How Embarrassing!

Yesterday Nikki Haley, our ambassador to the United Nations addressed the body with, essentially, a threat!  128 nations of the world expressed their displeasure and condemnation of the ‘decree’ by Donald Trump that as far as the US is concerned, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.  It is their sovereign right to express criticism and opinion.  After all, that is what the UN is all about, right? 

So what do Trump and Haley do?

The two of them, in the name of the United States of America, tell the world that we will remember their vote and it will help determine whether we continue to fund the UN and continue to send aid worldwide to Earth’s most vulnerable humans.  Haley said, “We’ll be taking names!”

This is not my United States.

Trump, in the name of the USA, is acting like the imperious ‘bully’ he is in real life, threatening to do nasty things if the world doesn’t show loyalty to him and his decrees.  This is not our country any more, my friends.  How crass and egotistical to present himself and our country as an autocratic ‘my way or the highway’ member of the world community.

Is there no end to this nightmare?

Roger Cohen of the New York Times perhaps says it best in his editorial today:  https://nyti.ms/2p8OMyU

If this is America, we must resist and work hard to change who is in power so we can be proud of who we are.