I think it is a sign that America is in decline. Can you imagine a founding father using that kind of language? Look at this sentence: “Even worse than offending the Founding Fathers, you are offending Americans of faith by continually saying you pray for the President when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense.”
I know that picking on grammar is often a cheap shot, but this was an official letter written “for the purpose of history.” I mean, it is third grade language skills at best.
And, of course, full of obvious faleshoods, like “Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air, my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me.” No he didn’t. That’s a lie.
And “You conducted a fake investigation upon the democratically elected President of the United States.” Presuming he means the Muller report, that was his own department of justice not the Democrats, and the investigation sent many people to jail for real crimes that it uncovered. Another lie by this president written down “for the purpose of history.”
Why doesn’t that matter to his base? I don’t understand. I would never blindly follow a Democrat if he was as obviously unhinged, lying, and idiotic as Trump.
Yet the Trump supporters seriously think he is a better president than Washington or Lincoln!
The problem is not Trump. The problem is that 35% of America think Trump is a genius and brilliant statesman. That can’t be good for our nation.
Obviously.
But not just decline; it shows that he is crazy in a dangerous way.
Yes, it’s been pointed out that Trump didn’t write the entire screed, because there are parts of it where two or more sentences appear to be well enough written to make logical coherence, like three sentences in a row.
And we know that Trump can’t write those several sentences consecutively to make sense, even if it’s the sense of paranoia and delusion. Also, that there are multi-syllabic words that are outside of Trump’s working vocabulary. So he can’t have written its entirety. He had help from other crazed insiders, like Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller sits at the Devil’s right hand; his hatred of multiple others is well-documented. It’s clear that he wrote his part. Maybe Kellyanne gave it a short perusal and then thanked Trump for his deft writings. Melania was not consulted; she is not closely adjacent to our lingua franca. But one can imagine Jared and Ivanka getting a preview and then bowing in deference. Maybe Mulvaney, too.
Anyway, Trump’s signature enshrined the missive for all time as a presidential utterance. On the record.
It shows cognitive decline, sure. But more than that, it should put the rest of us on our heels, that the American president is off his rocker, seeing pirates and ghosts everywhere, traitors in every corner, witches brewing ill concoctions, duly elected officials and political appointees allied everywhere against him. Trump carries with him the most powerful weapons ever created, carries them close, and has them pointed in every direction on a hair trigger.
This is our president. And nothing good will this way come.
