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Historians will reflect on Donald Trump as a morally, mentally and criminally corrupt President of the United States who - in an autocratic action that was 
symbolic to moves made by Adolf Hitler - gassed innocent Americans while they exercised their First Amendment constitutional right of free speech to peacefully protest. No laws were broken by the participants when they demonstrated outside The White House on Monday, June 1st, 2020. Nevertheless, Trump was prepared to order his equally corrupt cronies to use military force to attack law abiding U.S. citizens as they voiced their views about racism and racial injustice in our country following the brutally ruthless murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
Trump and his spineless deputies, including the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, four-star General Mark Milley, (wearing his combat fatigue uniform as if he was going to war) - both, along with others in the Trump administration, who bizarrely bow down and worship Trump - then took that infamous walk to St. John's Episcopal Church, one block away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, for the most repugnant photo op ever choreographed by an American President. It was a vulgar visual, as Trump - with a bible in his hands - recklessly exhibited the holy scriptures, as if it was a theatrical prop, to lend an air of religious legitimacy to his base, especially the evangelicals who - for whatever their reasons - continue to revere him.
Trump claims his jaunt to the church was to crush press accounts - first reported by The New York Times, but later confirmed by other media outlets - that he was sheltered on Friday, May 29th in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (the PEOC), which is a security bunker beneath The White House. Reliable sources say Trump was raving mad and fuming that anyone would think that he escaped the executive mansion and went hiding underground.
It, therefore, confounds and confuses the credible conscience how any American can defend Trump and justify his barbaric behavior. Trump brings aches and anguish to our country as he infects our wounds instead of applying antiseptic.
In broad daylight on a Minneapolis street, witnesses recorded videos and shot still photographs of the 46-year old Floyd being killed. He was handcuffed and pinned to the ground. The deadly chokehold asphyxiated Floyd, which also led to a lack of blood flowing to his brain. The horrifying images were immediately shared on social media outlets, and the posts quickly went viral throughout America and around the world, which resulted in an inundation of infuriation.
So whatever happened to the alleged twenty-dollar bill that was supposedly counterfeit and that cost George Floyd his life? Was it really "funny money?" Where is that bill today? Minnesota law states that if a person is convicted for knowingly using counterfeit cash that is less than $1,000, the highest penalty is up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $3,000. One man is dead and four other lives are destroyed because of a lousy twenty-dollar bill that may or may not be fake. Minneapolis officials are remaining mum as to the location of the bill in question, as there are investigations underway and lawsuits that will undoubtedly be filed.
After being fired from his job by the Minneapolis Police Department, the now-former Officer Chauvin was initially charged on Friday, May 29th with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But that wasn't enough. Protests, which began shortly after Floyd died, escalated throughout Minnesota and, over the course of more than a week, across America.
"We got all 4!" - a chant by protesters - is only a start. Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, but the four cops must be convicted for justice to be served.
Racism must stop in America and Donald Trump needs to put the brakes on inciting violence. In an after-midnight statement, late Thursday night, May 28th in to Friday morning, May 29th, with fires burning and protesters demonstrating in Minneapolis and in other cities across America, Trump provoked mayhem when he spewed venomous, incendiary words in a tweet. "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Any difficulty and we will assume control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts." Such rash rhetoric, at this time, makes Trump the one who is acting like a "THUG." 
Donald Trump was warned multiple times, including no fewer than three times (probably more) from at least two of his own advisers (and perhaps others that we're not even aware of) who told him that the coronavirus was coming and that it could possibly kill millions of Americans. Now, there is a mountain of dead, our economy is in the toilet, and we are all paying the price. It didn't have to be this way. It didn't have to be so bad if Trump had only gotten off his high horse and listened to others. But Trump doesn't care what anyone else thinks. He never does. And he doesn't care about anyone else but himself.
Anyone who voted for Trump in 2016 and continues to support him is totally out of touch with reality. It is beyond baffling to think that anyone in his or her right mind could endorse a man like Trump who is tantamount to an arsonist. Day after day, Trump lights more and more matches and flicks them into the blazes that are burning down our homeland with racial injustice and a dangerous virus. Many of the same people who voted for Trump four years ago are today unemployed.
