PRESS TWO FOR AMERICA

I am trying, I really am. I forced myself to watch the latest "circus" with the President-elect at his first news conference. It was in turns hilarious, depressing, ridiculous, disrespectful, hollow and scary.  When is this television celebrity going to realize he is the President of these United States?  The most important job in the world is reduced to Clown-in Chief Donald Trump.  Does he not understand that every word he utters is taken as the position of this great country? 

Twittering at 3 am, (well old people do not sleep through the night anyway) about a movie star's opinion? Attacking every negative or what he considers negative comment that is made?  He actually had the nerve to condemn the very unflattering news about his "possible" "alleged" ties to Russia as the acts of a Nazi Germany.  Uh, your actions as prospective President more closely resemble the unilateral rule of a dictatorship squashing every dissenting word or opinion. Wouldn't the classier thing to do, rather than condemning your own intelligence service and the media, is just quietly indicate the reports are false and move on?  When you fight, harass and punish every item you don't agree with, you only fan the flames and make us wonder if it really is true? "Methinks he protests too much?"  We can figure out the truth if you just downplay it you horse's ass.

Puts a tax attorney up to describe how he is going to be hands off of his business interests handing it over to his sons.  At the same time, mind you, that he anoints (yes anoints, he thinks he is a king) his son-in-law as his senior advisor. Duhh we will never discuss business. Then he has the unmitigated gall to admit publicly that he could easily run the entire country and his business at the same time!  This from a guy who's gone bankrupt five or six times. I did not realize the job of President was anything less than a 24/7 job.  Which days were you going to work on "our" business or were you just going to telecommute once in a while.

Also I am no intelligence or international affairs expert, but I rather think downplaying your own intelligence community's worth and recalling all your diplomats would leave the United States in a vulnerable position worldwide.  Our agents who have sacrificed their lives to protecting our citizens will be ignored or dismissed when they take risks to deliver important information.  Our citizens overseas will have no protections if they need embassy assistance in difficult situations.  The smallest damage I can imagine will be the US becoming the laughing stock of the world based on an amateur's handling of these important and sensitive issues.

Rule Number One-- Keep your stupid mouth shut. Watching you mangle simple words and calling legitimate press nasty names does little to render respect. You look and act like a fool every time you open your mouth and indicate your ignorance on important issues. Rule Number Two --quit making grandiose statements about what you will do and how great you and everything you do are; you do not even know how things work yet and just saying them, doesn't make it so. Rule Number Three -- quit running a campaign for office. You won it, show a little gratitude and humility.  Rule Number Four -- take a lesson from your betters; listen more than you speak. You are final authority so allow those in the know (who've put in the time) to educate you before you form an opinion. Making pronouncements before you know it is feasible just makes you look ignorant and will force you to lie even more to explain failure.

 I guess this is where we learn how to keep apologizing to the world, a world that has always looked to us as the leader in human rights and opportunity.  This country will survive if we keep holding this person accountable.  A strong press must be supported and we can never stop protesting what we know is wrong. No, he is not my President. It's going to be a long four years...