How can anyone love Trump?

How can anyone love Trump? He would illegally remove Palistinians from their properties that they own and displace them in other lands that already have problems with poverty for a big portion of their populations. He mocks disabled people, talks about grabbing “pussy”, puts his against her will up inside the vagina of a woman who he despises in a department store dressing room, had paid for sex during the time that his wife gave birth rather than show self-control, paid out bribery money, has thirty-some legal indictments against him, indicates that he cares not about iconic species going extinct if US corporations can get economic gains in the process, fawns over billionaires and so on (with a lot of horrid “so on”). 

Yet he is adored by those who see him as a welcome change from all of the corruption and financial atrocities going on in Washington, D.C. (Yes, SOME of his actions are positive and bring some modicum of constructive good given all of the graft and self-serving greed that underpins our federal and some state governments.)

All the same, much that he schemes and dreams up is undeniably hideous and certainly as corrupt (if not more so) as that of which he gets rid. (Am I lying in my pronouncements like the way that he provably and amply does since he’s an inveterate fabricator?)

So I wind up wondering about the way that the Trump lovers’ morality, ethics, sense of values, standards and principles are configured. Certainly, they are not like mine, which have an absolutist quality as there are no circumstances that I can see that makes saying something like this divisive statement or other wrongs undertaken all right:

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people” (Time Magazine 2015). 

This quote from Donald Trump has become typical of the President’s overview of most immigrants as being lazy criminals on the dole who want to sneak into the USA to get free housing, free medical care, free schools for their children, free food, free clothing, free overall care and more that benefits without any effort on their parts.

Based on evidence that I’ve seen in Massachusetts where I live, most immigrants, though, are hard working and dedicated to doing an excellent job in their work tasks like nursing, doctoring, housekeeping, doing the required repetitive tasks in kitchens of nursing homes and hospitals, serving as nurses’ aids, handling the laundry service in such locations, toiling at fast food restaurants and grocery stores, as well as taking jobs at other public places where I’ve run into them.

So, no, I can’t fawn over Trump. Instead, I worry about whatever he’s going to possibly do such as send lots of migrants to Guantanamo, cut Medicare and Social Security benefits, make more plans to drill more oil, ruin the natural world, etc. Certainly, he can do a lot of harm over the next four years in many areas of involvement while supposedly running the USA!

Sally Dugman lives in and writes from MA, USA.