‘Narcissistic, tyrant’
Dear Editor:
RE: Morally reprehensible, March 19.
I can understand how many would reflect the murder, atrocities and disregard for legal standards and human rights initiated by Donald Trump during the first year of his current United States presidency, to the horrible things done by the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei throughout his 39 years in power.
Aggression, as a general rule, only escalates over time.
My own personal caricature would have displayed Trump with the brush-over hairdo and toothbrush mustache of the Nazi leader responsible for the Second World War, Adolf Hitler. Both criminals, each staging a failed coup to seize control of the country, finally gaining leadership through continued demagoguery (rabble-rousing), and ultimately leading the world into chaos and war. That is the decay of democracy that Trump has brought to the United States and world.
As Hitler did, Trump gained ultimate support with claims of making the country strong again. Using his own discriminatory standards to shift the blame for the country’s financial situation to a select minority of the population, he began establishing a country-wide prejudice to allow for their oppression.
With the people now “conditioned” to overlook the action, he implements a policing force (to round up his undesirables) and actually justifies them to kill in their actions. He has deported thousands of immigrants to any country that would take them and detained many more in what, by today’s standards, would be concentration-camp conditions.
We can only hope he doesn’t escalate that to the level of Hitler’s “final solution” before the civilized people of the U.S. rein him in.
All through his current presidency Trump has worked to remove anyone in positions of authority throughout the United States that have ever shown political opposition to him, and placed only those that unquestionably support him in those positions.
To date he has created chaos throughout the world with attempted annexation of allied countries, illegal tariffs and military action for his conquest of other sovereign countries. Now he has started an illegal war against Iran, and is trying to convince allies to join the war.
It is certainly understandable how his narcissistic demeanor and disregard for democracy is reflecting the negative traits of many tyrants throughout history. Who knows what his agenda is next. I don’t think he knows himself; he makes up his mind from minute to minute it seems and has the military powers to force his will.
Ya, I can see some Ayatollah in him also.
Paul Dunnill,
Fergus