To the Editor:

Watched Trump’s new conference Friday.
Trump says he’s going to sign legislation (oh yes, created by Democrats) to open the government but then says he will shut the government down again in three weeks if Big Baby Trump doesn’t get what he wants.
Oh Trump, you’re not even able to govern more than 3 weeks at a time, its so very sad. Use 800,000 workers’ paychecks as bargaining chips and hold the country hostage so you can keep your promise to build a wall. Where was all of this urgency during your first 2 years in office with a REPUBLICAN controlled congress?  Was it not an emergency then, all of a sudden it’s an emergency and has to be done on the backs of hard working Americans? Also, I thought MEXICO was supposed to pay for this wall? Now you want Americans to pay for it when the majority of SANE Americans don’t want a wall?
The truth is the wall won’t work as Trump keeps going on about. The billions in taxpayer money that Trump wants will only repair some of the existing wall and create 100 or so miles of new wall. That’s right. Trump cries time after time about illegals being such an alarming National Emergency and we must keep all of the drugs and criminals out of our country but the money he’s asking for won’t even protect the entire border. In fact over 1,000 miles of border wouldn’t even have a wall. Wow, that’s some amazing border security, good plan Trump.
So how exactly is that protecting our country and keeping all of those vile women and children out of the country.  Exactly, Trump’s wall won’t even do what he says it will do, but that doesn’t stop him from harming hard working Americans. Once again, BILLIONAIRE Trump really seems to care about Americans. Let’s just add that to the list of things Trump “says” he’s doing to Make America Great Again but in reality is just another Trump scam. I’ll give it to him, Trump is putting on a good show so his base will re-elect him.
He’s like one of those reality TV stars who acts out a script to make the show look like its actually real, oh wait, that’s exactly what Trump used to do. Of course as President he doesn’t do that. Now he just repeats things multiple times, yells a lot, gets really angry, blames everyone else for everything, causes all kinds of drama, makes it look like he really cares about Americans, and tries to make some really big gestures look like major accomplishments so that his base falsely believes he’s keeping his promises.
Trump cares about Trump and about Trump getting re-elected. He can say he cares about America and Americans all he wants but if he really cared about Americans he wouldn’t use 800,000 workers as bargaining chips, he wouldn’t waste tax payer’s money on a wall that does nothing, he wouldn’t undermine healthcare, we wouldn’t undermine education, he wouldn’t continue to pollute our water and environment by stripping the EPA and encourage coal and other fossil fuels, he wouldn’t continue to enable climate change to destroy our plant, he wouldn’t continue to promote hate, sexism, racism, and intolerance.
Trump is putting on a big big show to give the impression he’s keeping his promises, but the man who by last count has lied over 8,000 times during his presidency is merely giving his base a little payout here and there like a slot machine or lottery. Of course people are ignorant enough to play slot machines too because they want to believe they might actually win. Well, sadly, no one is winning when it comes to Trump. He does not care about America or Americans. His tax cut was not about the middle class, it was about making him richer. Healthcare was not about Americans, its about making him richer. If the economy is doing well, that’s not about Americans, its about Trump getting richer. Any deal Trump makes is for his own prosperity or to get him re-elected.  North Korea or Russia is all about Trump making deals for Trump Organization.
So in three weeks we’ll see again how much Trump cares about Americans when he shuts the government down, stops paying 800,000 workers so that he can again ask for tax payers, not Mexico, to finance a useless wall that would leave over 1,000 miles without a wall, all to appease his base. What a wonderfully fake reality republicans and Trump’s base live in, slot machines payout and 100 extra miles of wall will keep us all safe.

Randall Cunningham
Lakeside Landings