Category: Trump
Bearing Witness to Trump For the Last Time We Hope
Finally, the last week of Bearing Witness to Trump, I hope, at least while he is in office. I am completely exhausted after 48 months and 208 weeks of chronicling how the dysfunctions of this one man infected all those around him and the… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump For the Last Time We Hope”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 January 10-16, 2021
A week ago President Trump, the leader of the executive branch, provoked an attack by his rabid supporters on the legislative branch and the US Capitol Building. This led to a riotous mob desecrating the Capitol and halting proceedings of Congress to certify the… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 January 10-16, 2021”
Bearing Witness to Trump January 20 2021
Today on the hopeful and joyful inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, along with the departure of now former president and twice-impeached Donald Trump, I recall and honor this quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “When I despair, I remember that… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump January 20 2021”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 January 3-9, 2021
We only had five days in the new year to hope 2021 might be far better than last year, but we should know otherwise with Trump still in the White House. Where does one begin after a week like last? One which will go… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 January 3-9, 2021”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 Dec. 27 – Jan. 2
The countdown in a return to reality and sanity continues with only two weeks left. But we live in constant fear for what might happen next. In a desperate act that is unbelievable, even when we thought he could not do anything worse than… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 Dec. 27 – Jan. 2”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 December 20-26
The countdown in a return to reality and sanity continues; now only three weeks left having to chronicle the Trump lunacy week after week after week. We no longer expect Trump to graciously, or even ungraciously, concede his election loss. We don’t expect him… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 48 December 20-26”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 47 December 13-19
Countdown to reality and sanity: now only four weeks left in the Trump presidency…and my having to chronicle chaos of the Trump presidency every week. And what a week it was between street violence by Trump supporters, the electoral college, the first COVID vaccines… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 47 December 13-19”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 47 December 6-12
Countdown to reality and sanity: now only five weeks left in the Trump presidency! (Sorry the following reads like a broken record, but blame Trump not this blogger of history.) And six weeks after the election, did President Trump finally concede his loss? No,… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 47 December 6-12”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 47 December 1-5
Countdown to sanity: only six weeks left in the Trump presidency! And five weeks after the election, did President Trump finally concede his loss this week? Of course not. Did Republicans in Congress acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden? Of course not. They are showing Americans… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 47 December 1-5”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 46 November 22-30
Countdown to sanity: only seven weeks left in the Trump presidency! Yet another week goes by where Trump still does not concede the election. He tweets almost daily like a deranged madman who “can’t accept the results of an election with hundreds of thousands… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 46 November 22-30”
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