The following are four words that were spoken by President Trump on March 9, 2016, during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “I think Islam hates us.”
Today, May 20, 2017, the same man who said “I think Islam hates us” is in Saudia Arabia, a country with a majority Muslim population. And although he has not officially recanted his statements from over a year ago, it seems that he is pretending that they never occurred.
If nothing else is learned from the current president of the United States, at least it can be said that he taught his people how to be shameless in the face of the pinnacle of shame itself.
President Trump must be a man bereft of all that it takes to be ashamed as he also signed an executive order on January 27, 2017, banning all Syrian and Muslim refugees from entering the United States. This executive order was commonly referred to as “the Muslim ban.” During his trip, Trump has implied that he intends to discuss tolerance with Saudia Arabia’s leaders, and how to tackle radical extremism. This is undoubtedly a very sharp turn from his long history of anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Seeing as how the specter of impeachment looms over him in the States it is interesting that President Trump would dare to even travel overseas as if he was the dignitary of one of the (formerly) most powerful countries in the world. As it seems that large portions of the country (and perhaps some of his cabinet) are against him as of present, logically it would be assumed that he would be trying to gain supporters, not lose anymore.
But it is all a question of what you deem to be worse on President Trump’s behalf. Is it his firing the man that was intending to investigate his connection to Russian interference in the election? Or is it pretending to reserve no enmity towards the inhabitants of Saudia Arabia even after virulently insulting mass quantities of its population for over two years on a national platform?
If nothing else is learned from the current president of the United States, at least it can be said that he taught his people how to be shameless in the face of the pinnacle of shame itself.
