person badly in need of psychological counseling and therapy, who belongs in a doctor's office, but certainly not the White House.