Letter To The Editor
Author: THOMAS A. BUDEWITZ
Editor:
I just finished reading Mr. Garwood's fictional version of the Trump presidency and feel compelled to offer a few comments. Let me be clear, I do not hate Donald Trump, but I cannot respect a man who has so little respect for his office and for the people who elected him. He has not, as Mr.Garwood claims, worked with corporations to lower prices. Instead, he bullies and threatens them if they choose to act contrary to his wishes. He started in his first term on his first day by threatening Boeing if it didn’t reduce the price of Air Force One, continued with threatening Amazon if it told us how much of its price increases would be due to his tariffs, Walmart if it went through with its announced price increases, and Apple if it did not build iphone factories in the U.S. even though it would cause iphone prices to double or more.
It is not because of his name that he is criticized, but because of his conduct.
His claimed support for blacks includes being sued for discriminatory rental practices and applauding the right wing marchers in Charlottesville chanting Nazi slogans.
Mr.Garwood says Trump has not sought money for rich Americans, ignoring the fact that he let the richest man in the world run the country for 90 days, firing government employees with a hatchet and eliminating government offices with a chainsaw without any regard to the merits of the employee or the value of the work being done. Even so, he was able to reduce government spending by a few hundred million dollars, far short of the two trillion he had promised.
Garwood also claims Trump has raised taxes for the wealthy. On the contrary, his “big, beautiful bill” would create additional tax breaks for the rich.
Trump is not “playing with the media.” He is playing with us. His Education Secretary thinks AI is a steak sauce. His billionaire Commerce Secretary told us that missing a Social Security check for a month is no big deal because his mother-in-law could do without hers. His Homeland Security Secretary proudly stood before a photographer in front of tattooed prisoners in El Salvador wearing a $50K Rolex. His immigration Czar openly defies the courts.
Trump promised in his campaign that he could end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office. If he truly believed that he was naive, if he didn’t believe it, he was lying. Either way, and four months into his second term, he has seemingly learned, as most of us have always known, that Vladimir Putin, as Trump said this weekend, “has gone crazy.”
He is a tax cheat who, having gone bankrupt six times, is now running the country into bankruptcy. He treats foreign leaders like he treats women, by ambushing and abusing them. He makes false accusations, supported by fake evidence, and doubles down when caught. The man simply does not know right from wrong, yet his supporters believe him because they say, ”He tells it like it is.” No, he lies when he would be better served by the truth.
Mr. Garwood, as is often said, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Sincerely,
Thomas Budewitz
Townsend, MT
