OPINION:
A recurring question from the media lately is, What is Trump trying to accomplish? To best answer, think of President Trump as a war president, much like Franklin D. Roosevelt.
During World War II, Congress acceded almost total policy-making power to Roosevelt because congressional leaders knew that Congress was so divided, it would never be able to come to a majority consensus on major war decisions. Can you imagine them debating whether to drop the atomic bomb?
Trump believes that Congress just gets in the way while we are at war — not with our major enemies, but with the world. Trump is using “soft” power such as tariffs, sanctions and sarcasm (i.e., calling North Korea’s Kim Jong-un “little rocket man”). Just look at how Colombia folded with regard to accepting their deported citizens after Trump threatened sanctions.
I am not a Trump fan. I strongly believe he is a narcissistic megalomaniac with sociopathic tendencies. His usurpation of congressional responsibilities is likely to bring us to the precipice of Armageddon, in which legal and judicial norms are no longer applicable.
What is happening today is why our Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment.
BILL KLEIN
Springfield, Illinois
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