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Our representatives are cowards
Betty Kohout
Dec. 12, 2025 2:36 pm
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When are our representatives in Washington going to stand up to the person we have to call our president. They let him call their colleagues names and belittle them because they don’t bow to his whims. They’re apparently afraid to say anything because he will find a way to get rid of them if they do.
He puts down the press as they ask him questions, he never knows anything, he’s the POTUS, how can that be? What does he know?
He’s quick to belittle women every chance he gets. He comes up with ridiculous things, such as, food prices are down, $1.99 a gallon gas, the economy has never been better, his approval is just so good.
Maybe instead of tweeting all night he needs to step up to do a reality check. I guess he can sleep during important meetings which aren’t as important as Truth Social. He’s yet to come up with a health plan, he supposedly had a concept of one his first term.
He’s ended 8 wars, even some that never existed. The Ukraine War still is going and he was going to solve that in 24 hours. When is he going to make America great again? He’s run it in the ground. Hopefully a blue wave can keep going as it has. We, as Americans, deserve a competent person to get us out of this mess Trump has made. He deserves the title he’s earned, Liar in Chief.
Betty Kohout
Lisbon
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