Only thing Trump's wall protects is his ego
By Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post
As The Wall dominated the week’s news, a pitiful juxtaposition of two realities — one the hard truth, the other a lie — emerged to clarify the destructiveness of the American president’s toxic narcissism.
Federal workers facing their first payday without a check were selling their possessions on social media so they could pay their bills. Donald Trump told NBC News correspondent Kelly O’Donnell that he can “relate” to the unpaid workers.
The president added: “And I’m sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. They always do. And they’ll make adjustments. People understand exactly what’s going on. Many of those people that won’t be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100 percent with what I’m doing.”
No, no, no and no.
That is, no, billionaires can’t relate to people dependent on their next paycheck, unless perhaps they became billionaires after first serving time in the middle class. Obviously, this isn’t Trump’s resume. Though he says he made a fortune, it surely helped to begin with a multimillion-dollar starter loan from dear ol’ dad.
And, no, people won’t make adjustments when they can’t. For the 4 out of 5 American workers who live paycheck to paycheck, there aren’t many ways to adjust.
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