Did You Watch His United Nations Speech?

by Gary Hooser

Don’t just take my word for it. PLEASE take the time to watch the entire speech – it’s online @ CSPAN, of course.

Watch it, and make up your own mind.

See, hear, and judge for yourself the totally embarrassing spectacle of President Donald J. Trump making a complete ass out of himself, and all of us.

Words cannot adequately describe his pompous, sneering arrogance.

It’s so bad.

It’s gag me with a spoon, throw up, walk away, throw a brick through the television, bad.

And it’s not just his style and delivery that’s bad, it’s EVERYTHING.

He directly and repeatedly insults everyone in the room and the sovereign nations they represent. He essentially refers to the United Nations delegates in the auditorium as incompetent idiots undeserving of even being in the same room as himself.

He pours lavish praise and adulation upon himself and makes it clear that no other president or prime minister on the planet even comes close to matching his skill and success as a truly great leader.

He spouts fictitious facts after fictitious facts and then piles on gross exaggerations from the imaginary world that he lives in.

Again, don’t just take my word for it. Please watch, listen, and make up your own mind.

This man, the President of the United States of America, is clearly drunk on power, AND he is mentally unstable.

The damage to American foundational institutions as a direct result of Trump’s actions during these past nine months — and indeed, to the lives of people around the planet — is nothing short of criminal.

He’s ordering arrests, deportations, incarcerations, and killings – without due process, trial, or conviction.

He bludgeons and bullies those who dare challenge him, using political, monetary, and legal retribution to threaten, coerce, and silence.

Meanwhile, he, his family, and his enablers are laughing all the way to the bank, reaping the benefits of insider government contracts and international corporate cronyism.

We have a Mad King setting in the Oval Office.

As the commander-in-chief of the largest military power and nuclear arsenal in the world, he is without question the most powerful person in the world — and he knows it.

The Constitutional “checks and balances” of an elected Congress and independent Judiciary have, to this point, been an ineffective sideshow.

So what can we do?

Active physical disruption is what the Mad King is hoping for. He will respond, of course, by calling out the troops and National Guard to even MORE towns and cities.

In the days and weeks ahead, people will be gathering throughout the islands and across the continent to express their outrage and opposition. Some will hold signs along the highway; others will be marching; and inevitably, in some cities and towns, there will be disruption.

My hope is people will gather in strength and in large numbers — but always in a nonviolent and legal manner.

Another action that is effective, nonviolent, and easy to implement from the comfort of home is the focused economic disruption via boycotts of his billionaire enablers.

Case in point: Just FIVE days after the Disney/Hulu boycott began, Jimmy Kimmel was back at work.

At the end of the day, I always return to the maxim that has guided me for decades: Think globally and act locally.

We must prepare here at home for the storm that is coming.

We must gas up the cars, buy the toilet paper and batteries and canned goods, and check on our elderly neighbors who live alone down the road.

And we MUST keep calling our elected officials at all levels — to demand that they wake up, and take proactive actions to push back and protect us from our own federal government.

PLEASE watch that U.N. speech, then take action and make those calls.

GARY HOOSER is a former Hawaiʻi State Senator and Majority Leader.