简体中文
By APD writer Imdad Hussain
Donald Trump is perhaps the most non-serious and indiscreet President in the US history and since his coming into power hisdecisions, statements and tweets have reflected lack of wisdom. So many of the things that Trump does and says are inconceivable for an American President, and yet he does and says them anyway with misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies always central to his politics.
He has insulted brown people, black people, Muslim people, Jewish people. He has insulted women. He has insulted the grieving parents of a dead soldier. He has mocked a disabled person and expressed admiration for dictators. He has suggested he could shoot somebody and not lose votes. He has openly talked about the possibility of the assassination of his opponent, twice.
President Trump is notorious for his statements and tweets prompting violence. More recently he shared a video on twitter wherein it has been stated that the best democrat is dead democrat. The Whites did communal riots; Latin American citizens were fired upon in El Paso and several Blacks lost their lives due to violence by the Whites and police during his regime.
He provoked his Chief Justice who was compelled to say Trump’s behavior threatens not just the authority of the Supreme Court but the viability of our political system while longest shutdown, threatening to strip security clearances from his critics andpress his “nuclear button”, declaring war on black athletes and border crisis with Mexicoare a few to mention.
The US is already badly affected by corona virus as one out of four Americans has applied for unemployment allowance, over one lac Americans have died due to pandemic, hospitals in New York have gone to full capacity, the US economy is shrinking while people protested against lockdown on President Trump’s instigation.
The president consistently downplayed, denied and misled the public about the seriousness of the corona virus threat and while in the middle of the pandemic, when collaborated efforts were required to arrest the spread of corona virus, President Trump indulged in unnecessary criticism against World Health Organization first announcing to cut its funds and then reconsidering the decision and now again declaring to sever all kind of relations with world health body.
Likewise, instead of focusing on helping develop remedy of corona virus through a joint strategy, President Trump time and again named corona virus as the Chinese virus tried to politicize the very sensitive issue and directed more efforts to this end rather than showing extreme concern to save humanity.
And more recently the death of George Floyd, President Trump, after a police precinct in Minneapolis was torched by protestors, wrote on Twitter that he was willing to send the National Guard to deal with the chaos, adding: “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” that drew immense ire as Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden called Floyd’s death “an act of brutality” that was just the latest in a series of injustices stemming from racism against black people.
Many of Trump’s lies, according to Trump’s onetime ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, who wrote Trump’s best-selling 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal,come from his grandiose misconception of his own knowledge and powers, including his bragging that he knows more “than anyone” about ISIS, drones, social media, campaign finance, technology, polls, courts, lawsuits, politicians, trade, renewable energy, infrastructure, construction, nuclear weapons, banks, tax laws, the economy, and, during the pandemic, medicine.
Schwartz argues that the Presidency has transformed Trump from an attention-seeking narcissist, who spent decades lying about his golf trophies, his sex life, and his real-estate properties, into an ends-justify-the-means ruler who has increasingly and ominously escalated his lies and extreme behavior.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
