Trump the Killer

By Susan Bergeron

There’s a beautiful and haunting song by Neil Young called “Cortez the Killer.” When I was a child I loved history class and was enthralled with the story of the brave Spanish conquistadors who came “dancing across the water” to discover the New World. We children of the mid-Twentieth Century were taught that version of the story, anyway. It wasn’t until I became an adult that the truth began to emerge, because the indigenous people of Mexico demanded that the history books be re-written. It turns out the conquistadors actually came crashing onto the shores of what is now Mexico and South America, raped, pillaged and murdered the indigenous peoples who had lived there for millennia, and stole their riches. The “brave” conquistadors carried the gold and pearls and beautiful women they had stolen back home to Spain to share and enjoy with their monarchy. During their many journeys to the New World, the Europeans returned this favor by trading something of their own with the Aztecs and other peoples of what is now Mexico. It was something the Indians had never known before---pestilence and deadly diseases.

 Let it be noted that the Aztecs had some pretty gory rituals, but who are we to judge? They were known for their brutal sacrificial killings. The Aztec Kings slashed the victim’s chest open, ripped out their heart and presented the still beating heart before the victim’s eyes and to the Gods, then kicked the dead body down a 200 foot ramp. 

 

The late Fred Trump, Sr., the father of Donald Trump, often said that in order to be successful in life one needed to be “a killer”. Fred’s granddaughte, other Trump children and many others who knew Fred well have stated this. Now most certainly, we can surmise that Fred only meant this metaphorically. It’s the reason family members of Donald Trump tell the sordid tale of why Fred, Sr. passed over his oldest son and handed the reigns of the family business and lion’s share of the Trump riches to his second son, Donald---because Fred believed Donald had that inborn killer instinct. How very prophetic of Fred. If only Fred knew just how much of a killer little Donny really was.

 

I wonder if the children of the distant future will be taught a false narrative of the history of America, much like many of us children of the twentieth Century were---like how all the Indians were savages and how the brave white soldiers saved us from them. You know, all that kind of stuff. Many men have laid claim to the quote, “History is written by the winners” (most recently, by Secretary Mike Pompeo) but, interestingly, it actually can be traced back to a Confederate loser. Missouri Senator George Graham Vest in 1891 said, “…for history is written by the victors and framed according to the prejudices and bias existing on their side.” Will students of the future have to wait for the “moral arc of the universe” to finally bend toward justice before the truth can finally be told to them, much like we had to wait? Will they someday learn the truth about the 21rst Century attack on their democracy? Will they ever learn the truth about the rise of the false God, the cult leader, the “Chosen One,” “Donald Trump the Killer”?

 

What we do now may influence that. What happens to America now depends on what happens during only a handful of precious days that tick down like gushing sand in a wicked warlock’s hourglass. Will America survive? ---or will it crumble and be crushed under the weight of the cataclysmic horrors that are coming to a head? There is surging uncontrollable plague, growing civil unrest, the seemingly unstoppable treason, lies and conspiracies that grow by the day. Like 747’s over LAX in a storm, the ambulances continue to circle the hospitals in Los Angeles, with patients gasping and dying in the back of them. They have nowhere to go. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had to issue a statement to the American people on TV last night warning us that insurrection is against the law! We are at a crossroads of disaster. We are being warned that every single state capitol is being targeted for attack this coming Sunday! The insurrection on the Capitol was just a warning shot across the bow.

 

I have many, many questions. I wonder if the children of the far distant future will learn a corrected history of America. Will they even have the chance to? Will books be obsolete by then? Will there still be an America? Will there still be public education? Will they sit there wide-eyed in their futuristic desks and ask their futuristic teachers how in the world 70 million people could have been hypnotized into believing an idiot like Donald Trump was worth destroying almost 250 years of freedom and democracy?

 

Like Cortez the Killer, Trump the Killer stole the riches of our land, pillaged the lands of our indigenous peoples, stole thousands of peoples’ babies, and trampled our natural resources. He poisoned our air and water, killed us by the hundreds of thousands with disease, ransacked our treasury and gave it to the donor class and the rich. How could tens of thousands of crazed Americans trample each other to death, jump to their deaths from buildings, commit suicide, beat peace officers to death with crutches, flagpoles, and brickbats for the love of Trump? How could they pledge to die if they had to, for the likes of Donald Trump? And worst of all, how did the law enforcement leadership enshrined with protecting our lawmakers and our nation’s Capital and its sacred temple of freedom and democracy betray us in the most heinous act of treason, by assisting the insurrectionists?

 

Time is running out. Trump must be impeached for inciting insurrection. Then the United States Senate must convict him before January 20, 2021. There is no time for hearings and investigations and the types of delays and bullshitting around that derailed his first impeachment trial. Everybody saw what he did! The evidence was clear and out in the open!  

 

Alan Dershowitz, I respect your desire to defend the Constitution, but at this point you are an obstructionist and you can go fuck yourself. You lost any credibility you once had by launching your ludicrous defense in Trump’s first impeachment trial and by aligning yourself with the complicit Fox News Channel. For God sake, let Rudy Giuliani take over Trump’s defense! Trump said he wants him to do it. Let him do it. It’s a slam dunk Rudy will sink Trump’s case like the Titanic, and that’s exactly what’s in order here! The President of the United States has been fomenting sedition throughout his entire campaign! He’s been inciting sedition since he lost the election! But the actions of January 6, 2021 are proof enough that he must never ever be allowed to hold or enjoy office in America ever again. It is in the Republicans’ favor to excise him from their party. What are they waiting for?

 

I bet Fred Trump, Sr. died with a smile on his face. He went to his maker (the Devil Himself) secure in the knowledge that, indeed, he produced a killer. Trump the Killer.