After seven months in office President Trump is still the tainted President (this writer called the shot early on) who brought his corrupted moral business persona to the White House. The latest sad example is the trumpet man's statement in Alabama that sports figures who protest are SOB's. That is the type of example the trumpet man loves our children to be exposed to.
When your job approval rating is poor, you go to a state like Alabama that covers your base and make such a statement to gain attention. It serves the trumpet man's ego and hopefully takes the people's mind off his failures. But the malignancy in the White House continues to grow along with the unstable behavior of the trumpet man. The divisive speech in Alabama shared the same divisive theme earlier in the week before the United Nations in New York. Make no mistake, the trumpet man is no friend to the American flag. Early in his administration his wife had to remind him to put his hand over his heart when the National Anthem was being played.
America the beautiful, that the President can not even vision has lived through and survived the protest of our nation's wars and flag for over 200 years and our people are still moral, sane and patriotic. And during war and peace the nation still has those men and women who are proud to have worn the uniform of their country. Let me ask this question. If one protest against a war, does that mean he is also protesting against the flag? Both are related because you go to war for your country and take the American flag with you.
If the answer is yes, does that mean protesters are SOB's like the trumpet man says? And if you believe yes, then does that mean protesters who dodged the draft or used other excuses not to serve their country or the flag SOB's. This writer does not think so and those who use that term to describe protesters, especially the President reveal their own lack of morals and respect for others and the flag.
Those who protest police brutality, real or alleged by kneeling during the national anthem follows a pattern seen many times before over a long period of time and the American flag still flies proudly. The U.S. Constitution works and those who want to condemn protesters in public have the means to do so because of that same freedom of speech. That is what freedom is all about. When taken to the extreme it becomes divisive and unfortunately that is what some people are really all about. The trumpet man used the issue to distract from the trouble he is in.
The only cure for the trumpet man's disrespect for the Presidency in using the kind of language he uses is impeachment. It is a sad situation when the highest elected office in the land does not deserve respect because of his own disrespectful behavior towards others.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
