BLOGWORDS – Monday 26 October 2020 – HEADLINE NEWS and CURRENT EVENTS – PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
HEADLINE NEWS and CURRENT EVENTS – PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
The time has come, and I must speak up…
I am making no comparisons, nor is this open for debate. I am sharing my thoughts and observations.
By the way, if I believed half the things that I see about Donald Trump I wouldn’t like him either! Call it what you will, the media does not portray the true man. If you don’t support our President, I encourage you to read my words, and consider the truth and value in them.
Is Donald Trump a perfect human? Well, no. Duh. (Who is?) Is he a polished politician? Nope, not that either. Does he know how to get the job done? Yup.
But more than that, I look at his character. Yes, I said his character. The one before he decided to run for President. Who, by the way, hasn’t changed since gaining that office.
A mega-successful gajillionaire, Donald Trump knows his stuff. And he knows people. He is good to the people around him. Yes, I said good.
Course, gruff, blunt—doesn’t change the kindness and integrity of his actions. He hasn’t accepted a penny of his Presidential salary, but donates every check to a charitable American institution or organization. Organizations that benefit the very people he is accused of persecuting.
Donald Trump won the Ellis Island Medal of Honor that he received in 1986 for “professional contributions” for New York City, which would include the inner cities of African Americans—and all other disadvantaged Americans living there.
Rosa Parks is said to have admired his work. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are said to have praised him for his work and contributions that improved the inner city.
Not the acts or behavior or character of a racist.
When Donald Trump bought Mar a Lago in 1985 it became his private residence for ten years. When he opened it as a private club (with a hefty membership fee) he accepted Jews and African Americans, something most other clubs in the area were not doing. Whether it was a business move or a crusade is irrelevant. But it IS further evidence that our President is neither racist nor anti-Semitic.
In an effort to sway my convictions about our President, a friend of mine who works for BMW lamented to me recently that Donald Trump is planning to close the plant. I assured her that cannot be true—it is contrary to everything he is doing to BUILD our economy in America. He is bringing jobs and manufacturing back TO the U.S. and to close one of the biggest manufacturers would go against that purpose.
The debacle of the wall along our southern border is contentious, rife with falsehoods and lies. Claims that President Trump doesn’t want immigrants in our country are absolutely not true. What he wants, what we all want, are LEGAL citizens. (And yes, his wife is a legal citizen.) Illegal drugs pouring into our country—into our inner cities—coming across the border. Children bought or abducted from their homes, brought here to be sold into sex trafficking.
Do they deserve a chance at a better life? A chance to escape from the poverty of their home countries and villages? Absolutely. But crossing the border illegally, accompanied by “coyotes” is not going to make that happen. In fact, it sends innocent children right into a life of hell on earth.
Our President is PRO-life, ANTI-abortion. The depths to which we as a nation have sunk, allowing the murder of unborn babies later and later, even to the moments AFTER birth is an abomination. And President Trump is fighting for their tiny lives. #myblog #mypost #mybeliefs #TRUTH
I’ve seen the photo of him at Ground Zero after the 9-11 attacks. That was two decades ago, people! And yet I find questions to his motive for being there, and even to the truth of what he did to help! Un-fricking-believable! The man loves his city and his country, and even if he didn’t climb in the rubble himself, he did send his own people—employees—in to help, on his own dime. What they did is irrelevant. Whether ten or a hundred or a thousand of his people doesn’t matter. He. Took. Action. He was in a position to help and he did. He still does.
I could go on, citing examples I’ve seen and heard. I’ll close with this article by Liz Crokin. Though I could not find a link to this particular article I did listen to a YouTube testimonial by Ms. Crokin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjUO80kLDeg
TRUMP DOES THE UNTHINKABLE
by Liz Crokin (June 2016)
“As an entertainment journalist, I’ve had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I’ve never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could’ve potentially sold a lot of magazines and would’ve been a huge feather in my cap.
Instead, I found that he doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugs, he’s a hardworking businessman. On top of that, he’s one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse.
Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he’s committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.
In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill’s family farm after her husband committed suicide. Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money. Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill’s pleas for help in news reports.
In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system. His grief-stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn’t hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.
In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families. However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.
In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire. Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help. All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife. A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read: We’ve paid off your mortgage.
In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach, Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks. Abraham Foxman, who as the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump put the light on Palm Beach not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. Foxman also noted that Trump’s charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and began admitting Jews and blacks.
In 2000, Maury Povich featured a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease on his show and Trump happened to be watching. Trump said the little girl’s story and positive attitude touched his heart. So he contacted Maury and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.
In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson’s family members were tragically murdered in Chicago , Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up at his Windy City hotel for free. In addition to that, Trump’s security took extra measures to ensure Hudson and her family members were safe during such a difficult time.
In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at the traffic below as he drove by. He stopped the bus, got out and put his arm around the woman and saved her life by convincing her to not jump. When Trump heard about this story, he sent the hero bus driver a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.
In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border. Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.
In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life. She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005. However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days, she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her she’s the bravest woman, I know. She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college.
Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, released a statement in 2016 defending her boss against accusations that he’s a racist and a bigot. She tearfully revealed how she’s struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years. Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.
Donald Trump’s kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race, and religion. When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.”
I close with this quote from a friend of mine, and my own words that I’ve shared in some form multiple times.
“Christians, I’m calling us out. We’ve been instructed to love, instructed to care, instructed to do so much more than what we are. I can’t imagine we’re doing anything, really, than causing Jesus grief.
Condemn the hatred. Condemn the violence. Love your neighbors as yourself. And love Jesus more, for God IS love.”
Once again I’m appalled at behavior of those who claim the label of Christian for their cause. Let me say it plainly, God does not hate, and He does not condone the violence displayed in recent months. (For those who would cite the Old Testament as filled with violence, let me just say that battles fought were defending against aggressive and brutal attacking armies.)
The New Testament is a New Covenant with God, marked by the life and death—and resurrection—of Jesus. Never did He attack those who disagreed with Him. Not once. In fact, Jesus remained silent when He was attacked by those who so despised Him.
No, Jesus loved those who came to Him. Not once did He turn one away. Not once did He attack, verbally or physically, those who cursed Him.
This is our example to live by. Jesus sets the bar. And there is no hatred in Him.
For those who don’t know Christ, don’t know His—my—standard, let me make it plain:
THE ACTIONS OF RIOTERS AND WHITE (or any other) SUPREMACISTS ARE NOT THE ACTIONS OF CHRIST.
They DO NOT represent the Church, or Christianity in any way, shape, or form.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if a person does not love his brother, whom he has seen, then he cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 1 John 4:20
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