Economists' crystal balls turned out to be somewhat cloudy with unemployment predictions for May as the financial fortune tellers had envisioned a 20 percent jobless rate. But surprisingly, the sun came out; albeit just a peek. According to the U.S. Department of Labor on Friday, June 5th, the rate, in reality, improved by 1.4 percent and, as a result, Donald Trump is wearing his White House cheerleader's uniform, complete with pom-poms, because 2.5-million Americans reportedly went back on the job last month. However, there are still 21-million people in the United States who are not receiving a paycheck. Since mid-March - when the national emergency was declared because of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic - more than one-quarter of the U.S. work force (42.6-million people) had filed for unemployment benefits.
America's economy is not coming back like a "rocketship" as Trump wants people to believe. Bankruptcies rose 48 percent in May. Trump can take his victory lap and celebrate with his continued falsehoods that we had the "greatest economy in the world" before the pandemic, and with his lies that come October and November life will be "spectacular," but he's being ever so premature. With the hundreds of thousands of people protesting for two weeks, and with a lack of social distancing and many not wearing masks, health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expect a major spike in coronavirus cases and deaths later in June and throughout the summer. Who knows if protesters are even washing their hands or using hand sanitizers? So Trump can vow all day long that he's not going to close the country again, but governors - especially those who are Democrats - will protect their residents by shutting down their states, and economic numbers will sink deeper and deeper. All we see now are people temporarily returning to work. It's not going to get better, but much worse, before it does get better in 2021. And that's only if a vaccine is approved by the Federal Drug Administration and the coronavirus makes it exit.
Meanwhile, the now 13.3 percent unemployment rate - an adjustment in the right direction from 14.7 percent in April - is still quite a bit higher than the worst days of The Great Recession. And the jobs report numbers remain horrendous for African-Americans and Latinos. Therefore, economic equality is still in the cellar. The Labor Department says unemployment for black Americans is 16.8 percent, which is the highest rate for that demographic in a decade. The jobless rate for Latino workers is at 17.6 percent. These are disgraceful statistics and should not be the data in 2020 America. Of course none of these numbers would bother a racist and white supremacist, which Donald Trump has proven that's what he is, time and time again.
I have to imagine that Trump has been irate since Friday, June 5th by the words BLACK LIVES MATTER that were painted in giant, yellow letters on the local thoroughfare to The White House. Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the artwork, along with "The section of 16th Street in front of The White House is now officially 'Black Lives Matter Plaza,'" Bowser tweeted. Bowser, a Democrat, and Trump have butted heads of late. The DC mayor's altercation with Trump is over The Oval Office occupant's response to the protests in the nation's capital and other cities throughout the United States. The large letters span the width of the two-lane avenue and stretch across 16th Street Northwest for two blocks between H and K Streets. The roadway mural ends just before St. John's Episcopal Church, and the lamppost in front of the church is adorned with a green street sign, which ceremoniously identifies the area as Black Lives Matter Plaza. 
department and diverted those funds in to the piggy banks of social services, which would include programs that benefit the people for community safety and justice. With George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky - both being killed recently by police when there was no cause or justification to do so, plus after two cops in Buffalo, New York were caught on video shoving a 75-year old man to the ground, protesters are "mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore;" (to borrow and paraphrase a line performed by star Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Paddy Chayefsky's classic motion picture, Network).
It was shortly after midnight on March 13th when three Louisville Metro Police officers broke down the door of Breonna Taylor's apartment and shot her eight times. The cops had a "no-knock" warrant, which allowed them to enter the home without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers. A confrontation ensued and the unarmed Taylor - an African-American woman who was a Louisville EMT - was killed. Police officials say their officers only fired their weapons after Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot and wounded one of the cops in the leg. The officer is expected to fully recover from his injury. Although Walker is licensed to carry a gun, he was arrested. But the charge of attempted murder of a police officer was later dismissed. The 27-year old Walker told authorities that he feared for his life and only pulled the trigger in self-defense, as he thought a criminal element was breaking into the apartment, and he had no 
idea the intruders were cops. Police were investigating two men on suspicion of selling drugs out of a house near the 26-year old Taylor's home. They also suspected that one of the men used Taylor's apartment to receive packages. However, there were no drugs found in the Taylor/Walker dwelling. Taylor's mother has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, which states police "proceeded to spray gunfire into the residence with a total disregard for the value of human life." There is no video available of the raid as police were apparently not using body cameras. No charges against the police have been filed in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor. The FBI is now investigating the shooting, and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has temporarily suspended all "no-knock" warrants. 
