Thank you, I want some more?

 

A banner thanking President Donald Trump
 for improvements to Logan Circle.
(Philip Kennicott/The Washington Post)

Living with a megalomaniac as president is something that I never considered possible in the United States. But yet, here we are. 

I came across the banner at the right as it was published in the Washington Post and I found it frightening when I considered all of the things for which I can thank our president.

Thank you President Trump . . .  (not an all inclusive list)

for adding $2.8 trillion to the national debt since starting your second term

for the tariffs which are generating income straight from the wallets of Americans

for starting a war with Iran that may never end

for ensuring Iran never gets a nuclear weapon (oh, wait, hasn't happened)

for strangling the world by losing control of the Strait of Hormuz

for deporting so many people trying to find a better life in America

for destroying the American dream

for increasing the price of coffee

for higher grocery store prices

for eliminating inflation (higher now than when took office)

for terminating renewable and green sources of energy production which has caused the price of energy to rise as AI Data Centers start sucking up more energy

for putting your name on the Kennedy Center

for putting your signature on our money

for putting your face in our passports

for changing the name of PBI and then trademarking the name so your family makes money of anything sold with the new name of the airport on it 

for increasing your family's wealth by $3-5 billion since the beginning of your second term

for selling telephones that do not exist

for lowering the price of prescription drugs

for removing access to affordable medical care for millions of Americans

for terminating support for the Ukrainians in their fight against Russian aggression

for tearing down the East Wing of the White House promising its replacement would be funded privately and then asking Congress for $1B

for painting the bottom of the Reflecting Pool blue

for trampling the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments

for reducing the Freedom of the Press 

for creating your own police force (ICE) which needs to cover their faces because they are not bound by the Constitution

for choosing to fund war over assistance to Americans

for hurting our farmers through tariffs and war

for making decisions that destroy natural resources

for the measles outbreak

for giving tax breaks to your billionaires

for taking food out of the mouths of children in the U.S. and around the world

for two new golden statues of you (I think there is a story in the Bible about a Golden Calf in Exodus 32) 

for destroying the Rose Garden

for getting rid of the penny (which is actually a good thing)

for blaming all of your problems on Biden 

for having the most ineffective cabinet in the history of the U.S. 

for not taking responsibility for the problems you have created in the U.S. and around the World

for making Americans less safe

for destroying relationships with our Allies

for America First (but last after the family makes a profit?) 

for trying to take Greenland

for threatening to make Canada our 51st State

for reducing the rights of women to have control over their bodies 

for releasing the Epstein files (or not) 

  Who knew there was so much to be thankful for? "Please sir, I want some more?"

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta