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("The Black Eyes in Trump's Life")
A black eye to a teacher. A bad newspaper boy. A childish stunt with a fellow student. Errors by underlings on housing requests. Allegations of sexual improprieties. Three marriages. I can hear the Trump supporters right now saying "is that the best you've got?"
But I would suggest it is not in the litany of what Mr. Trump has done wrong, but what he has not done right over his 70 years that should speak volumes. Where, with all this money and power, did Mr. Trump put it to good use? What charities has he supported with significant monies from his own pocket? What journeys has he made to help those in need? What are the list not of his bad works, but of his good ones?
For the heart of this small, petty, virulent man lies not in what he has accomplished but what he has failed to accomplish. Not in his towers,in his casinos, in his golf courses, but in the hospitals that do not bear his name, in the streets he has not walked comforting those whose life has made a turn for the worse, in the days and nights, the years and the decades he has not devoted to using his fame and wealth to benefit anyone but himself.
The tragedy and travesty that is Donald Trump should be centered not on his myriad mistakes but rather on the absence of anything positive that would make his life one worth admiring.
("The Black Eyes in Trump's Life")
A black eye to a teacher. A bad newspaper boy. A childish stunt with a fellow student. Errors by underlings on housing requests. Allegations of sexual improprieties. Three marriages. I can hear the Trump supporters right now saying "is that the best you've got?"
But I would suggest it is not in the litany of what Mr. Trump has done wrong, but what he has not done right over his 70 years that should speak volumes. Where, with all this money and power, did Mr. Trump put it to good use? What charities has he supported with significant monies from his own pocket? What journeys has he made to help those in need? What are the list not of his bad works, but of his good ones?
For the heart of this small, petty, virulent man lies not in what he has accomplished but what he has failed to accomplish. Not in his towers,in his casinos, in his golf courses, but in the hospitals that do not bear his name, in the streets he has not walked comforting those whose life has made a turn for the worse, in the days and nights, the years and the decades he has not devoted to using his fame and wealth to benefit anyone but himself.
The tragedy and travesty that is Donald Trump should be centered not on his myriad mistakes but rather on the absence of anything positive that would make his life one worth admiring.
3 comments:
Very true.
M
Please send this on to the Clinton campaign. If they don't make a TV commercial out of these thoughts, then at least she should really start talking about them.
As usual so well said!!
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