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This Isn’t Greatness

Editor, News-Register:

The rank hypocrisy, lack of focus, unbridled narcissism, self-aggrandizement and seeming unwillingness to learn even the very basics of the exalted position of president of the United States are sadly becoming ever more evident and troubling with President Donald Trump. His lack of empathy, questionable work ethic and his apparent eagerness to “take the low road,” are aspects of the “character” of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and may well prove to be most deleterious to our great nation as well as the office of the presidency.

It has been well documented that during the recent presidential election campaign then-candidate Trump vehemently criticized his Democratic adversary, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for her use of a private e-mail server during ther tenure as U.S. secretary of state, referring to Mrs. Clinton, as a result of this indescretion, as “Crooked Hillary” and encouraging the chant by his supporters to “lock her up.” However, recently a multitude of Trump surrogates, including his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, chief advisers Gary Cohn, Stephen Miller and daughter Ivanka, as well as former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, also did so during their time in the administration, with hypocritical silence on the part of president Trump.

Apparently the comitting of such an infraction is only serious when done by a political adversary, but is simply “business as usual” when committed by his surrogates.

Why is it that President Trumpet continues to be so willing to mockingly criticize those with whom he may have a disagreement, including members of of his own political party, but offers virtually no criticism on any level of Vladimir Putin and the Russion government, as well as neo-Nazis and white nationalists? Interesting.

Also, remember when candidate Trump belittled then-President Barack Obama for his playing of golf during his presidency, but as president has made playing rounds of golf a weekly event, actually already playing more golf than did president Obama during eithe rof his two four-year terms in office.

After over seven years of monthly private sector job growth under the Obama economy, which rescued the United States and the world from the Great Recession of President George W. Bush, the Sept. 2017 jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported that 33,000 private sector jobs were lost, a reversal of the long-time positive trend under President Trump, who promised to be, if elected, our “greatest jobs creator ever!”

Also, it has recently been reported that President Trump’s current “approval rate” is now at an all-time low 32 percent and that only 26 percent of those polled believe that our nation is on the “right track.”

Very sobering and distressing data, to say the least, with the unfortunate decline of such telling figures projected to continue infinitely.

To date, it appears that the performance and accomplishments (actually lack there-of) of our nation’s first “reality TV star” president have fallen significantly short of the platitudes and promises made by then- candidate Trump that if elected, he would “make America great again,” as if somehow our country had incredibly lost its “greatness” and he, and he alone, without offering any specifics, would restore the “greatness” of our country in the eyes of its people and the world.

Richard Hord

Martins Ferry

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