TOMAS TRUMPS...TRUMP

HOW DO YOU LOOK A MEXICAN FRIEND IN THE EYE WHEN THE LEADER OF YOUR NATION HAS BRANDED HIS PEOPLE AS THE SCUM OF THE EARTH?

I am talking to my friend Tomas.

One of 10 children, he left his Zapotec village for Oaxaca City at age 15.

He worked 7 days per week.

Drove a cab.

Took a year of nightly English classes and became a tri-lingual tour guide.

His oldest son is an architect, his oldest daughter a lawyer.

The next youngest is a school teacher and the baby of the family is finishing a masters and is contemplating doctoral work in human rights.

And I am faced with telling him that though our household didn't vote for him, I have blood family and neighbors that elected a president that has branded Mexicans rapists, thieves, murderers and lazy.

Tomas still works 7 days a week and feels guilty if only works half a day on Sunday.

He is industrious, warm, good humored and positive.

And I have to somehow explain that we have more than 3 years under an idiot despot that rules by fear, anger, ignorance and worse.

45 had everything handed to him by daddy.

And if he really had grown the family fortune, it is through deceit, treachery, litigation, strategic bankruptcy, government subsidy and even other kind of underhanded dealing known to man.

I don't know about you, but I'd choose, in a heartbeat, to have Tomas running our nation.

While the Russian puppet, stole the election, mentally unfit, halfwit, treasonous Trump rots in jail.