Despite the lack of any recognizable accomplishments from the Trump presidency and the tweets, gaffes, insults, errors, and outright lies, there is an almost immovable part of the electorate that stays in the 30 percent range that refuses to budge.
Of course, the last few weeks seemed to show disapproval on the part of the Congress, but the diehards believe that the system is rigged against him, that the press make up, or misinterpret.
His constant tweeting as a means of communication makes it possible to name call all his opponents, as was his practice during the presidential campaign.
It makes it possible for him say anything without being challenged.
Beyond that anything said with 140 characters lacks any substance.
That makes it possible to plant ideas that can simply be wrong. And we know that if you tell a lie often enough it is implanted as a truth.
At his rallies it was easy to oversimplify ideas. And this conman practiced this art ad nauseam.
Now that he must persuade his followers to support complicated issues, he is at a loss.
When he should have been working with the Congress to pass a bill, he never could provide a detailed justification because he could not grasp the issues that would gain support.
This made it very easy for the supporters of negative useless bills, that upon examination, could not get support.
We need a knowledgeable president to solve the complicated problems we are facing and we need a respectful voice, not a person whose pleasure is deriding world leaders who are decidedly more experienced.
Why or how should Trump’s supporters trust him?
I doubt that he has reasonable positions on any subject.
Why should we respect him for defending the reopening of coal mines when he should have emphasized that we should concentrate on programs to retrain workers for jobs that will be needed in a new economy.
Why should anyone who sees what is going on in our environment trust him when he did not discourage or prevent big oil from drilling all over the place and getting permission to build pipelines.
Why didn’t he advocate more for renewable energy production.
Why did he choose Cabinet members of the most conservative bent or those who are the least capable of running any government agency, such as Education, or Energy, of a brain surgeon who is detached from the problems of his own race?
How could he listen to a doctor who should have evidenced compassion for the needy and ill and sympathizes with their plight, when he has not a clue about their worries?
He lacks empathy and his record as a businessman is that of exploitation.
He has a record of going into four bankruptcies that left wages unpaid; contractors lost money because he consistently reduced the contracted payment for work done.
He flaunts his hotels, golf courses, vineyards, airplane that they will never get close to.
Ironically, perhaps, his golden ornate living quarters a la Liberace and numerous over-decorated homes reveal that he is really an outsider always trying to make it.
At the end of his business dealings, no American bank would lend him money and many deals were based on fees paid for the use of his name.
He pretended to give large donations to charities from a foundation which used money raised from events he only sponsored.
Esther Confino
New Hyde Park
