Trump’s early moves before secaond term don’t impress

Maybe we’re a little confused and hellbent on having it our way but too many of us only listen to or read what we want to believe and we’re willing to believe any conman who tells us what we want to hear. Then we’re going to be big time disappointed and furious when the conman doesn’t deliver as promised.

As a matter of fact what you have heard and what will happen are already turning into what won’t happen, and the conman is not even in office yet. A good example of that is, we’re not going to conduct mass deportations. We found out that many of those immigrants are more skilled, smarter, and better motivated to improve their lives, and more valuable to this country than many politicians are.

Another example, Greenland or the Panama Canal are not going to be part of the U.S. Canada says it not only won’t become our 51st state but at the rate we’re going we might become Canada’s 11th province or its fourth territory, depending on what’s left of us in four years. As for the conman’s first picks to help him run this country, ex-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz won’t be our attorney general because a little investigation found that he’s fond of paying for sex with those he’s nor married to. Why does that sound familiar?

The conman-in-chief, as if you hadn’t already guessed, is of course the one and only Donald Trump. If we’re lucky some of his picks may actually know how to do their job, but we’re not off to a very good start.

Don Curtis

Stanwood

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