Toddler Trump needs a timeout in the Oval Office
President Trump announced an end to the government shutdown on January 25. Is it a real deal to reopen the federal government or another tactic of the power-grabbing politician? Is Trump backing down or bamboozling Congress again? Is this a permanent or temporary solution? The elephant and donkey games continue.
Trump is using his demand for a $5.7 billion border wall to justify his irrational reactions. Our forefathers and former presidents would be appalled at the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. I hope the ghost of Benjamin Franklin visits him next Christmas. Would Trump follow in the footsteps of Ebenezer Scrooge and change his wicked ways?
What Do Americans Think?
“A strong majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for the record-long government shutdown and reject his primary rationale for a border wall, according to a new poll that shows the turmoil in Washington is dragging his approval rating to its lowest level in more than a year,” according to a recent article in The Philadelphia Tribune.
And just who are the people that Trump is holding hostage? You, me, us. We are a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
According to a 2019 article in USA Today, “The president has threatened for weeks to declare a national emergency to redirect money to free up the $5.7 billion he wants for constructing a border wall. The move would curtail Congress, which under the Constitution directs appropriating funding to federal agencies.”
Per a 2019 report from the Pew Research Center, 59 percent of those surveyed disapprove of Trump’s job performance. www.pewresearch.org/.
Trump the Toddler
President Trump reacts just like a toddler when he doesn’t get his way. “I want what I want when I want it and how I want it and where I want it!” He’s throwing an adult temper tantrum in the Oval Office. And Americans are paying the price. Will someone put Trump in a timeout chair? Or make him take a nap. He’s a pouting president in need of emotional regulation.
Per a 2018 report from the Pew Research Center, 24 percent of Americans say Trump is even-tempered, while 70 percent say that description does not apply to him. www.pewresearch.org/.
What’s wrong with the White House picture? “There’s something of an industry devoted to the psyche of President Trump. He’s an executive-in-chief like no other. He doesn’t read, appears to be ignorant of history (American, European, Middle-Eastern, Asian, whatever) and cannot control his Twitter finger,” penned Professor Madelon Sprengnether in a 2017 article for Psychology Today.
Immigration Irony
The irony of Donald Trump’s stance on immigration. Melanija Knavs (Melania Trump) was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. The First Lady of the United States was not born in America. She obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006.
The irony of Donald Trump’s stance on “chain immigration.” Reported in USA Today, First lady Melania Trump’s immigrant parents were sworn in as U.S. citizens in 2018. “The Knavses were eligible for green cards and to apply for citizenship because their daughter is a citizen, having taken the oath herself in 2006, shortly after she married Donald Trump in 2005.”
More irony. Donald Trump’s first wife and mother to his three oldest children, Ivana, is an immigrant from Czechoslovakia.
Both Republicans and Democrats need to read the book, Tantrums!: Managing Meltdowns in Public and Private (1-2-3 Magic Parenting). And apply to Trump.
How is it that an American president can hold the government captive when he doesn’t get his way and throw adult temper tantrums? I’m baffled. Are you?
Melissa Martin, Ph.D., is an author, columnist, educator, and therapist. She lives in Southern Ohio.www.melissamartinchildrensauthor.com.
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You must be a Hillary supporter!
nothing get’s by you
So sad that garbage like this continues to get published. Clearly an uninformed individual that blindly follows whatever appears to be the popular view of the day in order to grab attention. Sad.
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why didn’t Donald get his wall the first 2 years he controlled everything
instead of passing a tax cut for the rich blowing up the deficit and passing
the biggest spending bill in our history and don’t forget trying to take people’s insurance
I blame career politicians that use the border wall as a political pawn like they’ve done for decades. Let’s get real, a border wall should’ve been built decades ago, but no, it’s a political game piece. Blaming Trump and not the stonewalling career politicians is hilarious…
I hope you don’t waste too much money on these types of columnists.
Really? What about the pouting Pelosi? When you pay attention to President Trump, he makes sense. We need to build that border wall. I would be willing to send him a dollar to get the job done. Clearly the senators think they are United States Democrats and United States Republicans. They are not! They are United States Senators. Their purpose is to work together to protect our great country. Once they are in office they should come together to set our affairs in order; not hold out for their political party power. A Democratic Senator spoke on TV this past weekend and said that his state is being flooded with drugs. He wants a border wall, he needs a border wall. Will he lose status with his fellow Democrats because he has the sense to lay aside political party power plays and do what is right?
If the 62,984,828 (Internet source) people who voted for Trump would start a Go Fund Me fund by sending $10 to it, President would have the money to build that wall.
I will donate 10 pesos
Yeah, he’s well known for seeing funds contributed used for what they are meant for. NOT! So go ahead and do your go fund me account for the wall and then follow the money.
I guess if an illegal alien who been deported 4 times killed one of Mrs. Martin’s family members she might feel differently about President Trumps temper tantrum to get the border wall funding. Ask Kate Steinly’s father his opinion or some of the others who lost loved ones to illegal alien crime. I don’t have to wait for it to be my child killed. I want 0 illegals coming into this country. I want all who enter to be vetted and approved before coming in. If that means a wall so be it. It’s just commonsense.