BETHANY PARE, Winston-Salem
Trump transcripts
I was disgusted by the recently released transcripts of President Trump’s post-election phone calls with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. They should make any decent human being sick. Nobody could read them and not feel like they need a bath, immediately.
Trump reveals in these transcripts that every criticism of him is true. “Build the wall” was a cold, calculated political promise he never intended to fulfill. And he’s a bigot who doesn’t know the difference between an illegal immigrant, a terrorist and a refugee. All that matters is that they’re foreign.
Even after Turnbull patiently corrected him, Trump couldn’t understand the difference between a refugee camp and a prison. He also couldn’t get the number of Australian refugees we agreed to take in right. It’s a number, for goodness sake. It’s not a matter of opinion. This president is ignorance defined.
He also told Nieto that New Hampshire was a “drug infested den.” That’s as bad as his calling the White House a dump, which also came to light recently. This man has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Forget Russia. The investigation we need right now is into how the American people have become so ignorant that they would believe a word a lying egomaniac like this says. That’s our biggest problem as a nation and it needs to be fixed — fast.