The media is our citizens best friend because it is all the hard working journalists that keep us all informed on any subject anywhere especially from dangerous places that most of us would ever venture to. Donald Trump is a Dictator who criticizes our good press daily. In Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, Trump’s friends, in those places they don’t have a first Amendment. There is not any freedom of speech. There is not an independent press. The people of those places are only told what the government says they need to know and that is NOT necessarily the truth.
In those places they will abduct a journalist, put one in jail, and even kill them as we have seen very recently done to the body of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was dismembered after he was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He was barbarically murdered for simply telling the truth. We can’t allow this kind of attack on democracy to keep happening. If Trump aligns himself with Dictators and Communist countries what is America’s place in the world now? America’s place in the world historically has been to lead. Since World War II there has been a Liberal world order. America gave the world for 70 years now the economy, alliances, security and defense cooperation and moral leadership.
Now Trump is telling the world that America wants to retreat. He now is saying that we will be friends with you if you pay us back in something. He is treating America as something one can bargain with. That is NOT what we should be doing to our allies. In the past two years of the Trump Administration we have seen our allies being assaulted by him and his policies. Should we be beating up on our allies? How can we be a strong country if we don’t have alliances? How can we be a strong country without military bases all over the world? Trump’s foreign policy of alienation of our allies will change America drastically for the worse. Trump has No political experience and has never governed anything. He has NO knowledge even of our Constitution since he has never attended law school that dwells largely on understanding America’s most important document that defines what America is.
It is difficult to sing God Bless America when now we need God to help America considering all the changes Trump wants to do to this country daily. His narcissism has him giving himself self-praise no matter what and insults and degrades seasoned journalists as the creators of the term he created ’fake news” making up lies that journalists are “the enemy of the people.” Our journalists must be resilient and maintain their professionalism and not cave into his bullying. Freedom of speech must prevail. Integrity, morality and ethics must prevail.
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