Meanwhile, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced sweeping police reform legislation on Monday, June 8th, which would focus on holding law enforcement officers accountable for any misconduct. The bill would provide a blueprint for widespread transparency. The measure is led by the Congressional Black Caucus, and includes reforms to make it easier for police officers to be prosecuted in civil court for misconduct. The legislation already has more than 200 co-sponsors in both the House and the U.S. Senate.
In Washington, DC and the surrounding area, people marched for miles in support of legislation to condemn the lack of equality for African-Americans. Black protesters often chanted "Hands up, don't shoot." No American - no matter the color of their skin - should ever be afraid that they will be shot by a police officer. But white folks don't generally have such a thought on their minds. However, many white protesters - such as the ones in the photo to the right in Seattle, Washington - raised their hands as a sign of brotherhood and sisterhood for their black companions. Meanwhile, a new poll by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal shows that 80 percent of Americans feel that things are out of control in the United States. And a CNN/SSRS poll indicates Donald Trump's approval rating may soon crash as it has tumbled to a pathetic 38 percent.America is being pummeled by three wicked diseases; a trilogy of viruses. COVID-19 is new, thus the CDC, the World Health Organization and other health officials had initially tagged it "the novel coronavirus." To date, it has infected 2,011,503 Americans who have been sick, along with 112,576 who have died from the coronavirus since mid-February, less than four months ago, according to data compiled by Worldometer. Global totals have topped more than 7.1-million cases with over 407,000 deaths. But the virus of racism and racial injustice has infected our society since before the Pilgrims made their historic voyage on The Mayflower in 1620. Finally, there's Donald Trump; a virus that has festered with sores of racism, incompetence, corruption, deceit, negligence, narcissism and authoritarianism for a very long time.
Before President Obama was elected for his second term in 2012, Trump - in an April 7th, 2011 NBC News interview - went on and on with his bogus claim that Mr. Obama "may not have been born in this country." Trump told the then co-anchor of the Today show, Meredith Vieira, that "Right now I have some real doubts." Trump echoed his thoughts even harder that America is not President Obama's birthplace by insisting that "it's a real possibility." It wasn't until September 16th, 2016 - as the Republican nominee for President - when Trump finally conceded that "President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period." But that was a political statement. Why should I - or anyone else - believe Trump? After all, he lies about everything, and so he likely still feels that the U.S.A. is not where Mr. Obama was born. After he's out of office, don't be shocked if Trump writes a book and resumes his claim in public speeches and on television that President Obama's true birthplace was not the United States.
Trump's racism and bigotry goes beyond his attacks on President Obama. It was shocking to me that "Trump the entertainer" could turn in to such a nefarious and heinous monster who, in 2018, would arrest migrant families that were begging for a safe haven in the United States. They were escaping the peril and poverty of their homelands of Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras. So to watch mothers and fathers being imprisoned, and separated from their babies and other children who were also locked up in cages, made me nauseous.The following is just a sampling of some other examples of Trump's racism over the years.
When announcing his candidacy on June 16th, 2015, Trump harshly criticized our neighbors to the south. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."
Trump, at a 2016 campaign rally, called a member of Black Lives Matter "obnoxious" because he was protesting Trump. But Trump also encouraged violence against the protester when he told the crowd, "Maybe he should have been roughed up."
A former Miss Universe beauty queen was the recipient of Trump's vile verbiage when he nicknamed Alicia Machado with the derogatory title, "Miss Piggy" after she gained a few pounds. Trump also branded the 1996 pageant winner, "Miss Housekeeping" because of her Venezuelan ethnicity. Trump's bigotry implied that all Latina women are maids. Trump, at the time, was the owner of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants.
