If you are an informed and honest American, you know that every action taken by Donald Trump is a serious mistake. He has accomplished nothing for the majority of Americans in 15 months and 23 days. Before he was inaugurated, he began making the worst decisions in American history. His selections for his cabinet, heads of critical organizations, and closest advisers had every knowledgeable American man and woman scratching their heads.

Trump began with Steve Bannon; selecting him as his policy adviser and chief strategist. Bannon had his own mission; to control the White House. His well-known battles with Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s choice for Chief of Staff could be made into a television movie. Bannon created so much turmoil in the West Wing that the white supremacist and bigot was forced to leave his position.

Trump’s second choice was Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his Attorney General. Sessions is another confirmed white supremacist, and has attempted to undo all of President Obama’s efforts to create fairness in our judicial system. He remains in his position, but enormous tension between Trump and Sessions continues.

Before Trump chose Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff, Priebus was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was woefully unqualified to take charge of the daily workings in the White House. He was eventually fired and replaced by another white supremacist, John Kelly.

Other extremely poor decisions include, but are not limited to,  Scott Pruitt, Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin, Rex Tillerson, and most recently John Bolton.

Pruitt’s story is well-known. He opposes the existence of the very agency he was given to lead. He has embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars to allow him to live a life of luxury, tour the nations of the world, with the use of private and military aircraft, and at the minimum, traveling on commercial flights in first class.

Devos has a goal; destroy our public school system. She would issue vouchers and force all children to attend private or charter schools. This will cause great difficulty for our country’s inner city children. She is a billionaire, and never set foot in a public school until she was given the job of Secretary of Education.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, fails to have a single qualification which gives him the right to have his position. His career as a neurosurgeon offered him no knowledge about government or the needs of low-income and impoverished Americans. He is Trump’s ‘token black man.’

Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce, is another Wall Street man who is treading water in Trump’s growing swamp. He has no government experience. One of his most recent positions was the head of the Bank of Cyprus; and institution which is controlled by Vladimir Putin.

Steve Mnuchin is another Wall Street crook, who is now Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury. He made most of his billions by foreclosing on more homes during the 2008 housing crisis than any other banker. He too chooses to travel on private and military aircraft.

Rex Tillerson was the CEO of Exxon/Mobil. He had a single qualification to become the Secretary of State; he has a close personal and business relationship with Trump’s puppeteer, Vladimir Putin.

Now there’s John Bolton. Prior to being appointed Trump’s national security adviser, he was on FOX Noise; spreading lies and creating division between our nation’s people. Bolton is a well-known ‘hawk.’ He does not believe in diplomacy, he prefers preemptive strikes against our adversaries.

Bolton is adding to the isolation of our nation as he offends our allies. Trump began a growing state of isolationism by refusing to sign the Paris Accord, which is a promise to end carbon emissions. He threatened tariffs on imports from both our allies and our adversaries. Last week he ended our nuclear arms agreement with Iran. The new Leader of the Free World; Emmanuel Macron, President of France, has vowed that the European Union will keep that agreement.

Bolton, who believes that Trump is a king or a fuhrer and not an elected public servant, is suggesting that our government enact sanctions against any country which continues to support the treaty.

Appearing on the Sunday morning talk shows, Bolton lied as he pretended that Trump has influence over at least some of our allies.

“I think the Europeans will see that’s in their interest ultimately to go along with this,” he said.

When he was asked about possible sanctions, this was his response.

“It’s possible,” Bolton said. “It depends on the conduct of other governments.” He mistakenly believes that we are the only important nation in the world; fool.

Let’s be totally clear; Trump surrendered his position as ‘leader of the free world;’ it was not taken from him. His ignorance, arrogance, and attempts to bully other world leaders has resulted in mistrust and questions about his intellectual ability to lead our nation, nevertheless the free world.

Finally, every diplomatic and international relations expert in the world considers the agreement with Iran as favorable to the United States. Trump fails to have a single ‘expert’ in his circle of sinners; he has Bolton and the others.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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