1000 Reasons to Keep Trump Out of the White House

Part 1: Weaponization of the U.S. Military

Nazi propaganda poster. Fascist regimes typically use the military as the dictator’s personal police force

This is the first in a series. It recently occurred to me that I could easily think of 1000 reasons why we should make sure Trump never gets back into the White House. The fact that he’s too unfit to possess the nuclear codes should be #1 on the list, but that didn’t seem to stop people in 2016, so this series will go into more depth and detail about why Trump is not just spectacularly unfit to be President again, but downright dangerous for our democracy and for the entire planet.

Last weekend, while President Biden was commemorating D-Day in Europe, Trump was giving a now widely lambasted and mocked rally in Nevada, where he 1) said he didn’t care if the extreme heat killed his supporters because “I just want your votes”; 2) whined about how his staff and the Secret Service cared more about the effects of the heat on the audience at the rally than him; and 3) spewed some weird gobbledygook about electric boats and sharks. (You can read the full transcript here. Contrast it to Biden’s speech, which was cogent, eloquent, and respectful of our troops.)

Now, people were confused about the shark story, but I kind of get what he was saying. So I find that story disturbing for different reasons than say, MSNBC pundits do. I think what Trump was getting at is that…