In a CNN interview, Trump accused U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel of treating him "very unfairly" with "horrible rulings" because - as Trump told anchor Jake Tapper in June 2016 - "This judge is of Mexican heritage." Trump repeatedly degraded Curiel because of his family's ethnic background. "I'm building a wall, okay? I'm building a wall. We're building a wall between here
and Mexico." Trump tried to belittle and discredit the federal judge for the Southern District of California by claiming he could not be impartial in a class-action lawsuit against the now-defunct Trump University. Trump was adamant that Curiel is "a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He's a hater." Trump told Tapper that Curiel is "a member of a society, where, you know, very pro-Mexico," and because "he's a Mexican." No! False! Untrue! Judge Curiel is not a Mexican. He's an American. He was born in Indiana, and he grew up and went to school, college and law school in "The Hoosier State." (Another footnote: as we all know, Donald Trump has never built - what I have always referred to as - his "wall of hate." And he never will).During a January 2018 meeting with U.S. senators that included Republicans and Democrats, Trump targeted the Caribbean country of Haiti and nations in Africa as "all those shithole countries," and that we shouldn't want immigrants from there. Trump noted a desire to welcome people from "Norway" where skin color isn't black, but as white as the driven snow.
"Just recently, I happened to be in a supermarket, shopping, had a mask on, people really couldn't see who I was. I was cleaning off my shopping cart and a woman saw me cleaning; cleaning off the shopping cart, and motioned to me as if I was cleaning the cart for her. And I simply said to her, in a rather indignant voice, 'I'm cleaning this cart for me.' It was a white female. Now the point here is that we suffer these indignities everyday, all the time, and I think we're at a point where people are saying they're sick and tired of being sick and tired."
America is being tortured and is throbbing in heart-wrenching agony, which wounds the very soul of our nation. The bloodbath of racial injustice has violated the lives of men and women of color long before our country was created and our Founding Fathers attained freedom from England's King George III. More than 400 years ago in 1619, slaves were first brought to the soil we now call the United States. White Europeans - seeking to colonize in "The New World" - abducted black Africans from the continent's western coast and forcibly transported them to the shores that later would become a land where supposedly "all men are created equal." But distressfully, everyone wasn't treated equally then, and everyone isn't treated equally today.
With the U.S. Civil War in to its second year of blood-soaked battles, and with tens of thousands of dead soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln, on January 1st, 1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared that "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free." (One more footnote: The Civil War began on April 12th, 1861 and ended on May 13th, 1865. When all was said and done, more than 850,000 Americans - from the North and from the South - had been killed).
Nearly one-hundred years had gone by after the final battle of The Civil War when The Civil Rights Act of 1964 put a stop to segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The measure was formally proposed to Congress on June 19th, 1963 by President John F. Kennedy. But there were stumbling blocks. The legislation wasn't agreed to by both Houses of Congress until after President Kennedy's death. President Lyndon B. Johnson was able to push the bill forward, and seven-and-a-half months after JFK's November 22nd, 1963 assassination, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed in to law by LBJ on July 2nd, 1964. Later, Congress passed additional civil rights legislation that President Johnson also signed in to law, which included the Voting Rights Act of 1965.It's been just about 56 years since The Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law and more than 147 years - nearly a century-and-a-half - since the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet racism and racial injustice in the United States remains, and does so in a manner that is repulsive, atrocious and nightmarish. We can no longer deprive anyone - whether their skin color is black, brown, yellow, red or white - of equal liberties and freedoms that the U.S. Constitution provides for all people who make America their home. We can never return to a time of racial segregation and lynch mobs.
As the words explain in the graphic on the photo to the right, Labrador Retrievers come in a variety of colors. They are loved and treated equally no matter what they look like. Labs don't fight each other because of the differences in their color. Can't we all learn to live like Labrador Retrievers and be colorblind? Can't we all get along with each other and not care about the color of a person's skin? Everyone needs to remember that we all bleed the same color. We all cry the same tears. Skin color should never matter. We are all part of the human race. Let's act like it before there are more senseless killings in America. We can be better. We need to be better. We must be better to survive. After all, each of us is supposed to be "equal" to the other. If dogs have the smarts to figure that out, shouldn't we? Donald Trump continues to divide instead of unify our country. On Saturday, May 30th, Trump took a tour through "Twitterland" as he applauded Secret Service agents and threatened protesters who had been demonstrating outside the presidential mansion the night before. "Great job last night at The White House by the U.S. Secret Service. They were not only totally professional, but very cool." But Trump continued with a more sinister tweet about the protesters. "(N)obody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That's when people would have been really badly hurt, at least." It's unconscionable behavior for Trump to order tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets to be used by U.S. Park Police.
