“The president held up the Bible at St. John's Church yesterday,” Mr. Biden, a practicing Catholic, said, “I just wish he opened it once in awhile instead of brandishing it. If he opened it, he could have learned something. -Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
I waited. America waited. The world waited, we all waited for the president of the United States to step up to the plate and show leadership. We waited for the president to say something. Amidst all the chaos and anarchy taking place across the nation due to the horrific murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Americans waited with bated breath for something from the president. We waited and heard nothing. Protests due to the death of George Floyd started in Minneapolis on May 26th, and from there the protests spread like wildfire. By May 30th, the protests had spread across the nation, from coast to coast, and from sea to shining sea. Thousands of protesters marched to demand justice for 46 year old, George Floyd. In those marches in the name of the late George Floyd, American citizens used their first amendment rights as to voice their contempt for his murder. While the majority of protests were peaceful, all were not. Evil lurked among the crowd. Citizens taking advantage of a bad situation out of greed, and or as to make a political statement, tarnished the memory of the late George Floyd. Looting, arson, violence, and complete destruction took place across the nation. Cars, and buildings were burned nightly, small businesses destroyed, luxury stores ransacked to the bare shelves, and bank ATMs were blasted open. Complete anarchy across the nation was taking place, and no address to the nation was made by President Trump.
Americans and the world watched in horror as the president did not address the nation as one would have hoped. The president did nothing, but tweet during the widespread violence that was taking place nightly across the nation. The president's tweets threatening protesters with rhetoric such as,"when the looting starts, the shooting starts", and telling protesters that if they attempted to breech the White House fence they would be greeted by, "vicious dogs and ominous weapons", did not help matters much. With the president's antagonizing and threatening tweets that seemed to do more harm than good, it left many Americans to think that the country was better off not hearing from the president than hearing from him.
As of Saturday May 30th at least twelve major cities had declared a curfew. By June 2nd Governors in 24 states including America's capital, Washington D.C., had called in the National Guard activating 17,000 troops. By June 3rd, over 11,000 people had been arrested and at least 16 people were killed. One killed was a 77 year old Black retired police officer. The world watched in horror as America, a once great nation was in complete disarray with civil unrest, destruction, and anarchy all around. A week had passed and other than a brief mention of the civil unrest in the streets and George Floyd's senseless murder at this weeks rocket launch, not one word from the president.
Let heaven and nature sing, on Monday, June 1st, President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the White House Rose Garden. After days of the president's advisers recommending that the president speak out as to unify the nation, the president decided to make an appearance. White House sources say Jared Kushner was responsible for the president not speaking out. For some unbeknownst reason some say Jared wanted the madness across the nation to continue. If many had to guess, the only reason the president decided to speak to the nation was as to prove a point that he was not a coward. All week the hashtags, bunker baby, bunker Don, and coward in chief had been trending on Twitter. Word was that the president had been hiding in an underground bunker beneath the White House.
With the lack of empathy the president displayed in his speech this past Monday, the president should have probably stayed holed up in hiding in his bunker. As America and the world watched the president address the nation, most watched in sheer astonishment. As the president spoke, America looked like China, or North Korea. America did not look like America. Surrounding the White House were hundreds of police officers in riot gear and several hundred troops all around. At first glance, one would have thought America was at war. America was at war. America was at war with the president, and clearly the president was at war with America.
( "The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act." "I've always believed and continue to believe that the National Guard is best suited for performing domestic support to civil authorities in these situations, in support of local law enforcement."-Defense Secretary Mark Esper)
Upon listening to the president's speech I'd be lying if I didn't say that I wanted him to have his defining moment. I wanted him to shine. Despite my differences, I wanted the president to speak to the nation with the empathy so desperately needed as to unify the nation. The president failed. The president spoke like that of a Dictator. The president dictated his message of power like that of a Dictator not a president. A president speaks to the nation. A president does not dictate to a nation. When a nation is in turmoil a president needs to show he cares. This president doesn't care. The president stated that justice would be served for the late George Floyd, and he stated that he was an ally of the peaceful protesters. An ally of the protesters doesn't spray peaceful protesters with tear gas and pepper balls. Dictators use force on peaceful protesters. As the president spoke, I couldn't help, but think back to former presidents, and other leaders in times of trouble that spoke with emotion and compassion. After September 11th, former President G.W. Bush spoke to the nation with real feeling. He didn't speak from a teleprompter. He spoke from the heart. He didn't need words written, he knew what needed to be said and what he said brought the nation closer together. President Trump's speech did anything, but bring the nation closer together.
This past Monday, President Trump did not say, nor do what needed to be done or said as to unify this nation. He instead infuriated and terrified the nation. He terrified the nation as he declared himself a "law and order president" and threatened martial law. While looters and violent protesters needed to be told action would be taken against them if they continued, the threat of martial law, and using force against peaceful protesters was the stuff of which dictators are made.
As America watched their president give a speech like that of a tyrannical dictator, America had no idea what was to come. What was to come was beyond disturbing. The president for some ungodly reason wanted to place both members of his cabinet and his secret service at risk for a photo op. Who does that? With millions of Americans unemployed, and now angry at both their financial status and the senseless brutal murder of a Black man, what president decides to saunter across the street in broad daylight? President Trump that's who. As to prove a point to all those who made fun of him hiding in a bunker, President Trump put the lives of many at risk, including his own. America's president wasted how many tax dollars as so he could prove he was not a "bunker baby", and so he could look at the infamous all historic St. John's Church, and hold up a random bible. When asked if the bible the president was holding was his own bible, the president blurted out that it was, "a bible". Vice President Joe Biden reacted in disgust and said that he wished the president would open it once in awhile. To be quite honest, I was surprised the president even knew of the bible. That being said, the photo op moment was quite strange. It was quite strange as the president never to the best of my knowledge had never once strolled across the street as to visit the church. Once there the president did not kneel in prayer, nor did he lead the nation in a silent prayer. No, the president instead like some D.C. tourist wanted his picture taken in front of St. John's Church. What the president did was shameful. As America is going to hell in a hand basket, this president has peaceful protesters tear gassed and shot with pepper balls for a photo opportunity. The president did not go to the church to mourn for the nation. The president did not go to the church to pray for the nation. The president, I suppose wanted his picture taken in front of the church due to it's being burned during the riots and protests the night before. Funny thing is, if the president was so bothered by the church being burned, why did the president not look around at the church? The church that he had not attended since St. Patrick's Day 2019. What the president did do that day was he completely, unequivocally exploited the church and the bible.
America is broken and unfortunately America doesn't have the leadership that it takes as to repair it. The president ran on making America great again. The president has not made America "great again". The president has made America nothing more than a nation run by a tyrant that doesn't care about his people. With the firings of now two inspector generals it appears the president is doing whatever he wants to do without having to answer to anyone. Not having an inspector general is frightening, as it leads one to ask just why the president doesn't want anyone checking on his actions. That is the stuff of which dictators are made. Presidents don't use force on peaceful protesters taking away their first amendment rights, dictators do. Of course, some would say our first amendment rights have already been taken away by President Donald Trump or shall I say Dictator Donald Trump? A president that calls any and all news sources "fake news" is a president attempting to control what is said . The truth is, more often than not, what Dictator Don deems "fake news" is almost always "real news". Real news is that many who tweeted that America didn't have a president were right. America doesn't have a president, America seemingly has a dictator, Dictator Donald Trump.
(c)GOP GIRL BLOG, AKA, THE CHIC CONSERVATIVE Sean Bianca
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