First State of the Union address, Congressional Black Caucus members called for impeachment proceedings to begin against the controversial POTUS. In a 355-66 vote for Trump’s removal from office, CBC members led by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), vowed to protest the SOTU with several making the decision not to attend the address. So as Trump took the podium on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday night, the stark contrasts between the current administration and that of his predecessor loomed over the crowd assembled at the House of Representatives like a tempest ready to unleash its fury on everyone and everything in its wake. And not one founding member of the CBC was in the room to hear him. The legendary and highly respected statesman from Georgia, Congressman John Lewis is one who boycotted the president’s address to the nation. “In good conscience, I cannot and will not sit there and listen at him as he gives the State of the Union address,” said Lewis. Both Black Americans in the room and those gathered in protest at venues around the nation, were particularly apprehensive about this president’s tendency to cause division and incite
violence in an increasingly unstable political landscape. Weeks after Donald Trump called Haiti, El Salvador and the continent of Africa “shithole countries” during a meeting on immigration with members of Congress in the Oval Office, blacks, Latinos, Muslims and a host of other minority populations are taking inventory of life in the U.S. and the president’s promise of making “America great again.” A review of the president’s accomplishments during his turbulent yearlong tenure (feels so much longer), underscores his contempt for Americans not among the one percenters and a strong propensity to trod on the U.S. constitution and the rule of law. Under accomplishments, he’s managed to insult just about everybody in the world with his Stalinesque approach to destroy burgeoning and long-standing relationships with allies in his dangerously haphazard quest for world domination. In the Foreign Affairs and National Security arena … Under Trump, America has retreated from its global and moral leadership roles, alienated its democratic allies, and abandoned the bipartisan defense of liberal ideals that did make America great. The country is more isolated, less respected and ultimately less safe
under President Trump’s leadership. He continues to draw the ire of international friends and foe and appears to be hell bent on creating conflict with world leaders. Think United Kingdom, North Korea, Russia, the Middle East and even Canada. And although Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on the environment, was not as much a foreign affairs issue or even an environment issue as much as it was part of his master plan to eliminate Obama-era environmental policies in a push to erase the Obama legacy. (That detrimental and ill-guided decision, ironically was followed by a series of climate-related disasters in the United States, from devastating hurricanes to wildfires. On Healthcare … Trump’s most recent signs of his devolving since of caring for Americans in need, (or even pretending to care) is his recent signing of an executive order – after numerous attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act failed he ignored the mandate of the people and many in his own party – to repeal the Affordable Care Act – which to date has not happened. Trump has even gone so far in his paranoia regarding popular Obama-era policies that he signed an executive order giving the Interior Department the power to alter or abolish some na
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