Trump - on Monday, June 1st - wanted to go to war against protesters. But even the notion of a command, to send the Army and the Marines (or any other branch of the Armed Forces) in to U.S. cities to control the protests, caused much constitutional and congressional controversy; not only by Democrats, but by state governors and others, and by many of Trump's own advisers who opposed such a directive. Trump in his own words: "If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them."
Trump thinks he employs military personnel and federal law enforcement officers as if they were pieces on a game board. But he can't, by law, move those individuals around - as he pleases - for political purposes. To self-identify himself as "your President of law and order" - which he did prior to his walk across Lafayette Square to St. John's Episcopal Church - is contradictory to the havoc that he creates by his fascist actions.
Trump has admittedly confessed a desire to be dictator of the United States. Allow me to refresh your memories. On June 15th, 2018, Trump - with a serious tone - told Steve Doocy of Fox News that he wants Americans to treat him as North Koreans do Kim Jong-un. "He's the head of a country, and I mean, he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think different. He 
speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same." Republicans wanted to spin it that Trump was joking. It is not at all funny for the President of the United States to jest that he wants to be dictator. Thomas Jefferson - before becoming President, but when writing the U.S. Declaration of Independence - labeled King George "a tyrant." Although Donald Trump thinks he is a king, or a monarch, he is not. But Trump IS a tyrant.The President of the United States should be the glue that brings our nation together, but Trump glorifies inflammatory scenes. He delights in divisiveness and savors it. It's perversely orgasmic for him.
Will Republicans in Congress, in the Cabinet, and others in Donald Trump's orbit ever step up and punish this lawless President? Or are they going to continue to elevate Trump on - what I have called in numerous columns in the past - his "Pedestal of Profanity and Perversion?" Republicans need to finally put country over Trump. He has escalated the chaos in our country with much turbulence. I pray that the United States can survive until November 3rd when voters need to elect Joe Biden. I further pray that our nation can survive until January 20th, 2021 when I hope the now-former Vice President Biden will become our 46th President. We need a President who knows how to be President. Donald Trump - nearly four years in - still has no clue. November 3rd and January 20th can't come soon enough. I believe we will make it, and our democracy will withstand any toxicity. After all, we are the United States. We are Americans. God help us all.
"This is an awful man, waving a book he hasn't read, in front of a church he doesn't attend, invoking laws he doesn't understand, against fellow Americans he sees as enemies, wielding a military he dodged serving, to protect power he gained via accepting foreign interference, exploiting fear and anger he loves to stoke, after failing to address a pandemic he was warned about, and building it all on a bed of constant lies and childish inanity." The above is a statement by The Reverend Robert Hendrickson, Rector at Saint Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church, Tucson, Arizona. The preceding remarks couldn't be articulated any better.
Fearfully and disturbingly, George Floyd will not be the last African-American to be unjustifiably slaughtered by a police officer. There will be trials, but there should be convictions of all four of the now-former white cops who had a hand - or a knee - in the murder of Floyd. With those hopeful convictions - perhaps even now - police officers across America will think twice before they use excessive, uncivilized, unreasonable and illegal force on any individual, of any race, of any religion, of any ethnicity, of any sexual orientation, or of any other difference than that of the officer.
For the 2012 motion picture, End of Watch, producer, director and screenwriter David Ayer wrote for star and executive producer Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Officer Brian Taylor, "Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed. I think. I love. And yes, I can be killed. And although I'm but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me. And I them. We stand watch together."We all know that all police officers are not bad. But as with everything in life, there is some bad with the good. According to the latest data compiled by the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, there are more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers currently serving in the United States. There are other unconfirmed studies that increase that figure to approximately one-million cops who protect and serve us everyday. Each one pins on a badge - or a shield - holsters a gun, and knows that on any given day they might fire that weapon. They also are quite aware that someone could shoot a bullet at them. We will not be safe without the heroes of our police departments across America. But we need to clean house. We, the people, in tandem with our politicians and the police themselves, need to come together in peace as a unified force so that we can all live in harmony. Participation across the board is essential by every city and town throughout our country. Civilian citizens have the right to contribute and be a vital asset in policing our police. From the top brass, down through the rank and file, the bad ones have got to go. There can be no exceptions. There can be no second chances; not when people's lives are at stake. And the good? They need to be thanked. They need to be praised. They need to be respected.
And that's The Controversy for today.
I'm Gary B. Duglin.
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