I Want It Known That I Condemn Donald Trump

​      Let them call me a pearl-clutching liberal snowflake. Let them snicker that I'm suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Let them lob at me every sling, arrow, jeer, sneer, burn and verbal dig in the MAGA quiver. I don't care, I want it known that I condemn Donald Trump. I want it out there on the internet from where, it's said, nothing ever truly disappears. I want anyone who looks now or in the future to see that I am part of the anti-Trump resistance.
​       Not that I've likely done anything that qualifies as resistance, other than  campaigning for Trump's opponents, voting against him and the Republican party, the soul of which  he now owns, writing my blog, occasionally writing a letter to my senators, occasionally attending a demonstration,

​...carrying a whistle, believing what I believe, and helping those who believe as I do to keep the faith, just as they help me to.

      And in truth, I know that it doesn't even make any sense in this country - at this point, at least - to talk about an anti-Trump resistance movement, since - at this point, at least - we live in a democracy and are free to elect our leaders, so that our leaders represent the will of the majority of the people - at this point, at least - even if I'm not among the majority who put Donald Trump into office. 
        In other words, Trump was elected President fairly and squarely by the American people. Donald Trump is what the majority of Americans wanted. And, for all I know, continue to want.
         But I don't. 
         I want it known that I am against what Donald Trump has done to our country, how he has turned it into his own personal kingdom for him to rule as he pleases, for his own profit, pleasure, gratification, and vengeance; to rule selfishly, unjustly, cruelly, without regard for our Constitution, our rule of law, our cherished traditions and institutions, our freedoms, our well-being, our healthcare, without morality or human decency.
          I want it known that I condemn Donald Trump for unleashing on cities whose leaders and populace displease him a  cruel  army of ICE agents, drunk on their own power, stripped of their souls and humanity and who subsequently take sadistic pleasure, while dressed as Terminator cyborgs, in terrorizing  immigrants and citizens alike.

​      (I want it known that I condemn Donald Trump for making me afraid to write these words even though I know they'll only be read by a very small number of people. Because in the United States of America today, in spite of our constitutional freedoms of speech and of the press,  anyone, no matter how obscure, needs to be afraid of speaking out against Donald Trump). 
​      I want it known that I condemn Donald Trump for the havoc he's wreaked on our international relationships and our standing in the world.
       Like the Biblical rich man in fine clothes who feasted while refusing to share even crumbs with sick and starving Lazarus, Donald Trump has cut off food and healthcare aid from our country, the richest on the planet, to our suffering brothers and sisters in the poorest countries.

       Donald Trump has turned our best friends and allies into enemies and embraced the world's worst tyrants, murderers, and aggressors.

      I condemn Trump's  piracy in the Caribbean and his invasion of Venezuela in order to steal that country's oil. I condemn his threats against Cuba, Mexico, Columbia, Gaza, and Canada.
       But today, January 19, 2026, what I most of all condemn is Donald Trump's lust to own Greenland.

      Because this lust of his is about to get us into a war, either a trade war or, God forbid, a real war. Trump has already declared a trade war to begin on February 1 in the form of 10% tariffs on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland if he is not handed over Greenland by then. Europe is already planning retaliation in the form of an extremely destructive economic weapon called their Trade Bazooka - developed to use against China or Russia - which would essentially cut off all meaningful trade with the United States. Who would have thought that it would be not China or Russia, but us that would be the aggressor nation that would bring Europe to the brink of the unthinkable?
         But it's us, the United States of America, that has Greenlanders shivering in fear and likely the rest of Europe, too. And for that matter, me, too. I'm afraid, because I believe that if Donald Trump fires the first volley in an economic war against Europe that degenerates into a real war,  there will come a day of reckoning for our country when the rest of the world will band together against us to stop American aggression, and to this end those who were once our good allies will bring the war to our shores.
          And I believe if that terrible day should arrive, the day the rest of the world comes after us to pay for Donald Trump's transgressions, then, unlike in the Bible, the wheat won't be separated from the chaff, but we'll all burn together, whether we were for or against Donald Trump.
        We'll all suffer, just as all the Germans suffered, whether they supported or condemned Adolph Hitler, when Hitler's Reich finally crumbled under Allied bombs and armies.
         Still, today I want it known where I stand.

​References
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/business/europe-greenland-trump-tariffs-trade

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-news-01-19-26