In Libya once you are black they attach less value to your life. And if they suspect that you are an illegal immigrant then you are as good as a person that has been condemned to death. It is worse for the girls, because they price them as commodities in the market.”
It was left to the retired partners of KPMG who are still awaiting their gratuity and pensions to bend Donald J. Trumps ears by reminding him that, by nature and disposition, he is very competitive. Hence, he would want to be a game-changer in the history and politics of the United States of America – in the same league as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president from 1933 until his death in 1945.
On assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, he galvanized Americans to regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action and asserted in his inaugural address: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. On August 14, 1935 he signed the Social Security Act.
We even had to resort to the wisdom bequeathed by the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 to 1882)
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.”
What is not widely known is that Donald Trump won the presidency by about 100,000 votes spread across three states. On CNN, Trump’s own pollster admitted that just five countries in Michigan and Florida could have flipped the Electoral College in favour of Hilary Clinton.
It was not an easy task to pierce through America’s false reality and “alternative truths” and the absurdity of misplaced anger posturing as patriotism and masquerading as legitimate retribution. The scientists insist that it is all in the brain!!
The mandate of the retired partners of KPMG who are still waiting for their gratuity and pension was to serve as an interface between the cerebral Cambridge scientists and the brash President Donald Trump. By the same token, we were also mandated to establish a nexus between the complex intricacies of American politics and the rest of the world (particularly Africa) where corruption and lack of accountability and defaulting transparency prevail.
Ironically, the scientists went off at a tangent and took a swipe at Trump’s hair.
The poignant warning was delivered as BREAKING NEWS on Saturday Night Live:
“Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have assessed the side effects of the hair growth stimulant (known as finasteride or dutasteride). Users can get persistent erectile dysfunction, in which they will not be able to have normal erections for months or years.”
On CNN, Dr. Stein Belknap who authored the study was not joking when he delivered the stern warning:
“They are male hormone blockers which prevent testosterone from being converted to its more active form. Studies showed the drug made prostate glands smaller by reducing the levels of the hormone dihydro testosterone in participants. Sufferers were left unable to maintain normal erection despite being given Viagra to try and solve their problems.”
However, it was not only the scientists who were giving Trump a hard time. The first salvo came from New England Patriots (American football) player Alan Branch on CNN Tonight. He said he declined to join the rest of his team on their triumphant visit to the White House on Wednesday April 19, 2017 because of President Donald Trump’s past sexist remarks that were caught on an Access Hollywood video hot microphone in 2005.
In the video, Trump is heard making offensive comments about women.
TRUMP: “I moved on her. Actually, she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try to f*** her. She was married.”
BUSH: “That’s huge news.”
TRUMP: “Nancy [O’Dell – former co-host of Access Hollywood], no this was… and I moved on her. Very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture’. I took her… I moved on her like a b****. I couldn’t get there and she was married. And all of a sudden I see her. She’s now got the big phoney t*** and she’s totally changed her look.”
BUSH: “Sheesh, your girl’s hot as sh**. In the purple.”
TRUMP: “Whoa! Yes! Whoa!”
BUSH: “Yes! The Donald has scored. Whoa, my man!”
[cross talk]
BUSH: ” It better not be the publicist. No it’s her, it’s…”
Branch did not pull any punches (or mince his words).
“It’s disgusting the way he talks about women and I just can’t deal with it and that is why I have no interest in going and shaking his hand. I’ve gotta go back home and look my daughters in the eye, and I don’t want them to view me in a different light just because I did that.
I don’t understand still to this day, especially with how many women went out there and voted for him,” he said. “I’m a man, and I was sickened by that and it still happened. Everybody has their free choice of who they wanted, but that’s not a person I want to represent me even though he is the President of the United States. He happens to represent me, but I’m not going to go out of my way to go meet the guy when I don’t have to.
“I just felt like I had to say something just because I don’t want my daughters to see me and be like, ‘that’s my dad and he doesn’t believe in women being treated like this,’ because I don’t. I’m very against it and I’d hate for my son, you know, to see me go to the White House and act like it’s okay to do whatever you want if you’re a celebrity,”
Branch was also offended when Trump made his lewd comments –
TRUMP: “Yeah that’s her in the gold. I better use some TicTacs [breath fresheners] just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful… I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”
BUSH: “Whatever you want.”
TRUMP: “Grab them by the p****. You can do anything.”
J.K. Randle OFR, FCA
