The question we must all address is:

What does it take for a president of the United States to create and post an AI-generated video of himself wearing an imperial crown and dumping massive amounts of feces from a “King Trump” jet onto No Kings protesters marching below?

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It takes a president who has no respect for his constituents, whether they voted for him or not.

It takes a president who has no respect for the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, assembly, and the right to redress grievances.

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It takes a president who believes he is above the people and above the law.

It takes a president who has absolutely no moral compass.

Quite frankly, it takes a president who has something terribly wrong in the head.

Donald Trump’s latest video serves as a metaphor for how he treats people not only in the United States but also in other countries. He sh*ts on people when:

·  He removes the human right to quality healthcare and places people at increased risk for severe injury and disease, causing them to live a greatly reduced quality of life and perhaps have an early death. This also includes ending subsidized health insurance, closing scientific research and grants, circulating false scientific theories, and recommending crank health cures.

· He removes the human right to nutritious food by reducing food programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for low-income individuals and families, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) for pregnant women and young children, and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) for seniors. And when he goes after programs that provide reduced or free services, including the National School Lunch Program.

· He removes funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has provided aid to the world’s poorest countries for education, global health, nutrition, environmental protection, and democratic governance.

· He promotes the increasing militarization of U.S. cities, when his I.C.E. masked goon squads racially profile, arrest, and deport anyone suspected of entering the U.S. without documentation, and when his administration targets those who oppose its agenda by imposing contrived criminal charges for the purpose of silencing all criticism.

· He controls media outlets, law firms, and institutions of higher education by dictating what can be said, who qualifies as deserving legal representation, what can be discussed, how it must be taught, and which institutions deserve financial grants to conduct research.

· He attempts to end “birthright citizenship,” which goes against the Constitution’s right to citizenship status for anyone born in the United States or in any of its territories, including U.S. military bases internationally.

· He ends the concept of “free trade” with trading partners around the world by imposing large and often unreasonable tariffs on foreign goods.

· He publicly humiliates international leaders inside and outside the White House when they disagree with his dictatorial mandates.

· He “drills baby drills” by increasing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels, reducing or eliminating research and funding for renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, moves that will increase the already alarming global climate change rate, thus placing all living things at increased risk for extermination.

· He dismantles federal agencies and shrinks the government by firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers, thereby reducing governmental services, including vital safety net programs for vulnerable people. This also includes replacing civil service employees with presidential appointees and placing federal agencies under direct presidential control.

· He expands and consolidates executive power in line with the “unitary executive theory,” which distorts the so-called “balance of powers” between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches/

· He and his party suppress voting rights and free and fair elections through massive gerrymandering throughout the United States, infusing enormous amounts of funding into certain political candidates, waging unfair propaganda campaigns against candidates opposing his administration, and seeking to control secretaries of state who determine election results.

· He ends Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs for the federal government, private businesses, and public schools, and when he bans books, courses, and other curricular materials that fit under the DEI umbrella.

·  He opposes LGBTQ+ rights and legal protections, and especially when he villainizes transgender people and so-called “gender ideology.”

·  He helps facilitate the elimination of all legal abortions and restrict access to abortion medications and works to criminalize healthcare workers who perform abortions, even when the mother’s life is in jeopardy

· He officially or unofficially declares the United States of America as a patriarchal heteronationalist Christian supremacist nation.

For anyone who states, “I never do politics,” you must understand that politics always does you.

If you have not already been dumped upon by this aerial crapper, your bodily mucking is certainly on the horizon.

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