Former President Obama will welcome former President Bush, not Trump to Obama Presidential Center ceremonies, per report
The Presidential Center will be open to the public beginning on Juneteenth.
The shade is real. In what looks like a master troll operation, former president Barack Obama has shunned President Trump from taking part in the unveiling of the Obama Presidential Center in Washington, DC.
While this snub seems like it’s a tiff between men who once sworn to hold the highest office in the land, it may run deeper. Also two-term president George W. Bush got pulled into the conversation when Obama selected him for his presence at the opening of the center.
Once presidents William Jefferson Clinton Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. will most likely be there. But not Trump. Why not? President 44 probably views him as the odious ogre that he really is. Really, they all are but there is something about 45 and 47 that just rings with inauthenticity and severe overstepping of power.
In all of the years that Obama served, they stood as mostly terrible. He remained indecisive, vicious, and noncommittal. He also caused a surge of troops to go to fight and die. Bush, of course, started that war which led to the death or maiming of thousands of mere kids, most of them. And Trump only deepened the ugly numbers with his reinforcement of ICE agents. They all have blood on their hands, despite the circumstances.
If anyone should be blocked from the ceremony, it's Obama himself. His Affordable Care Act stands as one of the most heinous laws passed in all of American history. As it cripples the ones who help the crippled, it lowers the profession of medicine to one of throwing alms at problems instead of innovating and creating new avenues to ensure health.
This presidential center is going to be spectacular and shiny and pristine. It’s just too bad that the people it represents are so dirty. They all could have risen above the fray and taken on the mantle of righteousness. All of them, however, chose to lower themselves in their roles as leaders of the semi-free world.
They all are bad men who sometimes did good things. In total, they represent the truth of this world. As reflections of the parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, and other influences, they’re America’s babies. Like the late great George Carlin once said, we get the politicians we deserve. They all come from the American experience. Whatever homes, schools, teams, and churches these men came from, they’re all pernicious and insidious. These figures couldn’t just come out and say “I’m going to gradually destroy this country with my policies and harm the individual rights and attempt to harm the self-esteem of Americans.” No, they couldn’t do that. They had to be subtle and cast out hollow bromides and dry platitudes to curry favor for their causes and initiatives.
In reality, the presidents should be ashamed of themselves for not recognizing individual rights and freedom. All of them distorted or sullied the clear waters of the political landscape. Or maybe the water already had been murky and they just added to the bleakness.
Every one of them has fallen short of the glory of reason, individualism, and capitalism. Either they knew about the foundation of this country and chose to ignore it or just trampled over the Declaration of Independence and trudged forward waving their banner for deceit and lower standards.
Whatever the case, the former presidents and that highwayman in the White House ought to band together to form an alliance. This will be an alliance of will and of justice. To characterize it specifically, they should all uphold the ideas of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. This radical ideal would flood down the thoughts of prosperity and human flourishing. Oh, if they could only see.
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