What if you walked into work one day, the CEO called a company meeting, and in that meeting, she said sales were slow, the company was facing increased competition, and they needed to make some changes? Sounds like a very familiar setting in America today, right?
Now imagine the CEO takes the extra step of saying, “The root of our problems is the 50% of our employees seated on this half of the room.” You’d surely think that person wasn’t a very good executive. You might think she was horrible. You might think, “With leadership like this, no wonder we’re failing.”
After work, you go home, have dinner, and head to a PTA meeting. The head of the PTA explains that the recent pizza night fundraiser didn’t hit its goals. “And the reason we didn’t raise as much money as we should have,” he says, “was the 43% of people who don’t like pepperoni, and another 8% who are lactose intolerant!”
Again, half the people cause the problems. Such a great leader for pointing this out, right?
Then that Saturday or Sunday, you go to your church, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship, and your minister, rabbi, imam, or other faith leader points to half of the room and says, “You guys just suck at praying! These other people are great at praying, but you guys are threatening their mortal souls. You guys are the enemy!”
You wouldn’t find this behavior acceptable in any environment.
Not on your kids’ playground. “The tetherball kids are the enemy!”
Not in your condo association. “All the people on the 4th and 5th floors suck!”
Not in your sewing circle. “Let’s get rid of all the people who want to make quilts!”
You wouldn’t find this behavior acceptable because, to put it plainly, these are the words of assholes.
Good people try to get along. They compromise. They work together to accomplish goals. They don’t point fingers and blame large swaths of fellow humans for all their problems.
But this is exactly what Donald Trump and his administration do. Entire American cities—Chicago, Portland, Washington, D.C.—are homes to “the enemy within.” He stirs up hatred against immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, academics, climate scientists, and liberals in general. It’s not that he has different opinions. He believes they are the “enemy.”
At the memorial for Charlie Kirk, after Kirk’s own widow forgave the shooter, Trump said he cannot forgive his enemies. He hates his enemies. What a guy.
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Following the recent No Kings protests, Trump said the protesters were “not representative of the people of our country,” and then proceeded to show a fake video of him wearing a crown, flying a military jet, and dumping shit on the protesters. But that’s representative of American leadership? Imagine if a Democrat did that. Fox News would turn from talking heads to exploding heads.
White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt recently said that the Democrats’ “main constituency” was made up of “antisemites, Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” Maybe she should look at Pew Research, which shows that 71% of Jews identify as Democrats vs. 26% as Republicans. That percentage goes up to 80% for reform Jews and 75% for unaffiliated, the two largest segments of American Jews. But we’re antisemites and Hamas terrorists?
Meanwhile, Gallup recently reported that in the second quarter of 2025, 46% of the population identifies as Democrats vs. 43% as Republicans—a notable shift since the Hater-in-Chief took office. Maybe there’s a correlation?
Maybe Americans are waking up to the fact that Trump has turned the executive branch of this country into a hate machine that refers to 46% of our country as an enemy.
In what other place would you accept this behavior from a leader?
Asked and answered: nowhere.
