OUR COUNTRY is practically tied-up, body and soul, to whatever Fate befalls the great United States. Any untoward happening there has a ripple effect here.
It is a given that millions of Filipinos are now American citizens or dual Fil-Ams and were it not for them working abroad and remitting their Dollar earnings, our economy would have long been extinct.
Those who have migrated earlier are now reaping the largesse bestowed by the American dream. America is a rich and powerful nation and takes extremely good care of its citizens.
Inversely, our beloved country’s social program strands in pain, hunger and misery the old, sick and destitute retirees. Our pension is hardly enough to live on and die for. Precisely, the reason why our professionals, intellectually-endowed and talented young men and women, leave these shores to seek a better life abroad.
And relying so much upon America…we now have to accept the undefinable President Trump and his vision with some fearful trepidations.
Initially, he was not expected to win but that is America and only in America…can an ignorant, illiterate, unpredictable un-presidentiable sit in the White House. He has been called worse.
Trump blabs on TV verified lies; tweets wrongly-spelled messages which send shivers of concern to those who know how to read. He has severed long-standing alliances with friendly nations; bluntly cut-off what he perceives as unfair business dealings and trade; prohibited American capital and companies from leaving; isolated America from the rest of the world with flourish…and horrors, they love him.
On the downside, for us and other third-degree backward countries, the Immigration window at the US Embassy has been closed, he wants the borders in Mexico closed; cries for his Investigation and Impeachment to be closed; open Russian Vodka but no Chinese food…which elicits obscene verbs from world leaders; even his own party; and created a mushrooming colony of Trump-haters.
Many sober men of renown and acknowledged probity, which, of course, do not include us, have expressed distressing analysis of Trump’s mental state and administrative solo flight. President Trump listens to no one; asks and takes no advice; does not read nor listen…just fires away…whatever fleeting moment is his philosophy…and cares not what happens or who gets hurt.
He has been sent to address the social and political upheaval of the nations of the world, without knowing anything, which he does best. Leaving everyone in wonder and as baffled as ever. He is an enigma in a riddle. And publicly venerated as a moron, fool, a-hole and similar vile denunciations…which, incidentally, are the clinical symptoms of a psycho.
Trump will probably win re-election. The Democrats’ strongest presidential contenders have turned mentally ill trying to figure him out.
But strangely, despite all the outrageous un-mentionables he has done to make China and Russia great again…America is holding on; more Americans have jobs; the economy is booming, according to him; America, indeed, is held in awe by the world and utmost fear…that Donald, while in the CR, might press the Red Box, thinking it is his cell phone.
Trump is fearless borne out of ignorance. So, stumped and devoid of humanly plausible reason of why Trump is Trump, a genealogy expert painstakingly traced his pedigree to perhaps uncover something from his past and origins…to explain why he is so. And the study revealed that he is related to an orang-utan from Borneo. A careful microscopic close-up of Trump’s blond hair shows that its true color is orange…no doubt, a third degree relations of an orang-utan.
The discovery of his Family Tree, where his relatives continue to swing today, raised a howl of protest from the SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) as discriminatory and unfair to the monkey.
So far, we are lucky that Filipinos are not within Trump’s line of fire. He has not said nor tweeted anything dooming against us. This is because he has found commonality with our own President Du30. They are half-brothers in cursing and groping pussy. Also, there is a Filipino cook at the White House and Trump loves to eat pancit luglug and dinuguan./PN
