12 JANUARY 18, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
EDITORIAL
This president doesn’t refl ect Queens
At this point, nobody should be
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shocked by the kind of damaging
words that come out of
the president’s mouth, or through his
Twitter account.
And yet, when he reportedly described
nations across the globe as
“s**thole countries” during a Cabinet
meeting last week, the remark stuck another
knife into the heart of every decent
American already sickened of his caustic,
destructive and dehumanizing rhetoric.
“I’m not a racist,” he said on Sunday
in responding to the furor. Sure, Mr.
President.
Every Queens resident should be
mortifi ed and ashamed. This borough,
a mosaic of diversity unlike any other
county in the world, is certainly not a
refl ection of this president — and this
president is certainly not a refl ection
of this borough.
We’re reminded once again of the
late poet Maya Angelou’s wise words
about fi rst impressions: “When someone
shows you who they are, believe
them the fi rst time.”
This president showed himself
as he is during that infamous press
conference in the building bearing
his name back in 2015, in which he
branded an entire nation as criminals
and rapists. That should have been
the end of his campaign, but it wasn’t.
What’s worse, others rationalized his
nonsense on the faint hope that, if he
became president, he’d undoubtedly
change.
The vast majority of Americans
rejected him, but it wasn’t enough to
prevent him from squeaking by in the
Electoral College vote.
Now, a year into his presidency,
and it’s quite obvious to any rational
person that there is no “presidential
Trump.” There is only this bombastic,
hate-fi lled person who seeks to divide
everyone by race and class; who lets
stereotypes define his view of the
nation and world; and who can’t be
trusted to do what is right and just in
order to “make America great again.”
(Truth be told, America has been great
since long before he showed up.)
Somehow, Kentucky Senator Rand
Paul sought to blame the president’s
Queens upbringing for his own intolerance.
On the Jan. 14 “Meet The
Press” episode, Paul claimed that the
president’s remarks were somehow
misinterpreted, and were really an
example of the president’s “Queens
saltiness” coming out rather than
full-blown racism.
It shouldn’t shock anyone that this
enabling yes-man pretending to be a
senator — too weak to stand up to the
president on something so obviously
wrong — twists himself every which
way to excuse this president’s behavior.
We may not be Kentucky residents,
but we believe our readers should
let Senator Paul know that Queens is
particularly “salty” when it comes to
weak, complicit politicians who refuse
to condemn hateful remarks for what
they are. Write a letter to his offi ce
at 167 Russell Senate Offi ce Building,
Washington, D.C., 20510, or call the
offi ce at 202-224-4343.
