Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: Trump Plays Tinpot Dictator Instead of President

August 28, 2020

President Trump in the Colonnade (The White House)

By Thom Hartmann

The first job of a president is to be the president for all Americans. To bring people together. Like Lincoln talked about in the Gettysburg address, to bind our wounds and heal us.

Donald Trump not only did not do that, but he went out of his way to tear us apart, to pit one American against another, and inflame people like the 17-year-old Trump-humper who killed two people in Kenosha.

And he did it all on our property. The White House belongs to the people, not to Donald Trump or the Republican party. He, and every government official who was in that audience, violated both a civil and a criminal law.

Last night, the White House was a crime scene. And it must be punished.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.