If Donald Trump isn’t a disgrace,
then no office holder
in the United States can be labeled
as such.
He is either prejudice,
inept, or
thoughtless - or
all three.
The reign of Mr. Trump
has been one continual
deluge of malignant passions.
As president,
he has hardly
ever opened his lips, or
pecked his thumbs, without
threatening and denigrating.
The grand object
of his term has been to
aggravate the acrimony
between the contending parties,
spread falsehoods, and
destroy every public figure who speaks
against him.
Mr. Trump has labored, with tragic success,
to break up the bonds of social affection,
and under the ruins of confidence and camaraderie
to smother the faint and wavering light of happiness
that flickers through this dark and detestable absurdity of life.
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019 at 11:54 AM UTC
If Donald Trump isn’t a disgrace,
then no office holder
in the United States can be labeled
as such.
He is either prejudice,
inept, or
thoughtless - or
all three.
The reign of Mr. Trump
has been one continual
deluge of malignant passions.
As president,
he has hardly
ever opened his lips, or
pecked his thumbs, without
threatening and denigrating.
The grand object
of his term has been to
aggravate the acrimony
between the contending parties,
spread falsehoods, and
destroy every public figure who speaks
against him.
Mr. Trump has labored, with tragic success,
to break up the bonds of social affection,
and under the ruins of confidence and camaraderie
to smother the faint and wavering light of happiness
that flickers through this dark and detestable absurdity of life.
(h/t William Howard Taft, Stephen Doughty, James T. Callender)
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