Trump has a birthday parade, and few people attended

Meanwhile No King marches in protest of trump had over 6 million

Hillary Clinton said that people should “compare and contrast” photos from Trump’s sparsely attended event, which also coincided with his birthday on Saturday, with images from the visibly packed ‘No Kings’ protests around the country.”

So, what does the dictator-in-chief do? HuffPost writes: “President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

“Trump in a social media posting called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

This is his vindictive personality – the cruel and self-centered aspects of his narcissism. It is the kind of behavior that triggers the horrible assassinations in Minnesota by a man moved by the rhetoric of the far right. Five key habits often associated with narcissism are: a grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with fantasies of success, a need for excessive admiration, a sense of entitlement, and a tendency to exploit others. And the site Mindset Therapy adds this – “While the narcissist may not know that are being mean because this would require them to be able to understand how someone else feels, they do know that their actions will likely lead to you changing your behavior, which is usually by backing down in one way or the other.”

In HuffPost “He added that to reach the goal officials” must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.”

Paul Krugman writes: “America is no longer a full-fledged democracy. We are currently living under a version of competitive authoritarianism — a system that (like Orban’s Hungary or Erdogan’s Turkey) is still democratic on paper but in which a ruling party no longer takes democracy’s rules seriously. As a result, those in power.”

In the Atlantic he made this claim about “America First”, “the principle “America First” means whatever he wants it to since he was “the one that developed it.”

With his chosen legion of doom we are beyond debate, beyond hoping for sanity in government, beyond hoping Faux News will see reality. The assassinations in Minnesota, the troops in our cities, the inability of the majority of his cult to see the flaws and danger he represents.

It is a long time until mid-terms and the danger increases daily. We need to continue to protest and make calls. We cannot let up our vigilance no matter how long it takes, and we cannot let the threats which get louder, more dangerous and more numerous deter us. It is the future of our nation that counts.

July 4 is our declaration of Independence Day – reread that document. It begins with this statement, which was aimed at the King, but is relevant today:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.