Last week in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump spewed a record number of lies, and one unsurprising revelation: “We want a piece of ice … and they won’t give it!”
In one way, he has more ICE than he and our cities need, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc, resulting in at least two deaths so far. But the “ice” he was inaccurately referring to was Iceland, which he repeated several times, his mind in a customary brain freeze, perhaps forgetting that his recent obsession is Greenland.
Geography, however, has never been one of his strong points, nor is telling the truth. He boasted that the U.S. economy is booming, while tying that inaccuracy to the claim that “the Biden administration was plagued with the nightmare of stagflation,” just one of his assertions that need fact-checking. He may be able to pull the wool over the eyes of those foreign dignitaries, but his words ring hollow to the thousands of Americans desperately in need of SNAP allocations, and he’s tone-deaf when it comes to hearing the complaints raised by some 15,000 striking nurses here in New York City.
Well, Mr. Trump, it’s not an economic explosion you may be hearing, but the roar of Americans dissatisfied with your handling of our domestic and foreign policies. Another good indicator of your return to the Oval Office are the nearly unanimous polls expressing disapproval of your so-called leadership.
I, and millions of other Americans, know that you couldn’t care less how we feel. We know that your tendency is to flaunt hypocrisy and autocracy over democracy. But we waste time waiting for Congress to act; too many of them have their heads buried in the sand.
Lawmakers, where are your letters to the editor? It’s time to lift your voice against an administration that has no sense of morality and is totally out of touch with human decency. It’s time for us to not just voice our disgust. We must mount a chorus of “We’re mad as hell and ain’t gonna take it no more!”
If that sounds like a paraphrase from a movie, then what was reel must be made real.