Donald Trump’s amnesia of his record shows he is unfit to be president again | Opinion

The past four years in our country, U.S.A stood for the United States of Amnesia.

It appeared that people had forgotten the mess we were in during the Donald Trump presidency. Every moment of conflict that was brought our way, the former president always crumbled under the pressure to either pander to his alt-right following and disregard democracy believing Americans.

Nothing quite symbolizes this like the 2017 white supremacy riot that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. When the Nazis decided to walk down the streets of the town of Charlottesville, side by side and screaming “Jews will not replace us” that sent a shock-wave down the spine of Americans. The morality of our great nations

In Thursday’s presidential debate, allegedly the first of two, President Joe Biden repeated the story of his decision to run for president after watching a white supremacist march in Charlottesville in 2017, leading Trump to try to dispel reality. “He didn’t run because of Charlottesville,” Trump said.

Trump, who some forget also suffers from old age, has forgotten the polarized roller coaster that he sent us in back in 2018 when instead of denouncing white supremacy, he wants to to attempt to dilute the toxic rhetoric he spews.

Even before the presidential debate, Trump downplayed the 2017 white supremacist riot, where three people were killed, was “nothing” compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests. The American people would be ill-advised to re-elect a man who continues to downplay one of the most significant racist incidents to happen since the 1960s civil rights movement.

We can dispute the numbers and statistics from Thursday’s debate forever, but what stands out is what we already know: Donald Trump has poisoned this nation with partisan, divisive language.

Trump has chosen time after time to reach into the worst of us in order to gain the highest seat in our country. During the time of his presidency, every opponent to him was labeled a Marxist radical who has sworn to ruin this country. What sort of president creates an enemy out of everyone who disagrees with them? They don’t. That action is done by dictators and that should scare us.

If Trump wants to have amnesia about Charlottesville and so many other issues, let him live his lie in Mar-a-Lago. But the rest of us, the millions of Americans who care about their neighbors — regardless of race, sex and class — we need to care. We need to remember the moral obligation that the president is someone who leads with a sense of morality to the soul of our nation.

Quite frankly, I don’t care if Biden is a thousand years old. I’d much rather have a president who knows the moral obligation of the presidency than someone who would rather abuse it all in the name of power.

Biden understands that the job isn’t finished, saying that “there’s more to be done.” He is so right. There’s still a lot to fix in this country, and it will take Biden’s resolve and honesty.

“I’ve never heard a president talk like this,” Biden said of Trump.

And if we vote with a conscious in November and in the future, we won’t have to listen to Trump any longer.