Trump Sees Himself as More Like a King than President. Here’s Why

Letter: Are we to abandon ideals upon which the Constitution rests?

To the editor, President Trump is trying to run the United States as a business, with himself as the top executive with full powers. However, the United States is not a business. Our Constitution outlines a government in which the protections of freedom and the rights of the people are of first importance. Warren Burger, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in his forward to the Bicentennial Keepsake Edition of the U.S. Constitution, " Why…

Trump Is Changing the World (Whether You Like Him or Not)

In the olden days, the world was run on a feudal system.  There were a handful of mostly inter-related nobles who lived in palaces, wore fancy clothes, and ate sumptuous food.  They were served by a large class of serfs who did th...

Trump doesn't think of himself as the president

The American Revolution was a result of the tyranny experienced by colonists under the British monarchy. Many Americans had fled from Europe where they had been persecuted under the rule of powerful monarchs. The government produced by the revolution was designed to ensure no such tyranny could be reproduced in the newly formed United States. The framers of the constitution created a checks-and-balances system of government to ensure that no sin…

Trump sees himself as more like a king than president. Here’s why

The American Revolution was a result of the tyranny experienced by colonists under the British monarchy. Many Americans had fled from Europe where they had been persecuted under the rule of powerful monarchs. The government produced by the revolution was designed to ensure no such tyranny could be reproduced in the newly formed United States. The framers of the constitution created a checks-and-balances system of government to ensure that no sin…