President Trump is an incredible force for good, in my opinion. I’ve watched him troll the Left while he does amazing things for our country. He’s been shot at too many times to count, and yet still gets up there without being in a bullet-proof bubble (probably to the upset of his security team). He’s not afraid to tell it how it is, in plain language that anyone can understand. He’s blunt as a brick (which is good and bad in turns, but the end result is, imo, good).
Mister Trump is something different. Mister Trump puts himself and his brand ahead of the well-being of the country. He thinks of himself first, and the United States second. He gets bored or frustrated or angry at having to follow rules he doesn’t like, and attempts to skip the line using his prestige, name, and influence. He’s always been like this, and it was not my problem when he was a private citizen. But right now, he’s doing it while in office, and he’s muddying the waters. NOW it’s my problem. And yours.
I have stated, and will continue to state, that I support President Trump. I have largely liked his policies, supported the platform he ran on, and find him to be an effective President. But there are moments when he seems to stop being Pres. Trump, and goes back to being Mr. Trump… except he can’t do that while he’s in office. It doesn’t work. It’s not a regular job, where he can go home at night and take off the mask and just be Don the dad and husband. Being President is a 24/7 job, and you NEVER get to truly step away from it. And that’s no secret; everyone knows it, going into the job. So I don’t appreciate those moments when Mr. Trump outshines or pushes aside my President.
The most recent version of this is Freedom 250 versus America 250. Freedom 250 was created by Trump and friends in 2025, to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. But America 250 was created in 2016 by a bipartisan group, to do the same thing. And now they’re clashing, very publicly. Technically, America 250 should be working with Trump and Freedom 250, but there are issues. A large part of those issues is that Trump touched it, and Orange Man Bad, so people want nothing to do with it. But part of it is that Trump has sort of sidled around the edge of America 250 (which was put in place before Trump’s first term, and so isn’t specifically a “fuck Trump” organization) and done things without coordinating with the group that’s supposed to be in charge.
Freedom 250 got a bunch of musicians to agree to play on the Mall in DC, who then backed out because Trump touched it. This has become a huge embarrassment for the country, in my opinion. There should have been contracts signed that precluded such things. And this is one reason why Trump’s backdoor handling of this has been less than perfect. If it had been done through the America 250 people, there would have been no option (nor an excuse, if we’re going to be honest) for people to back out of America’s birthday party.
The other side of this, is that many of us are planning a birthday party for our country while simultaneously fighting off folks who keep saying they’d rather be anywhere but here and that they hate America. It’s like having a bunch of those grumpy aunts who always show up to say bad shit at your mom’s birthday party. Who invited these folks, you want to ask. The problem is, they’re family (citizens), whether we like them or not, and so we can’t just kick them out. I don’t want Aunt Karen at my celebration, but I am going to have to put up with her and her whinging, because it’s what we do.
I need President Trump to keep doing what he’s doing. I need him to keep taking the heat and distracting the goons so that the government can get things done. It’s something he’s really good at. I need him to keep cleaning up cities, fixing national monuments, and dealing with the drug, alcohol, and mental health issues that are plaguing our cities. I need him to remember DOGE and get that cracking again. I don’t need to see reimbursement checks; I need to see him paying down our national debt. I need our men and women in uniform back home. I know he’s working on all these things and more, and I support what he’s done so far, and even how he’s done it.
But I also need Mister Trump to stop bouncing up and interfering. Every time Mr. Trump comes in, Pres. Trump has to leave, because they can’t co-exist. Until Pres. Trump is done with this job, Mr. Trump *must* take a back seat, and stay out of the way. Most of the checks and balances on our government are there for really good reasons, and if he busts them up, others will do so as well. I need him to stop giving the Dems ideas and ammo.
A little more info for you.
It takes years to plan something of this magnitude. Trump saw the America 250 commission hadn’t done much other than sit on their butts for 10 years and hobnob with globalists for sponsorship money. So, he recommended one of his guys to the commission. He got hired. Then Charlie Kirk got shot.
Rosie Rios allegedly fired him for “misconduct.”
From the NYT:
“A former Fox News producer and veteran of Mr. Trump’s first White House, Mr. Abergel was hired by the commission this spring on Mr. Trump’s recommendation.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Abergel said he had been suspended just hours after posting a tribute to Charlie Kirk on the commission’s official Instagram account. The post, written the day after Mr. Kirk was killed, showed a picture of the conservative activist with the caption: ‘America is in mourning. God bless Charlie Kirk.’
Mr. Abergel called the allegations of misconduct ‘malicious lies,’ and criticized the commission’s chair, Rosie Rios, who was appointed by President Biden after serving as a top Treasury official in the Obama administration.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15124475/trump-250-birthday-boss-ariel-abergel-fired-charlie-kirk.html
Well stated and spot on!
We have to deal with ego, unfortunately. Big egos want to be President, little egos may want that as well, but will never make it. I want me President to have a gigantic ego. They should think they are the best ever. (With some realistic adult level reservations.) I want my NFL quarterbacks and head coaches to think the same way. Hell, I want my airline pilot to have the same mental mindset. They are the best, none better. With a healthy dose of adult level reality built in to ensure they don’t screw up.
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One thing I have noticed though. When a Democrat President is in office, conservative artists perform at public events sponsored by that President. Liberal artists though…If there is a Republican President, somehow refusing to participate is patriotic for whatever reason. That is as big, if not a bigger issue than Trump creating this Freedom 250 group in direct competition with the America 250 group. Does it really matter that Trump initiated one celebration? It shouldn’t.
One thing I have noticed though. When a Democrat President is in office, conservative artists perform at public events sponsored by that President. Liberal artists though…If there is a Republican President, somehow refusing to participate is patriotic for whatever reason.
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I’ve noticed that, too. I think the difference is that conservatives recognize THE President, while liberals only recognize “MY/OUR” President. (We saw this in Trump’s first term, with the liberals all posting with the “
#NotMyPresident” hashtag.) Legally, both are legitimate and wield Constitutional authority, but while conservatives respect both, a plurality — if not a majority — of liberals just … don’t..
I didn’t like Joe Biden and didn’t vote for him. But if I had done something impressive enough to be invited by him to the White House or the State of the Union address, you can be damned sure I’d have gone. It’s a big enough deal to be invited to an event by THE President him/herself that, barring some kind of actual emergency, I would be there. Would I rather be invited by a President that I happen to support? Sure. But in this country we have a tradition of respecting the office, not the person sitting in it, just like in the military, one salutes the rank, not the person wearing it.
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But we don’t tend to see that kind of respect for the office from a sizable part of the modern Left; they respect the office only when it’s held by someone they personally support.
Even moreso, when Biden was in office, I was not happy because I felt he was doing a bad job. My response to that was to hope and wish and pray that he WOULD do a good job, and that he’d get out of office before he did any more damage. At no point did I ever wish him dead, or harm of any kind. In fact, I was overly concerned that he was being treated abusively (elder abuse) by the people in charge of him… and as someone who helped when her grandparents were suffering from dementia, that was not something I’d have faked. My concern and upset was very real.