We’re willing to destroy the reputation of one of the greatest colleges in the history of the world to make a point about the dangers of displeasing a wannabe dictator.
Donald Trump made and lost various fortunes as a hotelier. Hotels are heavily reliant on tourism, yet Trump is doing everything in his power to discourage it.
At its best, the United States is more than just the richest and most powerful country in the world. It was once a beacon of hope, a symbol of freedom, opportunity, and democracy.
That’s not true anymore. We no longer represent freedom, opportunity, or democracy. We’ve come to embody, instead, corruption, institutional and personal arrogance, racism, and intolerance.
People abroad have learned to dismiss Trump’s words as the seedy, self-aggrandizing delusions of a fantasist. The only upside to that is that people outside the United States, as well as people inside, understand that when Trump insists that under Biden’s despotic rule terrified citizens lived in fear of having their throats slit on the way to kitchen by one of millions of violent, insane illegal immigrants he’s flagrantly lying in a manner designed to inflate his ego and hurt his many enemies.
