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ShazzieB

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14. Excellent summation!

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 01:21 PM

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I especially love the closing paragraph:

In short, there has never been a president who has made the United States less respected than you have. We are, to borrow a phrase, disrespected like never before. Whether your twisted ego can recognize that is open to question, but what is not debatable is that virtually the whole world knows.

And perhaps the worst part is the fact that this country managed to elect him a second time. I fear that it may take a long time for our allies to fully trust us again.

The only thing I would quibble with is the notion that Trump's ability to recognize how much he has made the world disrespect us is "open to question." There's no question about it: he's incapable of recognizing that, at least on a conscious level. His twisted ego is much too fragile to allow him to ever even the tiniest mistake. It's maddening if I let myself think about it too much.

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