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Mr. President, Why Do You Hate America? [1]

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Date: 2025-02-10

Mr. President, Why Do You Hate America? It’s a fair question. Given your actions over the past decade, many believe that hatred is at the core of your leadership. You’ve said America is a “garbage can.” You’ve mocked its institutions, trampled its ideals, and turned Americans against one another. Isn’t this hatred?

Some assume your campaign rhetoric is just performance, a carnival barker’s act, ear candy for those who adore you as you push them to an experience of orgiastic hatred again and again. But others see something deeper, something darker—a seething disdain for the country you claim to love. You can’t love America if you don’t love her people. Do you even love your MAGA faithful, or only need their constant adoration? In 2016, journalist Salena Zito famously wrote, “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” But taking you both literally and seriously, many see what they consider hatred.

Where did it start? Was it in childhood when your father’s love remained out of reach? Did the constant striving to prove yourself to a man who always wanted more plant the first seeds of resentment? Was it when he sent you to military school, a disciplinary exile, that deepened your rage? Did you hate the classmates who caused or witnessed your humiliation?

Or did it fester later, when the Manhattan elite rejected you? You clawed your way into New York real estate, desperate for their validation, but they saw through you—always an apprentice. Was that when your hatred of the establishment took root? Did your contempt for America solidify in response to those who refused to grant you the respect you felt entitled to—grasping, always grasping?

Your disdain toward women is well documented. Was it an early rejection, some long-forgotten slight, that shaped this misogyny? The words with which you speak of women are despicable. And what about race? Was your father’s apparent racism so deeply ingrained that it became part of you? Is that why you suggested President Obama wasn’t really an American? Is that why you rail against diversity, equity, and inclusion? Is that why you deport brown-skinned people while offering white-skinned Afrikaners refugee status? Does your hatred extend to everyone who doesn’t fit your narrow vision of who deserves to succeed—male and white?

You’ve spent decades blaming others for your failures—your bankruptcies, your failed Trump University, the dissolution of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and your inability to win over the elite circles you so desperately wanted to join. Did that fuel your resentment? When President Obama humiliated you at the 2011 Correspondents’ Dinner, did that add to the fire? And when Americans rejected you in 2020 when more than 81 million people told you they wanted someone—anyone—other than you, did that push you over the edge?

Your loss wasn’t just a defeat; it was a public rebuke, an insult to your ego. And so, instead of accepting reality, you spun a web of lies, convinced yourself of a stolen election, and launched your Big Lies crusade against democracy itself. Was this the final proof of your hatred? That you would rather burn America down than admit you lost?

Your hatred has been evident in your policies. The cruelty of child separation wasn’t a necessity—it was a brutal choice, a contempt for the most vulnerable seeking refuge. Overturning Roe v. Wade wasn’t about life; it was about controlling women. Your Executive Orders aren’t designed to build America up—they’re aimed at tearing it apart, at erasing progress, at cementing division.

And now, here you are again, grasping for power, throwing gasoline on the hatred that fuels your movement. Campaigning, you said, “Our country is being destroyed by people who have no right to destroy it.” But we understand now. You weren’t talking about outsiders, the “enemy” within, or even your imagined “deep state.” You were talking about yourself—only you have the right to destroy America. You said, “I am your retribution,” but your retribution is against America.

Whether America survives you is a question many are asking. Though battered, but not broken, we will. America is bigger than you. And years from now, long after you’ve faded into history, you will not be remembered as a great leader or even a competent one. You will be remembered as the Big Lie, the most hated man in American history—a man so consumed by his own grievances, so driven by resentment, that he turned on the very nation he was chosen to lead.

History will not be kind to you, Mr. Trump. Your name will be a warning, a lesson in what happens when hatred becomes the defining force in a leader’s psyche and soul.

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