TRUMP HAS HAD HIS FIRST CAR ACCIDENT--AND NOW HIS SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH

AND HE'S NOT LEARNING YET. THE QUESTIONS IS BECOMING--"CAN HE LEARN?"

I’ve often said that it can be a good thing if a young person has an accident, not a bad one, a fender-bender or something mild like that, shortly after they first learn to drive.  Why?  It will make it very clear that driving is a serious business, a dangerous business, and it does not forgive carelessness.

A week ago, President Trump and his advisors had their first car accident within 24 hours of the Inauguration.  Actually, the accident began with the unforgiving, narrowly drawn, overly nationalistic substance and tone of the Inaugural Address itself.  

It was followed by a grievous error of focusing on the size of the crowd attending the Inauguration and outright lies describing the size of that crowd by the President and Kellyanne Conway. Trump even goes to the National Park Service to try to improve the picture. 

This was so unnecessary.  So dumb. 

A week ago, I wrote to express the hope President Trump and his Administration would look at this as I do.  Analogous to a "car accident" which serves to underscore he is now President and needs to act as the President.  Be thoughtful in his decisions. Be prepared in his remarks. Bring people together. Stop dividing them.  His success, more importantly the nation’s success, depends on this.

TWO DAYS LATER: I wrote:

The car accidents continue..and they were getting worse

1. Doubling down on the claim there were millions of illegal voters with no evidence at all undermining our electoral system worldwide. 

2. Contining to badger the press.

3. Continuing to say Mexico will pay for the wall when their President says they won't. His trip is canceled. 

Intemperate, from the chest tweets. People around him must control these instincts now or we as a Nation are at grave risk. 

I don't know why but he seems unable to control himself. Such behavior would not be condoned in any corporate or other serious institutional forum. 

FOUR DAYS LATER...HE IS STILL NOT LEARNING

The car accidents continue...and they are getting even more serious, posing greater risk to our National Security. 

1. A deeply flawed, terribly executed ban on immigrants from certain countries and refugees(mainly children and women)from war-torn Syria. It not only violates our Nation's values of human decency and throws hundreds of thousands if not millions into a threatened state of uncertainty, it will be fodder for ISIS and other terrorists to recruit new members. Our European allies are in dismay. 

2. An unprecedented  reorganization of the National Security Council removing the Director of Intelligence and Chairman of the  Joint Chief of Staff as permanent members.

3. A mind- bending and alarming (in the sense of what it says about Trump's mental state) late night tweet responding to Senator McCain's sharp criticism of Trump's refugee plan by saying that McCain was leading us into World War III.


I am relieved by and proud how the American public is standing up to oppose these insults to truth, human rights and common sense. Enough is enough.

We need Cabinet members and members of Congress to step up to rein in and bring reason to Trumps' impetuous, shoot-from-the hip, wrong-headed actions right away. 

This must include immediately rescinding the refugee ban.