The unimaginable happened; Trumpenstein is officially your 45^th president. Of course I did not watch the debacle; my distaste for Trump as a human being would not allow me to accept what occurred today. The death of a once respected nation was too difficult to watch.

I just read an article, which will be attached, detailing the context of his inauguration speech. As usual, Trump’s own lips were moving, and therefore he was lying. Breaking from tradition, he failed to mention his combatant, Hillary Clinton, and belittled the three former presidents sitting behind the orange man. He called efforts by past presidents ‘carnage,’ and promised to force both parties to ‘give America back to the people.’ Really?

Trump has already guaranteed that every need and desire of the great majority of the America people will be ignored or repealed. He will remove health insurance from more than 20 million Americans and fail to replace it. He will continue to denounce all Muslims and label them as enemies of our nation. He will attempt to deport nearly 12 million undocumented workers. He will make all abortions illegal, and remove the rights of women to control the health and future of their own bodies. He will seek to repeal the first amendment. Trump will also give larger tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans; widen income inequality; and bankrupt our nation in the process.

His closest advisers, and those he nominated for his cabinet include white supremacists, homophobes, misogynists, thieves, xenophobes, anti-environmentalists, billionaires, and 10 former Goldman-Sachs employees, who were majorly involved in the great recession of 2008. Is this ‘cleaning the swamp’ and giving America back to the people? Sure doesn’t sound like it to me.

Trump has created his own cesspool of unqualified and uncaring insiders I refer to as his circle of sinners.

I have called Trump a ‘buffoon,’ a ‘sham,’ a ‘phony,’ a ‘racist,’ and immoral; they are all true. But three words sum up your new president; egomaniac and pathological liar. He is afraid of the truth because the truth is likely to prove that his ideas and beliefs are erroneous.

Those of you who voted for Trump are now stuck with him, just as are individuals like myself who refused to listen to the media and were therefore better informed.

The abomination is real, and that’s very frightening.

Op-Ed

By James Turnage

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