#racist #unfit #impeach #sad

Friday was a big night for racism, intolerance and sheer stupidity. President Donald Trump showed up in Alabama ostensively to support senatorial candidate Luther Strange but managed to fire up the assembled crowd around nearly everything but the Alabama Senate contest.

The Trump highlight reel included floating the concept that NFL owners, 100% of whom are white, should fire any player, 66% of whom are black, that takes a knee during the national anthem. It was a not so veiled reference to the protest around racial inequality started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick who Trump didn't mention by name. Instead the presidential dotard referred to any player expressing their 1st amendment right as a "son of a bitch." In contrast to his characterization of Nazis exercising their same rights as "very fine people", the statements pretty well define this President's stance on race. To put it in terms he can understand, #racist #unfit #sad

Trump then continued on a rant lamenting penalties for excessive hits in football and advocated for a harder hitting game. Trump was oblivious to the mounting evidence of the game's impact (pun intended) on brain disease, and specifically, this week's report that former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez suffered from severe C.T.E. (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) at the time of his death at age twenty seven. #sad

Demonstrating further obliviousness, Trump warned that North Korea could explode a "massive weapon" over the Pacific Ocean, resulting in "tremendous, tremendous calamity where the plume goes." Then he told everyone not to worry about that but offered no plan as to how he would diffuse the escalating situation or prevent Kim Jong-un from detonating such a device. Since Friday, Trump continued to tweet insults toward North Korea's leader recklessly provoking a situation that has nuclear consequences. #unfit

Also since Friday, Trump has pursued his war of words with the NFL sending out a series of tweets attacking players and owners supportive of the right to protest during the anthem. It's an embarrassing exchange of rhetoric that puts the man with a sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution on the side of curtailing the the very rights that document guarantees. A violation of the Presidential oath is grounds for removal from office. #unfit #impeach

Trump's ire unleashed on Twitter and at his showboating rallies (some which cost taxpayers nearly half a million dollars) is not only set against the backdrop of a potential North Korean nuclear confrontation but also a humanitarian tragedy unfolding in the wake of hurricane Maria on the island of Puerto Rico. U.S. citizens are at risk of death on the island territory as Puerto Rico remains without power and is running low on food and water. Trump's last tweet directed toward those in jeopardy was four days ago. The administration did approve a disaster declaration earlier this week but the President is noticeably absent from expressing support or concern for Puerto Rico's predominantly hispanic population. #racist #sad

The expectation of the 2016 election was that the United States chose it's new leader. Agree or disagree with the partisan politics of the chosen candidate, competent leadership during the President's tenure is a bi-partisan expectation. Donald Trump is not competent. He is a President, ill equipped to lead, uncomfortable with acting Presidential, and incapable of empathy or inclusion. He is merely a C-list celebrity occupying the White House, a man at home in front of a pandering crowd of deplorables, delivering grandiose, inflammatory, and mostly false statements to make himself look "big" in their eyes. # unfit # impeach #sad

Trump has failed to show the mettle of a leader with any challenge his presidency has faced from racial unrest to natural disasters. Nothing to date has been able to draw his attention away from the trivial.  A mushroom cloud is too high a price to pay.  #racist #unfit #impeach #sad