Turning Off the Trump Show
Turn off the Trump Show
Okay, people, it’s time to say “You’re fired” to President Donald Trump. Yes, we did elect him and we need to protect the right to elect someone else now and that does mean protecting the right of every eligible person to vote!
The Trump show in Washington, D.C. needs to end. Too many people have died. Too many people are in detention camps. To many people are refugees. Too many people are not having basic needs met, too many nations are alienated from the States, and we are alienated from each other, and legislation to limit voting rights is in motion. Among other things. The facts are clear. Donald Trump is running the country the way he ran businesses… into the ground. When one failed, he left the debris behind and started another one. And still he seems to rise. It is all very dramatic. Trump seems to think that he is still on TV and rhose around him are a cast of characters groomed for entertainment. It is past time to wake up.
Waking up means opening our eyes and taking an honest look at what is happening around us and to us and to others. It means waking up from sleep and what has become a nightmare. It means taking off those big things you can wear on your eyes that entertain you with an alternate reality. It means holding our elected official accountable for facing real life and their responsibilities.
This is not entertainment or an alternate reality we are in; this is real life, matters of real life and death are before our nation. The wealthy and entitled thrive while the majority struggle.
I confess that I have often been watching our current government function as if I were watching a show or living in a video game. It is so insane, so soap opera-ish that it can’t be real. The characters in charge are too “over-the-top” to be actual human beings engaged in life-affecting and -altering work. They are all like aged Barbie and Ken dolls playing parts. This perception was confirmed when Hegseth barred the press from covering him because he didn’t like the images of him that were coming through their camera lenses. Control the screen shots. It also seems that he thinks that a disfigured leader in Iran is synonymous with dysfunctional. The head of the “greatest and most lethal military in the world” thinks it is about appearance.
I have to shake myself awake. Stop it. Stop watching as if government is a show. Your life and the life of next generations is at stake. The bottom line is not high prices, though they matter for most of us. Hello, Democrats and Republicans, the real problem is that we are ruining people’s lives, that we are killing people. The real problem is that we think some people don’t count. The real problem is that we are destroying the planet. The real problem is that we have lost our minds, our ethics, and are in danger of losing our souls. Not to mention our democracy.
Real human beings matter. All human beings. Especially in this electronic AI age. If truth be told, the elite billionaires who are creating monopolies and systems of control depend on ordinary people for their existence and the future. There are more of us than of them. We can stand up and be counted. And the fact is, even billionaires are just human and all that entails.
If you believe in God, how can you not believe that God is a force for life to whom all life is sacred and whose Presence will outlive rulers, billionaires, empires, and well, all of us.
My need to make myself wake up from the reality TV pseudo-reality show has diminished since the Iran war and the killing in Lebanon. A line has been crossed that cleared my mind. Everything is very real. I want be done with drama because it has become frightening and dangerous. It is time to work for and embrace life. Let’s be honest about who the Trumps, Netanyahus, Putins, Ayatollahs, Epsteins, (add your favorite corrupt and criminal operator to the list) really are. Eventually, we are all their victims.
Let’s take back our world. Not violently. Peacefully, by just recognizing that we are living real lives and there are multitudes of us and we are going to keep on keeping on. Every one of us and of “them” whoever they are, matters. We are not part of a reality TV drama. We all work and play and live in relationships that we care about deeply on this amazingly real material world. A world which I see as infused with the breath of the Spirit who is on our side. We are flesh and blood and spirit. I live in hope.
Who knows, maybe Donald T. Trump and some of his cronies, or beneficiaries would like to get off the merry-go-round they are on before they reach life’s end, and be real people who know how to love and be loved and contribute to their own healing and the the healing of our nation and world.
April 2026 PBK