The late Maya Angelou is credited with the comment, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
Unfortunately, our country has endured way more than three years of the current White House occupant’s demonstration of the essence of his being. The recent report in The Atlantic of this president’s attitude toward those who served and sacrificed over the decades is, I believe, accurate. His own recorded words confirm the story. His adamant rebuttal contained the main theme of the increased amount of funding for various personnel benefits that “I gave them.” Recognition of personal sacrifice and risk does not occur to him. He could not hide the transactional nature by which he assesses all his choices.
This individual has trotted out tale after tale for years about birth certificates, conspiracies, scandals, voter frauds and countless more without presenting anything, ever, to support his claims. But, as always, when he is on the well-earned receiving end of reports that have documentation and sourcing, he has only one trick with which to dismiss the charges. This is because he can only comprehend that everyone else must operate the way he does.
Unfortunately, millions of MAGA-hatters operate in that same mental atmosphere.
