Our founding fathers rolled in their graves last week after America’s mad-king president and his toadying number two trampled the nation’s highest ideals during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The bullying attacks by President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on the heroic leader of an embattled democracy were nothing less than a despicable tantrum. Rather than thank Ukraine for its courageous defense of freedom, Trump and Vance soiled our soil by favoring dictators of the ilk that our founding fathers revolted against.
The world watched, stunned and gobsmacked that the very America that has embraced freedom for generations today has leaders who showed active opposition to the values of liberty that Ukrainians are fighting and dying to keep.
Trump and Vance’s behavior was simply disgraceful, a betrayal of American values. Their blustering display made many Americans, us included, ashamed – ashamed of this unbelievable departure from truth, justice, freedom and the much-vaunted American Way.
Trump and Vance caused immeasurable global damage to America, making it far less in the eyes of free people who fight tyranny. For this, we apologize.
But the world should know that Trump and Vance don’t represent the vast majority of Americans whose relatives sacrificed in wars from the founding of the country to today.
America can do better. America will do better. Now is the time for Congress and the courts to stand up and shut down the dangerous nonsense coming from this White House. Now is the time for peaceful protest against the defiling of our most sacred values. Now is the time for America to be America again.
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