A lot of pundits and opinion pieces, like Harry Kozlovsky’s cogent op-ed on Baltimore Jewish Life, have stated, they really don't like Trump because of his personal foibles. Don't most of us have foibles, of one kind or another? But when looking at a person, I feel it is only proper to take the totality of that person into consideration when determining if you "like" the person or not. Liking or loving a person does not in any way dictate that you must respect or emulate that person’s shortcomings. It does mean being frank and encouraging the person to correct himself instead of hating, slandering and disassociating from him.
I like Trump, I love Trump. In the total picture he is a great man. He obviously loves the Jewish People; he loves his daughter, son-in-law and Jewish grandchildren. He loves Israel and despises her enemies.
Obama (and Biden) had strengthened the enemies of the Jewish people, by enabling and funding terrorism (the Iran nuclear deal and returning to them 150 billion dollars in cash to spend on terrorism). Trump crushes the ambitions of the enemies of the Jewish People, and even kills Israel’s foes (ISIS, Soleimani, al-Baghdadi, et al). Trump, as I do, loves peace. He has brokered incredible peace deals between Israel and some of her former Arab enemies under the rubric of “let Abraham’s sons live in brotherly love.” Trump not only believes, as faithful Jews do, that Jerusalem is the capitol of the Jewish nation, but has made it the policy of the United States. Trump loves the American people and works tirelessly and successfully to enable them to be more economically secure.
Like me, President Trump loves life, the life of innocent unborn human beings. President Trump loves law & order and hates anarchy and chaos (by building a permanent wall to keep illegal trespassers out of the United States). President Trump loves justice, and has acted to reverse injustice, for example, when he granted clemency to Rubashkin, who despite having broken minor laws, was denied justice because he is Jewish. He also reversed injustice by successfully sending in the U.S. military to free numerous Americans who were outrageously captured by vicious warlords.
Trump is a generous man, who gives a significant portion of his wealth to people and institutions in need. Trump is smart and witty, certainly at the expense of his opponents (albeit on occasion incorrectly or inappropriately). He says thing that the others are thinking but wouldn’t dare to say. Bad you say? No, it is congruent with his desire and ability to get (good) things done. Others, in or seeking power, make all kinds of wonderful promises and either they are incapable of getting them done, never intended to in the first place, or intended and got them done despite being not so wonderful (like Obamacare, the Iran nuclear deal, economy crippling regulations).
The left accuse the President of conspiring to destroy the earth by disregarding the specter of “Climate Change.” Everybody agrees there is “climate change,” because that is the nature of the world. That it is controllable and primarily man-made, is in dispute, and many of the most preeminent scholars of climatology categorically state, “the world is not in danger of catastrophe.” But the fact of the matter is that under President Trump, despite his stand on increasing American produced fossil fuels, pollution levels, even of man-made greenhouse gases, have been reduced by technological means (EPA reported a 7% drop in air pollution, the lowest since 1970). America is now energy independent, a huge economic ($2/gal gasoline) and security boost for the American people, with no ecological price to pay.
Biden often parrots the left’s criticism on President Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Ridiculous. It’s all “Monday morning quarterbacking.” The Chinese induced Corona virus is so unique a disease that no one knew exactly how to deal with it when it first spread in earnest. The rest of the world’s leaders, left, right and center fared no better for their nations (except for Sweden, who refused to lock down society). Advice on how to handle it from the “experts” changed from day to day and from week to week. When a demonstrably effective cure (when administered in the early stage of the illness), Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin was advocated by the G-d fearing, honest and brilliant Dr. Zev Zelenko, the Left cynically dismissed it as unproven and dangerous. The President tried to advocate it, but came under political pressure to abandon it, while at the same time funding, advocating for, and cutting the red tape to quickly produce vaccines. Now, rightfully so, President Trump promises no more lockdowns. The country knows how to adequately protect itself until the vaccines are ready. The left, Biden included, while permitting rioters and looters to unhealthily gather, advocate more social and economic crippling lockdowns as incorporated in their agenda for contra-Covid-19.
Yes, I love President Trump and dislike Biden, the liberal Democrats, and the radical left because of their essential corruption and incorrigible decadence. It is my hope that President Trump will be continuing his tremendous work on behalf of the American people, the world in general, and the Jewish Nation throughout the world. At the same time, I pray and encourage the President’s confidants to continue to offer him constructive criticism. I agree that if he toned down some of his rhetoric, he would be able to accomplish even more great achievements. But I love him anyway.
