Shaking My Head....

My blog is not about politics and I won't engage in arguments about politics.  But I have to shake my head at three things that I saw on FB this morning.

One was a post about President Trump's news conference and how the person who posted the link liked what he said.  The comment was from one who stated that he would like to know what Trump REALLY thought instead of reading all of his comments off the teleprompter.  My take on this is that Trump is not the first President who has used a teleprompter to read his daily messages or his comments.  Even I, an English teacher who taught in the classroom for 43 years, needed a handwritten script when I spoke at an awards program or a PTK event.  Just the possibility of forgetting a word or using the wrong word was enough for my need of a script.  Maybe a President needs the same thing - a written focus to be sure he says what he needs to say using the words he wants to use.  He isn't the first to use one.  Obama did also.

One was a shared post that appeared on a FB page of a friend.  It stated that every year of Obama's presidency, he and his family attended Easter services yet Trump had not been in a church since he was inaugurated and did not attend Easter services.  Why weren't the GOPs fussing about THAT?  So I googled it.  What did I find?  An article from a Florida newspaper, with pictures, showing President and Mrs. Trump attending Easter services in the same church in Palm Beach where they were married and where they worship when they are in town.  The article discussed the greeting time, how people would stop on their way to communion to say hello, and how they left before the service ended.  Then the article detailed their day with the Easter egg hunt and finally they boarded Air Force One to return to Washington.

The third one will wait...hair appt. to to go.

And the third one...a copy of a post that I saw shared several times by friends on FB.


I know that Presidents are scrutinized as are all public figures.  I know that when one is a public servant, opens his/her mouth in public, or talks to people, that the words are scrutinized and remembered.  But most of the scrutiny I have noticed over the last three months has been exactly as this person indicated.  Hateful.  Insulting.  Malicious.  There is no reason for that kind of treatment.

I am not a big fan of Donald Trump.  But no matter what one believes or how one voted, he IS the President and his wife IS the First Lady.  That is the way it is.  When we as a country continue to show disrespect to our highest elected official, that disrespect reflects on all of us as Americans, and it saddens me.  Why has our country come to this?

As I said, this is not a political blog, and I don't intend to argue about politics.  I am just shaking my head about the attitudes and accusations that seem to be running rampant in our country today.