Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
President Donald Trump has spent much of the last week raging at the judiciary and at the media. This would be cool if he was actually trying to accomplish something worthwhile; in reality, the president is merely throwing a temper tantrum at not being allowed to behave like a dictator and enact his dumb ideas with impunity, in this case, his dumb idea to ban immigration of Muslims from certain countries.
Last Friday, federal judge James Robart blocked several aspects of Trump’s “Muslim Travel Ban,” and the State Department has said it will follow the judge’s orders. This, according to Trump, has resulted in Muslim refugees “pouring into” the country since Friday as well as led the president to rip the federal judge via Twitter.
“The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” the leader of the free world Tweeted on the morning of February 4. “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!,” he added noonish the following day.
Further irritating Trump is the fact the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined the administration’s request to immediately overturn Robart’s ruling on Sunday morning. The travel ban was one of the foundations of Trump’s presidential campaign and he refuses to believe the plan, like him, doesn’t enjoy widespread popularity among the American public.
A recent poll CNN/ORC poll found 53 percent of American adults oppose the travel ban, to 47 percent in favor. A CBS poll found 51 percent of American adults are against Trump’s executive order and a Gallup poll put the unfavorable rating of it at 55 percent. The poll results were the topic of the panel discussion on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” which Trump was apparently watching given the timing of this Tweet.
“Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting,” Tweeted the Commander-in-Chief of the largest and most sophisticated conventional and nuclear arsenal ever amassed in the history of human civilization at 7:01 a.m. Monday.
“I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” the nation’s chief law enforcement official Tweeted just six minutes later.
As he does with the “problem” of Mexican immigration, Trump approaches the “problem” of Muslims immigrating to the US from the wrong direction. You solve the southern border “problem” by ending the war on drugs; very simple. Guess what the equally very simple solution is to solving the Muslim immigration “problem?” Yep, end the war on terror.
Terrorists don’t hate us for our freedom, as we’ve been told by the propaganda ministers since 2001. Osama bin Laden hated the US for deploying troops to the “holy” land, Saudi Arabia, in the first Gulf War – this was after bin Laden and his mujahedeen fighters had been used by the CIA to disrupt the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan for nearly a decade during the 1980s. Then, for some reason, the US goes back in 2003 and topples the regime of Saddam Hussein. Into that chaotic power vacuum stepped ISIS. In response to the rise of ISIS, President Barack Obama opened up more theatres in the “War on Terror” and brought murder to the shores of new, sovereign nations. In short, Muslim “terrorists” have a very good reason to hate Americans; we’ve been murdering their friends and family in their own countries for 15 years now. The ones willing to go through any official channel to get here aren’t the ones we need to worry about; those are the folks who want to come here and make a better life for themselves, America’s murderous foreign policy notwithstanding.
The ones who really want to get in and do us harm are going to come in under the radar; or, more likely, under Trump’s stupid wall on the southern border.
The good news is that a slim majority of Americans are more lucid than the president. The bad news is that the president refuses to believe this is the case and dismisses all evidence to that effect as “fake news.”
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