What Trump is actually doing

Here’s a scenario I want you to think about.

We can all see how much our President is enamored by Russia’s President Putin. He also seems to have a fondness for China’s leader as well. So, why would the leader of the largest free country in the world have such fondness for a leader that is destroying a smaller country for what seems like giggles and a leader that is amassing as much power as the US? I’ll give you a hint. The same reason that President Trump ran for office three times: power. He doesn’t care about everyday people unless he’s trying to take their money to make himself richer.

Think about what he’s done the past almost two years.

He’s put out his own bitcoin. He started selling cell phones. He sells MAGA merch. He started his own “Truth Network” that spews more lies than truth. He tried to do his own live reports from the White House AFTER he decided that news organizations didn’t have the right to be there to ask questions.

He’s tried to take over the Kennedy Center. He decided that HE wanted a ballroom to impress world leaders. He doesn’t like the golf course in Washington, so he just decided to change it, even when the courts have said he can’t. He just does things anyway.

Our President has decimated the systems that are in place to keep the office from doing whatever it wants. He has basically made Congress a joke, because even when they pass legislation, he just writes an Executive Order to counteract it. Case in point, Congress passed a law putting sanctions on countries that do business with Russia, which two days before it was to go into effect, our President took it upon himself to buy diesel fuel from Russia and waive the law Congress passed.

He has said numerous times he wants Greenland and that he’ll get it one way or another. Do you know what kind of leader says something like that? A leader like Russia’s or China’s.

He keeps saying that Ukraine is at fault for the war with Russia. He falsely stated (according to BOTH Russia and Ukraine, who knew nothing about it) that there would be a stoppage of energy plants being destroyed by each side, only to have Russia continuously bomb Ukraine’s power plants, literally hours after his tweet.

He blames Ukraine for the shortage of diesel fuel, even though there was plenty of it before our President and Isreal’s President decided to bomb Iran. Now the whole world is going to hell because prices are soaring due to the Hormuz Strait basically being closed down.

He attacks the press. He’s been planting the seed that our elections are rigged for almost a year. My guess is that if the Republicans lose the House and Senate, he’ll be crying rigged and sending goons to every state he thinks did him wrong.

So, like any leader of a country that is, let’s call them what they are, a dictator, he blames everyone but himself for the situations that he himself created.

So, here’s the scenario I talked about in the first line: Our President wants power and money. He’s been working towards becoming the American Putin. He’s slowly taking away our rights and liberties. He’s taking away or taking over all the systems put in place 250 years ago that keep our country a democracy. He has a majority in the Supreme Court. He’s had his minions get rid of all the high-ranking officials in the FBI, Pentagon and the Military. He’s tried to silence the press that speaks against him.

To sum up, in my opinion, he wants a big three: the US, China and Russia to control everything around the world. And I don’t think he cares what he has to do to get what he wants.

Tim Marlow lives in Storm Lake.