I Speak Life!

The title of this blog is interesting, because if you listen to the current Trump administration and many of his supporters from outside the administration, immigrants are coming over the border to infest our country.  Here is a very telling Tweet from our current President sent out yesterday: Trump Tweeted, "Democrats are the problem.  They don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13.  They can't win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters."  Before I break this tweet down, I want to say that as of my writing this blog, there have been 25.9 thousand Retweets of this Trump Tweet and 98.5 thousand people liked the post.  That is greatly concerning to me as an American. Let me unpack Trump's Tweet because it is full of some great material.  First, "Democrats are the problem."  Interesting that Democrats are the problem when they did...

As of April 28th, 2018, Donald Trump has told a total of 3001 Lies/Falsehoods.  I cannot call them all outright lies, because in some cases the misinformation may have come as a result of ignorance to subjects the President was talking about or simply a lack of vetting of the information being put out.  But one thing can be said for sure, and that is our current President, Donald Trump, has told lies on almost a daily basis since he took office, and on some days has told numerous lies.  I am writing this Blog today because it has been very hard for me to understand why Donald Trump still has a fairly sizable base of dedicated supporters.  I want to look back to before the election in 2016, back to when Donald was running against several Republicans, all of which were fighting for the Republican Nomination.  At that point Donald Trump was simply an afterthought.  The Republicans felt he would never be able to attain the Nomination and would simpl...