About the same time this Orange Clown was getting a podiatrist to retouch an x-ray of someone else's metatarsal (of which-foot-he-can't-remember) I was answering a draft notice in L.A. and marking my packet "Volunteer Marines," though by then I'd lost faith in the value of the Vietnam effort to the U.S.
That wasn't particularly brave; thousands of guys didn't wait to be drafted, but turned out to put their lives on the line because their country said they were needed, and that's what guys in the post-WW II generation were expected to do.
Now this character who, as a private citizen, proved too cowardly to walk the streets of Manhattan without bodyguards, claims refugees from Central America who seek asylum here are using a "big, fat con" when they say they fear for their lives back home.
Clearly either the refugees are lying or Trump is.
If Trump's the honest party, he should be eager to prove it by spending a night on the streets of a Honduran city without bodyguards. That's not a problem if these places are as safe as Trump claims. No one would think it a big deal to spend a night on the streets of Oslo or Bergen, in the country from which Trump says he wishes immigrants to the U.S. came.
Too big a risk for a U.S. president? Abe Lincoln exposed himself to Confederate sharpshooters at Fort Stevens (11 July 1864) to share his troops' hazard and prove himself worthy to lead them. An officer standing near him on the parapet was wounded. Surely Trump's not more valuable than Honest Abe!
If Trump refuses this offer to either apologize to the refugees for "misspeaking" or proving them liars by putting his body on the line, he should be followed wherever he goes by a giant Honduran chicken.
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